The thing about the sort of people who actually go out and install windows vista is that they're morons. I mean people like us; we're clearly smarter than them because we haven't installed it yet. That being said, I reckon since people like you and me are so smart we'd probably be able to install Vista and have absolutely no troubles whatsoever.
So install it, and everybody will comment on how smart you are.
I for one think it's refreshing that Viacom is suing Google as opposed to suing all the people who upload the videos. But how did Viacom come up with such a tidy number? A billion dollars? That seems a little too neat to me. Maybe they'll get into court and the judge will say 'You there, lawyer.. How did you come up with a billion dollars? That seems like a very popular number these days...' then the lawyer would say 'Well uhh, your honor. Funny story actually.. My client decided that one billion dollars would be an appropriate amount to send a message to Google' then the judge would say 'A message? What sort of message are you attempting to send to these people?' then the lawyer would say 'Well, your honor we were hoping to get them to stop breaking the copyright laws' then the judge would sit there and think for a bit and say 'Good, sir. I have seen no evidence of any sort of copyright violations. As far as I'm concerned this case is dismissed!' then the lawyer would say 'But we're just at opening statements! I haven't even presented any evidence yet!'. Then the judge would have already left the room at that point.
I imagine that'll be EXACTLY how it goes.. word for word.
I can totally understand id's anti-pirating system. See, Quake Wars is almost a carbon copy of Battlefield 2142. So by making a game exactly the same as an existing game people will get confused and accidentally pirate the wrong game. It's foolproof!
It seems to me that the folks who actually want Linux are generally the sort who'd just go out and build their own computer and probably wouldn't buy a Dell to begin with. I suppose it's like how Peta is always bugging people to switch over to a pure vegan diet despite the health benefits, it'll never happen.
Anyhow. Anybody who actually needs 'support' for an operating system is using it wrong. (that's not supposed to be taken seriously, it's a joke)
Nintendo really dropped the ball with Twilight Princess, at least as far as animation is concerend. It's a bloody shame, seing as how the Wind Waker is probably one of the best animated games out there.
I'd just like to state that I'm against any sort of ethical treatment of robots. It's too bloody expensive. I mean it's cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to get an ink cartridge refill. Does that mean I owe a duty of care to my old printer now that I don't use it any more?
I heard after Commodore was nearly bankrupt in 1989 they fell back on their dwindling stocks in a pie plate factory. Since then they managed to build up some equity. It was one of those touching stories where a bunch of comuter engineers had to learn how to make pie plates.. which from what I understand is putting a piece of sheet metal in a stamper and pushing a button. Needless to say they prevailed. It's good to see they're back. Though it begs the question if they're going to apply any of their pie plate knowledge to their new computers.. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Fella I'd hate to tell you this but you're completely wrong to the extent of being laughably STUPID. And I mean that in the most offensive way possible. *cough*
Creationists have accepted that dinosaurs existed but they lived with people just like in the Flintstones. Turns out Noah brought them on the Arc with him. But they were all killed somehow all of 6000 years ago by Cthulhu.. when he threw a tugboat at them.
My only hope is that they video tape the whole thing. He must know what he's in for. I can only imagine what he'll say after the whole ordeal is over...
'Despite my intelligence I must say it was a rather bad choice to bring my wheelchair into the plane. Intially everything went well unill I fell out and kicked myself in the back of the head, then my chair followed suit. I've been forced to change most of my theories on gravity because of this. I strongly discourage anyone wishing to experience zero g. It is more trouble than it's worth'
It's a shame though that Macs are so bloody expensive. They could've used an oportunity like this to swoop in and take the market. Tooo bad I guess. I suppose we'll never see a PC compatable version of OSX ever... any time.. ever.. even though it'd be a great alternative to Vista... I mean seriously...
This is a classic example of alarmist astronomers trying to make a name for themselves. It's a well known fact that astronomers are hailed as some of the most alarmist people in society. Most people don't know this but the earth has never in it's some 900 billion years of existance been hit by anything. The astronomers however would like you to think otherwise. The most famous thing they like to claim is that the dinosaurs were killed when an asteroid impacted the earth. This is a complete fabrication. First of all, the dinosaurs never existed. It's been recently proven that all the fossils they found were actually skeletons of elephants and giraffes, they were just put together wrong. There are also some other ludicrous claims astronomers like to make about black holes and that sort of mumbo jumbo. Modern physics have also proven most of those claims to be false. That has little to do with any specific doomsday scenarios. Though I have it on good authority that a black hole doomsday scenario was tabled at the latest United Astronomers Convention. Whether or not it'll be approved for further development has yet to be seen.
So I don't think we need to worry too much about an asteroid hitting the earth in in 63 years. If the astronomers community had their druthers they'd very likely start making claims about giant bat like monsters that live on the moon planning an invasion.
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They make Maya for OSX but for whatever reason I'm not running out to buy a brand new Apple computer to run the program on. I have some trouble understanding the logic behind spending $2000 on a computer to run a program that you already own and use on another perfectly good computer just because you *like* the operating system on the new computer. I gotta tell you, things look the same on a mac as they do on a PC. All that garbage they say about macs being more stable ain't true, unless all do is make photobooks and email your friends about how much you love making photobooks.
As for being trapped in windows... I think you need a vacation or something.
I have every god damned right to say whatever the hell I want about whatever games I buy for my DS. They're MY opinions. Video games are a form of entertainment. We're not talking about religion or politics here.
I haven't actually played any dragon quest games.. ever so I can't pass judgement. I've found lately though Nintendo's been going through all its games and making them un-fun. It's like 'hey! instead of doing a game similar to the extremely popular starfox 64 let's change the format to include a totally lame strategy element! Ha people will love that!' or 'Hey instead of making a new fun mario platformer, let's make a mediochre mario platformer, and release a mario basketball game! Haha! That'll be so great!' or 'Hey, let's re-release dig dug on the DS! Remember Dig Dig? What no? Oh well someone made an obscene mod for it once. Yeah that's the one! Haha! People will love it!' OR 'HEY! Let's re-re-release animal crossing for the DS, everybody loves paying off massive debts, it's just like life. Get up go to work all day long, put up with stupid assholes who don't have anything interesting to talk about! Hahah! It'll be totally great!'
This is a prime example of how people will believe anything you tell them, regardless of how obviously far fetched and clearly FAKE it is. I'm referring to the parent post here, not the damned evolution story.
I personally don't suffer from lactose intolerance. I imagine that is mostly because I am a Holstein calf.
'Oh what's it doing out in space today Roy?' 'What besides just sitting there?' 'Yes, what's it like out there?' 'Well since I'm a scientist by trade I don't actually have the poetic capacity to put that god forsaken abyss into any sort of abstract meteorological context.. So I'm gonna have to say.. Today the forecast looks like... Horrifying abyss with lethal radiation, with a chance of being winged by a screwdriver that we left out there from the last mission.' 'I see, and what would you reccomend' 'For what?' 'Going outside' 'Wear a Space Suit' 'Well thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of going out there in my bathing suit!' 'Hey, you were the one who asked me! As I recall you're the one who's got the degrees in astronomy and astrophysics! I'm just a bloody Mathematician, if you don't have the common sense to wear a bloody space suit when you go out then you deserve what you get!' 'Oh ho ho, good comeback! I deserve what I get. What's that now? A three variable co-efficiant. Don't make me laugh!' 'What? You asked me a stupid question! What the hell did you expect?! I'm trying to record data on the eradiation limits of subspace particles and you just float up and start yammering away like I don't have anything better to do!' 'You know what your problem is?! You just can't handle the idea of being on the same mission as a woman! That's you're problem! You're intimidated by me!' 'Intimi-what? You've got some gall. Why don't you just put on the bloody space suit and go fix the god damned space telescope! I'm tired of putting up with this crap!' 'You know what?! Maybe I will!' 'GOOD THEN GO!' 'I'M GOING!!' 'GOOD!' 'GOOD!' 'I HATE YOU!' 'I HATE YOU TOO!!' *SLAM*
This story is totally fake. Lactose intolerance isn't actually a real affliction/illness or whatever you want to call it. It was originally concieved by the International Orchard Proprieters Association. It was part of their campaign to topple milk as the number one healthy beverage in the world. To date there are no confirmed cases of lactose intoelerance. People merely think they're lactose intolerance because of a phony medical paper made up by the IOPA's pr department. The document stated that patients suffered stomach aches and discomfort after eating three gallons of ice cream, thus leading to the conclusion that they must have some intolerance to the lactic acid in the ice cream, and by extension ALL dairy products. Which when you think about it doesn't make any sense, since if people were allergic to lactic acid they'd be dead, seeing as how it's used constantly by your muscles. Anyhow, the document sent shockwaves across the world. Overnight thousands of cases of 'lactose intolerance' were reported by authorities. Juice sales skyrocketed. Suddenly people began to say 'Who needs milk? Juice tastes better anyway'. This nearly killed the milk industry as we know it. However, the Oganization of Milk Exporting Countries had developed a new 'wonder drug' that they hoped would help put a stop to lactose intolerance. It was chocolate milk. For the most part it had worked. People stopped worrying about lactose intolerance and embraced chocolate milk. However the damage had already been done, and the IOAP had taken a huge share of the beverage market away from OMEC. You still hear about people putting juice on their cornflakes in the morning.
It wouldn't suprise me if this new finding is an attempt by OMEC to take back some of the market it had previously lost.
Computers taking multiple seconds to boot up is like how a car needs a couple seconds to warm up when you start it up. All those moving bits and jims and jams. Have you ever used a PDA? those things boot and reboot in about half a second. That's cause there ain't none moving parts.
Back in my day we'd get a caining if we asked how computers worked. Nowadays every whippersnapper wants to know how the whole bloody world works. Just saying 'it's magic' ain't good enough any more.
I could just as well say I'm building a rocket ship so I can go visit the planet that has all those green women. It doesn't mean I'm actually gonna get anywhere. Most likely, or hopefully the case won't actually make it to trial. I know judges in the states don't have a lot of common sense, but this seems to me to be the sort of thing where it'd just get thrown out. Which is ironic since none of the RIAA's cases were ever thrown out for being idiotic.
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The thing about the sort of people who actually go out and install windows vista is that they're morons. I mean people like us; we're clearly smarter than them because we haven't installed it yet. That being said, I reckon since people like you and me are so smart we'd probably be able to install Vista and have absolutely no troubles whatsoever.
So install it, and everybody will comment on how smart you are.
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Wasn't it back in the mid/late 90's folks were saying the internet was just gonna implode in on itself? Whatever happened to that?
Thanks for the info...
I for one think it's refreshing that Viacom is suing Google as opposed to suing all the people who upload the videos. But how did Viacom come up with such a tidy number? A billion dollars? That seems a little too neat to me. Maybe they'll get into court and the judge will say 'You there, lawyer.. How did you come up with a billion dollars? That seems like a very popular number these days...' then the lawyer would say 'Well uhh, your honor. Funny story actually.. My client decided that one billion dollars would be an appropriate amount to send a message to Google' then the judge would say 'A message? What sort of message are you attempting to send to these people?' then the lawyer would say 'Well, your honor we were hoping to get them to stop breaking the copyright laws' then the judge would sit there and think for a bit and say 'Good, sir. I have seen no evidence of any sort of copyright violations. As far as I'm concerned this case is dismissed!' then the lawyer would say 'But we're just at opening statements! I haven't even presented any evidence yet!'. Then the judge would have already left the room at that point.
I imagine that'll be EXACTLY how it goes.. word for word.
I can totally understand id's anti-pirating system. See, Quake Wars is almost a carbon copy of Battlefield 2142. So by making a game exactly the same as an existing game people will get confused and accidentally pirate the wrong game. It's foolproof!
It seems to me that the folks who actually want Linux are generally the sort who'd just go out and build their own computer and probably wouldn't buy a Dell to begin with.
I suppose it's like how Peta is always bugging people to switch over to a pure vegan diet despite the health benefits, it'll never happen.
Anyhow. Anybody who actually needs 'support' for an operating system is using it wrong. (that's not supposed to be taken seriously, it's a joke)
Nintendo really dropped the ball with Twilight Princess, at least as far as animation is concerend. It's a bloody shame, seing as how the Wind Waker is probably one of the best animated games out there.
I'd just like to state that I'm against any sort of ethical treatment of robots. It's too bloody expensive. I mean it's cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to get an ink cartridge refill. Does that mean I owe a duty of care to my old printer now that I don't use it any more?
I heard after Commodore was nearly bankrupt in 1989 they fell back on their dwindling stocks in a pie plate factory. Since then they managed to build up some equity. It was one of those touching stories where a bunch of comuter engineers had to learn how to make pie plates.. which from what I understand is putting a piece of sheet metal in a stamper and pushing a button. Needless to say they prevailed. It's good to see they're back. Though it begs the question if they're going to apply any of their pie plate knowledge to their new computers.. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Fella I'd hate to tell you this but you're completely wrong to the extent of being laughably STUPID. And I mean that in the most offensive way possible. *cough* Creationists have accepted that dinosaurs existed but they lived with people just like in the Flintstones. Turns out Noah brought them on the Arc with him. But they were all killed somehow all of 6000 years ago by Cthulhu.. when he threw a tugboat at them.
My only hope is that they video tape the whole thing. He must know what he's in for. I can only imagine what he'll say after the whole ordeal is over...
'Despite my intelligence I must say it was a rather bad choice to bring my wheelchair into the plane. Intially everything went well unill I fell out and kicked myself in the back of the head, then my chair followed suit. I've been forced to change most of my theories on gravity because of this. I strongly discourage anyone wishing to experience zero g. It is more trouble than it's worth'
It's a shame though that Macs are so bloody expensive. They could've used an oportunity like this to swoop in and take the market. Tooo bad I guess. I suppose we'll never see a PC compatable version of OSX ever... any time.. ever.. even though it'd be a great alternative to Vista... I mean seriously...
don't take yourself too seriously my good man.
This is a classic example of alarmist astronomers trying to make a name for themselves. It's a well known fact that astronomers are hailed as some of the most alarmist people in society. Most people don't know this but the earth has never in it's some 900 billion years of existance been hit by anything. The astronomers however would like you to think otherwise. The most famous thing they like to claim is that the dinosaurs were killed when an asteroid impacted the earth. This is a complete fabrication. First of all, the dinosaurs never existed. It's been recently proven that all the fossils they found were actually skeletons of elephants and giraffes, they were just put together wrong. There are also some other ludicrous claims astronomers like to make about black holes and that sort of mumbo jumbo. Modern physics have also proven most of those claims to be false. That has little to do with any specific doomsday scenarios. Though I have it on good authority that a black hole doomsday scenario was tabled at the latest United Astronomers Convention. Whether or not it'll be approved for further development has yet to be seen.
So I don't think we need to worry too much about an asteroid hitting the earth in in 63 years. If the astronomers community had their druthers they'd very likely start making claims about giant bat like monsters that live on the moon planning an invasion.
They make Maya for OSX but for whatever reason I'm not running out to buy a brand new Apple computer to run the program on. I have some trouble understanding the logic behind spending $2000 on a computer to run a program that you already own and use on another perfectly good computer just because you *like* the operating system on the new computer. I gotta tell you, things look the same on a mac as they do on a PC. All that garbage they say about macs being more stable ain't true, unless all do is make photobooks and email your friends about how much you love making photobooks.
As for being trapped in windows... I think you need a vacation or something.
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I have every god damned right to say whatever the hell I want about whatever games I buy for my DS. They're MY opinions. Video games are a form of entertainment. We're not talking about religion or politics here.
God almighty.
I haven't actually played any dragon quest games.. ever so I can't pass judgement.
I've found lately though Nintendo's been going through all its games and making them un-fun. It's like 'hey! instead of doing a game similar to the extremely popular starfox 64 let's change the format to include a totally lame strategy element! Ha people will love that!'
or 'Hey instead of making a new fun mario platformer, let's make a mediochre mario platformer, and release a mario basketball game! Haha! That'll be so great!'
or 'Hey, let's re-release dig dug on the DS! Remember Dig Dig? What no? Oh well someone made an obscene mod for it once. Yeah that's the one! Haha! People will love it!'
OR 'HEY! Let's re-re-release animal crossing for the DS, everybody loves paying off massive debts, it's just like life. Get up go to work all day long, put up with stupid assholes who don't have anything interesting to talk about! Hahah! It'll be totally great!'
This is a prime example of how people will believe anything you tell them, regardless of how obviously far fetched and clearly FAKE it is. I'm referring to the parent post here, not the damned evolution story.
I personally don't suffer from lactose intolerance. I imagine that is mostly because I am a Holstein calf.
'Oh what's it doing out in space today Roy?'
'What besides just sitting there?'
'Yes, what's it like out there?'
'Well since I'm a scientist by trade I don't actually have the poetic capacity to put that god forsaken abyss into any sort of abstract meteorological context.. So I'm gonna have to say.. Today the forecast looks like... Horrifying abyss with lethal radiation, with a chance of being winged by a screwdriver that we left out there from the last mission.'
'I see, and what would you reccomend'
'For what?'
'Going outside'
'Wear a Space Suit'
'Well thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of going out there in my bathing suit!'
'Hey, you were the one who asked me! As I recall you're the one who's got the degrees in astronomy and astrophysics! I'm just a bloody Mathematician, if you don't have the common sense to wear a bloody space suit when you go out then you deserve what you get!'
'Oh ho ho, good comeback! I deserve what I get. What's that now? A three variable co-efficiant. Don't make me laugh!'
'What? You asked me a stupid question! What the hell did you expect?! I'm trying to record data on the eradiation limits of subspace particles and you just float up and start yammering away like I don't have anything better to do!'
'You know what your problem is?! You just can't handle the idea of being on the same mission as a woman! That's you're problem! You're intimidated by me!'
'Intimi-what? You've got some gall. Why don't you just put on the bloody space suit and go fix the god damned space telescope! I'm tired of putting up with this crap!'
'You know what?! Maybe I will!'
'GOOD THEN GO!'
'I'M GOING!!'
'GOOD!'
'GOOD!'
'I HATE YOU!'
'I HATE YOU TOO!!'
*SLAM*
That's how the tell the weather up in space.
How do I know you're telling the truth? You're put down as 'Anonymous Coward' that doesn't speak very well of your credability.
Anyhow, the story I wrote is clearly fake, I even said 'this story is totally fake'. People tend to take the stuff I write way too seriously.
How does that qualify as a troll? Please share with me.
This story is totally fake. Lactose intolerance isn't actually a real affliction/illness or whatever you want to call it. It was originally concieved by the International Orchard Proprieters Association. It was part of their campaign to topple milk as the number one healthy beverage in the world. To date there are no confirmed cases of lactose intoelerance. People merely think they're lactose intolerance because of a phony medical paper made up by the IOPA's pr department. The document stated that patients suffered stomach aches and discomfort after eating three gallons of ice cream, thus leading to the conclusion that they must have some intolerance to the lactic acid in the ice cream, and by extension ALL dairy products. Which when you think about it doesn't make any sense, since if people were allergic to lactic acid they'd be dead, seeing as how it's used constantly by your muscles. Anyhow, the document sent shockwaves across the world. Overnight thousands of cases of 'lactose intolerance' were reported by authorities. Juice sales skyrocketed. Suddenly people began to say 'Who needs milk? Juice tastes better anyway'. This nearly killed the milk industry as we know it. However, the Oganization of Milk Exporting Countries had developed a new 'wonder drug' that they hoped would help put a stop to lactose intolerance. It was chocolate milk. For the most part it had worked. People stopped worrying about lactose intolerance and embraced chocolate milk. However the damage had already been done, and the IOAP had taken a huge share of the beverage market away from OMEC. You still hear about people putting juice on their cornflakes in the morning.
It wouldn't suprise me if this new finding is an attempt by OMEC to take back some of the market it had previously lost.
Computers taking multiple seconds to boot up is like how a car needs a couple seconds to warm up when you start it up. All those moving bits and jims and jams. Have you ever used a PDA? those things boot and reboot in about half a second. That's cause there ain't none moving parts.
Back in my day we'd get a caining if we asked how computers worked. Nowadays every whippersnapper wants to know how the whole bloody world works. Just saying 'it's magic' ain't good enough any more.
I could just as well say I'm building a rocket ship so I can go visit the planet that has all those green women. It doesn't mean I'm actually gonna get anywhere. Most likely, or hopefully the case won't actually make it to trial. I know judges in the states don't have a lot of common sense, but this seems to me to be the sort of thing where it'd just get thrown out. Which is ironic since none of the RIAA's cases were ever thrown out for being idiotic.