I don't know if this is supposed to be a april's fool (or whatever you call it in english), but don't throw it all away...
There is one single factor that matters when it comes to being successfull with the oposite sex: sef-confidence.
Now, this is not very easy to get if you're low on it, but it is a decisive factor, no doubt in my mind...
It is also a thing that differs from situation to situation, as you may INSIST you are right when it comes to the best way of doing an linked list in C++ for a specific app, but when it comes to the ladies, you may fall down of the high place pretty quick. (mey depend on what part of the body we are thinging of...*cough*...no sorry...)
But hey, fellow geeks: build up that self-confidence if you lack it. And the article has a point to say that you may actally work up you self-confidence with starting on "easy targets"... (moderatly pretty people whom you don't fear)
- Knut S. May just be me being lame
PS: sex is not nessesearily the only thing to look for you know... (=
To spinn your view in quake 360 degrees, you need to move you mouse quite a distance. Also, you can't move your mouse back without the view orientating back to the starting position. Imagin those head movements! (or you could just oil your chair, and have a wide open space around you....)
Who cares about hand pains when you can break your neck in front of the computer!
It is not stuck on 500 MHz, and is not lagging that much behind. We now run at 733MHz, and faster prosessors are to be expected more frequently from Apple now.
GeForce 3 is not to be forgotten, and the G4 has some trix up the sleeve. The main attraction tho' is thill the operating system of the Mac. Take a look at: www.apple.com
They just canceled the X-33/-34 project mainly becouse of cash problems...
TO make some cash, NASA should invest more in tourism and mining. This may also result in increasing interest in space. Right now, we can't go, just see fancy images, so most people don't care. If you could book a week for $5000 people would, NASA would get cash. If you could mine Helium-3 of the moon, titanium and other interesting stuff, loads of cash might start falling in from the private sector.
For now, the X-Prize, and notably Starchaser is my favourite space program, as these folks have passion for putting people up there, the way we should.
- Knut S.
PS: I know the scientific value of a Pluto mission, and nothing is more important to mankind than science, but getting us out there is an investment in further expansion of missions like that to Pluto, as we would have to make cheaper toys to get us out there, that woulkd benefit all space technology in the end....
I believe that most people (excluding/.) are not as interested in space anymore.
And why is that? Becouse nothing really happens outthere anymore. Space flight - the ultimate resulkt of human technological evolution - is only interesting ot the general public when we put humans out there, do exciting stuff, and actually get results.
In the long run, NASA should focus it's space efforts more on getting people out into space, building stuff like space hotels. The ISS is extremely expencive, how come? It's a VERY VERY advanced science labratory, it can't even have ehe slightest vibration inside. Building a civilian station might be much much more inexpencive. Use a few Russion Egeria rockets to get it up as well, they have huge capasity.
This would focus the atteiontion of people more one space, becouse now we could actually go there! And that is important. I can imagine more poeple wantin got take a trip out, and eventually this would give much more attention to the doings of NASA and human space exploration (that today is 99% done my telescope)
Also, maybe the doomed X-33/-34 was a faliure, but never forget the X-Prize people. Starchaser is hittin gthe skies in 2003, with a fully reusable space craft that can be ready to go in 7 days, and carry three astronoughts to orbit. I's proud to have a prosessor named the same as their craft;P
Hey, how stupid are we really getting? Computers are mostly used to store data that people a few hundre years ago didn't use to have to remember, so are we back there, and were they stupider (more stupid?) that out fathers and mothers?
People always fear that the younger generation is getting dumber. On the other hand, we surround ourselves with a world of chemicals and radiation unlike anything ever seen before, so who knows. I doubt us not having to remember details makes us dumber, consider the huge load of other infomation we have to remember nowadays.... But who am I to say this...
"Scramble output", unless this security thing is supported in hardware, this sounds math intensive. Won't these features have an impact on performance?
I see no reason why we should need a 73 page report to confirm this.
MS software has proven to contain lots of STUPID errors as security treats. Take the "ILOVEYOU" virus that wrecked havoc all around the globe, it was just plain stupid that a small text file (I looke at the script) with the suffix.VBS made all hell break loose...
In your hands you hold the key to the continued survival of mankind, although this is not yet fully realised by everybody today, future generations will thank you.
Allso Merry Christmas to everybody else who read this commend, I don't care about the religion. but love the message;)
That would have to be one hell of a large one... man, what are they serving those poor guys.
Imagine that headline: "Astonauts dead of metan poisoning." One of the few surviors said:
- First, it was this dreadfull sound, like a deep rumble... Then we strated to realise something was very wrong. We all headed for the emergency escape craft...*cries*...God! It was so horrible...people dying all over... I'm so lucky to sit here today.
Ok, I am in no way qualitfied to say what I am about to say, but just think about it.
The IT industry is filled with crap, and there so many people in here allready. (who said there was a worker shortage, when homeless IT workers that are "too old" is a problem in Silicon Vally)
If he proves to have a lasting intellegent mind, i would suggest you learn him about Space. We should have been way off where we are today in Space technology, the only reason not is becouse the US didn't care so much after they had proven they could put a small pod on the moon. If he is he is generaly into electronics, the engering experience might do him good (=
How about medicine? If is a general wonderchild, maybe he could do more good for humaity there?
LAst bug not least, give him the "football" mentioned earlier and often in this thread, but also Shakespeare, art, and thoughts that all science is made to serve humanity, and NOT just for profit.
I agree that colonisig is the only way to prevent carastophy for out planet in the future, but this is due to overcrowding.
However, he underestimates the power of technology, as we ca only start to imagin how far we have come in 1000 years. Taking the amount of resources we might harvest from space by that time, I'm convinced we will find a way to reverse such an effect.
From some interesting far future reading: 3001 - The Final Odysse by Arthur C. Clarke, the one and only...
I've used Sonique, and compared to WinAmp or XMMS it feels very heavy.
I love WinAmp and XMMS for their speed and uasbility, so I have to say Sonique is too non-practical on a large playlist, or just for everyday used.
However, I belive it will fit in nicely with the style of my MacOSX beta arriving tomorrow;)
I feel the KDE and GNOME team are doing an incredible job with their software. I have currently been playing around with the second beta of KDE 2.0, and I have so say I see no need for Windows when this is released. A full featured Office pack, witch will keep evolving at much higher rate than MS office, and also a nice and free OS, with true multitasking that is addition is portable. Why use Windows? (don't answer that (= )
But why both kde and gnome? If these teams joined forces, imagine how fast the Linux/UNIX desktop world would evolve.
"Add the picture I saved as 'church.jpg2 and put it as a background'" "Done" "Tone it down a bit, please, with pastell colors, about 20%" "Done" "Add picture 'jesus.jpg2' in the center, and rotate 20 degrees counter-clockwise" "Done" "Add text 'He is not here yet' of font 'Times' with bold at about 2cm from the left and add a glare around it that streched about 1cm out" "Complete" "Ok, print it please"
No, for a true painter or drawer your hand will always be a more creative tool unless you can actualy plug the computer into you mindand visualise the image to the screen, but voice controll can be used for anything where we could command somebody else to do the operation. (and the mouse is NOT a good tool for drawing! Get digital pen)
The Mac is not a bda computer, and I will not hear non-mac user complain more about this.
But my point: GUI is not the future. Real conversation is the thing. Combine a computer smart enough to have a conversation with a WWW filled with advanced standarised meta-data tags, and you have it.
"Good morning Knut, you have 5 new mails today." "Ok, read them please" "Mail #1: from your girlfriend, she wonders why you didn't show up last night" "Mail back: Sorry babe, I have two other girlfrinds to attend, got to dump ya'"
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I don't know if this is supposed to be a april's fool (or whatever you call it in english), but don't throw it all away...
There is one single factor that matters when it comes to being successfull with the oposite sex: sef-confidence.
Now, this is not very easy to get if you're low on it, but it is a decisive factor, no doubt in my mind...
It is also a thing that differs from situation to situation, as you may INSIST you are right when it comes to the best way of doing an linked list in C++ for a specific app, but when it comes to the ladies, you may fall down of the high place pretty quick. (mey depend on what part of the body we are thinging of...*cough*...no sorry...)
But hey, fellow geeks: build up that self-confidence if you lack it. And the article has a point to say that you may actally work up you self-confidence with starting on "easy targets"... (moderatly pretty people whom you don't fear)
- Knut S.
May just be me being lame
PS: sex is not nessesearily the only thing to look for you know... (=
Here are the headlines by priority:
1.) Linux 3.4.1 released [Read more...]
2.) Europe destroyed in nuklear attack. [Read more..]
It is NEWS FOR NERDS, right?
- Knut S.
It may just be me being lame
Now, a few days ago on slashdot: "Is the web truning unserachable?"
Today: "Is there anything you can't find"
- Knut S.
It might just be me bing lame...
To spinn your view in quake 360 degrees, you need to move you mouse quite a distance. Also, you can't move your mouse back without the view orientating back to the starting position. Imagin those head movements! (or you could just oil your chair, and have a wide open space around you....)
Who cares about hand pains when you can break your neck in front of the computer!
- Knut S.
It is not stuck on 500 MHz, and is not lagging that much behind. We now run at 733MHz, and faster prosessors are to be expected more frequently from Apple now.
GeForce 3 is not to be forgotten, and the G4 has some trix up the sleeve. The main attraction tho' is thill the operating system of the Mac. Take a look at: www.apple.com
- Knut S.
They just canceled the X-33/-34 project mainly becouse of cash problems...
TO make some cash, NASA should invest more in tourism and mining. This may also result in increasing interest in space. Right now, we can't go, just see fancy images, so most people don't care. If you could book a week for $5000 people would, NASA would get cash. If you could mine Helium-3 of the moon, titanium and other interesting stuff, loads of cash might start falling in from the private sector.
For now, the X-Prize, and notably Starchaser is my favourite space program, as these folks have passion for putting people up there, the way we should.
- Knut S.
PS: I know the scientific value of a Pluto mission, and nothing is more important to mankind than science, but getting us out there is an investment in further expansion of missions like that to Pluto, as we would have to make cheaper toys to get us out there, that woulkd benefit all space technology in the end....
I believe that most people (excluding /.) are not as interested in space anymore.
;P
And why is that? Becouse nothing really happens outthere anymore. Space flight - the ultimate resulkt of human technological evolution - is only interesting ot the general public when we put humans out there, do exciting stuff, and actually get results.
In the long run, NASA should focus it's space efforts more on getting people out into space, building stuff like space hotels. The ISS is extremely expencive, how come? It's a VERY VERY advanced science labratory, it can't even have ehe slightest vibration inside. Building a civilian station might be much much more inexpencive. Use a few Russion Egeria rockets to get it up as well, they have huge capasity.
This would focus the atteiontion of people more one space, becouse now we could actually go there! And that is important. I can imagine more poeple wantin got take a trip out, and eventually this would give much more attention to the doings of NASA and human space exploration (that today is 99% done my telescope)
Also, maybe the doomed X-33/-34 was a faliure, but never forget the X-Prize people. Starchaser is hittin gthe skies in 2003, with a fully reusable space craft that can be ready to go in 7 days, and carry three astronoughts to orbit. I's proud to have a prosessor named the same as their craft
Starchaser homepage
- Knut S.
Hey, how stupid are we really getting? Computers are mostly used to store data that people a few hundre years ago didn't use to have to remember, so are we back there, and were they stupider (more stupid?) that out fathers and mothers?
People always fear that the younger generation is getting dumber. On the other hand, we surround ourselves with a world of chemicals and radiation unlike anything ever seen before, so who knows. I doubt us not having to remember details makes us dumber, consider the huge load of other infomation we have to remember nowadays.... But who am I to say this...
- Knut S.
"Scramble output", unless this security thing is supported in hardware, this sounds math intensive. Won't these features have an impact on performance?
- Knut S.
Can somebody please explain how M$'s software's security problems is news for nerds?
:-P
This dosn't belong here on slashdot
- Knut S.
I see no reason why we should need a 73 page report to confirm this.
.VBS made all hell break loose...
MS software has proven to contain lots of STUPID errors as security treats. Take the "ILOVEYOU" virus that wrecked havoc all around the globe, it was just plain stupid that a small text file (I looke at the script) with the suffix
- Knut S.
(one of the first posts?)
Make good use of these money now!
;)
In your hands you hold the key to the continued survival of mankind, although this is not yet fully realised by everybody today, future generations will thank you.
Allso Merry Christmas to everybody else who read this commend, I don't care about the religion. but love the message
- Knut S.
That would have to be one hell of a large one... man, what are they serving those poor guys.
Imagine that headline: "Astonauts dead of metan poisoning."
One of the few surviors said:
- First, it was this dreadfull sound, like a deep rumble... Then we strated to realise something was very wrong. We all headed for the emergency escape craft...*cries*...God! It was so horrible...people dying all over... I'm so lucky to sit here today.
- Knut S.
Ok, I am in no way qualitfied to say what I am about to say, but just think about it.
The IT industry is filled with crap, and there so many people in here allready. (who said there was a worker shortage, when homeless IT workers that are "too old" is a problem in Silicon Vally)
If he proves to have a lasting intellegent mind, i would suggest you learn him about Space. We should have been way off where we are today in Space technology, the only reason not is becouse the US didn't care so much after they had proven they could put a small pod on the moon. If he is he is generaly into electronics, the engering experience might do him good (=
How about medicine? If is a general wonderchild, maybe he could do more good for humaity there?
LAst bug not least, give him the "football" mentioned earlier and often in this thread, but also Shakespeare, art, and thoughts that all science is made to serve humanity, and NOT just for profit.
- Knut S.
Everybody know it is Electronic mail delivery subsystem.
seriousely, in programming style I alwasy write eMail. (=
- Knut S.
I agree that colonisig is the only way to prevent carastophy for out planet in the future, but this is due to overcrowding.
However, he underestimates the power of technology, as we ca only start to imagin how far we have come in 1000 years. Taking the amount of resources we might harvest from space by that time, I'm convinced we will find a way to reverse such an effect.
From some interesting far future reading: 3001 - The Final Odysse by Arthur C. Clarke, the one and only...
- Knut S.
( Posted in MacOS X Public Beta )
I've used Sonique, and compared to WinAmp or XMMS it feels very heavy.
;)
I love WinAmp and XMMS for their speed and uasbility, so I have to say Sonique is too non-practical on a large playlist, or just for everyday used.
However, I belive it will fit in nicely with the style of my MacOSX beta arriving tomorrow
-Knut S.
And I thought todays computers couldn't handle much Static electricity, imagine upgrading this.
- Knut S.
And even better, when I enter a room, I wave my hand towards the wall next to the door, and "let there be light"
A.C. Clarke once said that sufficently advanced thechnology is magic. (=
- Knut S.
'For a second he looks almost teary. "It's beautiful," he says softly.'
;P
Anybody saw the MW keynote?
Steve Jobs is a very emotional person when it comes to computers....wonder how he managed to get married...
Think the slashdot effect is bad today?
Imagin two years from now, when the 800.000 user who check out a site has xDSL connections in stead of 56k modems...
- Knut S.
I feel the KDE and GNOME team are doing an incredible job with their software. I have currently been playing around with the second beta of KDE 2.0, and I have so say I see no need for Windows when this is released. A full featured Office pack, witch will keep evolving at much higher rate than MS office, and also a nice and free OS, with true multitasking that is addition is portable. Why use Windows? (don't answer that (= )
But why both kde and gnome? If these teams joined forces, imagine how fast the Linux/UNIX desktop world would evolve.
- Knut S.
That was my own point exactly.
Try this one:
"Add the picture I saved as 'church.jpg2 and put it as a background'"
"Done"
"Tone it down a bit, please, with pastell colors, about 20%"
"Done"
"Add picture 'jesus.jpg2' in the center, and rotate 20 degrees counter-clockwise"
"Done"
"Add text 'He is not here yet' of font 'Times' with bold at about 2cm from the left and add a glare around it that streched about 1cm out"
"Complete"
"Ok, print it please"
No, for a true painter or drawer your hand will always be a more creative tool unless you can actualy plug the computer into you mindand visualise the image to the screen, but voice controll can be used for anything where we could command somebody else to do the operation.
(and the mouse is NOT a good tool for drawing! Get digital pen)
- Knut S.
The Mac is not a bda computer, and I will not hear non-mac user complain more about this.
But my point:
GUI is not the future. Real conversation is the thing. Combine a computer smart enough to have a conversation with a WWW filled with advanced standarised meta-data tags, and you have it.
"Good morning Knut, you have 5 new mails today."
"Ok, read them please"
"Mail #1: from your girlfriend, she wonders why you didn't show up last night"
"Mail back: Sorry babe, I have two other girlfrinds to attend, got to dump ya'"
Now thats Science Fiction!
- Knut S.