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Iliad captures it pretty well.

Iliad captures it pretty well.

At least it's better than Quake with punch cards

Been said before

UserFriendly, Nov. 14, 1999

"Hey, who turned out the lights? WTF is this CueCat doing here? Oh no! GET ME OUT OF HERE YOU BASTARD!"

. . . with all that whine? Seriously, I can only have so much sympathy for anyone who signs a contract with the costs spelled out clearly and then is unprepared when they are expected to pay those costs.

And I believe today's User Friendly comic is apropos: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050109

Read todays UserFriendly Comic

Link

> Does that mean he from the marketing department?

why wouldn't he be?

BTW, does anybody remember http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000228& mode=classic ?

Really?, that's not what I heard. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20041107

Why the hell is this flamebait? Hotels normally charge arm-and-leg for the smallest things (espeically the wireless connection and sodas).

As for techies being in the wilderness... here's the proof:

User Friendly

Flamebait my ass. :P

XBOX -- Ex Box

XBOX -- Ex Box

Click here

ps. Posting non-worky links = bad

the answer

Anyway, the point is that wind is still the most probable cause, but it's not quite the obvious slam-dunk that it superficially seems.

While wind is the most plausible explanation, it is not the most amusing.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20041107

The more participants in the fray, the better. May the fit survive and the fittest flourish!

As anyone who has watched Open Source software development can attest, the wider field of ideas tried yields the best results.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20041024& mode=classic

Bob-

Recently I was pointed (thanks to http://www.userfriendly.org/) to this site which speaks of New Earth Time (NET) http://newearthtime.net/.

It too is an interesting concept, however I'm not sure any of this would fly. You'd have to get tons of governments on board, and that just isn't going to happen. Hell, try to get them to agree on a single item like warring with other countries...oh wait, that's not too simple.

It would still be hard to get them to do anything that involves change.

Strip for 2004/11/10

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Strip for 2004/11/11

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Strip for 2004/11/12

Strip for 2004/11/10

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Strip for 2004/11/11

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Strip for 2004/11/12

Strip for 2004/11/10

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Strip for 2004/11/11

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Strip for 2004/11/12

This has been a PSA brought to you by Ima Troll.

Take your adolescent whining elsewhere, please. You make forums an unpleasant place to be.

Please see the following links for further information.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030324

The second link may be more within your grasp, as it's not 100% text. It seems people have problems with reading when there aren't any pictures.

I can't resist ...

In Soviet Russia, from orbit your ISP nukes you!

Oh wait ... that's not Pitr. He just bought the missile.

I can't resist ...

In Soviet Russia, from orbit your ISP nukes you!

Oh wait ... that's not Pitr. He just bought the missile.

I doubt it.

Windows XP will soon be replaced, and I am still not flying.

There are different kinds of high-volume attacks against spammers. Some, like the Artists Against 419 web page just download lots of images from the spammer, burning their bandwidth quotas and their 95%ile billing systems. Some submit requests to the spammer's web forms filling them up with junk or complaints. Some send lots of complaint emails to the ISP. All of those seem perfectly fair, particularly if they're directed at the spammers' web pages which are usually cheap services. And yes, some of them try to take down the machine through various mechanisms, which can be rude.

On the topic of Democrats and Republicans and Iraq, I'd like to mention some UserFriendly cartoons from 1998:

30 December 1998: Obliteration of Iraq: "Clinton is bad man!"

22 February 1998: It's this Iraq thing. "Clinton might just go ahead with an attack. The last thing we need is another war on this planet."

America has always had problems with Iraq. It's not just Bush's personal vendetta or the Republican "neocon"s' way to take over the world.

OK, yeah, this is offtopic here; I might repost these links next time Slashdot posts an article about the ongoing war.

On the topic of Democrats and Republicans and Iraq, I'd like to mention some UserFriendly cartoons from 1998:

30 December 1998: Obliteration of Iraq: "Clinton is bad man!"

22 February 1998: It's this Iraq thing. "Clinton might just go ahead with an attack. The last thing we need is another war on this planet."

America has always had problems with Iraq. It's not just Bush's personal vendetta or the Republican "neocon"s' way to take over the world.

OK, yeah, this is offtopic here; I might repost these links next time Slashdot posts an article about the ongoing war.

That's because it's the halo game series console, not xbox. ;P

Yeah. As for the comment about how graphics and gameplay draw players in, it's the community that makes them stay...

Today's UserFriendly is a perfect illustration of why, for me, it's the community that drives me away from MMORPGs.

I had more fun in three months of Morrowind out-of-the-box (a near-MMORPG-sized environment My opinion is that playability outlasts graphics. Graphics are an immediately gratifying factor, but in the long term, I think peoeple are sick of the fantasy and or sci-fi genre. So what's next? I dunno ... something completely out of the box. marred only by a combat system that looked like... well, MMORPG combat) than I did in any MMORPG I've tried.

Reminds me of a certain user friendly comic

nice to see that the new york times is keeping up with last weekends UserFriendly

simple = good
complex = bad

simple is often better , less cpu usage for A.I. on an X-Box means more cpu for other stuff.....

Computer Science teaches you to seek out "Simple" solutions. and judging by the success of Halo and the Halo Game serries Console it's good enough to be successful!

( and all those people wondering how do i get a job in the games industry - Chris wrote some sort of Map tool for Myth while at University and got noticed by Bungie.....)

If I'm not mistaken, Penny Arcade was the first to focus on video games pretty much exclusively. A broader range of "geek humor/technology" was covered earlier by User Friendly, which does include some video game humor.

As as you've said you read so many, I certainly hope one is Sluggy Freelance

Enjoy. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20041114

Illiad knew, we'd need a way out!
I'd take it, if I could ...

And if my 1337 seer skillz are to be trusted, the next 35 will be at least as informative, funny, cooperative, and interesting.

Unfortunatly, despite your best attempts to slander the apache software, it looks more like pebkac

You're thinking too small. If it becomes a device for the disabled, the government will start paying for them
{brandishes hammer over kneecaps, closes eyes tightly} Thing Segway, think Segway...
Obligatory cite

Sure it wasn't Stef Murkey?

Sure that wasn't Stef Murky

P.S. Same link as parent.

You are not alone.

Sure it wasn't Stef Murkey?

... but at least we can get through the day by relating to these folks.

I agree. They should come up with movies based more on realistic cartoons such as Hackles and User Friendly.

VoIP boxes more often that not, run on traditional OSes . We'll see a switch to reliability when the OS specializes for VoIP . Our office uses Cisco and Ericsson VoIP phones for longdistance calls and it is very reliable (more reliable than the &*#$% MS Exchange email servers).

Essentially most people seems to be running a hard-board Linux install on flash for these VoIP systems - which is IMHO a mistake . There is a reason why IOS router is more stable than a Linux router. Specialization and removal of features irrelavant to current operation .

But I can see a near future when a custom built OS (like MovieOS .. *snigger*?) specializing on VoIP software. Then we'll see the system work . Oh, not to mention a parallel/high-priority network in office to prevent the bittorrent user in the next cubicle from jittering your calls .

I don't consider a site "user friendly" unless it has Dust Puppy on it. "Easy to learn" and "easy to use" on the other hand...

Obligatory userfriendly reference.

you mean this ? :)

Does this explain the Userfriendly theme this last week?

btw. Their names are Sarah and Henry.