The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Being a Geek is not a fashion choice! An interest in Dungeons and Dragons, or Star Trek or whatever doesn't make you a Geek. (Maybe just a sci-fi fan, or in your case a Trekkie, Trekker, or whatever).
I'm a Geek. I've earned the title, and I'm proud of it. While there's a fuzzy correlation that people with an aptitude for science or technology will appreciate sci-fi - we're not all into Star Trek.
I might watch the original for its nostalgic value - but I was never into anything beyond that. Yet I got into other shows like Lexx, Firefly, Lost, and The Lost Room - because they were clever and original.
I'm surprised that you've googled such conflicting info. When I did my research, the similarity of reported behaviour patterns was uncanny. I Googled a lot of things that seemed like a fly-on-the-wall report of my own relationship. It was reassuring to read this stuff in black and white - to attach a label to it - because her behaviour had seemed so random, inexplicable, and confusing. Before that, I've never heard about it. Although, she'd told me that her father had it. But at the time, I knew nothing about it. It was only after I eventually did "abandon" her - that I had the clarity to put all the pieces together.
BDP isn't depression, it's not PTSD, or bipolar - it's BPD! There is no medical cure, and I'm not convinced that the twelve-step-programme is effective. BPD people deny they have it - so they'll just manipulate and convince everyone that they're better now.
You have my sympathy anyway - because you can't just walk away like I did.
I'm really surprised by the results of this poll. It looks like women are happier.
But surely men are happier? We're more self-contained and contented with what we have. We don't need shopping, boutiques, fancy clothes, jewellery, spas, cosmetics, perfume, fashion, superficiality, or cream cakes bought on impulse and left to go mouldy in the back of the fridge.
Not sure why I'm bothering to answer this. Probably for the benefit of all the dizzying intellects on here.
The convention of quantising into 24 time zones is a convenience. Imagine yourself on the equator, travelling around the Earth - one complete revolution - travelling east. Ending up where you started. As your longitude changes, imagine you were able to measure the time of day from the sky (position of the sun, etc.). - the time of day would advance continuously. It wouldn't jump by one hour every time we crossed a time zone.
But out of convenience we (or the government, whatever...), choose to quantise the changing time of day around the world into time zones. 24 is convenient - because it's easy to translate from one time zone to another by adding or subtracting hours - rather than messing around with minute calculations. Sometimes it's convenient to ensure that countries or regions are all synchronised - so the time zones aren't always regular north-south strips. It's no conspiracy.
The riddle reminded me of something I read during my Buddhist period. I Googled "weave sanskrit", as I think it has something to do with a "weave" of conditional existence.
A real geek will possess a exceptional technology abilities, and an IQ that ranks them a genius.
It's not a consumer choice. It's not a fashion choice. It's not a club. It's not about being into gadgets or sci-fi or anything like that. If you don't have the aptitude - you can't buy your way into being a geek.
It is not about being anti-social or living in your mother's basement. And it's not about being able to wow people with pointless tricks and gimmicks that you can make your computer perform.
A real geek will consider themselves an artist in the Steve Job's sense of the word - and they've probably worked on real commercial projects where their code or algorithms have been ported to billions of devices in the real world.
Lots of words in English have more than one meaning.
The word "Pound" for example, has several.
(also, there are words that are pronounced the same, like "flour", and "flower".)
Is the difficulty in explaining "swear", that one meaning is honourable, like an oath, and the other meaning is not so honourable? Although, I suppose, that would depend on the circumstances.
Yup, times have changed. Due to the capabilities of modern hardware - the bar's been raised. An indie developer takes MANY MONTHS to develop anything semi-decent nowadays.
My first PC? Well, computer, I designed and built myself while at school. (Back in the days when "built" was literal. waaay before the PC or Mac existed.) I'd salvaged a lot of components from other things. I begged my mother for money (five pounds) to buy additional components. CMOS chips - 4066s. It was a novel mixture of TTL and CMOS. The printed circuit board took days to etch in ferric chloride, and etched unevenly, so I had to bridge parts with solder or wire. It wasn't pretty, but I mounted it in a metal box with lights and switches on the front. It was a four bit machine - capable of very little.
I'd relocate in a heartbeat. But I'd think twice about enduring cold winters. It would need to be somewhere warm, or for a woman with the freedom to migrate and get away during the colder months.
Obviously an encryption key. (Otherwise, a conventional password would be no deterrent to someone who has access to the hardware, disk drive, etc.). I wonder why the journalists brought up the subject of it being 50 characters? Was this relevant? Usually this is accessed via a shorter memorable password in a keychain utility.
MI5? Why? Probably just using an off-the-shelf application. Doesn't sound like rocket science to me.
I can't see the significance of any others. I must be missing something. Other people have voted for numbers in which I see no mathematical significance. What am I missing?
I don't think knowledge is the key. I've known so many people who are knowledgeable, pedantic, limited, restricted, narrow minded and lacking in imagination.
It depends on your definition of "super success". Most people who are successful in the eyes of others, are probably more critical of their own failures and shortcomings. Or we can start to measure success in some shallow American way.
I voted no. You may think that's an odd thing for me to say, given that I was a university lecturer.
I regret going to university after school. For those years incarcerated in academia, I missed out on an especially lucrative time of tremendous opportunities in personal computing, and a shortage of people with the right kind of vision and aptitude.
As with most young people, I honed my talents outside of the curriculum, in my own time, driven by my own interest.
Nobody cares about qualifications nowadays. When companies come to me with commercial work, they seek me out because of things that I've done. My blog, projects, etc. I doubt if they're even aware of my qualifications.
I remember as a teenager sitting on a virtually deserted beach in Yugoslavia with a local girl. She picked up pebbles and dropped them on my chest so that they rolled off my body. Wonderfully sensual experience.
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RE: Did you grow up to be what you wanted to be when you were young?
I changed my mind. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid.