Not just for technotards, but for many people who see themselves as 'experts' at something......
Pouring scorn on those they regard as 'inferior'.

One thing I've learned in my efforts to become an 'expert' is that circumstances always have that humbling way of making me look like an idiot. For me, acknowledging that others may not be 'expert' in the same areas as myself is good insurance that those same people will perhaps tolerate my shortcomings when I need their expertise.

I would disagree with several of those ``habits.''

(1) conference calls with lcd projectors are just another way to waste time playing with gadgets.

(2) I deliberately ``lose'' email because people send it for the silliest reasons. I don't need to receive email from someone who is only 10 feet away and could just as easily ask a question using the old fashioned vocal cords.

(4) Any technical person worth his/her salt can run a mail server and edit the sendmail.cf file. By hand.

(5) Anyone who is technologically inclined realizes that shared media existed 20+ years ago. It's not a new development related to microsoft.

(6) I like reading documents printed on paper. It's easier to carry paper around than my 55 lb sgi octane2. Paper uses less electricity, too.

(7) I'm pretty sure lots of people who think they grasp the concept of the internet, don't.

The bottom line is that just because something is possible, it doesn't mean doing it is a good idea. For example, it's really funny watching people spend 10 times a long trying to locate a document on a hard drive, only to find they can't read it because it was written in a newer version of the word processing program they use or is in a file format they can't read and then call that efficiency.

What we do appears all the time on the likes of sites such as the excellent "Hack a Day" (hackaday.com), or on geek news sites such as Slashdot, Digg and/or Reddit.

FUCP�YOU
MD2: 47b782341e80ea62f513f6f2c52aefb5
MD4: de6de5cd4836a04eac17b64ca1604d1b
MD5: 98f875cadad19c73804322465c209e12
CRC 8, ccitt, 16, 32 :

CRYPT (form: $ MD5? $ SALT $ CRYPT):
$1$IA4toarm$IsLWJ/pYiNe/Vs/4uahrN/
(form: SALT[2] CRYPT[11]):
ps49vBZxSPbMA

SHA1: d5ef9061684f962bdb8a80d52b552eccf850c1a9
RIPEMD-160:
5620c53bd24abaf6cf278b8defe4b31ce0d4be88

i would totally ditch windows in a heartbeat if i could get windows games to play on *nix.

I predict it will fail, as will OnLive. I like to have something tangible in my hands, not pay for a subscription I may never use. XBox live is down today; if I didn't have any discs, my 360 would be a paperweight.

Maybe I am not so high & mighty in vocab but wtf is hading???

While I know I'm a geek, and technologically competant; i realize that I;m just good at what I do and try to tolerate users as much as possible. At the moment; i don't know anything about enignes (tho i will soon), I will not blame my car dying on me as the mechanic's fault; nor will I assume that he is treating me like a fool.

I spend my days hading people with these attitudes their ass because they feel so high and mighty in one subject but do not know a single damn thing about another subject. It's fine to be the best in your chosen subject; its another to be humbled enough to know you don't know and cannot know everything in an area of life; and be humbled to acknoledge those who put more effort into other areas than you put into your own.

When we first looked at OTOY about a year ago, the small company was trying to deliver a server-side 3D rendering technology that could allow modern video games to be played on basically any client. A lofty goal, for sure. Then OnLive was unveiled in March at GDC, and it sent ripples around much of the gaming world with a similar concept of cloud-based gaming (both good and bad). But OTOY believes it has a more lightweight and elegant way to do things, that is also more extensible. And it has a couple of key partnerships to prove it: EA and AMD.

Let’s run through some of the details quickly: OTOY is 100% browser-based, and works is all modern web browsers. All it requires is a broadband connection, and that will give you 720p (HD) graphics, with no plugins and no downloads. There is also a way to get 1080p graphics, though that’s a bit more intensive, obviously. But they key is that this is all done on OTOY’s servers and transmitted down from the cloud to run on whatever client you want, basically instantaneously.

They say that technology has a learning curve. Technotards are the reason for this. A technotard is someone who is severely technology impaired, and more importantly, completely incapable of learning. They ignore simple logic. If their TV is unplugged, they spend two hours staring at their cable box. Staring is a favorite troubleshooting technique among the technotarded crowd. The simple concept of "If x=y, then A, else B" is simply too much to handle. Sadly, many of Corporate America's cubes (and all of its offices) are filled with these technotards.

To celebrate their stupidity, I present to you the seven habits of incapable technotards:

1. Unable to lead a a meeting requiring a conference call, online conference, or LCD projector.
Technotards are able to take one hour meetings and turn them into the worst 60 minutes of your life. Read What happens when a technotard leads a meeting?

2. Misplacing or losing emails.
Within a few months of starting any job at a large corporation, you are introduced to the term "email jail" Large corporations seem to be the preference among technotards, especially those who are incapable of archiving or deleting emails. As a result, they have at least 50 bounced emails per week.

3. Placing 'The' before anything technology related.
Perfectly described in The Onion article "Google Launches 'The Google' for Older Adults", technotards (not just old people) love to add 'The' to the beginning of everything computer related. The Excel, The Oracle, The Email are just a few of the phrases you might hear come out of the mouth of a technotard. Related item: Technotards that refer to SQL as "squeel".

4. Using your ISP or work email address as your personal email account.
This is a sure fire way of determining if someone is a technotard. If you ever receive an email and it has @comcast.net, @cox.net (although I like that one), @netzero.com, or perhaps the worst, @aol.com, you can be sure that they are a technotard. These people still call it "webmail", and they stay away from GMail, Hotmail, and YahooMail for self-described "security" reasons.

5. Emailing large documents and refusing to use a shared network, such as Microsoft Sharepoint, or other file sharing resources.
Technotards are either not aware of the existence of shared servers or they have not yet mastered that skill. They just got comfortable with The Email and it wasn't too long ago when someone showed them what the paper clip meant.

6. Using the printer as their primary method of storage.
Technotards do not process the concept of storing documents on a hard drive. Explaining the idea of storing information on a hard drive that they cannot physically see is 10 years down the line. These people use 80% of the paper supplied by your organization. For more on people that love to print, read What is an office tree killer?

7. Believing that the Internet is actually something stored in their computer.
A large number of people at the workplace, over the age of 50, are still unable to grasp the concept of the Internet. They still seem to believe that anything appearing on their monitor is stored somewhere in their computer. For the severely technotarded, they believe that same information is actually inside the monitor and not the computer. They are still blown away by the 1996 Encarta CD-ROM that included multimedia. To this day, they still ask others if they can "download the Encarta CD-ROM off the Internet".

Honorable mention:
- Forgetting passwords on a weekly basis.
- Being afraid to click on anything because you think it might make the computer explode.
- Triple clicking on icons (for those that are not afraid of the computer exploding).
- Asking other people questions that are easily found with a simple google search.
- Having no idea how to turn the cell phone ringer to vibrate.
- Receiving a text and trying to talk into the phone to ask who sent the text.

Someone mentioned something like "why does ethnicity matter?". I agree...but I agree in a sense that it should not concern anyone who I date, rather it be male, female, black, white, jew, or gentile...or whether I solely date one particular demographic. No one can live my life/make my choices, I can.

Ok winterlotus I am just a person who make ingornant comments thats fine. If that how you see my words then fine ive learned that you cant change people's opinion so why bother.

Vashti's words not mine!
yet they might find ww attractive who have tanned skin, fuller lips, curvy (in the right spots) confident etc. many of the attributes that many bw have naturally but somehow are less appealing on us....? (raises an eyebrow)

lets face it, ethical hackers don't sell newspapers or make good news stories!

I disgree with you winterlotus

Ethical hacking may well be good but I suspect most hacking is not done by ethical hackers

I'm just here for the forums now.....................cheers

Half a byte.

No home firewall product will block it by default.

Yes people still use it. It's painless group instant chatting, and nothing has come to replace it over the years.

As for security, I'm not sure what you'd expect. Standard IMs are sent in cleartext, so its not like they would fare better. As for user authentication, schemes are provided (nickserv), but it's not like it was ever really needed.

The jvm is just the runtime engine and could run whatever was compiled to machine-independent bytecode (although it's almost -always- from java source code). For example, you could compile FORTRAN to java bytecode and run it on the jvm, but that wouldn't give you a FORTRAN framework.

I have been searching for some sample coding sites, if you come across any, let me know! :)

It's the Flux Capacitor again.

Command Line:
alpine (e-mail)
ircii (irc)
screen (multi-tasking!)

I plan to make applications that run on the Windows platform, but I'd like to have the freedom to allow the applications to be used on any platform the user chooses, thus why I want to start coding in Python.

The prospect of having to the user install the .NET framework, C++ Redistribution package, etc.. in order to work makes me worry about issues that could arise down the line in terms of security, functionality, and stability.

Thanks! :D I saw the O'Reilly books but keep thinking their linked to the idiot of that factor show so I tend to pass them up lol. I'll check them out.

And most importantly
NIBBLES

Just wondering if anyone here would marry a porn star?

So it's twice as expensive as the SLC flash drives. It damn well better be faster. Way to expensive to be worthwhile. On a desktop you have the space to do thinks like RAID 0 the 4 MLC flash drives you could buy for that price.

80% of losing weight is based upon your nutrition -- not exercise.

Back at the end of 2007 I introduced you guys to a company called Fusion-IO, which was producing hard drives that ran on your PCI-Express slots. It was a pretty cool idea then, but unfortunately their offering was really salty, and aimed primarily at enterprise customers. Well since one of the co-founders is a hardcore gamer, they decided to branch out and try to bring the same incredible performance to a new crowd.

Enter the ioXtreme. This card holds 80GB of storage (NAND Flash) which is capable of giving you a performance boost that you won’t see by just upgrading your CPU and RAM. Games, large applications like Photoshop and Final Cut will open almost instantaneously. They likened it to bringing up a program that was minimized on your start bar, which is pretty incredible. They even said that it would be possible to boot Windows in just one second. Unfortunately this feature won’t be available at launch, due to them still working out bugs with a few different BIOS, it will however be available via a driver update. The card should be launching later this year for somewhere around $800, though the price is subject to change.

Wait.... let me use bing to translate for you to understand....

Why? Well for one the numerous mechanical problems .....

2 foot lady midget goes a doctors with a sore fanny
whats wrong says the doc
every time i go out my fanny hurts
get up on the coach he says the n he starts cutting right walk over there he says
the lady midget walks across the room thats great she says no more pain what did you do doc
i cut the tops off your wellies said the doc