Geeks lack social skills. The only way to build social skills is to get out there and approach. Approach early, and approach often. Hey, this advice won't only get you a JOB, it can get you LAID too!
(Maybe I should have posted A/C, but it's the truth, so it's going under my real UID.)
Declaration of my feelings for you Elaboration on those feelings Description of how long these feelings have existed Belief that no one else could feel the same as I
Reminiscence of the pleasant times we've shared And our relationship's perfection Recounting of the steps that lead to our love's dissillusion Mostly involving my unfaithfulness and lies
Penitent admission of wrongdoing Discovery of the depth of my affection Regret over the lateness of my epiphany
CHORUS: Title of the song Naive expression of love Reluctance to accept that you are gone Request to turn back time And rectify my wrongs Repetition of the title of the song
Enumeration of my various transgressive actions Of insufficient motivation Realization that these actions led to your departure And my resultant lack of sleep and appetite
Renunciation of my past insensitive behavior Promise of my reformation Reassurance that you still are foremeost in my thoughts, now, Need for instructions how to gain your trust again
Request for reconciliation Listing of the numerouss tasks that I'd perform Of physical and emotional compensation
CHORUS
Acknowledgement that I acted foolishly Increasingly desparate pleas for your return Sorrow for my infidelity Vain hope that my sins are forgivable Appeal for one more opportunity Drop to my knees to elecit crowd response Prayers to my chosen deity Modulation and I hold a high note...
to maintain the original cabinet while converting it for MAME. In particular, he's done something really awesome with the control panel. If he wanted to, he could take the MAME out and put the original control panel back on and I doubt a collector would be able to tell it had been MAMEd at one time.
I really wish he had gone into more detail about the control panel. I'd have appreciated more pictures showing what hardware was original and what hardware was added. This is exactly how I want to do my MAME cabinet.
Why's everyone downing on the Insert key? Go into overstrike mode once too often?
I use shift+del and shift+insert for cut/paste all the time. In fact, I do this so often that I don't "copy" anymore, I cut and paste, then I move and paste again. Sounds like a lot of work, but it works for me.
I'm really particular about my keyboard anyway. I demand that my enter key be confined to one row of keys, and that the pipe / backslash key be directly above it. I also demand a large backspace immediately above that. The tilde / backtick goes next to the number row under the escape key. Change the size or position of any of these and I get really irritated. You may wind up with a broken keyboard. I have seen keyboards that violate all of my rules - and not just on laptops!
>And seriously, does anyone listen to music encoded at 64 kbps? 128 is the bare minumum.
I have a tiny gadget that I plug into my car stereo so I don't have to lug a CD case around. It holds 192MB of data, so to make the most of it I compress everything to 64kbps. Since the music is normally competing with road noise anyway, it's "good enough".
Through headphones, though, one really can tell the difference.
I was going to post something about the Three Investigators, thanks for beating me to the punch. Those really are some good books to help fill young minds with inquisitiveness.
I tried it, not for very long, but too long for me. Meditation will lead a person to some of the older religions, or to some of the newer ones. The former can be bad for your mental health, the latter are full of charlatans.
Yes, I said bad for your mental health. If all you can get out of Buddhism is Nihilism (like me) then you're in for a world of hurt. Another unrelated pitfall: if a clinically depressed, manic, or otherwise mentally unbalanced person picks up that concept of "renunciation", they might just "renounce" their medications and do themselves a lot of damage. Now, some teachers say there's no problem combining medication and meditation, but some will tell you to flush all your pills - VERY dangerous for some people!
I'm not knocking it, but I don't practice it and wouldn't recommend it. I'm just saying BE CAREFUL! Once you've learned it, you can't unlearn it!
The main source of pain to the customers of the defrauded organization would be the practice of carding. No one could deny that running up a bill on someone else's tab isn't nice, even if you know the sap will never have to pay for it (insurance, whatever).
But what if you merely tricked the phone company's representative (the computerized switchboard) into giving you the service for free? That's where the real gray area begins. Who really loses if that pair of wires was going to go to waste at that moment anyway?
No problem... Spend the next ten minutes reading Slashdot if you want, but then I want a good 40 hours out of you before you go home. Better get cracking.
Device drivers slapped together, crap that barely works, apps that look like they were made in VB v1.0, no documentation... The US hardware company that contracts out to India for drivers or utilities is begging for trouble. They get into contractual arrangements, can't back out, and are forced to ship crappy code for otherwise decent hardware. Who loses? ME, on all counts! I could have written my own drivers / apps if the hardware wasn't closed. I could have been hired by the US hardware company to do the drivers if they weren't outsourcing jobs to 5-buck-a-day code-sweatshops. I could have bought a working product if they'd hired an American! They could fix the problems in their products if they had on-site programmers that understood the code.
Yeah I'm flamin' (and I got karma to burn), but I just bought a POS product (that I can't otherwise comment on) that I've been trying to get working for 2 weeks... Only to find out that no new software will be forthcoming because it was written in India. It'd go back to the store if there wasn't an Open Source driver project in the works - but you can bet I'll never buy anything from the US company until they stop contracting with the Indian slop artists.
Do you think this salesman (engineer or not) is going to say "My company's latest product is sure not to catch on, it should fizzle and die in a few months." As if he'd be allowed to speak at all if his answers to those questions weren't fully in sync with the party line.
I understand the sentiment, but the mod points probably could have gone to better use.
I am not a professional video artist of any kind. I have a TV capture device that spits out MPEG 1 video files which I then drop into VirtualDub for editing and converting to AVI. Currently, I use DivX 4.1 and MP3 to cut my favorite half-hour TV programs from almost 400 MB to less than 150 MB.
To maintain maximum freedom and guarantee future viewability (and hopefully not giving up much hard disk space), what codecs SHOULD I be using?
Three different versions of Cisco IOS in three different locations. All talking (trying to, anyway) to a Linux box running FreeS/WAN. In order from OLDEST to NEWEST IOS release: One VPN works fine. One works if you keep something pinging across it. The third doesn't work at all.
Someone suggests using a Cisco as the "hub", instead of the Linux box. Now NONE of it works. Fancy that...
The green alien sticking out its tonge and wiggling its fingers with its thumbs in its ears appears on the cover of some (most? all?) printings of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. One of the primary lessons of the Guide is "DON'T PANIC", an appropriate message for a recoverable large disk controller error.
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Geeks lack social skills. The only way to build social skills is to get out there and approach. Approach early, and approach often. Hey, this advice won't only get you a JOB, it can get you LAID too!
(Maybe I should have posted A/C, but it's the truth, so it's going under my real UID.)
TITLE OF THE SONG - DaVinci's Notebook
Declaration of my feelings for you
Elaboration on those feelings
Description of how long these feelings have existed
Belief that no one else could feel the same as I
Reminiscence of the pleasant times we've shared
And our relationship's perfection
Recounting of the steps that lead to our love's dissillusion
Mostly involving my unfaithfulness and lies
Penitent admission of wrongdoing
Discovery of the depth of my affection
Regret over the lateness of my epiphany
CHORUS:
Title of the song
Naive expression of love
Reluctance to accept that you are gone
Request to turn back time
And rectify my wrongs
Repetition of the title of the song
Enumeration of my various transgressive actions
Of insufficient motivation
Realization that these actions led to your departure
And my resultant lack of sleep and appetite
Renunciation of my past insensitive behavior
Promise of my reformation
Reassurance that you still are foremeost in my thoughts, now,
Need for instructions how to gain your trust again
Request for reconciliation
Listing of the numerouss tasks that I'd perform
Of physical and emotional compensation
CHORUS
Acknowledgement that I acted foolishly
Increasingly desparate pleas for your return
Sorrow for my infidelity
Vain hope that my sins are forgivable
Appeal for one more opportunity
Drop to my knees to elecit crowd response
Prayers to my chosen deity
Modulation and I hold a high note...
CHORUS
Turn off your spam filters and you'll find that several websites are trying to sell you something to remedy that.
Just this:
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
to maintain the original cabinet while converting it for MAME. In particular, he's done something really awesome with the control panel. If he wanted to, he could take the MAME out and put the original control panel back on and I doubt a collector would be able to tell it had been MAMEd at one time.
I really wish he had gone into more detail about the control panel. I'd have appreciated more pictures showing what hardware was original and what hardware was added. This is exactly how I want to do my MAME cabinet.
Why's everyone downing on the Insert key? Go into overstrike mode once too often?
I use shift+del and shift+insert for cut/paste all the time. In fact, I do this so often that I don't "copy" anymore, I cut and paste, then I move and paste again. Sounds like a lot of work, but it works for me.
I'm really particular about my keyboard anyway. I demand that my enter key be confined to one row of keys, and that the pipe / backslash key be directly above it. I also demand a large backspace immediately above that. The tilde / backtick goes next to the number row under the escape key. Change the size or position of any of these and I get really irritated. You may wind up with a broken keyboard. I have seen keyboards that violate all of my rules - and not just on laptops!
>And seriously, does anyone listen to music encoded at 64 kbps? 128 is the bare minumum.
I have a tiny gadget that I plug into my car stereo so I don't have to lug a CD case around. It holds 192MB of data, so to make the most of it I compress everything to 64kbps. Since the music is normally competing with road noise anyway, it's "good enough".
Through headphones, though, one really can tell the difference.
I was going to post something about the Three Investigators, thanks for beating me to the punch. Those really are some good books to help fill young minds with inquisitiveness.
Infectress
It was actually quite an engaging story, dealing with bio-terror, AI, the global police state, the middle east, etc..
A post titled what happens now? about a pot bust.
That's how I used to find MAME ROMs.
I tried it, not for very long, but too long for me. Meditation will lead a person to some of the older religions, or to some of the newer ones. The former can be bad for your mental health, the latter are full of charlatans.
Yes, I said bad for your mental health. If all you can get out of Buddhism is Nihilism (like me) then you're in for a world of hurt. Another unrelated pitfall: if a clinically depressed, manic, or otherwise mentally unbalanced person picks up that concept of "renunciation", they might just "renounce" their medications and do themselves a lot of damage. Now, some teachers say there's no problem combining medication and meditation, but some will tell you to flush all your pills - VERY dangerous for some people!
I'm not knocking it, but I don't practice it and wouldn't recommend it. I'm just saying BE CAREFUL! Once you've learned it, you can't unlearn it!
The main source of pain to the customers of the defrauded organization would be the practice of carding. No one could deny that running up a bill on someone else's tab isn't nice, even if you know the sap will never have to pay for it (insurance, whatever).
But what if you merely tricked the phone company's representative (the computerized switchboard) into giving you the service for free? That's where the real gray area begins. Who really loses if that pair of wires was going to go to waste at that moment anyway?
No problem... Spend the next ten minutes reading Slashdot if you want, but then I want a good 40 hours out of you before you go home. Better get cracking.
You don't sniff the milk before you drink it? And what about the date on the side?
Anyway, quit drinking out of the carton, you savage!
Seems like if the latest JVM becomes the standard, a lot of apps written for the older broken JVMs will have to be updated.
Yahoo chat was always my first pick when I needed an example of a broken java app. Maybe they'll fix it now.
Device drivers slapped together, crap that barely works, apps that look like they were made in VB v1.0, no documentation... The US hardware company that contracts out to India for drivers or utilities is begging for trouble. They get into contractual arrangements, can't back out, and are forced to ship crappy code for otherwise decent hardware. Who loses? ME, on all counts! I could have written my own drivers / apps if the hardware wasn't closed. I could have been hired by the US hardware company to do the drivers if they weren't outsourcing jobs to 5-buck-a-day code-sweatshops. I could have bought a working product if they'd hired an American! They could fix the problems in their products if they had on-site programmers that understood the code.
Yeah I'm flamin' (and I got karma to burn), but I just bought a POS product (that I can't otherwise comment on) that I've been trying to get working for 2 weeks... Only to find out that no new software will be forthcoming because it was written in India. It'd go back to the store if there wasn't an Open Source driver project in the works - but you can bet I'll never buy anything from the US company until they stop contracting with the Indian slop artists.
It's bringing peace and love!
Quick! Kill it!
--The Simpsons
Do you think this salesman (engineer or not) is going to say "My company's latest product is sure not to catch on, it should fizzle and die in a few months." As if he'd be allowed to speak at all if his answers to those questions weren't fully in sync with the party line.
I understand the sentiment, but the mod points probably could have gone to better use.
I am not a professional video artist of any kind. I have a TV capture device that spits out MPEG 1 video files which I then drop into VirtualDub for editing and converting to AVI. Currently, I use DivX 4.1 and MP3 to cut my favorite half-hour TV programs from almost 400 MB to less than 150 MB.
To maintain maximum freedom and guarantee future viewability (and hopefully not giving up much hard disk space), what codecs SHOULD I be using?
Three different versions of Cisco IOS in three different locations. All talking (trying to, anyway) to a Linux box running FreeS/WAN. In order from OLDEST to NEWEST IOS release: One VPN works fine. One works if you keep something pinging across it. The third doesn't work at all.
Someone suggests using a Cisco as the "hub", instead of the Linux box. Now NONE of it works. Fancy that...
...schools, churches, government agencies...
Old joke:
Q - Why do Judges, Guidance Councellors, and Bankers always wear ties?
A - To hold up their foreskin.
nothing transmitted
The green alien sticking out its tonge and wiggling its fingers with its thumbs in its ears appears on the cover of some (most? all?) printings of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. One of the primary lessons of the Guide is "DON'T PANIC", an appropriate message for a recoverable large disk controller error.
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