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2002/3/14 [Uncategorized] UID:24104 Activity:nil |
3/13 man cal |
2002/3/14 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Recreation/Sports] UID:24105 Activity:high |
3/13 Black and White-- good game, bad game? \_ I thought it was boring. Training the animal sounded cool on the box but it was too slow to learn and because it was doing so many things at once it was hard to train it. Often it would do something I wanted and just as I was going to reward it, it would then do the wrong thing and I'd be reinforcing negative behavior. I also did a fair amount of discouraging good behavior. Sigh. It was almost a good game. \_ I'd agree too. The whole animal thing is lame and annoying. fortunately theres a few levels in single player where you dont have the annoying thing. \_ I just tied mine up and left it there. \_ but then it starves and passes out and goes back to your temple untied. And there's at least two points where you HAVE to use your creature to continue on iwth the game. annoying. \_ Yeah but it's gone for a while. And who finished the game anyway? :-) \_ Those of you who've played it, have you ever trained your creature to take dumps in the grain fields? My creature only seems to prefer doing its business near trees and rocks. \_ Sure, it was easy enough. Tie him up in the grain field and then feed him by hand. Praise when he dumps. Whatever. |
2002/3/14 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:24106 Activity:high |
3/13 how do i view a bunch of short mpegs in windows, all in a row, purely for academic purposes of course. \_ On 1 hand or 2? \_ it's an academic purpose! how fast, how far, how often \_ Why was my reply deleted? 1 hand or 2? Damned prudes. \_ don't use windows? umm. you can amke an .asx... find one on the web and figure out how to use it... I have no clue. The other way I can think of is to make a batch file that uses "start" -dwc \_ The batch file doesn't need "start". \_ You could create a SMIL document that defines the playlist and just drop the SMIL file onto QuickTime. \_ Go to http://www.intervideo.com Download WinDVD 3.0 demo Search on http://www.astalavista.com for crack create playlist in windvd. \_ There's crack on the net? I searched for crack and all I got was tons of pirated software. I need it bad, man! \_ use a media player like Zoom Player which will let you queue up files in a playlist. It's free and fairly lightweight. |
2002/3/14 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:24107 Activity:insanely high |
3/13 Why have Enron and Global Crossing completely disappeared from the mainstream press? This was predicted as Bush's Watergate. \_ Because there's no story and no one cares? And GC was a pure Dem disaster politcally which is why it barely got any press at all. Who predicted this was a "Bush Watergate"? Hopeful and otherwise clueless lefty media types who are trying hard to avoid pointing out that the Dems don't have any positive plans for the country? That their only plan is smear and "we're not them!"? Whatever. The real answer is there's no story there. Both companies were poorly run and then keeled over as one would expect given how each ran themselves. BFD. \_ Bwahaha! Run and scurry Bush-boy. Three to five screenplays are already in the works on Enron. This won't be dead for years. It just won't be front page news every single day. \_ This is what people said of the junk bond "scandal". Almost no one remembers or cares. \_ You must be young. No one cares. And frankly the Dems should be *really* happy no one cares. If anyone did care and the media was honest all the dirty Dem connections would be everywhere. Even Waxman is backing off his earlier attacks. What does Waxman know that you don't? \_ Earl: Didja get a tug on that lure? Cletus: Yup a got a couple. |
2002/3/14-15 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:24108 Activity:very high |
3/13 ok. My year long lease with verizon just expired. I'm shopping around for new long distance cell phone carrier. Besides the other variables I'm considering, there is customer service. Any input on verizon, sprint, voicestream, etc? I'm doing my homework, but just wanted to hear other stories. thanks. \_ I have verizon since y2k and renewed it last year and recently changed to $25 plan which is all I need since....my gf has AT&T with free domestic long distance. AT&T network and rate plans are comparable to verizon. Don't let Cingular plans lure you. It sucks. Sprint sucked 4 years ago when I had it. Don't know now. \_ Unfortunately Sprint still sortof sucks. Here in Contra Costa County, there are plenty of blind spot, esp. along I-680. I have been an AT&T Wireless customer for 5 yrs and happy. Can't comment much on Cingular although they're the only one that provides GSM service, if you're into it. Verizon seems to be the cream of the crop according to most people. \_ Just last week I switched from Cingular to AT&T. With a 2 year contract, you get 50% more minutes, which makes AT&T way better in terms of price than any of the other players. Quality is also quite good (way better than Sprint or Cingular). \_ My wife had a Samsung SCH-210 phone under Verizon and the reception around Downtown SF was very good. Now she has a Nokia 8260 under AT&T and the reception at the same locations is noticeably worse. Don't know if it's the phone or the network, but Nokia phones can't be that bad. \_ Nokia 8260 is bad in general. When my sister got hers, the saleperson warned her that this model had many complaints from his customers. \_ I've had AT&T for about 1.5 years now. Service has been consistently good. Reception was so-so with my old Nokia 8860. The 8260 has the same internals as the 8860, but is cheaper to produce. I now have an Ericsson R300LX, which has much better reception. Don't get Cingular. They're WAY oversubscribed. Ditto for Sprint (plus, Sprint network has lots of gaps). Oh, yeah, Ericsson's usability engineers suck. UI on the Nokias is MUCH better. -dans \_ Anyone use Motorola phones? Are they any good? \_ I use Motorola StarTac ST7797, which AT&T Wireless supports BUT no longer resell (I bought one from E-Bay for under $50). I've always liked it; was on ST7790 for 2 yrs until AT&T Wireless stop supporting it. Verizon supports another version of the StarTac, can't remember the model #. AT&T Wireless (if you decide to go with them) would try to sell you the Motorola Talkabout, which is a brick-looking thing that's kindof awkward. Reception on my old ST7790 sucked but the ST7797 totally rocks! - jthoms \_ if you don't need a local number, i've met people happy with voicestream gsm they bought from the northwest. they are always roaming but who cares if the price is right... i use cingular and have found very even roaming coverage all over the US, including chicago which was a dead spot for years. |
2002/3/14 [Science] UID:24109 Activity:high |
3/13 http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/2849637.htm Valley teens lacking interest in high tech jobs, study says. \_ Except for asian boys (ie future cal eng. grads). \_ those not interested in technology think "the work seemed boring or intimidating" \_ "Asian students were most likely to be interested in technology careers. They were also the most likely to have parents working in technical careers." Talk about self fueled stereotype. \_ Yeah much better to fight the stereotype and all be slackers! \_ You know what? High tech jobs ARE boring and intimidating. Most of them involve long hours and dick sucking politicking. \_ What do you have against sucking dick? \_ Oh? You know of a high paying job that doesn't involve long hours and politics? Care to reveal the secret? \_ doctor? \_ What? Short hours? High pay? Think HMO controlled fee structure, many years of school, high debt, and then you get to work for peanuts in a hospital doing 36 hour shifts for a year or two until you can finally get your license. I'd rather be a tech, thanks. \_ also, i *like* the people i work with, and most doctors i've met are fucking arogant moron assholes. \_ And probably arrogant, too! \_ And they have big egos! |
2002/3/14 [Politics/Foreign/Canada, Reference/Tax] UID:24110 Activity:nil |
3/13 Anyone living in canada? If so, better start hording blank cd's: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50995,00.html \_ I plan on making mega bucks on the black market. This is sweet! |
2002/3/14 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:24111 Activity:moderate |
3/13 Does anybody know a command to display the current Julian Date? \_ man cal \_ the "Julian Calendar" is not the "Julian Date" cal shows the Julian Calendar. the Julian date for right now is about: 2452347.59 \- the power of emacs: (calendar-print-julian-date) Show the Julian calendar equivalent of the date under the cursor. \_ The Julian period (and the Julian day number) must not be confused with the Julian calendar. The Julian period starts on 1 January 4713 BC This is what I'm looking for. \- you can do this using "astronomical date" that is M-x calendar-print-astro-day or something like that in emacs Astronomical (Julian) day number (at noon UTC): 2452347.0 The emacs calenday can pretty much do anything, although in some cases you might have to write some el based but the primitives are all there. UTSL. ok tnx --psb \_ Thanks, but how about something simple I can run from the command line? By the way, how do I get the number of seconds since the UNIX Epoch? \_ perl -e 'print time . "\n"' \_ perl -e 'print "$^T\n"' \- (gnu)date +%s. i think there is a program called ctime too. if you need from shell there are various astro-calculation oriented libs you can use to convert between date fmts also support for sideral time periods and such. dunno if it excists for high level lang like perl but assume so. ok tnx --psb \_ Everything can be done in perl. If it can't be done in perl, you didn't really need it done anyway. \_ I'd like to see you write a device drive in perl. |
2002/3/14 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:24112 Activity:moderate |
3/14 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/circuits/14MANN.html \_ "He is now undergoing tests to determine whether his brain has been affected by the sudden detachment from the technology." |
2002/3/14 [Uncategorized] UID:24113 Activity:nil |
3/14 Hey, Isreali apologists, what do you think of their targeting hospitals and ambulances, including the Red Cross? \_ what other targets hve they? |
2002/3/14-15 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:24114 Activity:very high |
3/14 What's the deal with these prize drawings? The rules always say no purchase necessary but in order to win stuff from say Snapple, you have to buy a freaking Snapple and see if you got the winning cap. \_ not always true. there was a coke contest like this where you could tell by holding up the bottle and looking. i got free sodas for a year. you just buy the soda with the winning ticket from the last soda and all you have to pay is bottle deposit which you get back. \_ And taxes, of course... \_ In the fine print on all these things you can mail the company for an entry. Go buy a snapple you cheap bastard. \_ Do people actually have a chance to win? I know there was the case with McDonald's where they rigged it so friends of the producers of their monopoly game won. I alawys wonder if you can win the \_ BTW, why does tne law require "no purchase necessary" for all cars in display at malls. \_ Probably not. They never tell you when they are going to give those cars away, do they? Haven't really tracked the ugly scam on this one besides the normal address and phone number crap. \_ BTW, why does the law require "no purchase necessary" for all drawings? What's wrong with a company running a drawing that requires purchases so as to boost its sales? \_ because it technically becomes gambling when you require a purchase \_ Correct. It becomes a lottery. The "no purchase necessary" means it's a "giveaway." |
2002/3/14-15 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:24115 Activity:very high |
3/14 All hail Governor Davis!!! http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/14/ED40228.DTL \_ Yeah, the only problem is, Simon is a right wing nutcase. Congratulations Republicans, you elected the only guy who could possibly make Davis look good. \_ One day you leftiest will figure out your worldview is not the only possible valid choice. Then again maybe not, then you wouldn't be lefties. \_ You will lose, nonetheless. You can believe that aliens in Black Helicopters control your brain, for all I care. Just don't expect to be elected governor in a democracy. \_ in what way is he a right-wing nutcase? are you saying he is a right-wing nutcase compared to Ronald Reagan or Dan Lundgren? \_ A Director of the Heritage Foundation? You gotta be kidding. I am sure they love him in Orange County, but I bet you a beer he loses by at least 10 points. \_ A beer on a 10 point spread? No shit Sherlock, there are 10 points more Dems than Reps in CA. Duh. \_ actually, i was just asking, not disagreeing, i no longer live in ca. \_ Okay, he is anti-abortion, pro-voucher, favors deregulation, anti-gun control, anti gay rights. A lot like Lundgren, come to think of it, who lost by 20 points, if you don't remember. \_ 1) Exactly why should people be given preferential govt treatment based on their behavoir in the bedroom? 2) AIDS is a complete scam. It is 100% preventable, but irresponsible homosexuals want tax payers to bail them out for incontinent behavoir. This is common sense. \_ No, they just want equal rights. \_ They already have equal rights. \_ The right to marraige? \_ Gays have the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. This is the exact same right straight people have. I see no inequality issue. \_ They do not have the right you enjoy to marry the person they love. If you don't understand this then you are either stupid or trying to deprive them of rights, or a troll. \_ The 2nd amendment is the ONLY guarantor of the Constitution. How blind can you be to not see this. And we all know how effective gun control is. \_ Gun control is very effective. I control my guns very well. I've yet to shoot an innocent or allow a child to gain control of my weapon. |
2002/3/14-15 [Computer/Domains] UID:24116 Activity:kinda low |
3/14 Will nslookup up on solaris work if the DNS IP does not have a hostname? I'm doing "nslookup - DNS-IP-ADDR" and it says non-existent host/domain and nslookup just exits. The DNS server is up and pingable and nslookup works fine from it (Cobalt Linux) -- signed, DNS newbie. \_ I don't know about any Solaris-specific DNS behavior, but (a) I find it weird that your DNS server wouldn't have an A record, and (b) you might want to look int dig for sorting out DNS problems. -John |
2002/3/14-15 [Uncategorized] UID:24117 Activity:high |
3/14 What is this I hear of a alumni block? If the alumni accounts are going to get turned off, can we get some warning in order move our files and send out email addr changes? \_ the motd will suck ass without our brilliant and witty cynicism. \_ where'd you hear this? \_ on the motd, just now. \_ and you took it seriously? I think ur acct deserves to be off. \_ My account is turned off. Why isn't yours? Maybe you're next. |
2002/3/14-15 [Industry/Jobs] UID:24118 Activity:high |
3/13 Nobody has experience with voicestream? \_ Do they even offer coverage in the Bay Area? |
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