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I seriously doubt they do.

That's the joke.

Borg aboard Enterprise

        "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

This is where it begins.

Nerd hotties makes assimilation worthwhile

Borg aboard Enterprise

        "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

This is where it begins.

Nerd hotties makes assimilation worthwhile

Soon we'll have this http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120913222314/psychopass/images/b/b8/Gun212.jpg

Log lady?

Pixar has nothing to do with it; they make cartoons, not Linux distributions. If they thought the name is cool, good for them - because if they are wrong then they will be hit in the wallet.

But a cartoon has a chance to explore the character, not just name it. A viewer will associate the appearance, the name, the style, the habits all together. This may be enough to justify the name, or to negate its unwanted connotations. One thing you can be certain, if you are exposed to a name of a cartoon character you are probably watching the cartoon. A Linux distribution does not come with this assurance, and a name would just sit out there, without an explanation of its character. Then people fall back to the dictionary - and they don't like what they read there.

Debian people should pick names that have positive, bright associations among most people - not just among the aging fan base of an ancient cartoon for young chidren. A good name would be also translatable into foreign languages without loss of associations. If that's not possible, it should be capable of transliteration - hopefully without major semantic conflicts. You cannot name a major piece of software after an inner joke among you and your three buddies - triply so if that joke sounds distasteful, if not outright revolting, to uninitiated.

I do not necessarily approve what Ubuntu people do; but at least they have a consistent theme, and their choice of words is not negative. Might be funny sometimes (Precise Pangolin? They aren't known for any particular precision :-) but at least they are translatable with no harm.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100621130456/simpsons/images/4/4a/Hell-IPD-Door.jpg

America in 50 years

The rest of the world in 50 years

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Well either that or we all end up like this, given our lunatic governments.

Space Bacons?

I bet in teh futuar, bacon will be a highly sought after luxury in space.
Just imagine the immense wealth for the daring astro-prospector that finds a whole asteroid of bacon.
Bets on what comes first, the maternity station (confinement asteroid for you belters...) or the bacon astro-farm?

(just as long as it's not this type...)

The Toon Killer will be a good test of the technology.

We're not having a debate. There is six years of real world graphics engines running on fixed hardware. The fact that whatever brain damage you have that makes you so vehemently deny what is something that isn't just easily seem with people's own eyes but with the actual resolution, poly counts, lighting models, etc on the PS3 and the significantly weaker Xbox 360.

There are usually two groups of people who still cling to the delusion that the Xbox 360 graphics hardware is in the same league as the PS3:

1. Outright hardcore Xbox fanboys. The guys who post that 'teh Xbox version looks better' without even wasting time to look at comparison screen shots or video. Take PS3 and 360 footage/screenshots and reverse the labels and these sad fucks will proclaim the 360(actually PS3) version looks best!

2. People dumb enough to fill their head with the techno babble garbage from sites like beyond3d.com. These people spent the first couple of years before and during the start of the PS3's life listening to the PC fanboys run their mouths off with inane crap and simply refuse to let go are admit that all that garbage they filled their heads with is diametrically opposed to the reality of what their eyes are seeing.

I remember one of these sad fucks posting two screenshots from PS3 and 360 version of a game. The 360 version was full of jaggies. Yet this dunce had filled his head with so much garbage from the dumb PC 'graphics experts' that he actually was asking why the PS3 version didn't have as good anti-aliasing as the 360.

Console graphics isn't the special olympics like you apparently want it to be where 'everyone is a winner'. You design your console's graphics system and you ship it. The actual graphics engines speak for themselves.

Microsoft has had seven years to come up with a single game that can compete with a single PS3 exclusive. They failed. The Xbox 360's single claim to graphical fame were hilariously fake 5000x5000 16xAA Unreal Engine bullshots running with massively detailed models and materials running on a high end Epic developer PC that they tried to pass off as 'in game' or 'in engine':

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080404131361/egamia/images/e/e7/Gears_of_war.jpg

When in reality this is what the actual direct feed Xbox 360 graphics look like:

http://kineticninja.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

PS3 exclusives like Uncharted make the Xbox 360's 'graphical showpiece' look like a PS2/Xbox era title.

Knock yourself out. Keep trying to convince the world the Xbox 360 was in the league as the PS3. Post some comparison shots of My Pretty Pony and how 'close the PS3 and 360' graphics look.

After all, there are still sad and pathetic Dreamcast fanboys haunting console forums still trying to convince the world the Dreamcast was just as powerful as the PS2.

The petabecquerel is an imaginary thing like orgone energy, homeopathy, human reason and Canada.

Obligatory: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120326002953/simpsons/images/8/87/Blinky_Art.png

And another thing .. there beer sucks!

The petabecquerel is an imaginary thing like orgone energy, homeopathy, human reason and Canada.

Obligatory: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120326002953/simpsons/images/8/87/Blinky_Art.png

Larger windows for larger people

A more spacious cabin is nice, but let's not overdo it

G A L A C T U S ! ! !

I don't think it was Galactus at all. More likely, it was this guy.

Robots with grippers and an omni-wheel have a much more important purpose.

Oddly, despite having the bigger team, we usually lose.

Well, doh. It's kind of the opposite of WarGames: the only losing move is not to play.

Want change? Make it happen yourself. Or are you one of those who
asks others for change?

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091219151257/americandad/images/thumb/9/95/Jewel_1.jpg/300px-Jewel_1.jpg

1 BTC = http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090902133538/uncyclopedia/images/b/b5/Round-turd-big.jpg FTFY

the "$250,000 state-of-the-art robot hand"

Sadly, this is what first came to mind:
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb57525/southpark/images/d/dd/CartmanGetsanAnalProbe21.gif

I'm sorry this is so off topic; the word distracted me so.

Am I the only one who heard that in the voice of Gonzo?

Just how many shapes are there for smartphones with the constraint that the primary interface should be the touchscreen rather than mechanical buttons?

Remember that it's a phone, so you need to leave space for the ear speaker and microphone. Having the touchscreen as the primary interface is is a purely technical constraint that was blindingly obvious from the commercial success of the first Palm Pilots. Everyone wanted to minimise the number of mechanical buttons; buttons take up precious space.

Is it about edges and corners that are round? That's clearly utility. Every mobile phone I've ever had (since 1999) has had rounded corners and edges, because sharp edges are uncomfortable to hold. (I had a case for my Palm m500 for precisely this reason!) Children's toys have been made with rounded edges for decades so that they don't get snagged on clothing. Star Trek PADDs had rounded edges and corners.

I understand the arguments about the UI, like the behaviour when you scroll to the end of a list. But I don't get the arguments about the case design. I find it especially amusing that people seriously use the word "ornamental" to refer to a postmodern mostly-blank black box.

How sad:

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060827052916/uncyclopedia/images/b/bd/Save_pluto.jpg

I prefer Live Chess

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081210004854/marveldatabase/images/2/25/Qubit_(Earth-616).jpg

I'm sticking with Barret Obama. His is the RANGE WE NEED.

We. Are going. To die. :(

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080202231409/uncyclopedia/images/1/11/Beating-a-dead-horse.gif

I dunno...this one looks kinda close.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110511003156/annoyingorange/images/b/bc/Clippy-suicide.jpg

Well then, I'm just waiting until the children have to deal with this.

If the Bible was judged purely on its contents, in the same way as other books, then it would require quite a warning label.

See (for instance):
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/hall_tour/spectrum/non_flash_index.html

This isn't about an imposed classification, it is about a family tree. Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than either are to snakes. Snakes are more closely related to birds than either are to turtles.

That is, these guys:
http://www.wolaver.org/animals/crocodile-plover.jpg

share a *much* more recent common ancestor than these two:
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/02/images/salamander-pgoebeil.jpg
and:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090630160120/uncyclopedia/images/2/2f/Geico-gecko.jpg

You are more closely related to a goldfish than the goldfish is to a shark:
http://rlv.zcache.com/goldfish_bowl_tshirt-p23514656184174989535jn_400.jpg

http://bit.ly/nknQ00

Yours is semi-bunk too.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060721101460/uncyclopedia/images/0/0d/Prints_money.gif

It is easy to create a picture of a cool craft based on technology that does not exist yet. The trick is in implementing the technology.

Sure, but can you trust it? Think about it.

Radiation could make a sphere like this behave like a sphere like this.

Just think about it.

Proof that women are evil. Old but it is a classic http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051008071751/uncyclopedia/images/0/03/Women_evil.jpg

Androgynous Green Women

(oh come on...)

Like these three? Although, come to think it, maybe "androgynous" isn't quite right.

Graphics mean NOTHING. Not even worthy of mention. Not even an "it doesn't even look good", like that's the last saving grace of a crap game.

I strongly disagree. Top-rate graphics is a large component of the strange magic that lifts a game from 'very good' to 'absolutely f*cking brilliant'. BUT the graphics don't have to be pretty in the conventional sense, as long as they have *charm*.

Minecraft graphics has charm. World of Goo graphics has charm. Plants vs Zombies graphics has charm.

The have so much charm they become stunningly beautiful, just like a certain girl I know.

Although the exact designs are of course kept under wraps, a likely model might look like this.

Mirror here: moon

sure... here you go. [insert deity here] bless the internet.

Helios One doesn't "use space lazzors" to generate energy, but contains the control mechanism for the Archimedes II space-based laser weapon.

It's clear from looking at the pictures that Helios One was modelled pretty directly on Solar One and Solar Two.

That's enough for an entire classroom.

Obviously he's referring to this guy, who will get sick of tailgaiting in about five miles, but luckily has a top speed of 70mph.

No, the article is not describing a barred spiral galaxy. A barred spiral is one where there is a strong bar of stars across the galactic core

I think we now have a pretty good idea that at the galactic core is Steve.

Rocket propelled chainsaw! http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080418002617/uncyclopedia/images/d/d1/ImageC.jpg

A "mature" death is a Death that doesn't interrupt you... or put signs on your back.

Don't you mean Cannaba?