You know, if she's using txtspk, then she hasn't discovered the wonders of dictionary yet. Tell an 18 year old to send the same message on a slightly cooler phone. They'll use dictionary, which requires you to press each letter only once. It gets fearful fast.
Though 80 years of experience is pretty hard to beat. And she only sends about 3 messages a day! Hardly experience. In the Philippines, the average person sends 8-10 messages a day.
When robots are as goodlooking and marketable as David Bekham. Until then, they'll only have the "cute" novelty thing going. Teenage girls are an important market, I tell you!
The microsoft hate site is given 3/5 on hostility. THREE, people, THREE. Come on. KB homes got 5/5. I've never even HEARD of KB homes. We can do better than that.
I've heard enough anti M$ ranting on slashdot for ten highly rated websites. Come on, you wimps, get on that website and start ranting. Corporate America? BAH! Proprietary software? Don't make me laugh! We are the mujahidin of OSS and we will make our presence felt through incoherent, rambling hostile posts!
I know google is banned, but according to a New Scienctist article, elgoog, the "backwards" google mirror, is not. I'm pretty sure you can access the caches through that, but the site is slow. And I don't think it can handle all of China trying to access it, though it's supposed to be quite popular. Death to censorship.
I don't know, I got my XP from a computer store in the philippines and I can't download any security updates. But then again, when it was installed it didn't ask for a regristration key. I guess Microsoft is already putting it into effect- and you can't download their anti-spyware on a pirated XP, either.
Maybe I should try the xpkey.
(FYI, I'm part of Slashdot's infinitesimal female population)I personally don't mind so called "perfect" women in video games as long as they're not overdone. Same thing with the men.
Somehow slightly more subtle, sophisticated catering to our animal instincts appeals to me more. Incredibly buxom women with figures that cannot physically exist bother me because those are the kind of things you'd encounter in worse company. I'd like to think I'm above having some sort of nervous breakdown because I don't have the Barbie-like body the characters in some game do. Improbable bodies are just ridiculous, more demeaning to my intelligence than my value as a human being rather than as a sexual object.
By the way, to all those who've been ranting about super muscular male figures in some games, my favorite character is Fenthick Moss, from NWN. He wasn't particularly buff, but he did go insane...
Peter Torr has some pretty interesting rebuttals, actually. http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2004/12/21/328 377.aspx
Among other things, he clarifies that he's not ranting about Firefox itself and that he was silly to speak of numerical IP addresses. Check it out- not a bad job rebutting considering the numbers are several thousand in slashdot's "favor."
I must agree. A lot of my more-programming-oriented friends have been working on trying to program RPG's (not with too much success, given their lack of artistic skills) but that sounds like something that would be fun and interesting.
Personally, I'm really interested in cryptography. I'm trying to get my school's science and technology club to build a mini-Enigma, but they're more interested in dissections. Damn biologists.
Thank god I'm female. Though I'm not sure I really *want* potential mates to be losing their fertility. And not only nerds use laptops- laptops are threatening the perpetuation of mankind! Survival of the fittest, I guess. We get this far, polluting and exterminating all species who piss us off, and we give it all up for nifty electronics. Alternatively, we can do a lead codpiece thing in the tradition of scifi...
Come on, even the google toolbar blocks popups. I use IE and I *never* click on ads. Except of course when my computer crashes/IE behaves mysteriously and the cursor clicks in unwanted places without my permission. Now that I think of it, maybe switching browsers wouldn't be a bad idea.
Well, most astronomical occurences aren't very spectacular perse. The much hyped Venus transit? It was just a day of watching a black dot slowly move across the sun. But it's still interesting because it's a landmark and it gives us something tangible to look at with say... a nine-inch telescope. Gives amateurs something to do, something to stimulate discussion.
Oh, and it probably happens only once in two hundred years or the like, as with most such phenomenon.
There's a point in the article about the internet taking over hard-copies in research. While this is true for most things (we all love google), a lot of specific information still isn't available on the internet, especially not for free. Anyway, most teachers require non-internet sources. I find the thought of using the internet exclusively for a major assesment rather frightening- I'd rather use an oldfashioned book by a respected academic than someone's 9th grade essay. It really depends on a lot. In other news, the country you're in does make a difference. Last time I checked, countries like DR Congo still have maybe a thousand internet users, all of them corrupt goverment officials.
Living abroad really depends on what kind of contract you have. If you're employed as a local, you don't get many perks. But if you're an expat, your company probably pays rent AND employs special people to do all the visa paperwork for you. Singapore is expensive, and India can be (real estate, not food), depending on where you live.
But the thing with expats in India is that they're being replaced by competent locals. There's no need to employ an expat and pay for benefits etc. if you can get someone local to do it for you. And housing can be really cheap overseas.
I live in the Philippines and here pirated software is part of the culture. You walk down to the mall and buy it. I'd be surprised if you can actually get very much original software. Even our school was using pirated software until a year ago. The government is trying to launch an anti-piracy campaign, but when the computer stores themselves sell and install only pirated software, you can't get very far. Microsoft needs to acknowlege that nobody wants to pay that much money for a piece of software full of bugs.
That's amazingly far out. It sounds like something from a scifi movie... but it could turn out to be useful. I doubt my camera phone can take such clear pictures (hey, I have trouble recognizing myself) but all things are possible in Japan.
Just out of curiosity (the Babelfish article did NOT make sense) would this mean that while buying something at a shop, you would realize it's cheaper on Amazon? I don't know, taking into account shipping and the 1-2 days wait for products, I would just buy it at the store while it was right in front of me.
I don't know, I thought of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series... they fight a planetwide war over a space elevator. Let's hope politicians don't read that when they try to get space elevators going and read something by ACC instead.
"The work in residence was done under full NDA, but this document has been cleared by Electronic Arts for public distribution."
Well, what do you expect? He's managed to make even frightening things sound good, i.e. : "This is a company that is so honest that its previous goal statement of 'Be the #1 People Company' was amended to 'Be the #1 Company for High Performing Individuals and Teams.'" It's an informative document, but you have to be willing to get past the euphemisms. Which there are entirely too many of.
He does talk about why EA want's younger people, and his reasons are pretty much the ones you've stated- only in a slightly nicer way.
Hm... I drew (or more accurately, attempted to draw) a Mandelbrot set on my graphing calculator. Looking back at it, it must have been for pure amusement- it looked like a blob.
Like my math teacher said, "why would you DO that?"
Yeah. I really don't want to seem MORE of Fox New's thinly veiled propoganda. Especially on my mobile phone. Murdoch must be bent on world domination or something like that.
It's bad enough that I get spam SMS's. Anyway, text would be so much more convenient. Nine times out of ten, the pictures/video on the news are just fluff. Hell, most news is just fluff.
I'm sure you have to subscribe, though. 3G is pretty cool.
Then again, getting sentenced for killing someone in the United States is a highly complicated procedure (I find death, in general, to be excessively complicated). I can't believe he got nine years for being a spammer, but when you look at the stats, it does seem justified.
The only problem with this sentence is that it doesn't SOLVE anything. Spam, by definition, is ubiquitous. A more community service oriented sentence might not be a bad idea, but I hesitate at the thought of putting the poorest/most vulnerable/underpriveleged/uneducated people at the mercy of a rather... evil spammer.
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Also, not enough girls do either.
Damn male dominated activities.
You know, if she's using txtspk, then she hasn't discovered the wonders of dictionary yet. Tell an 18 year old to send the same message on a slightly cooler phone. They'll use dictionary, which requires you to press each letter only once. It gets fearful fast.
Though 80 years of experience is pretty hard to beat. And she only sends about 3 messages a day! Hardly experience. In the Philippines, the average person sends 8-10 messages a day.
When robots are as goodlooking and marketable as David Bekham. Until then, they'll only have the "cute" novelty thing going.
Teenage girls are an important market, I tell you!
The microsoft hate site is given 3/5 on hostility. THREE, people, THREE. Come on. KB homes got 5/5. I've never even HEARD of KB homes. We can do better than that.
I've heard enough anti M$ ranting on slashdot for ten highly rated websites. Come on, you wimps, get on that website and start ranting. Corporate America? BAH! Proprietary software? Don't make me laugh! We are the mujahidin of OSS and we will make our presence felt through incoherent, rambling hostile posts!
I know google is banned, but according to a New Scienctist article, elgoog, the "backwards" google mirror, is not. I'm pretty sure you can access the caches through that, but the site is slow. And I don't think it can handle all of China trying to access it, though it's supposed to be quite popular.
Death to censorship.
I don't know, I got my XP from a computer store in the philippines and I can't download any security updates. But then again, when it was installed it didn't ask for a regristration key. I guess Microsoft is already putting it into effect- and you can't download their anti-spyware on a pirated XP, either. Maybe I should try the xpkey.
(FYI, I'm part of Slashdot's infinitesimal female population)I personally don't mind so called "perfect" women in video games as long as they're not overdone. Same thing with the men.
Somehow slightly more subtle, sophisticated catering to our animal instincts appeals to me more. Incredibly buxom women with figures that cannot physically exist bother me because those are the kind of things you'd encounter in worse company. I'd like to think I'm above having some sort of nervous breakdown because I don't have the Barbie-like body the characters in some game do. Improbable bodies are just ridiculous, more demeaning to my intelligence than my value as a human being rather than as a sexual object.
By the way, to all those who've been ranting about super muscular male figures in some games, my favorite character is Fenthick Moss, from NWN. He wasn't particularly buff, but he did go insane...
Peter Torr has some pretty interesting rebuttals, actually.8 377.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2004/12/21/32
Among other things, he clarifies that he's not ranting about Firefox itself and that he was silly to speak of numerical IP addresses. Check it out- not a bad job rebutting considering the numbers are several thousand in slashdot's "favor."
I must agree. A lot of my more-programming-oriented friends have been working on trying to program RPG's (not with too much success, given their lack of artistic skills) but that sounds like something that would be fun and interesting.
Personally, I'm really interested in cryptography. I'm trying to get my school's science and technology club to build a mini-Enigma, but they're more interested in dissections. Damn biologists.
Thank god I'm female. Though I'm not sure I really *want* potential mates to be losing their fertility. And not only nerds use laptops- laptops are threatening the perpetuation of mankind! Survival of the fittest, I guess. We get this far, polluting and exterminating all species who piss us off, and we give it all up for nifty electronics.
Alternatively, we can do a lead codpiece thing in the tradition of scifi...
Come on, even the google toolbar blocks popups. I use IE and I *never* click on ads. Except of course when my computer crashes/IE behaves mysteriously and the cursor clicks in unwanted places without my permission.
Now that I think of it, maybe switching browsers wouldn't be a bad idea.
Well, most astronomical occurences aren't very spectacular perse. The much hyped Venus transit? It was just a day of watching a black dot slowly move across the sun. But it's still interesting because it's a landmark and it gives us something tangible to look at with say... a nine-inch telescope. Gives amateurs something to do, something to stimulate discussion.
Oh, and it probably happens only once in two hundred years or the like, as with most such phenomenon.
There's a point in the article about the internet taking over hard-copies in research. While this is true for most things (we all love google), a lot of specific information still isn't available on the internet, especially not for free.
Anyway, most teachers require non-internet sources. I find the thought of using the internet exclusively for a major assesment rather frightening- I'd rather use an oldfashioned book by a respected academic than someone's 9th grade essay. It really depends on a lot.
In other news, the country you're in does make a difference. Last time I checked, countries like DR Congo still have maybe a thousand internet users, all of them corrupt goverment officials.
Living abroad really depends on what kind of contract you have. If you're employed as a local, you don't get many perks. But if you're an expat, your company probably pays rent AND employs special people to do all the visa paperwork for you. Singapore is expensive, and India can be (real estate, not food), depending on where you live.
But the thing with expats in India is that they're being replaced by competent locals. There's no need to employ an expat and pay for benefits etc. if you can get someone local to do it for you. And housing can be really cheap overseas.
Most of the pirates I know of don't even give receipts. They're street vendors, and highly mobile populations.
I live in the Philippines and here pirated software is part of the culture. You walk down to the mall and buy it. I'd be surprised if you can actually get very much original software.
Even our school was using pirated software until a year ago. The government is trying to launch an anti-piracy campaign, but when the computer stores themselves sell and install only pirated software, you can't get very far. Microsoft needs to acknowlege that nobody wants to pay that much money for a piece of software full of bugs.
That's amazingly far out. It sounds like something from a scifi movie... but it could turn out to be useful. I doubt my camera phone can take such clear pictures (hey, I have trouble recognizing myself) but all things are possible in Japan. Just out of curiosity (the Babelfish article did NOT make sense) would this mean that while buying something at a shop, you would realize it's cheaper on Amazon? I don't know, taking into account shipping and the 1-2 days wait for products, I would just buy it at the store while it was right in front of me.
I don't know, I thought of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series... they fight a planetwide war over a space elevator. Let's hope politicians don't read that when they try to get space elevators going and read something by ACC instead.
"The work in residence was done under full NDA, but this document has been cleared by Electronic Arts for public distribution." Well, what do you expect? He's managed to make even frightening things sound good, i.e. : "This is a company that is so honest that its previous goal statement of 'Be the #1 People Company' was amended to 'Be the #1 Company for High Performing Individuals and Teams.'" It's an informative document, but you have to be willing to get past the euphemisms. Which there are entirely too many of. He does talk about why EA want's younger people, and his reasons are pretty much the ones you've stated- only in a slightly nicer way.
Hm... I drew (or more accurately, attempted to draw) a Mandelbrot set on my graphing calculator. Looking back at it, it must have been for pure amusement- it looked like a blob. Like my math teacher said, "why would you DO that?"
Yeah. I really don't want to seem MORE of Fox New's thinly veiled propoganda. Especially on my mobile phone. Murdoch must be bent on world domination or something like that. It's bad enough that I get spam SMS's. Anyway, text would be so much more convenient. Nine times out of ten, the pictures/video on the news are just fluff. Hell, most news is just fluff. I'm sure you have to subscribe, though. 3G is pretty cool.
Then again, getting sentenced for killing someone in the United States is a highly complicated procedure (I find death, in general, to be excessively complicated). I can't believe he got nine years for being a spammer, but when you look at the stats, it does seem justified. The only problem with this sentence is that it doesn't SOLVE anything. Spam, by definition, is ubiquitous. A more community service oriented sentence might not be a bad idea, but I hesitate at the thought of putting the poorest/most vulnerable/underpriveleged/uneducated people at the mercy of a rather... evil spammer.