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How to improve my sex-appeal with Java-programs ???
Eliot Coweye - 25 Nov 2005 09:17 GMT Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my balls. This is bad and painful.
So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java program?
Andrew Thompson - 25 Nov 2005 11:26 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? Perhaps program yourself a simulated girl. It won't get you anywhere near real women, ..but you may have to settle for a simulation.
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iamfractal@hotmail.com - 25 Nov 2005 11:40 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? Noobie Java questions should be addressed to comp.lang.java.help.
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megagurka - 25 Nov 2005 12:00 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? Try using 'long'.
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Thomas Hawtin - 25 Nov 2005 15:02 GMT >>Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my >>balls. This is bad and painful. *me too*
Perhaps my opening line ("Do you use computers much?") doesn't help.
>>So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java >>program? > > Try using 'long'. A friend who dabbled in Java preferred arrays of short volatile women[1], but they seem to be transient.
Anon.
[1] Technically incorrect, for the geeks.
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Thomas G. Marshall - 25 Nov 2005 16:35 GMT Thomas Hawtin said something like:
>>> Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my >>> balls. This is bad and painful. > > *me too* > > Perhaps my opening line ("Do you use computers much?") doesn't help. lol. See my post elsethread. lol.
 Signature Unix users who vehemently argue that the "ln" command has its arguments reversed do not understand much about the design of the utilities. "ln arg1 arg2" sets the arguments in the same order as "mv arg1 arg2". Existing file argument to non-existing argument. And in fact, mv itself is implemented as a link followed by an unlink.
Rhino - 25 Nov 2005 16:55 GMT >>>Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my >>>balls. This is bad and painful. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > A friend who dabbled in Java preferred arrays of short volatile women[1], > but they seem to be transient. To quote Woody Allen, "You say that like it's a negative thing..." :-)
Rhino
John - 25 Nov 2005 12:05 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? I would look at working on my communications skills.
Try java.net.Socket.
etienno@gmail.com - 25 Nov 2005 19:22 GMT I would try to extends the java.io.InputStreamReader making a GirlInputStreamReader.
wesley.hall@gmail.com - 25 Nov 2005 14:23 GMT > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java program? Just be glad you are not a C programmer, then you would definatly need some pointers.
Major - 25 Nov 2005 14:25 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? how about applying reflection mechanism on girl !!
Thomas G. Marshall - 25 Nov 2005 16:33 GMT Eliot Coweye said something like:
> Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? Read these two quick posts of mine, from the same thread. You may learn something critical that will save you with girls.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/msg/85564143d0f3fbb8
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/msg/9bf00ee662c894fb
...[rip]...
 Signature Unix users who vehemently argue that the "ln" command has its arguments reversed do not understand much about the design of the utilities. "ln arg1 arg2" sets the arguments in the same order as "mv arg1 arg2". Existing file argument to non-existing argument. And in fact, mv itself is implemented as a link followed by an unlink.
Thomas G. Marshall - 25 Nov 2005 16:40 GMT Thomas G. Marshall said something like:
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> Read these two quick posts of mine, from the same thread. You may learn > something critical that will save you with girls. > > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/msg/85564143d0f3fbb8 > > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pc-clone.dell/msg/9bf00ee662c894fb Well, google seems to be screwing up again from the links but not from the search, so I'll just post the parts here.
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When you think about it, most engineers are probably girl-less.
As a software engineer, when I would go to parties I would NEVER EVER admit to being an engineer. The moment I did, the wall-flower geeks would all show up (all guys) trying to start conversations like "what do you think about the new pentium" and all the women would run from the room screaming with their arms in the air.
I realized very young that I was part of a sad population who, taken as an aggregate, related better to machines than people. A seething world of Dilberts.
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(Responding to "Obviously the parties you go to are filled with losers. software engineering is a respected profession.")
My response: The respect for the profession does not matter in the least: why on earth would it?
The medical professions are well respected, but doctors are even bigger losers.
I have friends who are doctors and I refused to go to their parties anymore. It's all this posturing and affected speech patterns.
My wife, myself, and one other were the only three non-doctors at an enormous Chinese dinner table in Chinatown, Boston. All the 12 others were. We took turns ordering for food for all to share. The doctors were all trying to impress each other with the esoteric Chinese dishes they knew of that wasn't on the menu.
For example, one was something called "boiled sliced chicken". f.cking gross: you take a chicken, sans feathers, boil it whole complete with all internal organs, and then slice it. Basically every slice is a chicken anatomy lesson. The head is served as well complete with smokey boiled eyes.
Basically this how the nite ended: My moo shi was gone. My wife's spicy green beans were gone. My non-doc friend's crispy orange beef, gone. What was left? All the whack job esoteric non-menu sh.t that the doctors all wanted to impress each other with. The boiled sliced chicken was left nearly untouched.
 Signature Unix users who vehemently argue that the "ln" command has its arguments reversed do not understand much about the design of the utilities. "ln arg1 arg2" sets the arguments in the same order as "mv arg1 arg2". Existing file argument to non-existing argument. And in fact, mv itself is implemented as a link followed by an unlink.
Thomas G. Marshall - 25 Nov 2005 16:41 GMT Thomas G. Marshall said something like:
> Eliot Coweye said something like: >> Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > ...[rip]... ...And true to form, these links work again a few minutes later. {shrug}...
 Signature Unix users who vehemently argue that the "ln" command has its arguments reversed do not understand much about the design of the utilities. "ln arg1 arg2" sets the arguments in the same order as "mv arg1 arg2". Existing file argument to non-existing argument. And in fact, mv itself is implemented as a link followed by an unlink.
Rhino - 25 Nov 2005 16:59 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? Maybe the problem is that you are trying to solve a hardware problem with software?
Here is a possible hardware solution: http://www.fu-fme.com/
Rhino
Igor Planinc - 25 Nov 2005 17:37 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? So you'd like to evade a void? No problem. Listen up...
First things first: get in super.Shape. Next: all your URLs should be created with protocol "female", same with URI schemes. As a consequence, you'll notice that your GeneralPath will lead you into Area(s) populated heavily with public class Women.
Secondly, as the Window of opportunity tends to be very narrow, don't lose Focus! Make sure that a lot of instances of public class Woman have FocusTraversalPolicy set on you.
Thirdly, implement as much Listeners as possible (public class Women like being listened to). Then you have to establish a Connection (some PreparedStatement might come in handy), followed by Identity. Remember that Naming.lookup() is a great ice breaker.
After a while, you have to broaden the IdentityScope. Visit some KeyFactory and then exchange your public Keys. Don't think you're home free, though. GC also comes with the package. You'll also have to learn to be a good Observer. Your Observable will like that very much.
Further more, the trick is to use a long, Long or Big* member (field). Put it to work in an inner Socket, preferably doing it safely (SSLSocket). Catch all the Exceptions in all the OutputStream(s) unless you explicitly want child Processes. Moreover, don't rely on your average BasicStroke, you have to come up with some versatile method(s). Extending the built-in Socket(s) with something like Suckit(s) might also impress some public class Woman, but some don't like using MulticastSocket(s). Speaking of which, allways check the .getPreferred*() beforehand. Otherwise you might have to deal with nasty Throwables, like IllegalAccessError. Also take into account that NoSuchMethodError means NoSuchMethodError (same for NoSuchFieldError and the analogous Exceptions). Having dealt with all that, make sure that you close all the necessary ports on your firewall, because InterruptedExceptions tend to be very destructive (plus your Reference will become a SoftReference (i.e. your RoundingMode will switch from UP to DOWN) for an indefinite period of time).
Sooner or later you'll have to realize that the best you can do is to make your instance of public class Woman final and static. It's not unusual that in the process you also make it private, though protected might also work in some cases. Of course, you'd have to say goodbye to Swing for as long as you both shall live.
Robert M. Gary - 25 Nov 2005 18:56 GMT Grooming usually is helpful.
Dr Tim - 26 Nov 2005 06:13 GMT Good Java progammers make good money, and good money attracts girls.
neo - 27 Nov 2005 10:00 GMT > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? The most common problem is with the Preference API, restructure it, extend AbstractPreferences and add commong preferences with that of the other Girl-JVM, consider using commons implementation. Still wondering what proportion of girl-JVM is geek-JVM. In my experience Girl-JVMs have shown notably heavy GC on Tech stuffs in heap. Whenever boy-JVM makes remote call most of the time is spent on GC (getting rid of caller). Tried Parallel CMS but in vain.
Chris Smith - 27 Nov 2005 15:07 GMT > The most common problem is with the Preference API, restructure it, > [...] The horse is dead. Move on. There is nothing to see here.
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Luc The Perverse - 27 Nov 2005 18:56 GMT >> The most common problem is with the Preference API, restructure it, >> [...] > > The horse is dead. Move on. There is nothing to see here. I rather enjoyed it
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:) Thomas G. Marshall - 28 Nov 2005 16:29 GMT Luc The Perverse said something like:
>>> The most common problem is with the Preference API, restructure it, >>> [...] >> >> The horse is dead. Move on. There is nothing to see here. > > I rather enjoyed it Then you probably haven't seen all the prior lame attempts at this over the years. Repeat posts in usenet are not bad things. But the horse does die repeatedly, and Chris is right.
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Oliver Wong - 28 Nov 2005 20:53 GMT > Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my > balls. This is bad and painful. > > So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java > program? Lookup genetic programming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/genprog/gp2faq/gp2faq.html
What you'll want to do is to programmatically enter in every strategy you've tried at hooking up with a girl. You'll need to have some metric for measuring success, and enter those in for each strategy as well. Then run one step of simulation (i.e. one generation) so that the strategies will have mutated slightly, with the strategies that have performed the best mutating the least (thus, on average, your strategies have become "better").
Examine what strategies were produced, and go out and try them. Measure their success, come back and enter in their scores, and progress another generation. Repeat until you are satisfied with the level of success you are receiving.
The advantages of genetic programming are that it's a viable tool for when you have no idea where to start looking for a good strategy.
The disadvantages are that typically it takes a very long before the best strategy "evolves" from your initial pool of random strategies.
- Oliver
Daniel Dyer - 28 Nov 2005 21:19 GMT > What you'll want to do is to programmatically enter in every strategy > you've tried at hooking up with a girl. You'll need to have some metric [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > mutating the least (thus, on average, your strategies have become > "better"). That's not quite how it works. All strategies are equally eligible for mutation, regardless of how good they are, and there's every chance the next generation will be worse on average than the previous one. Eventually however, if your selection strategy and fitness function are good, the quality of strategies in your population should improve and will tend towards an optimum (there are no guarantees though).
> The advantages of genetic programming are that it's a viable tool for > when you have no idea where to start looking for a good strategy. > > The disadvantages are that typically it takes a very long before the > best strategy "evolves" from your initial pool of random strategies. Genetic programming is just one application of genetic algorithms (or more generally, evolutionary algorithms).
There are two pre-requisites. You need a way of encoding a potential solution and you need a way to rank partial solutions. The approach is only really applicable in situations where a good approximate solution is acceptable as it may never find the optimal solution. It can be very slow but is typically orders of magnitude faster than a brute force search of the solution space for complex problems.
Dan.
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Oliver Wong - 28 Nov 2005 22:48 GMT >> What you'll want to do is to programmatically enter in every strategy >> you've tried at hooking up with a girl. You'll need to have some metric [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > good, the quality of strategies in your population should improve and will > tend towards an optimum (there are no guarantees though). Really? I thought a typical implementation would try to preserve the qualities of the most-fit strategy found. One way was the mutate the good strategies less (that's the one I mentioned above), and the other was to generate more "offsprings" from the good strategies.
- Oliver
Daniel Dyer - 28 Nov 2005 23:31 GMT > Really? I thought a typical implementation would try to preserve the > qualities of the most-fit strategy found. One way was the mutate the good > strategies less (that's the one I mentioned above), and the other was to > generate more "offsprings" from the good strategies. Sorry, I misunderstood you (I was considering only mutation and not reproduction by cross-over) and was wrong to state that mutation occurs uniformly across a population. What I meant was that *after* you have selected some candidates as the basis of your next generation, they each have an equal chance of being mutated. This is true, for truncation selection at least, but doesn't consider that with some selection strategies, such as fitness-proportionate selection, a candidate may be selected more than once and therefore has more than one equal chance of being mutated.
I thought that what you were suggesting was that the mutation probability should be adjusted proportionate to the fitness. You were right, of course, about selecting the fittest candidates for reproduction. Without discriminating against weak candidates there is no "natural" selection and therefore no pressure for the population to improve. However, you have to be careful not to completely discard weak candidates as they may have aspects that don't score highly by themselves but prove useful when combined with other material from other candidates.
Dan.
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Thomas G. Marshall - 29 Nov 2005 15:29 GMT Daniel Dyer said something like:
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> Without discriminating against weak candidates there > is no "natural" selection and therefore no pressure for the > population to improve. However, you have to be careful not to > completely discard weak candidates as they may have aspects that > don't score highly by themselves but prove useful when combined with > other material from other candidates. This is what makes the ranking model so very critical.
In AL (my /enormous/ interest since 1981) the creatures have a similar ranking model, but IMO one that is far simpler to conceive. If they survive the battles against the environment (weather, food, predators) then they pass along their genetic information. This embodies the ranking. The "weak" candidates are not necessarily discarded, as they can often survive long enough to move to a more hospitable section, or have the predators around them evolve away from being interested in them for example. The weak candidates can then once in a while evolve into something far more interesting---something that would have been unlikely had we been left with the very best and brightest of the lot from the beginning.
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