Successfully negotiated the auction of 300k worth of precious and rare items in trade chat.
Gained the title "Explorer in WoW.
Completed 2000 drop quests without drooling on my keyboard.
This shows my curiosity and tenacity in getting the job done no matter how long it takes.
I think my greatest achievement in WoW was finally realizing what a waste it was to spend time doing video games when there are more important fish to fry like doing what I needed to do about this being unemployed.
Their stupid ad offered a free cappuccino if you bought their overpriced reader and organic roach killer - Hold six inches over roach, release, repeat as needed.
The more simple a password is, the more the chance that it can be cracked. The more complex the more likely it will be forgotten.
A safe is not safe if it keeps the owner out too.
Interesting!, Which makes me thing that I could use a program or functionality that would display my doc or highlighted material in random fonts and different backgrounds to help find errors.
Have you ever typed a document in, carefully checked for the numerous errors that a spell checker will not catch only to have the errors JUMP out at you once they hit print, only to go back, fix the errors only to have them jump out at you on second print or even third?
I have my guesses as to this phenomenon, but I've observed it in myself and others time and time again.
Sometimes when I'm programming and cannot find the problem I'll highlight the area and suddenly see the errors, so my guess is simply having the medium in your hand in print or on a different colored background without glare as on a monitor can cause you to connect better with the reading material and find the errors or comprehend things faster.
Can you imagine a football, baseball or soccer team going about it each man for himself? People wouldn't have anything to cheer and these sports would be forgotten words. But if you work as a team you get a LOT done, and there' still competition to prove yourself a valuable PART of the TEAM!
Programming is a team sport. A good team can accomplish a lot. Think about it. PS, I loved the woodpecker thing!!:D
The number of false positives is absurd. Spending a lot of money to go out to see if the criminal is really flown the coop or if a stupid cloud has gotten between the GPS and the satellite or even worse the cell tower.
Especially if it's anything like the iPhone. I wrote an app to interface the GPS technology on the iPhone. The GPS there used cellphone tower triangulation. This app was hobbled by the piss poor GPS API and unreliability. The thing was constantly telling my program that the iphone was moving between 10 and 24 mph while it was sitting on a desk in Colorado Springs!
Another iPhone's stock gps program from Apple could not pinpoint a location any closer than 3 miles in Chico CA.
It reminds me of the state of optical character recognition where the accuracy is so bad, its better to type the document in than try to correct the computer's absurd guesses.
Jedi don't need no stinking eyes! Just use the farce!... Opps! Force. Sorry I'm no Jedi!
As for the price of this laser being $200, I bet it's a typo and if not, you get what you pay for and I would not be surprised to see it go dark side (burn out) pretty quickly.
Let me save you a bit of money. Lasers like anything else folks buy for toys, get old fast...
I too was once fascinated by high power lasers and got a few in the 100-300mw range. I got the goggles, and I showed a few friends and you see those neat videos of matches being lit by them? I could burn paper and pop balloons but as for the matches sold in California I never got a single one to light or even smoke. I could cut black tape. Now I'll see how many idiots will ask me if I put a black dot on them with a marker before trying.
I was fascinated with the lasers, but now they just gather dust. There was a time when I would have been upset if the police came to take them away, now I would hand em over with no problem at all. I worry some times that if I were burglarized, what some idiot would do with them so I'd be glad to hand em over.
The only thing really lastingly fun is watching cats and dogs chase the laser pointer. I don't even have to dust the floor, I just get a fuzzy cat to chase it around, the cat cleans up the dust as it slides along the floor.
So let me save the wise reader a bit of money. Don't buy them, you'll be bored with them before you know it. If you want a high tech mop, get a cat and a 5mw laser pointer. They'll last far longer and if you lose it, you won't worry who finds it and blinds someone.
The same mechanics that make a game addictive would NOT work for a movie. In the game I might tolerate questing all day for a level, because I have a goal and little pittance rewards along the way. If I go to a movie, I will not be satisfied with little pittance rewards, I want some big bangs along the way.
The approaches are mutually exclusive.
We've all noticed the over-abundance of lame games pattered after great movies.
I too used to write stuff and post it to slashdot, or find something interesting and have it rejected while stuff that was not half as interesting got through.... Oh some of the stuff I posted I considered not that great, but I figured, what the hey, if the other stuff gets through maybe this will.
I gave up. I really do think its a club... if you are not part of the club you don't get your stuff published but I didn't come here to talk about this, I came to comment on that kid being bullied....
In high school, assholes abound so much that instead of acne they should be sprouting assholes instead of little bumps.
Too many punks getting away with insanity. They should have patted the kid on the back and told him it was a cool video - Which it was!!!!
Maybe instead of having emotional damage he might have started feeling better about himself and work out and be buffed up or become the next Spielberg or George Lucas.
I didn't mention this before because I figured there was a problem with this but it occurred to me if they had a set of wide rollers they could attach rugs or such to a wide belt of some sort that could be attached to the front of a ship and the belt would rotate out into the water, collecting oil and pass through a couple rollers that would squeeze most of the oil out, and that part would pass back into the water to lap up more oil. The oil collected could then be processed and used. I figure I might as well mention it now, though I have doubts it would really work, but who knows. I don't.
The link downloads windows version on my mac!
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I am not impressed! In fact, I'm a bit afraid.
Sure, the normal way I might download it was using the software update, but usually web pages are a bit smarter about determining what sort of OS I'm running or gives me a choice. Being that it was under the MAC tab for software it should have been smarter or more clear that it was a windows only DL which it does not.
LoL! I dunno, I've seen some pretty good natured dogs in my life. I've never had an animal try to steal my wallet. I dunno depending on what animal is involved it might be an improvement!
While I understand the idea of being made nervous when a camera is pointed at me, I think its hypocritical sp? of them to have cameras on the public but object if the reverse happens. I've seen a few obvious gross abuses of authority on the part of police. Its not all that common but it happens and to outlaw John Q. Victim's only defense against criminals in authority is a crime in itself. If they don't want to be recorded, they may be hiding something.
I went and read her actual comment and I find she claimed to be taking illegal drugs and being addicted as a joke.
That IS pretty stupid and the argument that this showed extreme poor judgement cannot be denied.
its about as stupid as a fool who runs into a crowd with a road flare claiming to have a bomb.
I have to admit, that was too stupid to overlook.
Where I live losing your job is as bad as a death sentence. Stuff happens. The world is bad enough with this economy (Economy is an oxymoron now btw.) without firing someone for trivial things like this. Who of us has not done something stupid in their life time? Let them "Cast the first stone".
She did her job well enough to be on that for 21 years she deserves a second chance. Mercy is also appropriate and its good PR to be firm but merciful.
So in a world gone web whacky where all practically every programming job requires web skills, they stop teaching web related skills except java? How stupid I say.
There is far more to PHP than just syntax. There are a whole slew of web concepts to learn. Without those skills you don't get a job!!!
I wonder if this explains why in the last several months Safari on my mac seems to go to sleep, while loading over and over again.
I kind of doubt it is the case.
I stopped using floppies not by choice but because the quality of floppy drives dropped so badly that putting anything on a floppy if you could even manage to format it was like accepting an IOU written on an ice cube.
No this isn't all my opinion, I read in reputable journals about this sort of unreliability being caused by cheap parts in floppy drives.
So in short, the poor old floppy didn't die of old age. It was murdered!
Hehe.
Slashdot Mirror
And the hammer fist and five knuckled fist.
Depends on how intrusive it is, but pissing people off is a good way to un-sell.
I guess we can now call it Sillycan valley.
Successfully negotiated the auction of 300k worth of precious and rare items in trade chat. Gained the title "Explorer in WoW. Completed 2000 drop quests without drooling on my keyboard. This shows my curiosity and tenacity in getting the job done no matter how long it takes. I think my greatest achievement in WoW was finally realizing what a waste it was to spend time doing video games when there are more important fish to fry like doing what I needed to do about this being unemployed.
Their stupid ad offered a free cappuccino if you bought their overpriced reader and organic roach killer - Hold six inches over roach, release, repeat as needed.
The more simple a password is, the more the chance that it can be cracked. The more complex the more likely it will be forgotten. A safe is not safe if it keeps the owner out too.
Protected by extreme poverty. There's nothing worth hacking! ;-p
When stupid people back off from a stupid idea they are still stupid.
Interesting!, Which makes me thing that I could use a program or functionality that would display my doc or highlighted material in random fonts and different backgrounds to help find errors.
Have you ever typed a document in, carefully checked for the numerous errors that a spell checker will not catch only to have the errors JUMP out at you once they hit print, only to go back, fix the errors only to have them jump out at you on second print or even third? I have my guesses as to this phenomenon, but I've observed it in myself and others time and time again. Sometimes when I'm programming and cannot find the problem I'll highlight the area and suddenly see the errors, so my guess is simply having the medium in your hand in print or on a different colored background without glare as on a monitor can cause you to connect better with the reading material and find the errors or comprehend things faster.
Can you imagine a football, baseball or soccer team going about it each man for himself? People wouldn't have anything to cheer and these sports would be forgotten words. But if you work as a team you get a LOT done, and there' still competition to prove yourself a valuable PART of the TEAM! Programming is a team sport. A good team can accomplish a lot. Think about it. PS, I loved the woodpecker thing!! :D
The number of false positives is absurd. Spending a lot of money to go out to see if the criminal is really flown the coop or if a stupid cloud has gotten between the GPS and the satellite or even worse the cell tower. Especially if it's anything like the iPhone. I wrote an app to interface the GPS technology on the iPhone. The GPS there used cellphone tower triangulation. This app was hobbled by the piss poor GPS API and unreliability. The thing was constantly telling my program that the iphone was moving between 10 and 24 mph while it was sitting on a desk in Colorado Springs! Another iPhone's stock gps program from Apple could not pinpoint a location any closer than 3 miles in Chico CA. It reminds me of the state of optical character recognition where the accuracy is so bad, its better to type the document in than try to correct the computer's absurd guesses.
Jedi don't need no stinking eyes! Just use the farce! ... Opps! Force. Sorry I'm no Jedi!
As for the price of this laser being $200, I bet it's a typo and if not, you get what you pay for and I would not be surprised to see it go dark side (burn out) pretty quickly.
Let me save you a bit of money. Lasers like anything else folks buy for toys, get old fast...
I too was once fascinated by high power lasers and got a few in the 100-300mw range. I got the goggles, and I showed a few friends and you see those neat videos of matches being lit by them? I could burn paper and pop balloons but as for the matches sold in California I never got a single one to light or even smoke. I could cut black tape. Now I'll see how many idiots will ask me if I put a black dot on them with a marker before trying.
I was fascinated with the lasers, but now they just gather dust. There was a time when I would have been upset if the police came to take them away, now I would hand em over with no problem at all. I worry some times that if I were burglarized, what some idiot would do with them so I'd be glad to hand em over.
The only thing really lastingly fun is watching cats and dogs chase the laser pointer. I don't even have to dust the floor, I just get a fuzzy cat to chase it around, the cat cleans up the dust as it slides along the floor.
So let me save the wise reader a bit of money. Don't buy them, you'll be bored with them before you know it. If you want a high tech mop, get a cat and a 5mw laser pointer. They'll last far longer and if you lose it, you won't worry who finds it and blinds someone.
The same mechanics that make a game addictive would NOT work for a movie. In the game I might tolerate questing all day for a level, because I have a goal and little pittance rewards along the way. If I go to a movie, I will not be satisfied with little pittance rewards, I want some big bangs along the way. The approaches are mutually exclusive. We've all noticed the over-abundance of lame games pattered after great movies.
I too used to write stuff and post it to slashdot, or find something interesting and have it rejected while stuff that was not half as interesting got through. ... Oh some of the stuff I posted I considered not that great, but I figured, what the hey, if the other stuff gets through maybe this will.
I gave up. I really do think its a club ... if you are not part of the club you don't get your stuff published but I didn't come here to talk about this, I came to comment on that kid being bullied....
In high school, assholes abound so much that instead of acne they should be sprouting assholes instead of little bumps.
Too many punks getting away with insanity. They should have patted the kid on the back and told him it was a cool video - Which it was!!!!
Maybe instead of having emotional damage he might have started feeling better about himself and work out and be buffed up or become the next Spielberg or George Lucas.
I didn't mention this before because I figured there was a problem with this but it occurred to me if they had a set of wide rollers they could attach rugs or such to a wide belt of some sort that could be attached to the front of a ship and the belt would rotate out into the water, collecting oil and pass through a couple rollers that would squeeze most of the oil out, and that part would pass back into the water to lap up more oil. The oil collected could then be processed and used. I figure I might as well mention it now, though I have doubts it would really work, but who knows. I don't.
I am not impressed! In fact, I'm a bit afraid. Sure, the normal way I might download it was using the software update, but usually web pages are a bit smarter about determining what sort of OS I'm running or gives me a choice. Being that it was under the MAC tab for software it should have been smarter or more clear that it was a windows only DL which it does not.
LoL! I dunno, I've seen some pretty good natured dogs in my life. I've never had an animal try to steal my wallet. I dunno depending on what animal is involved it might be an improvement!
While I understand the idea of being made nervous when a camera is pointed at me, I think its hypocritical sp? of them to have cameras on the public but object if the reverse happens. I've seen a few obvious gross abuses of authority on the part of police. Its not all that common but it happens and to outlaw John Q. Victim's only defense against criminals in authority is a crime in itself. If they don't want to be recorded, they may be hiding something.
Yep, I totally agree. he just proved how stupid he is.
I went and read her actual comment and I find she claimed to be taking illegal drugs and being addicted as a joke. That IS pretty stupid and the argument that this showed extreme poor judgement cannot be denied. its about as stupid as a fool who runs into a crowd with a road flare claiming to have a bomb. I have to admit, that was too stupid to overlook.
Where I live losing your job is as bad as a death sentence. Stuff happens. The world is bad enough with this economy (Economy is an oxymoron now btw.) without firing someone for trivial things like this. Who of us has not done something stupid in their life time? Let them "Cast the first stone". She did her job well enough to be on that for 21 years she deserves a second chance. Mercy is also appropriate and its good PR to be firm but merciful.
So in a world gone web whacky where all practically every programming job requires web skills, they stop teaching web related skills except java? How stupid I say. There is far more to PHP than just syntax. There are a whole slew of web concepts to learn. Without those skills you don't get a job!!!
I wonder if this explains why in the last several months Safari on my mac seems to go to sleep, while loading over and over again. I kind of doubt it is the case.
I stopped using floppies not by choice but because the quality of floppy drives dropped so badly that putting anything on a floppy if you could even manage to format it was like accepting an IOU written on an ice cube. No this isn't all my opinion, I read in reputable journals about this sort of unreliability being caused by cheap parts in floppy drives. So in short, the poor old floppy didn't die of old age. It was murdered! Hehe.