Has anyone noticed that great legends of our culture seem to die in groups? Not long ago, Robert Jordan, the author of The Wheel of Time. More recently, Gary Gygax, and now Arthur C Clarke. I wonder how Terry Pratchett is feeling right now...
They did, but they claimed it was some regulation or other that they just had to do a more thorough inspection at the first hint of anything "suspicious". This was a few years back, not long after 9/11 (as you backwards, month-first people say it), so everyone had to get their dose of the security illusion.
One time, when flying from Melbourne to Brisbane, I had two cans of coke wrapped side by side in a tea-towel (to stop condensation from wetting other stuff) in my backpack. In front of the coke was my Nintendo DS's charger, wrapped up neatly. It did look pretty suspicious on the screen, I must admit, but they wouldn't let me go until they'd used what I guess was a portable mass spectrometer to check every inch of clothing and backpack for explosives residue.
I hope all those idiots in the Southeast of Queensland take notice of this. They want to foist Daylight Savings on the rest of the state, or even worse split the state into two time zones, just because the state bordering to the south observes Daylight Savings.
I'm not even sure what their purpose is now... I wasn't sure what their purpose was before, when they were trying to sue people for using Linux, but now that they can't legally do that, what DO they do?
What is slightly ironic is the judge made the right choice, in favour of the little guy, on Guy Fawkes Day. The establishment that Guy Fawkes sought to bring down for being corrupt and, to put it bluntly, evil, actually worked properly for once, I think Guy Fawkes would be proud:)
Thus confirming that the only thing keeping Microsoft on top in market share is piracy. Don't bother trotting out the old argument that Linux is no good for gaming; if Linux were number one, then all games would be made for Linux. Side by side comparisons of games which run natively in Linux as well as Windows have always been better under Linux for me.
I would just like to say, as has been said may times in these comments already, we in Australia already have to put up with this. So, as the subject says, quit your bitching. I pay $80 a month for a 1.5 Mb/s connection with a download cap of 20 GB, where I live (i.e. anywhere outside of a capitol city) that's the best value you can get. Until every American is forced to pay through the nose for technology that's at least six years old, I don't want to know about any complaints. Whatever crap you think you're being force fed in the US, just spare a moment for a thought that it's three times as bad here.
Then for the weirder sort, there's Haiku, Syllable and AROS. We're spoiled for choice in the free-software world, it's a shame so few people see it. I genuinely salute Microsoft's marketing staff, they're the only thing keeping Microsoft afloat (though that's not a good thing).
I'm not autistic (more of a frustrated intellectual), but I don't make eye contact, couldn't care less about clothes (they serve a function, nothing more), and I'm not much of a conversationist when I'm around the so called "normal" people. If someone wants to contribute to a conversation in a meaningful, intellectual manner, even if I disagree with them, I'm far less likely to want to strangle them (though I still might:P). I think picking crews of compatible people is far more important than picking crews of "people people".
On another note, wasn't there a Simpson's episode about sending the everyman into space? How much of a people person was the inanimate carbon rod?
A lie from a government agency that regularly deals in secrets! What is this world coming to?! Next we'll find out that whole weather balloon excuse for Roswell was a lie too!
Bah, you beat me to it >.pure terror. Not everyone is going to be afraid of a building falling down (those are the people that rise up and take charge of a situation), but everyone will be afraid if their brains tell them to be. It looks like what we have to fear now is fear itsself.
To quote a Telstra commercial completely out of context, "this wouldn't happen in Australia!"
American plugs only have two prongs, whereas Australian (and plenty of other countries, I'm sure, but I wouldn't know) plugs have three prongs, one of which is earth. Of course, this only benefits us when designers of metal-cased hardware remember we have an earth prong.
Imagine the tech support on this.
"My blinky light thing that connects to the internet isn't working!"
The first response to this in a sane world is "Try powercycling it". In Sony's world, the first response is "Wiggle it eight millimeters clockwise".
He very nearly invoked Godwin's Law (As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one), except he didn't compare the copyright holders to Nazis, but Communists.
On the "Liberal" side of the fence, we can vote for hardline conservatives against any and all stem cell and cloning research, gay marriage, and would censor our reality given the power. On the Labor side of the fence, we can vote for hardline conservatives against any and all stem celland cloning research, gay marriage, and would censor our reality given the power. Kang and Kodos make the perfect analogy to Australian politics... We can't vote for anything different though, since the Greens don't have any stance other than "We hate Family First and we want to ban fishing, hunting, logging, and farming of any sort", Family First are the Mormon party, and thus also hardline conservative et cetera only worse, the Democrats are a disorganised rabble, and have been since Don Chip left, and no other party has enough candidates to win sufficient seats to win leadership.
I was saying months ago that the parental filtering crap the Liberals were trying to push on us would lead to widespread internet filtering. Sure, you can look on the OFLC website for all the things that have been "Refused Classification", and it is illegal to possess materials refused classification in this country. Firstly, how do we know the RC list is complete? The OFLC could be filtering out anything even remotely objectionable to the current political agenda, and we'd be none the wiser. Secondly, how the hell do they plan to classify the whole internet for viewing in Australia? We can't view materials that are as yet unclassified in other forms of media (movies, games, books, magazines), so we'd be as effectively censored and isolated as China (perhaps more so, since the censorship is going to be the official line, and not some dirty little government secret that everyone knows). In accordance with Godwin's Law, I must say "You know who else zealously censored all media viewable by his citizens? Hitler!"
Every time something like this happens, it just makes me more and more ashamed to be Australian. The ideals our soldiers fought for in WW2 and Vietnam, and in Iraq and Afghanistan today are long dead. Our "democracy" is a hollow mockery of what it should be.
Nice to see a judge that has heard of the Constitution - Politicians have such busy lives, it's understandable they haven't heard of these things their founding fathers fought and died for.
Hydrogen filled anything will vanish in a brilliant flash and a loud noise in the blink of an eye anyway. No matter how the fire started, the thermite paint would barely have even contributed to the smell, let alone significantly affected the speed of the burn.
If you enjoy painfully long sessions of grinding just to get enough money to support them with spells and equipment, four Red Mages make an easy team for beating most bosses... for about 3/4 of the game... The rest is challenging because they don't have access to the highest level of black or white magic.
By saying there hasn't been a single reported incident, you're disregarding that this is a reported incident. And who's to say if this issue hasn't already been reported by someone who didn't realise it was Halo 3 making their 360 crap out. I've seen enough of my friends with endless issues with their 360s to believe almost anything short of a damaged disc opening a gateway to Hell.
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Has anyone noticed that great legends of our culture seem to die in groups? Not long ago, Robert Jordan, the author of The Wheel of Time. More recently, Gary Gygax, and now Arthur C Clarke. I wonder how Terry Pratchett is feeling right now...
They did, but they claimed it was some regulation or other that they just had to do a more thorough inspection at the first hint of anything "suspicious". This was a few years back, not long after 9/11 (as you backwards, month-first people say it), so everyone had to get their dose of the security illusion.
One time, when flying from Melbourne to Brisbane, I had two cans of coke wrapped side by side in a tea-towel (to stop condensation from wetting other stuff) in my backpack. In front of the coke was my Nintendo DS's charger, wrapped up neatly. It did look pretty suspicious on the screen, I must admit, but they wouldn't let me go until they'd used what I guess was a portable mass spectrometer to check every inch of clothing and backpack for explosives residue.
I hope all those idiots in the Southeast of Queensland take notice of this. They want to foist Daylight Savings on the rest of the state, or even worse split the state into two time zones, just because the state bordering to the south observes Daylight Savings.
I want to know how an error is meant to be documented when the person who made it likely didn't know they'd made it.
If they have a place in the show's "cannon", they will soon be fired. I think you meant canon :P. Don't mind me... Grammar-nazi...
I'm not even sure what their purpose is now... I wasn't sure what their purpose was before, when they were trying to sue people for using Linux, but now that they can't legally do that, what DO they do?
What is slightly ironic is the judge made the right choice, in favour of the little guy, on Guy Fawkes Day. The establishment that Guy Fawkes sought to bring down for being corrupt and, to put it bluntly, evil, actually worked properly for once, I think Guy Fawkes would be proud :)
This may just be the closest we'll ever get to detecting Doom Particles!
Thus confirming that the only thing keeping Microsoft on top in market share is piracy. Don't bother trotting out the old argument that Linux is no good for gaming; if Linux were number one, then all games would be made for Linux. Side by side comparisons of games which run natively in Linux as well as Windows have always been better under Linux for me.
I hear Communism provides ONE easy, simple choice, too. And Ballmer had the nerve to call Linux communist :P
I would just like to say, as has been said may times in these comments already, we in Australia already have to put up with this. So, as the subject says, quit your bitching. I pay $80 a month for a 1.5 Mb/s connection with a download cap of 20 GB, where I live (i.e. anywhere outside of a capitol city) that's the best value you can get. Until every American is forced to pay through the nose for technology that's at least six years old, I don't want to know about any complaints. Whatever crap you think you're being force fed in the US, just spare a moment for a thought that it's three times as bad here.
Then for the weirder sort, there's Haiku, Syllable and AROS. We're spoiled for choice in the free-software world, it's a shame so few people see it. I genuinely salute Microsoft's marketing staff, they're the only thing keeping Microsoft afloat (though that's not a good thing).
I'm not autistic (more of a frustrated intellectual), but I don't make eye contact, couldn't care less about clothes (they serve a function, nothing more), and I'm not much of a conversationist when I'm around the so called "normal" people. If someone wants to contribute to a conversation in a meaningful, intellectual manner, even if I disagree with them, I'm far less likely to want to strangle them (though I still might :P). I think picking crews of compatible people is far more important than picking crews of "people people".
On another note, wasn't there a Simpson's episode about sending the everyman into space? How much of a people person was the inanimate carbon rod?
Does anyone think of the TV show in Idiocracy, "Ow, my Balls!", when they see that?
A lie from a government agency that regularly deals in secrets! What is this world coming to?! Next we'll find out that whole weather balloon excuse for Roswell was a lie too!
Bah, you beat me to it >.pure terror. Not everyone is going to be afraid of a building falling down (those are the people that rise up and take charge of a situation), but everyone will be afraid if their brains tell them to be. It looks like what we have to fear now is fear itsself.
To quote a Telstra commercial completely out of context, "this wouldn't happen in Australia!" American plugs only have two prongs, whereas Australian (and plenty of other countries, I'm sure, but I wouldn't know) plugs have three prongs, one of which is earth. Of course, this only benefits us when designers of metal-cased hardware remember we have an earth prong.
Imagine the tech support on this. "My blinky light thing that connects to the internet isn't working!" The first response to this in a sane world is "Try powercycling it". In Sony's world, the first response is "Wiggle it eight millimeters clockwise".
He very nearly invoked Godwin's Law (As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one), except he didn't compare the copyright holders to Nazis, but Communists.
On the "Liberal" side of the fence, we can vote for hardline conservatives against any and all stem cell and cloning research, gay marriage, and would censor our reality given the power. On the Labor side of the fence, we can vote for hardline conservatives against any and all stem celland cloning research, gay marriage, and would censor our reality given the power. Kang and Kodos make the perfect analogy to Australian politics... We can't vote for anything different though, since the Greens don't have any stance other than "We hate Family First and we want to ban fishing, hunting, logging, and farming of any sort", Family First are the Mormon party, and thus also hardline conservative et cetera only worse, the Democrats are a disorganised rabble, and have been since Don Chip left, and no other party has enough candidates to win sufficient seats to win leadership. I was saying months ago that the parental filtering crap the Liberals were trying to push on us would lead to widespread internet filtering. Sure, you can look on the OFLC website for all the things that have been "Refused Classification", and it is illegal to possess materials refused classification in this country. Firstly, how do we know the RC list is complete? The OFLC could be filtering out anything even remotely objectionable to the current political agenda, and we'd be none the wiser. Secondly, how the hell do they plan to classify the whole internet for viewing in Australia? We can't view materials that are as yet unclassified in other forms of media (movies, games, books, magazines), so we'd be as effectively censored and isolated as China (perhaps more so, since the censorship is going to be the official line, and not some dirty little government secret that everyone knows). In accordance with Godwin's Law, I must say "You know who else zealously censored all media viewable by his citizens? Hitler!" Every time something like this happens, it just makes me more and more ashamed to be Australian. The ideals our soldiers fought for in WW2 and Vietnam, and in Iraq and Afghanistan today are long dead. Our "democracy" is a hollow mockery of what it should be.
Nice to see a judge that has heard of the Constitution - Politicians have such busy lives, it's understandable they haven't heard of these things their founding fathers fought and died for.
Hydrogen filled anything will vanish in a brilliant flash and a loud noise in the blink of an eye anyway. No matter how the fire started, the thermite paint would barely have even contributed to the smell, let alone significantly affected the speed of the burn.
If you enjoy painfully long sessions of grinding just to get enough money to support them with spells and equipment, four Red Mages make an easy team for beating most bosses... for about 3/4 of the game... The rest is challenging because they don't have access to the highest level of black or white magic.
By saying there hasn't been a single reported incident, you're disregarding that this is a reported incident. And who's to say if this issue hasn't already been reported by someone who didn't realise it was Halo 3 making their 360 crap out. I've seen enough of my friends with endless issues with their 360s to believe almost anything short of a damaged disc opening a gateway to Hell.