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| 2001/5/25 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:21352 Activity:nil |
5/24 The motd has been innoculated. -ali
\_ infocom games on java applets:
http://www.pond.com/~russotto/zpletx/minizork.html (zork 1 subset)
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html (hh's guide) |
| 2001/5/25 [Uncategorized] UID:21353 Activity:nil |
5/24 [stupid thread about request for pun deleted.] |
| 2001/5/25 [Uncategorized] UID:21355 Activity:low |
5/24 <DEAD>www.urlwithoutcomment.com<DEAD> \_ You should be so lucky to get this deleted. |
| 2001/5/25 [Consumer/PDA] UID:21356 Activity:very high |
5/24 motd poll:
apple computer will buy palm computing:
openwave will buy palm computing: .
nobody will buy palm computing: ...
3com will buy palm computing: .
Microsoft will buy palm computing: .
CSUA will buy palm computing: .
Handspring will buy PalmOS: .
I just like dots: ..................................
I hate dots: ,"]$@ |
| 2001/5/25 [Computer/Domains] UID:21357 Activity:low |
5/26 what's this domain policy list thing (and why did verisign shut it
down after becoming god of .com domain?)
\_ Because they suck and don't have to care anymore. |
| 2001/5/25 [Recreation/Dating] UID:21358 Activity:high |
5/25 http://www.nothingisreal.com/girlfriend This explains everything. \_ There's a flaw in that guy's argument. First he claims the girl just have to be beautiful and be able to carry on an intelligent conversation (but not necessarily above MENSA cutoff), then he proceeds to look for people 2 std higher in beauty and (of those 2 stds higher in beauty) 1 std higher in intelligence. Given that most of the mass of the Gaussian concentrates around its mean, this means his criterion of beauty and intelligence is extremely stringent. No wonder he can't find a girlfriend. He's looking for a supermodel with a PhD. \_ You think there are 18,000 supermodels with PhDs in the States? \_ For a particular definition of supermodel and a particular definition of PhD, yes. \_ This is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Any girl who sees this page is going to keep her distance... |
| 2001/5/25 [Finance/Banking, Reference/RealEstate] UID:21359 Activity:insanely high |
5/25 Hey, is it worth wasting an extra $25/month in mortgage interest
to have an extra $200/month in pocket money? (comparing 15 to 30) -nick
\_ _In general_ if you can afford the 15 year, you're better off in
the long run. Talk to a loan person at a bank to go over specifics
for your loan.
\_ Most 30 year loans have pre-pay penalties. Banks prefer to have a
\_ Not from what I've seen. Certainly my 30 year loadn has no
prepayment penalty.
long income stream on paper, that they don't have to modify with
prepayments. If you are able to pay it off in 15 years easily,
go for it!
\_ Some idiots posted below.
\_ YMMV. Lots of people buy houses so that they have LESS spending
money, because when you have lots of extra spending money, you
can easily "blow" a lot of it... either the $500/mo Fry's habit,
nice restaurants, nice whores, clothes, or whatever. If you can
afford a house, you probably are doing somewhat ok, and can live
without the extra $200. On the flipside, money is meant to be spent
so what is the point in saving it all? Find your own balance.
What's your lifestyle? What do you want it to be?
\_ You mean 15 vs. 30 year mortgage? You do realize how much more you'd
pay on the 30 year, right? If you can affort it, you'll accrue
equity much faster with the 15 (because of compound interest, equtity
growth is _not_ linear).
\_ Non-sense. You don't know any better. The fastest way
to build equity is to have a 30-year-loan (hence lower
monthly payment) but pay the same amount each month
month as you would with a 15-year-loan (hence you pay down
more principle each month).
\_ How is this different from getting a real 15-year loan with
the same interest rate? (Not to mention that 15-year loans
usually have lower interest rates than 30-year ones.) -- yuen
\_ Exactly. All that matters is the interest rate.
\_ IANAFA (I am not a financial advisor). Depends on what you want
to do with it. Can you live without it? If not, then go for 30,
of course. If you can, then perhaps putting the $200 in something
that will earn more than your mortgage interest rate will be a
good investment. I would highly advise against just blowing the
$200, but I'm very conservative financially.
\_ In comparing interest, do remember that debt paid is debt
paid whereas investment earnings still has to be taxed. |
| 2001/5/25 [Reference/Religion] UID:21360 Activity:high |
5/25 O motd formatting god, I am in awe of your curious powers. In
appreciation of the gifts you have bestowed on us, I would
like to erect an idol. How would you like to be represented?
\_ You said erect. huhuhuhuh.
\_ The motd formatting god is not a god of idolatry. You shall be
cast down into the depths of 85 column formatting if you whorship
idols. Your spiritual contacts are all to be through the one true
church: /etc/motd.public
\_ 85? Shouldn't it be 80?
\_ Get Thee Back to Thy 40-column Filth! -Motd Formatting
High Priest |
| 2001/5/25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:21361 Activity:nil 66%like:21363 |
5/25 [censorship discussion censored] |
| 2001/5/25-27 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:21362 Activity:high |
5/25 What happens when a file get truncated by redirection like cat a > b.
What happens to the eof marker in b? If some program was reading b like
tail.exe, when cat a>b happens, how'd that program check b has been
reset and should reopen b for read?
\_ it doesn't matter if it gets truncated by redirection or any other
means. redirection is a shell abstraction, not a file system
abstraction so the distinction is unimportant. tail -f just
regularly polls the time stamp of the file. if it's changed, it
rechecks the file.
\_ are you sure it's the time stamp it checks? because if there's
a process constantly writing to the file, only the last modified time
is changed; so tail can't reset it's pointer to the beginning of the
file by looking at the time stamp.
\_ if two programs are buffering the same file, the last one
to flush its buffers will "win". files are not a coherent
shared storage unless you employ file locks.
\_ did you fucking read the question? what the hell is wrong
with you? he's talking about read and writer. not two writers.
you're a fucking moron.
\_ Are you aware of where you are? This is the motd. Are you
completely stupid? No one reads the question. You're a
fucking moron. Welcome to the motd. |
| 2001/5/25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:21363 Activity:nil 66%like:21361 |
5/25 [post on censorship censored] |
| 2001/5/25-27 [Computer/Networking] UID:21364 Activity:very high |
5/25 My professor lives on a hilltop that doesn't get DSL or cable modem.
Someone's recommended Hughes DirecPC satellite broadband for him.
Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks.
\ a better deal may be starband. see http://www.starband.com DirecPC is
modem one way (suck). Satellite latency may be annoying though.
\_ DirecPC says it's one-way through AOL, but Earthlink and Pegasus
are two-way. I'm not really sure about this whole satellite
business.
\_ Yes, it started one-way, but now it is two-way. --dim
\_ Don't use starband! Their service is awful. I signed up in January,
and the service only worked for a couple hours each day.
latency is terrible, simple shell interaction drives you nuts.
I had to switch to DSL. Customer service is also pathetic. -gosha
\_ try sprint broadband wireless. ask nevman
\_ have heard good things about this... don't know specifics, sorry.
I do know that DirecPC really sucks... the satellite latency is
a huge pain. - rory
\_ Can't your prof do his own high speed research? Why are you putting
your ass kissing post on here? Grad students....
\ a better deal may be starband. see http://www.starband.com DirecPC is
modem one way (suck). Satellite latency may be annoying though.
\_ DirecPC says it's one-way through AOL, but Earthlink and Pegasus
are two-way. I'm not really sure about this whole satellite
business.
\_ Yes, it started one-way, but now it is two-way. --dim
\_ Don't use starband! Their service is awful. I signed up in January,
and the service only worked for a couple hours each day.
latency is terrible, simple shell interaction drives you nuts.
I had to switch to DSL. Customer service is also pathetic. -gosha
\_ try sprint broadband wireless. ask nevman
\_ have heard good things about this... don't know specifics, sorry.
I do know that DirecPC really sucks... the satellite latency is
a huge pain. - rory
\_ If he can see the Berkeley hills, try http://transbay.net's wireless
service. 1.5mbit symmetric, I think. And it's cheaper than
comparable SDSL. |
| 2001/5/25-27 [Recreation/Media] UID:21365 Activity:very high |
5/25 any kickboxers?
http://formenmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/hardcore/kickboxershinsnap.mpg
\_ i did muay thai at cal for a bit. hard on the shins. liked it, tho.
- paolo
\_ Thanks for wasting my brain cells on that knowledge nugget.
\_ any time. really. want more?
"wherever you go... there you are." - paolo
\_ that was awesome...what was it, Mystery Men?
\_ my religious studies teacher, 11th grade
\_ You seriously believe your 11th grade teacher came up
with this line? Wow... kids today. Next they'll be
thinking their HS teachers came up with all the stuff
about using The Force.
\_ Thunder Karlsson.
\_ Try Buckaroo Banzai, Mr sarcasm.
\_would someone please comment on the video?!?!
\_ It co-starred Ellen Barkin.
\_ That saying has been around as long as I can
remember. It was popular in the 1970's. --dim
\_ eh? Trip -- then I guess BB did an okay
job bringing it back from the dead -- that
was the first I had heard it, and only credited
source until now. I am so sad to hear that it
wasn't original.
\_ Yeah all the talk about The Force dates
back before Starwars, too. "Use the Force,
Luke" was a popular phrase in the 1960's. |
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