Years ago when my family first moved there, we were driving through town on a Saturday morning to do the usual get groceries and it was really busy. Not a car space to be found in the main street. That is until, we came across what looked like perfect car parks. Under the shade of a massive tree were three parks either side of what I think was a mango tree. Beautiful. Dad thought he was shit hot and pulled our little honda hatch back (we were pretty poor in those days... good memories) underneath.
Anyhow, we left the windows down cause this is country Queensland, no body locks anything and it is hot and humid, and went shopping.
About an hour later we came back and as we were approaching, there was this yellow panel van parked next to ours and it had this great artwork on the side of the door. I mean, this artwork of this spider was about half the size of the door... an easy thirty centimetres across. As we got closer we thought, damn, that artwork is really good; great 3D effect. That is, until a leg moved.
After giving the van a wide berth, getting into the backseat with my brother, we drove off. About a minute into the trip, I shit you not, this massive unholy muthafucka of a spider ran across the back of the driver's seat, along the back door, and across my chest. I shit myself (being about 14). I panicked and threw the spider across to my brother (16) who also shit himself and freaked out, threw it back to me. I'll never know how long this went on until eventually it was thrown out the window. We amazingly never crashed the car.
Days later, we went into the newsagency in front of the car parks and told them what happened. He was pretty unsympathetic. "Yeah, that'll happen if you park there".
So, yeah. I think it is largely a learned behaviour.
I used to have a mild fear of spiders. I'm over it now.
See, where I used to live (North Queensland, Aus - not far from Bowen - where the story is) we had a *lot* of bugs, insects and other creepy crawlies. While watching TV late at night, there were these two massive huntsman spiders that used to come inside and hunt behind the tele. You get used to seeing them and realise that they are just doing their thing. Sure I had an elevated heart rate the first couple of times, but living where I did you realise that if something has gotta go (insects or you) is would be easier if it is you cause you'll never get rid of them.
It's quite fascinating watching them chase down moths. After a while I considered them my pets. Even the dog was a little wary of them.
I'm always up for viewing some topless pics. I wish somebody would post a link to it. I tried to watch the whole video but seeing Trent do an Apple advertisement had me wanting to claw my eyes out and jam chopsticks into my ears {aside... currently eating... join the dots on what/aside}
Not sure about dropping from the to do list, but I cannot stand a vm. People talk too quickly, you *never* get the phone number and have to listen to the message a billion times to get each digit, and in my old phone's case, I cannot make a phone call until I listen to all the vms.
If you miss me, hang up the phone and send an email.
I hate getting a phone call, especially when I hit my programming 'zen'. Friday afternoons seem to be fine though.
However, the masters of the universe in the basement that are the gatekeepers to physical machine access seem not to mind so much. Years ago when I'd ring up for a request, it was always 'is there a ticket?' in our ticketing system. Which is a pain in an emergency - a ticket can get 'lost' or buried under other tickets.
However, years later, having talked to the guy after a best friend of his died, his long time dog died, I don't get asked for a ticket. When something needs to be done urgently, it gets done immediately. I won't abuse the access. I still use the ticketing system. I'm just saying that the personal touch really does work wonders.
Some silver-spoon fed, vanilla face's mother (sorry, watched Borat last night) makes a song and dance because dearest darling is brilliant and should've gotten that 'A' on that paper. Said mother decides to make real trouble by spreading lies and being a general pain in the arse. Principle doesn't want school to look bad so gets rid of the teacher.
It's all relative. Instead, people should start being responsible for their own actions and stop blaming others.
Yes, there are most likely some really bad teachers out there. Well, start paying teachers more, giving them more power in the classroom (respect) and perhaps more trained professionals who always considered teaching will go into the industry and create an abundance of talent.
Dude, go to the download page, download the source. Double click to unpack the zip ( or tar.gz). Open a terminal and type
cd ~/where/you/downloaded/it/to./configure make sudo make install cinepaint
That is all you have to do. If you have a dual core processor, you can compile twice as fast with "make -j2" (Quad - "make -j4").
It is a much nicer solution because the repos can be slow sometimes to get the latest version. You can get it as soon as you realise that you need those extra features. Seriously, give it a go.
If you get a "xxxx package not found" at the configure step, type sudo apt-get search xxxx
For fucks sake. Read the summary... read the article and go to the site. Everything is legit.
Just enjoy the fucking movie. Or not, just shut up about it. I just heard of it, watched the trailers and am actually pretty excited about it.
What? Just because it doesn't have hollywood's seal of approval you assume it's crap? Take your copyright "expertise" to another thread. I wanna see nerds fight over their knowledge of the Tolkien world.
Hey, that last statement of yours is actually quite insightful. I have a really hard time trying to fit people to curves (as I'm told to by others... regardless of what I think). People are just not like that... even large groups. Distributions of large groups are an approximation, at best. Time for these things to be rethought.
Even data mining techniques, which I normally don't think much of - given that results are not reproducible if you supply the same data but in a different order, yield results 10-15% better than a Gaussian or some such linear method.
I used my skills and turned to the natural sciences. They have really, really big datasets and nobody really knows what is going on there. Salt water intrusion models, various solute transport models are crying out for application. Earthquake modeling and prediction gets big budgets. What is occurring under your feet is really complex.
I did an interview to go into the financial district about 4 years ago but I rejected it after finding out how much they would cripple me. They don't trust anybody. I had no interest in being in that sort of environment. Sure, you make some money.
I find that it is best not to tamper with the wireless... causes more drop outs. But the rest will do things like increase writeback times, suspend usb, etc.... just follow the prompts. Excellent piece of software.
I'm sorry to hear you didn't have a good experience. I just logged into a work machine of mine and see that I have a 430 day uptime (Maxed out the hardware when I first got it).
Sure, things have gone wrong from time to time, but you just need to learn how to rescue the machine. A rescue now takes me less than 40 seconds and I don't lose a thing.
My Boss is the outsider. See, the rest of us are the misfits. It gets quite amusing when he suggests some new 'protocol' and we all leap in to denounce it. He gets this strange glazed-eye look. He works from home quite a bit.
Depends... does Kim Jong Il have any children? It was the current dictator's dad that caused the big problems originally. Jong Il is just carrying on with the legacy.
You make a pretty good point. Couple that with that some websites are really poorly designed/implemented and there is a possible disaster. I mean, tech savy people will be fine, but I'm more worried about those who are not.
Example, when my partner finishes some web browsing, I can hear the fan in my current machine going flatout... watch your cpu usage when you visit this site. There are many other sites out there but this one sticks in mind.
Slashdot Mirror
Is the "Start" button in a different position and called something else, like "Applications" for example?
I do think that mostly it's a learned behaviour.
Another story from up north:
Years ago when my family first moved there, we were driving through town on a Saturday morning to do the usual get groceries and it was really busy. Not a car space to be found in the main street. That is until, we came across what looked like perfect car parks. Under the shade of a massive tree were three parks either side of what I think was a mango tree. Beautiful. Dad thought he was shit hot and pulled our little honda hatch back (we were pretty poor in those days ... good memories) underneath.
Anyhow, we left the windows down cause this is country Queensland, no body locks anything and it is hot and humid, and went shopping.
About an hour later we came back and as we were approaching, there was this yellow panel van parked next to ours and it had this great artwork on the side of the door. I mean, this artwork of this spider was about half the size of the door ... an easy thirty centimetres across. As we got closer we thought, damn, that artwork is really good; great 3D effect. That is, until a leg moved.
After giving the van a wide berth, getting into the backseat with my brother, we drove off. About a minute into the trip, I shit you not, this massive unholy muthafucka of a spider ran across the back of the driver's seat, along the back door, and across my chest. I shit myself (being about 14). I panicked and threw the spider across to my brother (16) who also shit himself and freaked out, threw it back to me. I'll never know how long this went on until eventually it was thrown out the window. We amazingly never crashed the car.
Days later, we went into the newsagency in front of the car parks and told them what happened. He was pretty unsympathetic. "Yeah, that'll happen if you park there".
So, yeah. I think it is largely a learned behaviour.
I used to have a mild fear of spiders. I'm over it now.
See, where I used to live (North Queensland, Aus - not far from Bowen - where the story is) we had a *lot* of bugs, insects and other creepy crawlies. While watching TV late at night, there were these two massive huntsman spiders that used to come inside and hunt behind the tele. You get used to seeing them and realise that they are just doing their thing. Sure I had an elevated heart rate the first couple of times, but living where I did you realise that if something has gotta go (insects or you) is would be easier if it is you cause you'll never get rid of them.
It's quite fascinating watching them chase down moths. After a while I considered them my pets. Even the dog was a little wary of them.
Come get some.
I'm always up for viewing some topless pics. I wish somebody would post a link to it. I tried to watch the whole video but seeing Trent do an Apple advertisement had me wanting to claw my eyes out and jam chopsticks into my ears {aside ... currently eating ... join the dots on what /aside}
Not sure about dropping from the to do list, but I cannot stand a vm. People talk too quickly, you *never* get the phone number and have to listen to the message a billion times to get each digit, and in my old phone's case, I cannot make a phone call until I listen to all the vms.
If you miss me, hang up the phone and send an email.
I hate getting a phone call, especially when I hit my programming 'zen'. Friday afternoons seem to be fine though.
However, the masters of the universe in the basement that are the gatekeepers to physical machine access seem not to mind so much. Years ago when I'd ring up for a request, it was always 'is there a ticket?' in our ticketing system. Which is a pain in an emergency - a ticket can get 'lost' or buried under other tickets.
However, years later, having talked to the guy after a best friend of his died, his long time dog died, I don't get asked for a ticket. When something needs to be done urgently, it gets done immediately. I won't abuse the access. I still use the ticketing system. I'm just saying that the personal touch really does work wonders.
Who determines what makes a bad teacher?
Some silver-spoon fed, vanilla face's mother (sorry, watched Borat last night) makes a song and dance because dearest darling is brilliant and should've gotten that 'A' on that paper. Said mother decides to make real trouble by spreading lies and being a general pain in the arse. Principle doesn't want school to look bad so gets rid of the teacher.
It's all relative. Instead, people should start being responsible for their own actions and stop blaming others.
Yes, there are most likely some really bad teachers out there. Well, start paying teachers more, giving them more power in the classroom (respect) and perhaps more trained professionals who always considered teaching will go into the industry and create an abundance of talent.
Oddly enough I spent about an hour today trying to set up a SW112-IRA with a logitech remote to my ubuntu/xbmc. Couldn't get the bloody thing going.
TV, Proj, AMP, set-top box are all covered but I need to get the last step going.
Anyhow, public holiday tomorrow. It just got booked solid.
Dude, go to the download page, download the source. Double click to unpack the zip ( or tar.gz). Open a terminal and type
cd ~/where/you/downloaded/it/to ./configure
make
sudo make install
cinepaint
That is all you have to do. If you have a dual core processor, you can compile twice as fast with "make -j2" (Quad - "make -j4").
It is a much nicer solution because the repos can be slow sometimes to get the latest version. You can get it as soon as you realise that you need those extra features. Seriously, give it a go.
If you get a "xxxx package not found" at the configure step, type
sudo apt-get search xxxx
For fucks sake. Read the summary ... read the article and go to the site. Everything is legit.
Just enjoy the fucking movie. Or not, just shut up about it. I just heard of it, watched the trailers and am actually pretty excited about it.
What? Just because it doesn't have hollywood's seal of approval you assume it's crap? Take your copyright "expertise" to another thread. I wanna see nerds fight over their knowledge of the Tolkien world.
Fucking fun sponge.
Hey, sorry mate but I forgot to get you some info you requested ages ago regarding Vectorization.
Check out:
http://www.intel.com/intelpress/sum_vmmx.htm
It's a little dated but the concepts and programming techniques are still relevant. It does a pretty thorough job.
Apologies for hijacking.
We're all gonna DIE!!!!!!
Hey, that last statement of yours is actually quite insightful. I have a really hard time trying to fit people to curves (as I'm told to by others ... regardless of what I think). People are just not like that ... even large groups. Distributions of large groups are an approximation, at best. Time for these things to be rethought.
Even data mining techniques, which I normally don't think much of - given that results are not reproducible if you supply the same data but in a different order, yield results 10-15% better than a Gaussian or some such linear method.
I used my skills and turned to the natural sciences. They have really, really big datasets and nobody really knows what is going on there. Salt water intrusion models, various solute transport models are crying out for application. Earthquake modeling and prediction gets big budgets. What is occurring under your feet is really complex.
I did an interview to go into the financial district about 4 years ago but I rejected it after finding out how much they would cripple me. They don't trust anybody. I had no interest in being in that sort of environment. Sure, you make some money.
RISK
Increase battery performance?
sudo aptitude install powertop
sudo powertop
I find that it is best not to tamper with the wireless ... causes more drop outs. But the rest will do things like increase writeback times, suspend usb, etc .... just follow the prompts. Excellent piece of software.
I'm sorry to hear you didn't have a good experience. I just logged into a work machine of mine and see that I have a 430 day uptime (Maxed out the hardware when I first got it).
Sure, things have gone wrong from time to time, but you just need to learn how to rescue the machine. A rescue now takes me less than 40 seconds and I don't lose a thing.
My Boss is the outsider. See, the rest of us are the misfits. It gets quite amusing when he suggests some new 'protocol' and we all leap in to denounce it. He gets this strange glazed-eye look. He works from home quite a bit.
Historically, yes. But these days everything goes underground ... benefits of having a geologically stable continent.
Depends ... does Kim Jong Il have any children? It was the current dictator's dad that caused the big problems originally. Jong Il is just carrying on with the legacy.
You make a pretty good point. Couple that with that some websites are really poorly designed/implemented and there is a possible disaster. I mean, tech savy people will be fine, but I'm more worried about those who are not.
Example, when my partner finishes some web browsing, I can hear the fan in my current machine going flatout ... watch your cpu usage when you visit this site. There are many other sites out there but this one sticks in mind.
I used F8 for quite a while too. I also found F9 was a bitch and that was what got me trying suse.
But F10 is really, really slick. It's the stability, it's the boot times, the stability, the cleanliness, it's the stability. It's the vibe.
I have it on every machine of mine now.
We have a couple of SGI machines and the real value add of having SGI is the support.
Some hardware breaks, and unless it needs to be shipped from the US it is fixed within hours.
Some software breaks, and you get a full diagnosis on what the problem was and options to choose from on how you'd like to fix it.
Some researcher has code that runs like a dog, they'll tune and parallelise it for the appropriate system.
I hope our local guys are fine with this news. They are worth their weights in gold. I can't say that about any other hardware vendor.
Anyone would think CowboyNeal has an infection.