Posts by jake 26713 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
You don't purchase apartments in Walnut Creek. You rent or lease them.
Ten years ago, in Walnut Creek, you could purchase a 1500sq/ft detached home on a .30 lot with two car garage for $450K (it was the beginning of the housing bubble bursting, which peaked a couple years later when you could get the same home for ~$300,000).
Something about your story seems quite fishy.
You mean the Farallons? That's a trifle further than 12 miles. And potentially a worse toxic waste dump than Hunter's Point (hard as that might be to believe). Not that most of us would be allowed to visit, much less move in. The NatureNazis, in their infinite wisdom, have managed to ensure that TheGreatUnwashed[tm] aren't allowed access because of "the wildlife". Odd, that ... a nature preserve built on a nuclear disposal site. The Greens are total headcases.
Yes, Richard, it is. Why techno-geeks insist on throwing money away just to live in The City is beyond me.
Suggestion: Move 25-30 miles North or South (not East, that's a hell-hole). If you do, you can actually afford to purchase a 3-bed, 1-bath, single car garage, house on a .25 lot for the same money you are wasting on rent for an 'orrible converted-into-a-four-plex Victorian in the Haight.
You ARE a computer dude, right? Shirley you can telecommute a few days/week?
And hopefully you understand the difference between "rent" and "mortgage"? The first example pays the owner's mortgage at your expense. The second pays the same money to your own benefit.
Somewhat sadly, Nigel, according to ElReg's "thumbs"[1], roughly 10% of your readership approves of spying on their loved ones.
[1] Not that I think "thumbs" are a useful statistic, mind, but still ...
Uh ... no.
I trust my wife. She is her own person, and can do what she wants, when she wants to do it. I don't keep tabs on her, and she doesn't keep tabs on me.
If you are paranoid about what your significant other is doing, your significant other is in the wrong relationship.
Humanity is using technology for all the wrong reasons. Projection is an ugly thing.
"In fact, according to the press release in front of me, they shag 550 per cent more often than bankers."
That much more than a Wunch of Bankers? Actors aren't getting any, are they?
As for your wife ... SHMBO and I have used identical HP Pavillion zv5105s, with docking stations & proper monitor, dumb terminal on a serial port, wireless mouse & keyboard, for over ten years. They run Slackware-current, and have since the year dot. Don't tell me I'm archaic, AC, I can do everything you do WITHOUT spending money every $HARDWAREUPGRADE.
Gut feeling is that humanity needs to change priorities.
"#532 Zoo Keeper"
AC is wrong again. As always. Actually, I was pre-vet, dabbling in exotics. I went with the money, computers & networking.
Do you actually have a life beyond reading my posts, AC? Just askin'
Penguin tastes like a cross between seagull/rat and old, oily fish. And it's really, really stringy. Quite narsty, actually.
The scene: Accident with a cage door at the San Diego Zoo in 1983ish ... A two year old tried to poke his head back at us just as the door was closing. The otherwise healthy bird died instantly (broken neck) and we decided "waste not, want not", and fired up the hibachi ...
That was actually “Math class is tough!”. The Wife owns one in the original box, never actually played with. One of her elderly aunts gave it to her as a birthday present in 1992 ... The Wife was over 21 years old at the time. Auntie was diagnosed as probably an Alzheimer's patient shortly thereafter, alas, and she died a few months later. During the wake, my Wife's toast was "Losing important people is TOUGH!" Not many in the room got the reference ...
What parent, in their right mind, wants a corporation listening to the private musings of a Barbie-aged child and/or neighbor children, talking to a doll?
I'm not a big Barbie fan, mind. The entire "pink princess" thingie that evolved from it is already dashing the dreams of little girls entering adulthood, and it's only going to get worse ... That said, when the person playing with said doll has a mind that works, the results can be ... err .. interesting ... see:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/694378
Back then, before batteries were required, the little girls were not only allowed, but expected to invent their own story. Today? Marketing can't allow that. Sad.
Instead of wasting money on "designing" this kind of complicated thing (which will never happen as envisioned, because we have absolutely zero clue as to the actual conditions involved on the ground), how about figuring out how to finance getting small boxen there for a reccy?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Munitions_T-shirt_%28front%29.jpg
... between the US and several other continents (and back) between late-1991 & mid-1993(ish). Not a single idiot in charge of so-called "security" even blinked.
Security theater, when you examine it, is absolutely hilarious.
"Register traffic was up globally in January 2015"
Define "traffic". Is that individual people looking at ElReg, or bandwidth paid for by ElReg serving up useless advertising & huge graphics?
Define "unique visitor count". Is that by IP address, or by account handle? (as a side-note, I can't remember seeing a handle with a number higher than 75000 ... for awhile there last year, I was kind of curious if the system would get B0rk3d when all y'all hit 64K. Growth in vocal user-base has not been exactly staggering.)
ElReg badges are useless. We don't need no stinking badges.
"You're so full of crap Jake."
No, eat my veggies and get in plenty of fiber.
"3 hours on a Super Dream? No Way"
It's only ~140 miles. The little 250s could go almost twice as fast as needed to bridge the distance.
"M1/A1/M42?"
As I said, it was a long time ago. Details are rusty. Read the follow-up.
"But definitely South of Nottingham and North of Leicester..."
Oh, you did read the follow-up. So my brain isn't totally toast (yet), then? Ta.
"All three of your friends are living in the same poxy villages 35 years later?"
Wow. An ad hominem comment on folks (all of three towns full of people, no less!) who have had absolutely zero to do with this thread? I'm not surprised you're posting AC.
"Jake has friends, and he still calls them friends..."
Yep, I do. And it's mutual, a third of a century later :-) Will you be able to say the same in 2050?
"Can't even begin to believe any of that."
Reads like you have issues that I can't even begin to understand.
This was a third of a century ago, lotta water under the ol' bridge. Maybe the A6-hundred-something? Our friends joined us in Rawdon, Farsley and Pudsey (I'm still in contact with all of them, so I know all the towns are correct). Then on to the poor-excuse for a southern section of the ring-road around Leeds, to the A1(M1?) and South. Don't ask where we pulled off the A1(M1?), but I'm pretty certain it was south of Nottingham and north of Leicester.
I guess I could look at a map, but I can't be arsed.
In pre-GPS days, my GF & I watched a game at Villa Park. From my home in Harrogate, I eyeballed my OS maps, and took the M42 to Bradford/Leeds to round up a couple friends and their ladies, and we all hit the M1. When we got to Birmingham, we simply followed the signs to the park. About 3 hours, total, each way. No muss, no fuss, barring pee/petrol/tea breaks (we were all on Honda 250 Super Dreams (CB 250 NA), this was roughly 1979). I rather suspect that GPS would have distracted from the trip, rather than enhance it.
Good match, BTW. Leeds won 2-1 ... We're probably lucky we didn't get the shit kicked out of us by Lions supporters, we all followed Leeds ;-)
So when you visit a small, spendy, foot/bicycle-traffic tourist town, you don't bother to find out where your meandering will take you before you get there?
If you don't know why you are going there, and where you are planning to visit, why are you spending a lot of money on that particular travel destination?
"OH, It's SONOMA! Heart of California's wine country!" isn't an answer. Because it's not.
Constantly[0] referring to your telephone for directions makes you[1] look like an idiot.
[0] Here in Sonoma, the tourists seem to need to eyeball their telephones to figure out the path between Mission San Francisco Solano and El Cuartel de Sonoma. They are across the street (1st East) from each other.
[1] Not you, personally, Alistair, just in general.
On the edge? That's WAY over the slippery slope, and sliding downhill with no recovery possible. Enjoy your crash & burn, Mark Burnett. You'll never work the security field again.
(Hint: Never make life easier for skiddies. It'll bite you in the long run.)
The legislative and executive branches of US.gov will be at loggerheads until the next election (and probably beyond, given the idiocy of the US electorate). Hopefully the judicial branch will do it's job and quell the loud-mouths on capitol hill (note lower case) for the duration ... I'm not holding my breath.
I vote. Do you?
One wonders if the marketards paying attention to all this spy-ware generated data will actually understand that all the people laughing at "the newest beauty product"[0], or the "fat burner pill of the month"[1], or useless vehicle advertising[2], or "take this pill to feel[hard|sexy|thin|better about yourself]"[3] or "Our Banking institution neverfleeces customers!"[4] etc. are totally serious ... Advertising is a complete farce, and always has been.
[0] Same claims made over 40+ years for completely different "beauty" products, none of which work as advertised.
[1] None of the other ones worked ... why are you still buying into the concept?
[2] Honestly, have YOU ever purchased a vehicle based on advertising instead of going out and looking at what's really available in the real world? If so, WHY??
[3] Ah, yes. Magic Fix-it Pills That trick never works, Bullwinkle.
[4] ::snort::
Me, a non-subscriber to the so-called "service", has to listen to an advert provided by said so-called "service", despite the fact that I never signed up for the annoyance. My air-time is payed for by myself, not the so-called "service" trying to delude me with marketing bullshit. Any so-called "friend" making use of this will instantly be put on ignore.
If you have clues, you roll out your own scripts to handle the hardware that your systems need. Note that ALL SCADA kit can be controlled with simple scripting, it doesn't need anything resembling a GUI.
[1] For values of "runs" that means "must purchase Redmond and/or Cupertino, or we will DIEEEEE!!!!11!!00!one0!!zero010etc".
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