About the hot coffee... it wasn't served at normal termperatures of "hot"...about 55-60C. It was served at BOILING...ie, nowhere near drinkable. It's the kind of coffee you buy, then wait an hour to drink because it'll take an hour before it's possible to drink without the roof of your mouth blistering.
One more thing: look at the names of the other two nodes, Unity and Harmony. NASA probably put Serenity (along with Legacy) on the list because it fits a theme of working together in peace.
Yes, I said wordpress.com, not wordpress.org, so OF COURSE I mean their hosting. It goes down after like 10 Diggs, and you have to pay if you want to modify the style. The fact that it has practically no bandwidth is what I mean by "it can't take Digg."
I've had at least one post go missing on my blog. I posted about a belt I'd made that has commands like lspci, lsmod, cat, grep, dd, and others on it. It no longer exists anywhere on my blog, and I don't know why.
Also, since you brought up the verbal orientation thing - I remember reading that good hackers are more likely to have above-average verbal skills when it comes to non-machine languages as well.
Thinking about it, most of the people I know that are good with CS are good with languages in general. I'd say the majority of the people I'm thinking of speak Chinese, but a few speak Japanese, and then there's some sign language thrown in for good measure.
I make no distinction between human languages and programming languages.
As to "ladies night," I'm pretty sure the purpose is to attract both guys and girls. Girls go because it's free. Guys go because there are girls. I don't know if on most women the reverse would work (fill the place with men to attract women).
Neither works for me. Choosing A) between a club full of sweaty people dancing to bad music and a bunch of asshole guys hitting on me or B) spending another Friday night in a cafe on IRC, catching up on RSS feeds, blogging, or hacking away at a patch? I'm taking B.
My own experience with "not fitting in" has usually been with all the other expected facets of geek culture, especially when I was in University. MUDS (at the time), RPGs, MMORPGS, other gaming things, DND, Transformers, movies. Nerdy types tend to be very obnoxious when noting someone doesn't "know" something (as trivial and useless as it is). "OH MY GOD, YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BROADSWORD AND A LONGSWORD?"
Being not a gamer, I don't hang out with most of the other CS majors at school. The only time I see them outside of class is for Linux installfests, Linux being the one area of geekery in which I indulge. And um, guilty on the medieval weaponry thing. For me, it's longbow v. crossbow v. recurve. But the others aren't rennies.
One of the other girls I know in the CS dept (not there much longer, she's switching to Systems Engineering) spends most of her time fragging and so would get along well with the guys, but she doesn't fit in because she cares about fashion, unlike the rest of us.
Girls don't like guys that cry? What happened to that "sweet, emotional guy" thing? Does this mean I shouldn't have liked any of those guys I've dated?
OK, so a non-Muslim might make it "all Muslims must pay extra taxes." So what? Point is, person of Religion X says people of Religion Y must pay extra. What religions are X and Y doesn't matter.
Your idea of integral and others' ideas of integral are different. Some would say Sharia is "integral" or that killing infidels is "integral." Others would say that stuff doesn't matter and that what does matter is belief. Most Jews and Christians (at least in the US) don't follow every law in Leviticus, do they? So why assume every Muslim would do the equivalent? Get real. Some Muslims consider it necessary to eat only Halal foods. But then I've got a Muslim friend with an Indian restaurant that serves non-Halal foods, which he does eat. He's more concerned with the food being organic and healthy. Does Sharia matter? Not to all Muslims. That friend said he'd vote in favor of gay marriage if it was brought up in our area.
A better question which you keep missing:
Why have the concept of "citizenship" at all? At the very least, why have citizenship for life? Why have citizenship at birth? Why not choose your country of citizenship once you reach maturity?
France doesn't have English signs because the French are just as stuck up about their language as Americans are about English. But in Italy, Germany, and Austria? I saw plenty of English signs. The exception would be in the tiny town in Sicily that my family's from, where tourists generally don't go. For Palermo, Rome, Venice...English signs weren't hard to find. So, if you're in a large city, it's reasonable to expect tourist-friendly (either picture or translated) signs.
I'm the same way. I love reading, and math frustrates me to no end. Well, discrete math is actually interesting, unlike calculus. But programming? Fun stuff.
Oh, and I'm a girl.
One of the women on LinuxChix has a png (I think) with corrupted headers so that it makes the browser load an insane amount of memory and crash the browser. Modern browsers are bit smarter about going "oh that's corrupted, nevermind" though.
TrueCrypt makes an encrypted OS, though, doesn't it? eCryptFS lets you just have one encrypted directory. The way it's being used is that people can put their ~/.evolution as a symlink to one inside ~/Private/ so most things aren't encrypted (thereby using less resources) while the necessary things are.
Hardy had config-free X too.
Don't know what you mean about network profile. NM does 3G now though. Supposedly it works (but I don't have the hardware to test).
The guest account is generated each time it is called with a temporary drive, so the current guest can't see what the last guest did, and so on. There's also no password, and it keeps you from having an account sitting around. It's not a good idea to have a guest account sitting there, because usually the password sucks (guest, password, password01) more than "real" passwords, and so it becomes an easy entry point. Once an intruder is through that door, they just need local privilege escalation--something much easier to achieve than getting into the computer when a strong password is used for every user.
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The *game character* being General British doesn't change the fact that his *in real life* nickname is Lord British.
And his dad being an astronaut is "little known"? Huh..."I'm going to space just like my dad...." was one topic of convo at dinner with him.
/me points to signature line
Girl, see?
Yeah well, good thing my terminal has a pink background with black text. Pink is proof that anything I do in my shell is legal.
About the hot coffee... it wasn't served at normal termperatures of "hot"...about 55-60C. It was served at BOILING...ie, nowhere near drinkable. It's the kind of coffee you buy, then wait an hour to drink because it'll take an hour before it's possible to drink without the roof of your mouth blistering.
Eh? This was implemented on Facebook a while ago...so er...not April Fools...
One more thing: look at the names of the other two nodes, Unity and Harmony. NASA probably put Serenity (along with Legacy) on the list because it fits a theme of working together in peace.
Yes, I said wordpress.com, not wordpress.org, so OF COURSE I mean their hosting. It goes down after like 10 Diggs, and you have to pay if you want to modify the style. The fact that it has practically no bandwidth is what I mean by "it can't take Digg."
Blogger can take Slashdot or Digg. Wordpress.com cannot. Blogger lets you have complete control over the site's style. Wordpress.com does not.
I've had at least one post go missing on my blog. I posted about a belt I'd made that has commands like lspci, lsmod, cat, grep, dd, and others on it. It no longer exists anywhere on my blog, and I don't know why.
Also, since you brought up the verbal orientation thing - I remember reading that good hackers are more likely to have above-average verbal skills when it comes to non-machine languages as well.
Thinking about it, most of the people I know that are good with CS are good with languages in general. I'd say the majority of the people I'm thinking of speak Chinese, but a few speak Japanese, and then there's some sign language thrown in for good measure.
I make no distinction between human languages and programming languages.
As to "ladies night," I'm pretty sure the purpose is to attract both guys and girls. Girls go because it's free. Guys go because there are girls. I don't know if on most women the reverse would work (fill the place with men to attract women).
Neither works for me. Choosing A) between a club full of sweaty people dancing to bad music and a bunch of asshole guys hitting on me or B) spending another Friday night in a cafe on IRC, catching up on RSS feeds, blogging, or hacking away at a patch? I'm taking B.
She says as a gamer she still doesn't fit in because she's a PC gamer and the others are console gamers.
My own experience with "not fitting in" has usually been with all the other expected facets of geek culture, especially when I was in University. MUDS (at the time), RPGs, MMORPGS, other gaming things, DND, Transformers, movies. Nerdy types tend to be very obnoxious when noting someone doesn't "know" something (as trivial and useless as it is). "OH MY GOD, YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BROADSWORD AND A LONGSWORD?"
Being not a gamer, I don't hang out with most of the other CS majors at school. The only time I see them outside of class is for Linux installfests, Linux being the one area of geekery in which I indulge. And um, guilty on the medieval weaponry thing. For me, it's longbow v. crossbow v. recurve. But the others aren't rennies.
One of the other girls I know in the CS dept (not there much longer, she's switching to Systems Engineering) spends most of her time fragging and so would get along well with the guys, but she doesn't fit in because she cares about fashion, unlike the rest of us.
Girls don't like guys that cry? What happened to that "sweet, emotional guy" thing? Does this mean I shouldn't have liked any of those guys I've dated?
OK, so a non-Muslim might make it "all Muslims must pay extra taxes." So what? Point is, person of Religion X says people of Religion Y must pay extra. What religions are X and Y doesn't matter.
Your idea of integral and others' ideas of integral are different. Some would say Sharia is "integral" or that killing infidels is "integral." Others would say that stuff doesn't matter and that what does matter is belief. Most Jews and Christians (at least in the US) don't follow every law in Leviticus, do they? So why assume every Muslim would do the equivalent? Get real. Some Muslims consider it necessary to eat only Halal foods. But then I've got a Muslim friend with an Indian restaurant that serves non-Halal foods, which he does eat. He's more concerned with the food being organic and healthy. Does Sharia matter? Not to all Muslims. That friend said he'd vote in favor of gay marriage if it was brought up in our area.
In his youth, when he went to a Catholic school?
A better question which you keep missing:
Why have the concept of "citizenship" at all? At the very least, why have citizenship for life? Why have citizenship at birth? Why not choose your country of citizenship once you reach maturity?
France doesn't have English signs because the French are just as stuck up about their language as Americans are about English. But in Italy, Germany, and Austria? I saw plenty of English signs. The exception would be in the tiny town in Sicily that my family's from, where tourists generally don't go. For Palermo, Rome, Venice...English signs weren't hard to find. So, if you're in a large city, it's reasonable to expect tourist-friendly (either picture or translated) signs.
I'm the same way. I love reading, and math frustrates me to no end. Well, discrete math is actually interesting, unlike calculus. But programming? Fun stuff. Oh, and I'm a girl.
Or my step-mom Terry?
Does all-Wikipedia-servers-run-Ubuntu count?
But can your father-in-law with a slide-rule, graph paper, and a normal pencil outperform Vista?
One of the women on LinuxChix has a png (I think) with corrupted headers so that it makes the browser load an insane amount of memory and crash the browser. Modern browsers are bit smarter about going "oh that's corrupted, nevermind" though.
Ah ok, kind of like the thing in Network-Admin that sort of half-worked and took about 3 minutes to change locations?
TrueCrypt makes an encrypted OS, though, doesn't it? eCryptFS lets you just have one encrypted directory. The way it's being used is that people can put their ~/.evolution as a symlink to one inside ~/Private/ so most things aren't encrypted (thereby using less resources) while the necessary things are. Hardy had config-free X too. Don't know what you mean about network profile. NM does 3G now though. Supposedly it works (but I don't have the hardware to test). The guest account is generated each time it is called with a temporary drive, so the current guest can't see what the last guest did, and so on. There's also no password, and it keeps you from having an account sitting around. It's not a good idea to have a guest account sitting there, because usually the password sucks (guest, password, password01) more than "real" passwords, and so it becomes an easy entry point. Once an intruder is through that door, they just need local privilege escalation--something much easier to achieve than getting into the computer when a strong password is used for every user.