It doesn't matter that he's dead, it's too late. The damage is already done. Our minds will never heal from the scars Clippy inflicted. I think the only way to be sure he stays dead is to annihilate all living memory of him. We must nuke/. from orbit for the good of all humanity, and whatever poor souls discover a functioning computer long after we're gone. It's the only way to be sure.
I dual boot Windows, although I use Linux mainly, and I have almost as many problems with Flash in Windows as I do in Linux. It's buggy and bloated on any platform, though I admit the Linux support is worse (32 bit Ubuntu - well, Mint actually, but that makes little difference in 99% of cases).
I'm not an open source user out of philosophy, I'm one out of practicality. Overall I find that I have less problems with open source software, but I don't use it for warm fuzzy open source feelings. I use Mint, which is almost the complete polar opposite of gNewsense (nuisance?), so I see myself as the seafood eating vegetarian to Richard Stallman's vegan. If Gnash were less buggy for the majority of Flash I encountered, I'd use it instead of the Adobe plugin, but only because of quality, not philosophy. The reason I hope Silverlight takes off is not because of it's open source counterpart Moonlight, but because there is only one thing a company understands, and it's their bottom line. For what feels like an eternity, Adobe have been under almost no pressure to improve Flash. They've churned out incremental upgrades so they can sell more copies of their tools; much like Microsoft, after crushing Word Perfect, were under no pressure to improve MS Office. I feel dirty to be on Microsoft's side this time, but when Microsoft bring their brand of "competition", you either shape up or sell up. I just hope Adobe shape up, rather than sell up.
Under what circumstances does Flash not behave awfully? Despite being a Linux fan, and more than a little cold on Microsoft (though I did buy an Xbox 360 - matter of price at the time...), I almost hope Silverlight takes off so Adobe have some serious, commercially driven competition for Flash. Maybe then they won't take their user base for granted and; oh I don't know, maybe put some work into making Flash GOOD?
Welcome our new thought-controlled battle mech piloting ant overlords. Why would they stop at human size, when they could become 60 feet tall and kick over OUR homes?!
On a slightly related note, the orcs in The Elder Scrolls are an elf-derived race. They worshipped one of the Aldmer ancestor spirits called Trinimac. A Daedric Prince, Boethiah ate Trinimac and corrupted his essence. His worshipers were corrupted by it too, and became the Orismer (according to Wikipedia, the "Pariah Folk"), and lost most of their elf-like features.
I'm pretty sure I could trigger a false positive almost every time. I have such a general dislike for humanity that even if I'm getting on a plane, I'd still love to see it plough into a building. Okay... So maybe that's not precisely a "false" positive, but just because I want the plane to turn into a ball of fire doesn't mean I intend to do it myself. I'm far too lazy for anything like that.
I think I remember that too. Was it Brandon's Big Box or something? When I was about 3, we got our first computer, and Word Rescue and Reader Rabbit taught me how to read; all throughout primary school, I was ahead of everyone in my reading and spelling (though my handwriting was and still is appalling). My brain must be a little more linguistically focused though, because Math Rescue and Math Rabbit didn't do the same for my math skills. They're somewhat lacking...
I'm very surprised it hasn't been already. It probably will have been by the time this gets posted though. "This wouldn't be happening if they were using Linux!"
I normally kill every spider I see in the house because even if it's not big enough to harm me, my cat has a habit of chasing them around. She'd probably provoke a small one and get herself killed. Also, some of the huntsman spiders we get here make the predictable giant spiders in every RPG seem plausible. It's a cliche, but they're honestly as big as dinner plates if they live that long, and even though huntsman spiders are relatively harmless, I still don't want my cat provoking them.
I think they had a promotion going with cheap hard drives for Arcade and Core system owners, though I may be wrong. If I had any choice at the time, I probably would have bought an Arcade or Core system, since a memory card would have been more than enough for my saved games; but I've since fallen victim to the marketing machine, and I regularly download demos and sometimes buy stuff with MS points.
On a side note, is it any coincidence that Microsoft share an acronym with a degenerative, terminal illness of the nervous system?
Everyone says they "stole" the whole Mii concept from Nintendo, but Nintendo hardly invented the idea of a customizable avatar for interacting with the world. I was disappointed at the absence of a Vault-tec jumpsuit (or any set of overalls I could pretend was a Vault-tec jumpsuit) in the outfit section. I guess I'll have to buy one if I want it that badly. Also, clothes lack customizable colour as far as I can see. If you choose a shirt, and it happens to be red, you can't just change it to blue, you have to choose a blue shirt.
This seems like a great place to start! On a more serious note, anyone else find it funny that despite the name, the Liberal party is conservative? The Australian voters are fucked eight ways from Sunday by conservative parties all around. I want to sue the Liberals for false advertising, since every policy of theirs as long as I've been alive has seemed pretty conservative; even right-wing in some cases.
I've noticed there are an awful lot of Steves in the industry. Ballmer, Wozniak and Jobs, plus a handful of others that I probably don't know about. I think Jobs and Wozniak (and others) should hold a vote to make Ballmer change his first name to something else. I'm sure he embarrasses them.
You have to seize power in a rigged election and then conveniently suffer a terrorist attack just as soon as you are sworn in, so you can justify wiping your ass with the Bill of Rights and Constitution.
I know almost nothing about quantum mechanics, so correct me if I'm wrong. On this scale, isn't observation interaction? Would preventing observation also prevent interaction with what is inside the cloak? How would the cloak behave if you tried to detect what's in it with a laser (or something)?
Certainly not a smart move with Novell doing their repackage with Go-oo, and IBM basing Lotus off an earlier version. I can just see the users flocking in droves to either of those two suites now. This is Novell's chance to basically steal OpenOffice.org right out of Sun's hands. I'm not sure if Novell would handle it well, but they can hardly do worse than Sun, from what I've heard about their management of OO.o.
He'd still have been charged with some crime or other - unauthorised access to a "secure" computer system or something. People don't like to have their idiocy revealed to the world (I don't like the phrase "made to look like an idiot". People rarely need help with that). If someone reverse engineered Norton Antivirus to find it's a total sham, and then revealed as much to Norton, I doubt they'd be happy.
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It doesn't matter that he's dead, it's too late. The damage is already done. Our minds will never heal from the scars Clippy inflicted. I think the only way to be sure he stays dead is to annihilate all living memory of him. We must nuke /. from orbit for the good of all humanity, and whatever poor souls discover a functioning computer long after we're gone. It's the only way to be sure.
This thread is relevant to my interests...
I dual boot Windows, although I use Linux mainly, and I have almost as many problems with Flash in Windows as I do in Linux. It's buggy and bloated on any platform, though I admit the Linux support is worse (32 bit Ubuntu - well, Mint actually, but that makes little difference in 99% of cases).
I'm not an open source user out of philosophy, I'm one out of practicality. Overall I find that I have less problems with open source software, but I don't use it for warm fuzzy open source feelings. I use Mint, which is almost the complete polar opposite of gNewsense (nuisance?), so I see myself as the seafood eating vegetarian to Richard Stallman's vegan. If Gnash were less buggy for the majority of Flash I encountered, I'd use it instead of the Adobe plugin, but only because of quality, not philosophy. The reason I hope Silverlight takes off is not because of it's open source counterpart Moonlight, but because there is only one thing a company understands, and it's their bottom line. For what feels like an eternity, Adobe have been under almost no pressure to improve Flash. They've churned out incremental upgrades so they can sell more copies of their tools; much like Microsoft, after crushing Word Perfect, were under no pressure to improve MS Office. I feel dirty to be on Microsoft's side this time, but when Microsoft bring their brand of "competition", you either shape up or sell up. I just hope Adobe shape up, rather than sell up.
Under what circumstances does Flash not behave awfully? Despite being a Linux fan, and more than a little cold on Microsoft (though I did buy an Xbox 360 - matter of price at the time...), I almost hope Silverlight takes off so Adobe have some serious, commercially driven competition for Flash. Maybe then they won't take their user base for granted and; oh I don't know, maybe put some work into making Flash GOOD?
You mean there's more than one way to write a book about each of the ways to skin a cat, too?!
Welcome our new thought-controlled battle mech piloting ant overlords. Why would they stop at human size, when they could become 60 feet tall and kick over OUR homes?!
On a slightly related note, the orcs in The Elder Scrolls are an elf-derived race. They worshipped one of the Aldmer ancestor spirits called Trinimac. A Daedric Prince, Boethiah ate Trinimac and corrupted his essence. His worshipers were corrupted by it too, and became the Orismer (according to Wikipedia, the "Pariah Folk"), and lost most of their elf-like features.
I'm pretty sure I could trigger a false positive almost every time. I have such a general dislike for humanity that even if I'm getting on a plane, I'd still love to see it plough into a building. Okay... So maybe that's not precisely a "false" positive, but just because I want the plane to turn into a ball of fire doesn't mean I intend to do it myself. I'm far too lazy for anything like that.
Of course comedy in law is a good thing! Ask Phoenix Wright!
I think I remember that too. Was it Brandon's Big Box or something? When I was about 3, we got our first computer, and Word Rescue and Reader Rabbit taught me how to read; all throughout primary school, I was ahead of everyone in my reading and spelling (though my handwriting was and still is appalling). My brain must be a little more linguistically focused though, because Math Rescue and Math Rabbit didn't do the same for my math skills. They're somewhat lacking...
I'm very surprised it hasn't been already. It probably will have been by the time this gets posted though. "This wouldn't be happening if they were using Linux!"
I'll only watch it if it stars Samuel L Jackson as Samuel L Jackson, and uses at least one line from every movie he's been in.
I normally kill every spider I see in the house because even if it's not big enough to harm me, my cat has a habit of chasing them around. She'd probably provoke a small one and get herself killed. Also, some of the huntsman spiders we get here make the predictable giant spiders in every RPG seem plausible. It's a cliche, but they're honestly as big as dinner plates if they live that long, and even though huntsman spiders are relatively harmless, I still don't want my cat provoking them.
Didn't this happen on The Brittas Empire once?
What? You don't have a bottle of liquid Nitrogen in your room? I get a weekly shipment to keep my drinks cool!
I think they had a promotion going with cheap hard drives for Arcade and Core system owners, though I may be wrong. If I had any choice at the time, I probably would have bought an Arcade or Core system, since a memory card would have been more than enough for my saved games; but I've since fallen victim to the marketing machine, and I regularly download demos and sometimes buy stuff with MS points.
On a side note, is it any coincidence that Microsoft share an acronym with a degenerative, terminal illness of the nervous system?
Everyone says they "stole" the whole Mii concept from Nintendo, but Nintendo hardly invented the idea of a customizable avatar for interacting with the world. I was disappointed at the absence of a Vault-tec jumpsuit (or any set of overalls I could pretend was a Vault-tec jumpsuit) in the outfit section. I guess I'll have to buy one if I want it that badly. Also, clothes lack customizable colour as far as I can see. If you choose a shirt, and it happens to be red, you can't just change it to blue, you have to choose a blue shirt.
My seven digit number makes me feel bad now :(
This seems like a great place to start! On a more serious note, anyone else find it funny that despite the name, the Liberal party is conservative? The Australian voters are fucked eight ways from Sunday by conservative parties all around. I want to sue the Liberals for false advertising, since every policy of theirs as long as I've been alive has seemed pretty conservative; even right-wing in some cases.
I've noticed there are an awful lot of Steves in the industry. Ballmer, Wozniak and Jobs, plus a handful of others that I probably don't know about. I think Jobs and Wozniak (and others) should hold a vote to make Ballmer change his first name to something else. I'm sure he embarrasses them.
We can only hope Brainsuck Industries will synergize with them.
You have to seize power in a rigged election and then conveniently suffer a terrorist attack just as soon as you are sworn in, so you can justify wiping your ass with the Bill of Rights and Constitution.
I know almost nothing about quantum mechanics, so correct me if I'm wrong. On this scale, isn't observation interaction? Would preventing observation also prevent interaction with what is inside the cloak? How would the cloak behave if you tried to detect what's in it with a laser (or something)?
Certainly not a smart move with Novell doing their repackage with Go-oo, and IBM basing Lotus off an earlier version. I can just see the users flocking in droves to either of those two suites now. This is Novell's chance to basically steal OpenOffice.org right out of Sun's hands. I'm not sure if Novell would handle it well, but they can hardly do worse than Sun, from what I've heard about their management of OO.o.
He'd still have been charged with some crime or other - unauthorised access to a "secure" computer system or something. People don't like to have their idiocy revealed to the world (I don't like the phrase "made to look like an idiot". People rarely need help with that). If someone reverse engineered Norton Antivirus to find it's a total sham, and then revealed as much to Norton, I doubt they'd be happy.