Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Friday, 3 September 2010
AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do
"us mac users have never had this problem."
Try to remove that huge apple that says "I overpay my hardware" with WD40...
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Study Says Your Personality Doesn't Change After 1st Grade
I've been waiting for somebody to answer the age-old question:
Were you born an a-hole or did you work on it your whole life?
Monday, 9 August 2010
Frustration and Unhappiness In the Games Industry
"....I spent some time with my brother in Sweden, he moved over there during a student exchange program. He liked it so much he stayed. Why does he like it so much? Well he works for Sony Ericsson as a programmer/engineer and to say they have a different work philosophy is an understatement.
To list some of the perks:
On day 1, out of university, he gets 6 weeks vacation, with the ability
to bank another 2. He has 8+2 weeks now.
Overtime, period....law...no such thing as "Salary employee".
You are payed extra to carry a blackberry
By law a person has to be no farther that 10 meters from a natural light
source...even in a skyrise. They have a whole classes in architecture
schools on this.
Free medicare
Free gym
Free bereavement time no questions asked
6 months PATERNITY leave
free daycare services
Managers and executives that fail employee review are often pushed into
no managerial roles.
Sony-Ericsson is considered a slave driving company in Sweden. Google
may have won "Best Employer" in the US, but they would be considered
McDonald's level in Scandinavia and a lot of the western european
countries."
Well yes that sounds nice but doesn't he miss the free market???
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
The Hell Known As Internet Screening Services
The problem is that most 20 year old kids don't really know how sensitive they are to things like this until they're repeatedly exposed to them, by which point much of the damage has already been done. Luckily for me, I was exposed to the Internet and all of the nastiness on it when I was only 13, and I've managed to get by with no ill effects at all except for the occasional extended blackout followed by a dead hooker in my bed. Some more sensitive people might really lose their minds, though.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline
Man, have you ever sucked a dick for caffeine?
I don't think that's where coffee comes from...
Monday, 10 May 2010
Slashdot Apple Story | Flash Is Not a Right
The manufacturer of your microwave isn't actively going out of its way to block flash. You can legally sell flash for the microwave oven; software installation is a chore but the playing field is level for everyone. You don't sign an EULA when you buy your microwave.
Flash in your microwave? No problem
1. Get a piece of copper wire about 7.5" long
2. solder the ends together and form the wire in the shape of the loop
3. put wire loop in microwave
4. microwave on high as long as desired
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Digg - Greatest Magnum P.I. Moment Ever
I just showed this to my mom and she totally started panting for that hairy chested has-been. I'm totally telling my dad when he gets home.
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions
OMG The confusion!!!
Let me break it down for ya'all
Do you need remote desktop?
Ultimate or Business.
Do you need Faxes?
Ultimate or Business.
Do you need Media Center?
Home Premium or Ultimate.
Do you want to burn DVDs and HD-DVDs out of the box?
Home Premium or Ultimate.
Do you live in a third world country and have flies on your face?
Home Basic
Was that REALLY so difficult?
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Slashdot | How Do You Stay Upbeat Amidst the Idiocy?
I took freshman economics in college. I've studied differential equations (which those business weenies never had to). I've written in assembler. Economics *has* to be easy, those guys never had to study calculus based physics! Same with marketing--those guys never studied assembler like I did, so how hard could their profession be!? I mean, just show the clients a plain text file that highlights which features in our product are better, and which are not and let the client decide!
Word to the wise, if your girlfriend or wife is a nurse and you claim that your engineering degree was harder then their nursing degree because they never took calculus, be prepared to spend the night on the couch. Just a tip.
Still, my $TYPE engineering degree makes me more then qualified to do any profession. Why, with a few books from the library and maybe a couple Google searches I could probably give your friend that kidney transplant they need. How hard could it be anyway, those overpaid doctors never had to work with Laplace transforms!
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia
Unfortunately it can also be a problem in real-life, generally when
I'm being sarcastic I sound and act exactly as if I wasn't, combine
this with my quirky personalty and it gets interesting.
(while in a job interview)
Interviewer: so what kind of hobbies do you have, apart from coding?
Me: Well, rock climbing, some music production, necrophelia and subtle dark humor.
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Coolidge effect
The term comes from an old joke, according to which President Calvin Coolidge
and his wife allegedly visited a poultry farm. During the tour, Mrs.
Coolidge inquired of the farmer how his farm managed to produce so many
fertile eggs with such a small number of roosters. The farmer proudly
explained that his roosters performed their duty dozens of times each
day.
"Perhaps you could point that out to Mr. Coolidge," pointedly replied the First Lady.
The President, overhearing the remark, asked the farmer, "Does each rooster service the same hen each time?"
"No," replied the farmer, "there are many hens for each rooster."
"Perhaps you could point that out to Mrs. Coolidge," replied the President.
as my toddler would say, that's fucked up!