yeah, as long as we randomly modulate the shield frequencies, reverse the polarity of the heisenberg compensators, and amplify the transporter buffers... we should be good to go. Earl Grey tea never tasted so good.
Now see here... If the polarity of anything is to be reversed, then clearly we should start with the neutron flow...
And why exactly do you think the explosion was in any way related to your wi-fi?
Because somehow the plane's avionics got confused, traded me its autopilot program for a Voltorb, and then the Voltorb self-destructed... Read between the lines, man!
Now you have the problem that said device interferes with military radar, and now you have IDF at your door
I'll bet you actually think it's important to turn off WiFi devices on planes, too, lest it bring the whole plane down in a fiery ball.
You laugh, but let me tell you about the last time I flew...
I was playing Pokemon on the DS, as was a kid a few rows back - so we went to the union room to see about some trades... Anyway, I found someone in the union room and traded my Voltorb for something called "Otto" - I'd never heard of it before. Not thirty seconds later, there's an explosion in the front of the plane... Fortunately nobody was hurt, but it took out some of the plane's instruments, apparently, and forced an emergency landing...
So, yeah, I really don't think wi-fi on planes is a good idea.
If you don't like choices you are offered form your own party (this is how the "Pirate Party" got started in Europe)or stand as an independent, that's how democracy is supposed to work.
Pah... Like anyone would waste their vote on a third party candidate!
Would you buy a toaster based on wattage used, types of heater elements, what kind of processor is used for the timing mechanism? Or do you buy a toaster to make toast? Apple is making toasters; sealed appliances. And abstracting the function away from the hardware makes perfect sense, then the hardware matters less than functionality.
You seem to be suggesting that the one does not impact the other...
The number of heating elements, and their physical distribution, for instance, would affect how evenly the toast is burned. As you say, in the end, all one cares about is "did it make good toast?" - but it is the details of the machine which determine this.
Now, your utterly pragmatic wife doesn't care about these details, and that's fine. And I can agree that it's silly to argue that she should care about a bunch of details of the machine that don't affect how she uses it, because it performs in a way that she enjoys and finds satisfactory for her expectations. But wouldn't you agree it's equally silly to tell others that they shouldn't care about details that don't fit their expectations of what the machine should be and do? From my perspective, your wife's simpler set of requirements represents a lesser utilization of the machine. And if the machine's behavior doesn't fit my needs, I think I'm entirely justified in calling the machine "lame" or whatever. That's my judgment according to my standards. If my standards aren't to be imposed upon your wife, why should your wife's standards be imposed upon me?
To me, the whole article seemed like complete nonsense. I can discern no thread of logic that connects its data and suppositions to its conclusions. It's utterly pointless to talk about whether there's useful insight in there, because it's garbage.
And we all know what runaway success that GIMP is.
It works for me...
Anyway, Blender would be a better analogy - a closed-source tool that later went open-source. I bet if you tried real hard you could even find fault with Blender, somewhere...
I swear, programmers rarely actually use the software they program. If they did, then there wouldn't be all these horrible double-negative "Are you sure you don't want to upgrade your document format?"
Wait, where's the double negative?
The user has clearly elected not to upgrade the document format, and the application is asking for confirmation...
All this talk of who could play Thor has got me thinking of how Val Hallen, the Viking God of Rock, really needs some justice... Oh, and Monkey! Monkey kicked ass!
If you're going to go with someone in their 50s as Thor, why not Dolph Lundgren? IMHO, it was poor scripting that did the man in, not his acting. Check out "I Come in Peace" some time...
That movie inspired me to do a mod for Doom in which bullets, upon hitting a wall or target, would spawn an explosion instead of a bullethole effect......But I can't say the film impressed me otherwise...
No, that would never work. The audience would never be able to relate to someone from one of those foreign countries... Obviously it's much more productive to take someone who doesn't have that accent and make them fake it.:)
I mean, it seems you're assuming we could only go up to 1023 (2 ^ 10 - 1) - but each finger has three knuckles. Even if you can't necessarily work them all independently, there's no reason you couldn't do at least base three on your fingers - so you should be able to go all the way up to 59048 (3 ^ 10 - 1)...
He filmed Tropic Thunder before he hit it big again with the first Iron Man. If you look at everything he's made since then, it's all been big-budget stuff. He only did the lower-budget/indie stuff when his career was on the skids. Downey isn't a conscientious actor like a Matt Damon
Well, technically, they also lost their soul upon becoming a vampire
You know, this is one bit of Buffy that has really stuck with me: the fact that Angel had a soul was always this big distinguishing feature of his character, but I've come to apply it to any similar characters in other shows... The mysterious hard-edged "pretty-boy" who winds up as an on-again, off-again torrid romance with a leading character...
Dylan McKay? He has a soul. Edward Cullen? He has a soul, too. I mean, maybe he doesn't, but he clearly fits the pattern.
The fact that these characters have souls means that they're subject to the usual relevant statements plucked from Buffy history...
"Don't you understand? He has a soul!" Admittedly, these are more often interjected by myself rather than present in the shows themselves...
I have no idea what the Avengers are but you had me at Summer Glau;)
Think the 1960s Batman show on a good day, but slightly less goofy, and with spies instead of Batman and Robin.
I wasn't clear which Avengers he was remaking, either. I remember when the other Avengers movie came out and I was like, "Oh, gonna be some Marvel Super Heroes in here..." and it was British spies instead... And then this story comes up and I'm like, "What, they're doing The Avengers again??" and it turns out to be the Marvel one... Darn this ambiguity!
But hey, during Buffy, Whedon made a frickin' MUSICAL episode and made it WORK!
Well, yes - except Alyson Hannigan had absolutely no business being in that episode... Though I suppose no Alyson Hannigan would have meant no Amber Benson...
Yeah, I have heard of Ke$ha. It was a joke. People always complaining about M$ and so on. If you didn't find it funny, then it's fair to say it wasn't a very good joke.
I can't imagine what sort of take they'll give it especially with Seth Green involved.
"Robot Chicken Star Wars" may give you an idea of what Seth Green has in mind.
Could Darth Vader do anything funny?
If you mean "is it possible for Darth Vader to do anything funny?", I think the answer is definitely yes. Vader's built up to such legendary status that there's huge potential in undermining that reputation. Best example from Robot Chicken is probably Vader calling the Emperor to explain that the Death Star was destroyed (though Vader's not seen in that bit - we see the Emperor's side of the conversation...) As for whether they're going to do that... Don't know...
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Two words. Splash. Damage.
That's four words.
Or were you saying that "Two words" is two words? Seems like a bit of a tautology, though maybe not for the reason you'd think...
Better a D&D reference than another of the endless Harry Potter ones...
I haven't seen a single Harry Potter reference so far. It's been all Star Trek.
I guess people just figure everyone already knows about the various workarounds like the Marauder's Map and so on...
What if we modify the phase variance?
yeah, as long as we randomly modulate the shield frequencies, reverse the polarity of the heisenberg compensators, and amplify the transporter buffers... we should be good to go. Earl Grey tea never tasted so good.
Now see here... If the polarity of anything is to be reversed, then clearly we should start with the neutron flow...
Obviously it's infected with some virus.
You think it's got Pokerus? 'Cause I really need to work on my EVs...
And why exactly do you think the explosion was in any way related to your wi-fi?
Because somehow the plane's avionics got confused, traded me its autopilot program for a Voltorb, and then the Voltorb self-destructed... Read between the lines, man!
Now you have the problem that said device interferes with military radar, and now you have IDF at your door
I'll bet you actually think it's important to turn off WiFi devices on planes, too, lest it bring the whole plane down in a fiery ball.
You laugh, but let me tell you about the last time I flew...
I was playing Pokemon on the DS, as was a kid a few rows back - so we went to the union room to see about some trades... Anyway, I found someone in the union room and traded my Voltorb for something called "Otto" - I'd never heard of it before. Not thirty seconds later, there's an explosion in the front of the plane... Fortunately nobody was hurt, but it took out some of the plane's instruments, apparently, and forced an emergency landing...
So, yeah, I really don't think wi-fi on planes is a good idea.
Or Kang and Kodos! (Simpsons did it!)
If you don't like choices you are offered form your own party (this is how the "Pirate Party" got started in Europe)or stand as an independent, that's how democracy is supposed to work.
Pah... Like anyone would waste their vote on a third party candidate!
I bet if you had included a $100K "donation" to said Critters' "re-election campaign", you would have gotten your H & B in short order.
What a silly idea.
There are way cheaper ways to quickly and discreetly procure hookers and blow.
That we citizen elect the politicians.
Yes, but we don't select them.
To be unnecessarily extreme, we can essentially pick between Hitler and Pol Pot.
Or Kang and Kodos! (Simpsons did it!)
Would you buy a toaster based on wattage used, types of heater elements, what kind of processor is used for the timing mechanism? Or do you buy a toaster to make toast? Apple is making toasters; sealed appliances. And abstracting the function away from the hardware makes perfect sense, then the hardware matters less than functionality.
You seem to be suggesting that the one does not impact the other...
The number of heating elements, and their physical distribution, for instance, would affect how evenly the toast is burned. As you say, in the end, all one cares about is "did it make good toast?" - but it is the details of the machine which determine this.
Now, your utterly pragmatic wife doesn't care about these details, and that's fine. And I can agree that it's silly to argue that she should care about a bunch of details of the machine that don't affect how she uses it, because it performs in a way that she enjoys and finds satisfactory for her expectations. But wouldn't you agree it's equally silly to tell others that they shouldn't care about details that don't fit their expectations of what the machine should be and do? From my perspective, your wife's simpler set of requirements represents a lesser utilization of the machine. And if the machine's behavior doesn't fit my needs, I think I'm entirely justified in calling the machine "lame" or whatever. That's my judgment according to my standards. If my standards aren't to be imposed upon your wife, why should your wife's standards be imposed upon me?
To me, the whole article seemed like complete nonsense. I can discern no thread of logic that connects its data and suppositions to its conclusions. It's utterly pointless to talk about whether there's useful insight in there, because it's garbage.
And we all know what runaway success that GIMP is.
It works for me...
Anyway, Blender would be a better analogy - a closed-source tool that later went open-source. I bet if you tried real hard you could even find fault with Blender, somewhere...
I swear, programmers rarely actually use the software they program. If they did, then there wouldn't be all these horrible double-negative "Are you sure you don't want to upgrade your document format?"
Wait, where's the double negative?
The user has clearly elected not to upgrade the document format, and the application is asking for confirmation...
but each finger has three knuckles
Really? Have you looked at your thumbs lately?
Thumb's still got enough knuckles for base 3. And it's not a finger, it's a thumb.
She had one of my favorite lines, though, in Walk Through The Fire.
The "I think this line is mostly filler" one? Yeah, that was fun...
Silent episode was better, though. :)
All this talk of who could play Thor has got me thinking of how Val Hallen, the Viking God of Rock, really needs some justice... Oh, and Monkey! Monkey kicked ass!
If you're going to go with someone in their 50s as Thor, why not Dolph Lundgren? IMHO, it was poor scripting that did the man in, not his acting. Check out "I Come in Peace" some time...
That movie inspired me to do a mod for Doom in which bullets, upon hitting a wall or target, would spawn an explosion instead of a bullethole effect... ...But I can't say the film impressed me otherwise...
they could find an actual 6'2 Nordic guy.
No, that would never work. The audience would never be able to relate to someone from one of those foreign countries... Obviously it's much more productive to take someone who doesn't have that accent and make them fake it. :)
Maaaaaaaybe...
NO WAIT!
try counting to 1025 with just your fingers.
That's easy!
I mean, it seems you're assuming we could only go up to 1023 (2 ^ 10 - 1) - but each finger has three knuckles. Even if you can't necessarily work them all independently, there's no reason you couldn't do at least base three on your fingers - so you should be able to go all the way up to 59048 (3 ^ 10 - 1)...
He filmed Tropic Thunder before he hit it big again with the first Iron Man. If you look at everything he's made since then, it's all been big-budget stuff. He only did the lower-budget/indie stuff when his career was on the skids. Downey isn't a conscientious actor like a Matt Damon
MAATT DAAAAAYYYYYMON!
Well, technically, they also lost their soul upon becoming a vampire
You know, this is one bit of Buffy that has really stuck with me: the fact that Angel had a soul was always this big distinguishing feature of his character, but I've come to apply it to any similar characters in other shows... The mysterious hard-edged "pretty-boy" who winds up as an on-again, off-again torrid romance with a leading character...
Dylan McKay? He has a soul.
Edward Cullen? He has a soul, too. I mean, maybe he doesn't, but he clearly fits the pattern.
The fact that these characters have souls means that they're subject to the usual relevant statements plucked from Buffy history...
"Don't you understand? He has a soul!"
Admittedly, these are more often interjected by myself rather than present in the shows themselves...
I have no idea what the Avengers are but you had me at Summer Glau ;)
Think the 1960s Batman show on a good day, but slightly less goofy, and with spies instead of Batman and Robin.
I wasn't clear which Avengers he was remaking, either. I remember when the other Avengers movie came out and I was like, "Oh, gonna be some Marvel Super Heroes in here..." and it was British spies instead... And then this story comes up and I'm like, "What, they're doing The Avengers again??" and it turns out to be the Marvel one... Darn this ambiguity!
But hey, during Buffy, Whedon made a frickin' MUSICAL episode and made it WORK!
Well, yes - except Alyson Hannigan had absolutely no business being in that episode... Though I suppose no Alyson Hannigan would have meant no Amber Benson...
So when does the Jennifer Lopez "feelie" come out? ;-)
Usually after three beer.
Don't forget the tacos and burritos!
Yeah, I have heard of Ke$ha. It was a joke. People always complaining about M$ and so on. If you didn't find it funny, then it's fair to say it wasn't a very good joke.
Never been a fan of Robot Chicken.
I can't imagine what sort of take they'll give it especially with Seth Green involved.
"Robot Chicken Star Wars" may give you an idea of what Seth Green has in mind.
Could Darth Vader do anything funny?
If you mean "is it possible for Darth Vader to do anything funny?", I think the answer is definitely yes. Vader's built up to such legendary status that there's huge potential in undermining that reputation. Best example from Robot Chicken is probably Vader calling the Emperor to explain that the Death Star was destroyed (though Vader's not seen in that bit - we see the Emperor's side of the conversation...) As for whether they're going to do that... Don't know...