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I bet a lot of people just don't realize the connection between their spelling/caps/etc and sounding stupid. A bunch of random 7th graders talking in person don't sound nearly as stupid as a bunch of random 7th-graders typing online.

Dramatic readings should be required in extreme cases.

It's called "A Complicated Song". "Constipated" is the misnomer that you find on PP2P2P2PP2P networks.

This game is only a way to play old-skool Mega-man on the newer platforms and it isn't the first MM game to do it.

Nothing new to see here, move along.

On the other hand, there are so many damn characters that they could start a Mega Man MMORPG -- would it be called a MMMMORPG? :)

Or Nedry:
http://nedry.ytmnd.com/

says Ekman, who has studied people's facial expressions and how they relate to what they are thinking for over 40 years

I wonder what he would make of this.

Regardless of the name of the site (lohanfacial), it is SFW, and well worth it!

says Ekman, who has studied people's facial expressions and how they relate to what they are thinking for over 40 years

I wonder what he would make of this.

but I'd much rather spend hours in front of Tetris

In fact, you can spend hours in front of newer Tetris games without placing one piece. Just spin the piece forever. In fact, The Tetris Company requires this "feature". It's a good thing that fan games let you turn this off.

but for the most part I would wager the only test of time a modern game will stand anymore will be a continuation of the franchise, the beating of long dead horses.

Unless the franchise is Tetris, invented in Soviet Russia, where dead horse beats YOU! But seriously, The Tetris Company has been running its own franchise into the ground, adding new official rules such as infinite spin, counter-intuitive rewards for counter-intuitive moves, and a randomizer that makes it easy for even a dead horse to play forever.

but for the most part I would wager the only test of time a modern game will stand anymore will be a continuation of the franchise, the beating of long dead horses.

Unless the franchise is Tetris, invented in Soviet Russia, where dead horse beats YOU! But seriously, The Tetris Company has been running its own franchise into the ground, adding new official rules such as infinite spin, counter-intuitive rewards for counter-intuitive moves, and a randomizer that makes it easy for even a dead horse to play forever.

but for the most part I would wager the only test of time a modern game will stand anymore will be a continuation of the franchise, the beating of long dead horses.

Unless the franchise is Tetris, invented in Soviet Russia, where dead horse beats YOU! But seriously, The Tetris Company has been running its own franchise into the ground, adding new official rules such as infinite spin, counter-intuitive rewards for counter-intuitive moves, and a randomizer that makes it easy for even a dead horse to play forever.

Yeah, and the Nazis were pretty popular too!

Oops pow surprise!

I haven't seen anything where this religion or cult or whatever you want to call it has done anything to hurt anyone.

Then you haven't learned much about the cult. Scientology has ruined lives and gotten people killed. For the latter, they dispense dangerous medical information (especially in psychiatry) that is entirely based on their beliefs. See the Wikipedia article.

Yes, they have very silly beliefs, which is why it is so popular to make fun of them. But if that's all they were, then you wouldn't see these protests or all the news about it. Their beliefs alone (involving aliens, volcanoes, space ships, nuclear bombs and etc.) are harmless. It is what they do about their critics, whom they harass with both legal pressure and some not-so-legal tactics. See Fair Play.

There is a reason you see all those people in the protests wear masks, and that is because of policies like Fair Game. If they didn't wear masks, their lives and their families lives would be in danger, or at least risking serious harassment.

In fact, Slashdot has suffered the wrath of the cult of Scientology: Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot. Someone posted some of the cult's "scripture" in a comment, and Slashdot was forced to remove it on claims of copyright. There's one way that Scientology has negatively affected you. They already attacked an online community you participate in. They have also put legal pressure on search engines, including Google and Yahoo, to have results critical of Scientology removed.

See also, The Unfunny Truth About Scientology
Or the YouTube version.

The obligatory YTMND from Katrina's time.

Prior art: http://wtctetris.ytmnd.com/ or is it http://tetriswtc.ytmnd.com/

BG: There was a version of Tetris (anyone?) that allowed 'omg bullshit' combinations of rotate and joystick L or R to slot blocks into 'unreachable' positions - http://epictetris2.ytmnd.com/ When 'omg bullshit' conspiracy theories about 9/11 started to spread, it was inevitable that the two memes would trainwreck sooner or later.

There's a wii version around for the benefit of Gen.s Z and Y as well ...

Prior art: http://wtctetris.ytmnd.com/ or is it http://tetriswtc.ytmnd.com/

BG: There was a version of Tetris (anyone?) that allowed 'omg bullshit' combinations of rotate and joystick L or R to slot blocks into 'unreachable' positions - http://epictetris2.ytmnd.com/ When 'omg bullshit' conspiracy theories about 9/11 started to spread, it was inevitable that the two memes would trainwreck sooner or later.

There's a wii version around for the benefit of Gen.s Z and Y as well ...

Prior art: http://wtctetris.ytmnd.com/ or is it http://tetriswtc.ytmnd.com/

BG: There was a version of Tetris (anyone?) that allowed 'omg bullshit' combinations of rotate and joystick L or R to slot blocks into 'unreachable' positions - http://epictetris2.ytmnd.com/ When 'omg bullshit' conspiracy theories about 9/11 started to spread, it was inevitable that the two memes would trainwreck sooner or later.

There's a wii version around for the benefit of Gen.s Z and Y as well ...

Why the fuck should a document markup language specify required codecs?!

It doesn't need to. It should specify recommended codecs to make the situation of The Article less likely to arise.

HTML 4 doesn't even specify any image formats required for the IMG tag.

W3C maintains a copy of the PNG specification as a Recommendation. It also maintains an informational web page about JPEG and JFIF. Where are the corresponding pages for audio and video formats?

If they were to force required codecs, text-only browsers would be required to support video

That's why I said SHOULD and not MUST, as in "user agents that implement streaming video and audio SHOULD be able to decode Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis."

and that's just ludicrous.

I'm glad you didn't misspell it :-)

Proof here and here.

And how are you supposed to work out which way is "up" with a socket that is on a tower case or PCI bracket?

On the majority of USB hubs, up is obvious from the printing on the hub's case. For a tower case, up is generally away from the motherboard. PCI USB cards are less predictable, so I'd recommend using a hub with those. You should be using a hub anyway (or the front-panel sockets, if present) for any device that you routinely plug and unplug.

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I think he just had a case of the space madness.

You mean like this?

Obligitory.

Reminds me of this letter -- probably the same person.

Why do people watch movies on TV when you can rent the DVD for a dollar

Because not everybody is a fan of feature films. Some people like to watch time-sensitive programs, such as sports, news, or easily spoiled TV series ("The Lone Gunmen Are Dead" anyone?). DVD doesn't cover these cases as well as broadcast does. And thanks to the cable companies' tying of channels into "tiers", if you subscribe to sports, you get the movies at no additional charge.

and see it ad-free

"Ad-free" might not be ad-free. Case in point: Would it be meaningful to make a copy of the film The Wizard without any commercials for Nintendo products?

uncut

I'm going to stroke it. Your arms are broken!

Loser,[Chris]~~~~, is that you?

I dunno, but let's throw a party! A Linux party!!!

(Yes, I'm as stunned and excited as you are.)

Put it in H!

I await the inevitable off-topic moderation fearlessly.

http://hawkingquakemaster.ytmnd.com/

http://dealinworf.ytmnd.com/

Where, oh where, do you find this stuff?!?

if possible compare it to CUDA since I know what that does.

You see, it's like a car... It takes instructions and makes something of it... like how a car takes steering and brakes and get you from point A to point B.

So, it's like a Hemi 'cuda?

Those things are pretty expensive nowadays.

http://dealinworf.ytmnd.com/

how about a time traveler with a mullet?

time travelers like this guy?

Because Hackers can turn your computer into a BOMB!

You can't have a fresh start without a Fresh Prince.

This is part of the Church of Scientology's ongoing campaign against the Internet, which traces its roots back to the early nineties and the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. Persons interested in the greater picture should take a look at the Wikipedia article on Project Chanology, and the project's material at youfoundthecard.com, among other things. The rest you can find through links at the latter site.

The short of it is that tens of thousands of activists collectively known as Anonymous are taking the cult organization known as the Church of Scientology (aka the Religious Technology Center, among other things) on, originally due to the CoS' being complete dickheads on the Internet but the matter has expanded since. (Warning: link contains graphic material, may shock people who haven't already seen thousands of murders in feature films and prime-time television.)

As for results, insider reports from within the CoS suggest that their leadership are pissing and shitting all over themselves over this. They cannot harass masked protesters, though they do try.

It should also be pointed out that Anonymous is not after Scientology-the-religion, only the so-called Church of Scientology, the organization. This is not about suppressing a religion.

Was it the infinite spin[1], the T-spin triples[2], or the piece randomizer that lets you keep playing forever[3]? In fact, all three of those "features" have been mandatory in new versions of Tetris for the past half decade, including Tetris DS, Tetris Zone, and Tetris Evolution.

For me, it was the control lag that killed the joy in Tetris Worlds for GBA. It bothered me so much that I learned how to program for the GBA and made TOD.

[1] Infinity
[2] Super Rotation System
[3] Random Generator and Playing forever

or here's the annotated version

Well, security of the containers is taken care of. The container will be surrounded by these signs

http://nedry.ytmnd.com/

Like this?

Hey now. You'll find I'm usually the first to make fun of the Holocaust.

Anyhow, I hate to be the one to tell you, but insults comprise 98% of all Internet traffic which isn't consumed by porn. If a comment from a retard with a chip on his shoulder about an OS has sufficient power to provoke you to type 6 paragraphs of careful, even-handed vitriol, I shudder to think how little spare time even a single visit to YouTube would leave you.

I think our problem with exafloods has been solved!

I think our problem with exafloods has been solved!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Who taught Biff Tannen how to program?

Did someone send them a link to http://ytmnd.com/?

mmm kari :)~

(possibly nsfw, depending on prude level. no nudity etc)

http://sexedkari.ytmnd.com/