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Brian: "Look at all these Hummers. What kind of jerk would drive one of these?
Hummer Jerk: "Dude, this car kicks ass. And I can watch Madagaskar while I'm drivin'!" (looks to onboard tv)
Lion: "What kind of music do you like, Gloria?"
Hippo: "Hippo-Hop! Yeah baby!" (music kicks in)
Hummer Jerk: "Hahaha, those animals are so fucking funny, they wanna make me merge without looking! YEAH! RUMSFELD!"

http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l89/blackh3/?action=view&current=fg-hummer.flv

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu187/weirdslashjunk/tagracism.png?t=1245608323

Sorry to be totally offtopic, but I'm very bothered by the junk showing up on slashdot articles, specifically, short horizontal and vertical gray bars and grey, green, and red dots/pills which do nothing but obscure content. Here's an example: http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu187/weirdslashjunk/dots.png

Is there a way to fix this?

Like this? http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g269/bob-appleyard/slashbug.png

I tried submitting a bug report, but it placed too many obstacles in my path, and broke down before it could go anywhere.

Messed up.

The WHO claims they are making this level 6 because it is spreading globally and it has nothing to do with the severity. So why don't they do this for any seasonal flu that spreads globally every year?

If you read the legal definitions of what the WHO can do when it is level 6 is very scary. They can take your property, forcibly vaccinate you, quarantine you for an indefinite amount of time all with zero proof of anything.

The few people who have actually died and had swine flu were all very ill before they were infected.

Now for some comedy.

Because people in the world have immunity against the widespread influenza virus, I'd guess - whereas this strain is unknown to man and its immune system. Influenza viruses that have been around for some time just don't have the same potential to spread and wreak havoc.

I say we call it the "Wrath of Chan"

Chhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!

The WHO claims they are making this level 6 because it is spreading globally and it has nothing to do with the severity. So why don't they do this for any seasonal flu that spreads globally every year?

If you read the legal definitions of what the WHO can do when it is level 6 is very scary. They can take your property, forcibly vaccinate you, quarantine you for an indefinite amount of time all with zero proof of anything.

The few people who have actually died and had swine flu were all very ill before they were infected.

Now for some comedy.

There's also the Zip GS, that's a decent enough option, too. Looks like Digital Dinos has some.

Anyway, although I strongly dislike the iPhone, I did this to my GS: http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff354/bhtooefr/apple2gs.jpg

Offtopic? When this is what passes for a thread view, this comment is on topic for every conversation!

I don't know about it being the best, but from my limited experience (then again, I'm still using VS2005 - dunno about newer versions) it's got everything I need.

On an unrelated note - anyone else's Slashdot views going all wonky? Mine looks like this:

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn108/bemymonkey/slashdot.gif

Once in an ATM on a mall

And I have my money on that bank, I feel so secure.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j250/juleighjul8/nigga.jpg

Take a look at the blurred and aquarelle-like picture in TFV and compare it with other New Yorker covers and then think about what you wrote there.
While you are at it - try writing a memo on your phone.

If it is an iPhone there is probably an app for it. Or two. Or 183.
I hear that there is an app for EVERYTHING on iPhone.

Is there such thing as an expected error? If so, couldn't one avoid that error easily enough? What's up with that?

Also, I got this little doozie a while back on a customer's machine.

Can. Meet Will Be. And this is her sister Should Be.

Oldest stone tools are millions of years old.
Can we still use them for hunting or whatever? Sure.
Should we still use them? Depends on the situation.
Would we still use them? Highly unlikely if there is anything a bit more modern at hand. Like a stick.

In another 50-100 years we ourselves may not be able to read those audio messages we sent out to space on those golden records.
Whose recording may outlive most of today's CDs and DVDs. Should we still be using turntables to listen to our records instead of MP3 players?
Highly unlikely.

Same with the billion-year nano-memory.
Read-Write interface may become obsolete in under a decade, but if by chance we need a really REALLY long term memory bank - the data will still be there.
Just attach the particulars for building the Read-Write interface on the packaging and make the packaging something sturdy - like gold, stone, crystal, diamonds...

Alright, I know what you want, so here you go!

Alright, I know what you want, so here you go!

And for the facts to back it up
Here is his MySpace
Here is his Photobucket
Here is his fiance's MySpace

And the way he talks about HIV, medical use of marijuana, and even Leisure Suit Larry all point to characteristics of a male profile.


Not that there is anything really wrong with homosexuality or bisexuality (I once had a brother-in-law who was a gay, wolf furry), but he tried to ruin the GGP's joke on association of gamers with fiancees by deferring from the standard stereotypes of male-female relationships to interject his own relationship status - which completely goes under the joke as finding a male partner interested in video games is much, much more likely than finding a female companion with the same enthusiasm.

Michael Chertoff as The Necromancer would be great...

Here's a picture of it

It's already being done. I have two cars in my driveway - Ohio, US - and the both get 44 mpg and 47 mpg under our everyday driving habits. The EPA stats over estimated it a little. One is a '99 the other is an '06. My Car with the geek license plate.

Yeah! Like this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/REnergy/dade.jpg

just look at the screenshot of the proof of concept. Notice how you have to scroll to the side in gmail just to see you mail subject lines. Hardly a good use of screen real-estate.

Agreed. This is a horrible starting point for a design. The designer says:

"On the side. Our screens are wider than they are tall; vertical height is the scarce resource."

There's a reason our screens are wider than they are tall, though: we need horizontal space more, because we read from side to side. This means things with text in them generally need to be (much) wider than they are tall.

In his mockup, the new bar takes up 208x530px == 110,240 pixels. This quick re-organization I've just designed uses 1022x49 = 50,078 or less than half as many pixels. Sure, vertical pixels are more important than horizontal pixels, but my design uses less than a quarter as many vertical pixels as his does horizontal pixels, and includes all the same information. Vertical pixels are less than twice as valuable as horizontal pixels, given his arguments for why this makes sense, so this appears to be a much less costly design using his model of what's important.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa80/austolyso/motivation/1196539615059.jpg

I used to have fridge duty when I worked at Quarterdeck, and one of my coworkers with an artistic flair and a wicked sense of humor sketched this cartoon of me:

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll264/VulcanTourist/OKCupid/HastaLaPizzaBaby.jpg

Old System, 12 drives: http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d162/mondmustaphamond/Floyd/?action=view&current=Floyd_noLight2.jpg Upgraded system, 7 drives: http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d162/mondmustaphamond/Floyd/?action=view&current=Floyd_Reincarnated_w_description2_c.jpg

Old System, 12 drives: http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d162/mondmustaphamond/Floyd/?action=view&current=Floyd_noLight2.jpg Upgraded system, 7 drives: http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d162/mondmustaphamond/Floyd/?action=view&current=Floyd_Reincarnated_w_description2_c.jpg

Neither, it's called "science based policy" which is an anathema to the neocons and religious right, Greenpeace just happens to be aligned with the scientific evidence on AGW, GE are much better aligned with the evidence when it comes to nuclear power.

Are you truly that naive/dumb ?. What would happen to a "science based policy" if the science turned out massively wrong ?

You could never have a science based policy without scientifically proven theories.

You know what scientifically proven means ? That they made predictions that worked out. "Predicting" past events doesn't count, no matter how precise (due to overfitting problems), otherwise the late trains in New York city metro lines would be considered an accurate predictor of the number of sunspots, after all they had a correlation of nearly 0.95 for 2 years. Of course the month after this was published they diverged. But even if it takes longer to diverge ...

Now obviously any theory that purports to predict events 50 or 100 years from now (or 1000 years from now) cannot be proven in less than at least twice the prediction interval (in order to have at least a bit of confidence). The soonest any actually scientific climate theory could be considered proven is therefore around 2150.

In reality the climate models STILL have not accurately predicted weather or temperature changes 2 months out, a fact you won't find all that often in popular media. They were not just off the mark, but they were more wrong than the error margin for 2006, 2007 AND 2008 (that means that the IPCC's theories predicted that the chance of the weather that actually occured in those 3 years was less than 2%. So the chance that the theories that the IPCC used in 2005 was correct is 2%^3 or 0.0008%.

Note that those theories were accepted as the literal truth in numerous climate policies.

So as I'm sure you seeing this coming right now. If we truly had "science based policy" all those agreements based on flat out wrong models would have been undone.

In fact, since the creation on the IPCC itself was based on scientific theories that also proved wrong, science based policy would mean that decision would have been reversed itself.

So let's not kid ourselves : climate change "theories" are little more than extending the weather patterns of the last 100 years into the future. The deviation between drawing a line from the average temperature in 1900, pass through the average temperature in 2000 and extrapolate to 2100 only deviates a single percentage point from the "latest and greatest" IPCC model (the 2 degrees one).

So let's not kid ourselves. It does NOT matter how many people are convinced, reality just doesn't care. Everybody believed the titanic couldn't sink, opinions are worthless. Until you can accurately predict you should SHUT UP about theories.

I've been to that meeting and took a picture of the WiGig steering committee. Good times.

The teacher didn't try to stab everyone in sight. Keep drinkin.

>[...] they are rather unfriendly to pedestrians when colliding with them.

Well that's the whole point, isn't it? :)

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Second, not only did taxes paid by the rich increase as a percent of total taxes paid, income distribution shifted from the rich to the poor under George W. Bush.

Sorry, but the facts just don't jibe with your diatribe. Your racist class warfare claims to the contrary.

Oh, and Obama's solution to paying off the debt? More than doubling the debt that took 230+ years to accumulate, and do it in under a decade. Nothing like tripling the deficit his first year out, and planning for ever-increasing deficits after next year (all of which are greater than ANY deficit under George W. Bush).

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Second, not only did taxes paid by the rich increase as a percent of total taxes paid, income distribution shifted from the rich to the poor under George W. Bush.

Sorry, but the facts just don't jibe with your diatribe. Your racist class warfare claims to the contrary.

Oh, and Obama's solution to paying off the debt? More than doubling the debt that took 230+ years to accumulate, and do it in under a decade. Nothing like tripling the deficit his first year out, and planning for ever-increasing deficits after next year (all of which are greater than ANY deficit under George W. Bush).

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Second, not only did taxes paid by the rich increase as a percent of total taxes paid, income distribution shifted from the rich to the poor under George W. Bush.

Sorry, but the facts just don't jibe with your diatribe. Your racist class warfare claims to the contrary.

Oh, and Obama's solution to paying off the debt? More than doubling the debt that took 230+ years to accumulate, and do it in under a decade. Nothing like tripling the deficit his first year out, and planning for ever-increasing deficits after next year (all of which are greater than ANY deficit under George W. Bush).

That's not exactly a cult. Everyone pretty much agrees that Amanda Tapping is a hottie (or at least she was 10 years ago.)

Or did you mean some other kind of WOOSH?

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

Of course this never happens in western comics at all, it's a uniquely Japanese phenomenon not found in comics produced
by such reputable companies as Marvel, DC and the like.

I could go on... in fact, I could probably just make every letter a link and it'd still work.

Special bonus: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31045&d=1167172520

"Yeah let's all judge this by its cover as being some lame forum 'meme' bull. Even though it has a 9.9 Moddb average(of 58 votes), many favorable reviews (Even one in a mainstream magazine http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/Luther_Crom/TheNameless4.jpg , and offers a rather long gaming experience for free." (I know the "free" argument is a tired argument, but I needed a third.)

There may be an inside goat.

http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/_daemonette/111143969_35533831ab.jpg
http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/_daemonette/freebsd-002.jpg
http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/_daemonette/freebsd-003.jpg

http://media.photobucket.com/image/penguin%20mascot%20girl/twistedliza/signature%20pics/blog/DSC00767e.jpg
http://images.celebrateexpress.com/mgen/merchandiser/38199.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/raleighdurham/1/0/u/8/-/-/Fat-Penguin-Clowns-at-Ringling-Bros-Circus.jpg

That's not nearly as funny as these:

http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/10/kissing_pig.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/510322764_a1aebca876_o.jpg

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o262/the_wynster/PoohsThoughtsonSwineFlu.jpg

http://www.phun.org/newspics/funny_friday/3585.jpg

You are wrong. - Not THAT avatar.

But, yes they are. - There really is a trilogy in the making based on the Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon.

And, yes they did. - There is a partially live action Sponge Bob movie out there. And David Hasselhoff was f-in great in it.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/president%20madagascar%20shut%20down%20everything/CaptainFailcon/SHUTDOWNEVERYTHING.jpg

Hi there, submitter here. One certainly wonders what the statistical variability is, it's probably pretty high for month to month data. That's what I was trying to do by reporting the 12 month average increase or decrease. I posted a chart of that data here. Rather than look at percent usage share, this is the percent change in usage share for a given month. If it's positive, it means the OS grew, if it's negative it means it shrank.

Ultimately this is one of those things like political polling data, nobody can really know what the actual answer is. What's interesting here is that there are big bumps in all the OSes, which is the random error, but if you look at the averages, they follow what you might expect. That is, XP stopped increasing a long time ago, but didn't start to shrink (go negative) until Vista was released. Vista really is slowing in its growth, you can clearly see the peak in the average data right at Jan or Feb 2008. For linux, the latest little uptick is this newest data, which in itself is probably insignificant (as is the arbitrary 1% mark), but what is significant is that linux on average is enjoying positive growth as there's more upticks than downticks, as is OS X.

http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/?action=view&current=Midori_Acid3.png

Scores of 100 are months old. I uploaded this screenie only weeks ago, after I misplaced the older screenie showing the same thing. Download and test Midori. Consistent fast times, and scores 100 every time.

This is how it always starts...

You dawg, I heard you like Windows, so we put Windows in your Windows so you can BSOD while you BSOD.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/aznfanatic/w185943159.jpg