Call it trolling if you want, but seriously... where the hell are the damn consonants? All that's in there is that "Y" character that sometimes plays the part of a consonant on weekends.
Really? Because I can't use my monopoly money to buy anything except Park Place, some tiny plastic hotels, and maybe pay to get out of jail, since I lost my card...
I think it's reasonable to assume there is at least that many citizens in China who could vote on this. Don't quote me on this, but I heard there's a lot of people in China.
So much this. In northern MN, AT&T has great reception and Verizon calls always drop out. The 3G coverage for both seems spotty at best up here, though Verizon has slightly better data when and where you can connect. Yes, anecdotal observation, take it with a grain of salt, YMMV, etc.
Must be the reason for the faster release cycle...
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I happen to enjoy driving. This tech is cool, but I personally don't want a JohnnyCab. I don't even really care for cruise control. Yeah, yeah, and you can get off my lawn, too, but there's something about driving... maybe it's because I lived in a rural area growing up and my first car was pretty much my ticket to independence and freedom -- being able to go just about anywhere I wanted when I wanted, no longer shackled to my parents' house in the middle of nowhere -- that makes me hesitant to give up control of my car. I guess I'd rather have true freedom than a safety net, which is the way I feel about quite a lot of things now that I think about it.
Also, I realize that perceiving automated driving systems as loss of freedom is irrational to an extent; this is because my opinion is based on personal feelings which are more subjective than logical. I merely present my opinion as food for thought.
And the DRM makes them a more attractive choice than the Blu-Ray discs or HD cable
What makes them more attractive is that they don't cost $30 a pop. Having no DRM is a bonus, for sure, but really it comes down to HD movies being a horrible value. Most people outside the slashdot crew don't know what DRM is. Hell, most of them don't even know what a browser is. The bottom line is most people don't want to spend that kind of money on a Blu-ray when you can get two or three DVD's for the same price or just download them for free.
Number Munchers was awesome. Also, when I learned BASIC and such I created a fake command prompt that gave nothing but syntax errors back to the user, as well as not allowing program breaks. Great for frustrating the hell out of the teacher, but I also implemented it as a kind of password system for some of my disks, as people would steal my work a lot. Of course those people weren't smart enough to bypass it by loading another disk with DOS on it and then swapping mine in to access my files, but if they were they would've done the work themselves anyway.
I think I still have an Apple II clone in storage at my parents' house... though since it's in the basement there's a good chance of water damage, unfortunately.
As far as I'm concerned, gender is not a factor in determining what kind of person you are or what you can or can't do. The only difference between a geek guy and a geek girl is that I would be willing to date a geek girl. Girls are not just for dating, but they are the only type of geek I will date and I'm not going to sit here and feel guilty because I'm attracted to women who are intelligent and share my interests. All I was saying is that it doesn't matter if you're a girl or a guy on the Internet; the only reason gender would even come into play is if there were a possibility of forming an actual relationship IRL. I personally believe is highly unlikely due to factors such as distance (the fact that I live in the middle of nowhere doesn't help in that regard) which is why I feel a person's gender is irrelevant on an Internet forum, for geeks or otherwise.
It's my fault really, I had commented too hastily and failed to properly communicate my thoughts on the subject, making myself look like an ass. My apologies.
Geeky girls may exist on Slashdot or even the rest of the Internet, but it doesn't matter if they're girls because they're almost all too far away IRL to date. Well, they are when you live in Northern Minnesota, anyway.
Minnesotans will vehemently disagree and tell you Canadians speak like that, then Canadians will turn around and cuss you out in French. Really though, nobody talks like that except old folks of Scandinavian descent and no one else in Minnesota does unless you are an asshole tourist looking to get your ass kicked. As a matter of fact, the actual "accent" or "dialect" we possess, or rather the lack of an accent or dialect, is often emulated by television and movie actors because the quality of our spoken English is the most clear and easily understood in the United States.
If you really want to make fun of Minnesotan speech, try slurring like a drunk. The town I grew up in, population not exceeding 2,000, has about a dozen bars. The town I live in now has about twenty, with over a dozen of those on main street, as well as three liquor stores on main as well, with a population of about 8,500 people. Drinking and driving isn't an issue around here, it's a competitive sport. So basically if you talk like you've had about a case of beer in one sitting, you'll sound like a Minnesotan, or rather, an Iron Ranger. Beyond that, we really don't have any obvious speech deficiencies, permanent effects of prolonged alcohol abuse notwithstanding.
Either way, I'm not so much proud of where I live (I'm really not) as much as I can't stand the ridiculous idea that everyone in Minnesota "speak like dat stupid woman from dat Fargo movie, oh ya doncha know. Uff da!"
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Is that even a thousandth of a percent of the total porn on the web? It's like trying to use a super soaker to put out a forest fire...
Call it trolling if you want, but seriously... where the hell are the damn consonants? All that's in there is that "Y" character that sometimes plays the part of a consonant on weekends.
They should just call it "RIMJob" because it's made by RIM and gets the job done...
What?
Really? Because I can't use my monopoly money to buy anything except Park Place, some tiny plastic hotels, and maybe pay to get out of jail, since I lost my card...
Myself, I'm waiting for an update to the visual cortex-stimulating Dream Machines of the 1960s.
Those weren't machines, those were drugs. And believe me, they have been regularly updated with new mind-bending versions.
I think it's reasonable to assume there is at least that many citizens in China who could vote on this. Don't quote me on this, but I heard there's a lot of people in China.
So much this. In northern MN, AT&T has great reception and Verizon calls always drop out. The 3G coverage for both seems spotty at best up here, though Verizon has slightly better data when and where you can connect. Yes, anecdotal observation, take it with a grain of salt, YMMV, etc.
Firefox devs really like cake, apparently.
Lots of Salisbury Steaks, Rad Away, and a 10mm pistol. After the nuclear apocalypse, 10mm rounds become common as hell, apparently.
I happen to enjoy driving. This tech is cool, but I personally don't want a JohnnyCab. I don't even really care for cruise control. Yeah, yeah, and you can get off my lawn, too, but there's something about driving... maybe it's because I lived in a rural area growing up and my first car was pretty much my ticket to independence and freedom -- being able to go just about anywhere I wanted when I wanted, no longer shackled to my parents' house in the middle of nowhere -- that makes me hesitant to give up control of my car. I guess I'd rather have true freedom than a safety net, which is the way I feel about quite a lot of things now that I think about it.
Also, I realize that perceiving automated driving systems as loss of freedom is irrational to an extent; this is because my opinion is based on personal feelings which are more subjective than logical. I merely present my opinion as food for thought.
doesn't mean he can't cause trouble!
He can still do it on websites located in 193 other countries.
He can't do it in Egypt.
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I find it hard to believe those people would get a console in the first place, PC games are a great deal easier to pirate.
This. If I had mod points, you'd be getting one right now.
And the DRM makes them a more attractive choice than the Blu-Ray discs or HD cable
What makes them more attractive is that they don't cost $30 a pop. Having no DRM is a bonus, for sure, but really it comes down to HD movies being a horrible value. Most people outside the slashdot crew don't know what DRM is. Hell, most of them don't even know what a browser is. The bottom line is most people don't want to spend that kind of money on a Blu-ray when you can get two or three DVD's for the same price or just download them for free.
It's like an underground revolutionary movement, except selling male enhancement products.
Offtopic for a bad joke, huh. Sucks to be me, I guess.
the PlayStation Network went down?
Number Munchers was awesome. Also, when I learned BASIC and such I created a fake command prompt that gave nothing but syntax errors back to the user, as well as not allowing program breaks. Great for frustrating the hell out of the teacher, but I also implemented it as a kind of password system for some of my disks, as people would steal my work a lot. Of course those people weren't smart enough to bypass it by loading another disk with DOS on it and then swapping mine in to access my files, but if they were they would've done the work themselves anyway.
I think I still have an Apple II clone in storage at my parents' house... though since it's in the basement there's a good chance of water damage, unfortunately.
We were warned it would be this way... soon you will be a SINless mercenary making a living by being Mr. Johnson's bitch.
As far as I'm concerned, gender is not a factor in determining what kind of person you are or what you can or can't do. The only difference between a geek guy and a geek girl is that I would be willing to date a geek girl. Girls are not just for dating, but they are the only type of geek I will date and I'm not going to sit here and feel guilty because I'm attracted to women who are intelligent and share my interests. All I was saying is that it doesn't matter if you're a girl or a guy on the Internet; the only reason gender would even come into play is if there were a possibility of forming an actual relationship IRL. I personally believe is highly unlikely due to factors such as distance (the fact that I live in the middle of nowhere doesn't help in that regard) which is why I feel a person's gender is irrelevant on an Internet forum, for geeks or otherwise.
It's my fault really, I had commented too hastily and failed to properly communicate my thoughts on the subject, making myself look like an ass. My apologies.
Geeky girls may exist on Slashdot or even the rest of the Internet, but it doesn't matter if they're girls because they're almost all too far away IRL to date. Well, they are when you live in Northern Minnesota, anyway.
Minnesotans will vehemently disagree and tell you Canadians speak like that, then Canadians will turn around and cuss you out in French. Really though, nobody talks like that except old folks of Scandinavian descent and no one else in Minnesota does unless you are an asshole tourist looking to get your ass kicked. As a matter of fact, the actual "accent" or "dialect" we possess, or rather the lack of an accent or dialect, is often emulated by television and movie actors because the quality of our spoken English is the most clear and easily understood in the United States.
If you really want to make fun of Minnesotan speech, try slurring like a drunk. The town I grew up in, population not exceeding 2,000, has about a dozen bars. The town I live in now has about twenty, with over a dozen of those on main street, as well as three liquor stores on main as well, with a population of about 8,500 people. Drinking and driving isn't an issue around here, it's a competitive sport. So basically if you talk like you've had about a case of beer in one sitting, you'll sound like a Minnesotan, or rather, an Iron Ranger. Beyond that, we really don't have any obvious speech deficiencies, permanent effects of prolonged alcohol abuse notwithstanding.
Either way, I'm not so much proud of where I live (I'm really not) as much as I can't stand the ridiculous idea that everyone in Minnesota "speak like dat stupid woman from dat Fargo movie, oh ya doncha know. Uff da!"
You're in a JohnnyCab!
Sorry, if you want to use Windows apps on Linux or the Mac, emulation is the way to go. It's not free, but it works perfectly.
Check out VirtualBox. It's free to download and use, and available for Linux and Mac OS X.