None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.
I hate to agree. I loved loved loved Neuromancer, but everything he has written since has been awful (well, Idoru was so-so) to the point where I'm half-convinced he didn't actually write Neuromancer himself. I gave up completely after All Tomorrow's Parties.
tl;dr version (though its quite a good read, as his books that I have read so far): Girl in her class tried using angry pounding shouting as a debate tactic, and when asked about it, she declared it was "logic." "I was totally logical. I pointed things out real loud and told people they were dumb if they didn't believe it, and I yelled so they'd get the point."
Yeah. Back in my day "Logic" was a little bird tweeting in the meadow, nowadays its "agrees with me."
I signed the petition (once I FOUND it, thanks Slashdot for not actually linking to the thing). I was then immediately hit with a "GIVE MONEYS PL0X" page. It really didn't feel right.
If I do give moneys, I'll also be supporting the campaign to repeal Obamacare (the petition for which I am intentionally not linking to), so no thanks.
This was announced on October, and you only post about it NOW, a day before the event is to occur? I could have actually made plans to go if this had been mentioned in any sort of timely fashion.
Oh, that's okay then. I'll just go right back to torrenting the shows I want to watch, then, and you'll lose the few pennies of advertising dollars you were getting from me. Bye!
I met my girlfriend of four years now on okcupid. We've talked about this very thing. So one day she logged on to show me her inbox. She was getting like 2-3 messages per day even though her profile was marked with her no longer being single. When she was single, she was getting like a dozen messages per day.
So yeah, she didn't feel the desire to respond to most of that, and didn't need to spend a lot of time looking around at random profiles.
I ignore it. It isn't my responsibility to route somebody else's email. And if I'm stuck on somebody else's email address, I set up an filtering to 1) discard all email from that address, and 2) send an autoreply to unsubscribe, which may or may not annoy somebody at the sender's origin.
1) Has LAN play been restored? 2) Can I stay 100% offline at ALL times, including during installation and single-player gameplay?
If the answer to either question is "no," I'm not buying. I'm actually perilously close to switching to Linux full-time, since I've already skipped GTA4, Civ 5, the first SC2, Fallout New Vegas, and several other games over similar issues, thereby knocking out my last reasons for using Windows (gaming).
So I upgraded to 11.04 on my laptop, a Dell D620. Its a decent laptop, dual-core CPU, works quite well for what I use it for (not games).
Well, when I first logged on after the upgrade I was notified my computer could not handle Unity and would default to the old desktop. So that's where I'm at now, and I have no problem with that. I'd have LIKED to try Unity, but I've been given no option to.
The blog Colony Drop has been compiling quotes on the quake through the eyes of fans of Japan (and, more specificly, their cartoons), at their new website "Shit Otaku Say," which is recommended reading.
Whether you interpret what you read there as sad or funny is up to you.
I own two cel phone jammers. I have been trapped in too many inescapable situations (bus, train, lines, etc) with somebody having a loud and/or annoying conversation near me that even my headphones cannot drown out. I jam their cel phone signal and shut them the hell up. And I feel good about it, too. I'm like a secret superhero to everyone else within earshot.
I use a P20B jammer, which seems to jam most ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon phones. It isn't 100% effective - Cricket and MetroPCS seem to to completely immune, not sure about Sprint/Nextel, and Alltel doesn't exist in my area. I recommend it for just about everybody.* If anyone knows of a jammer that ALSO works on those other carriers, I'd love to know about it.
I can't wait until a big fatso waddles up to one of these machines in America so I can see what the machine recommends. It either recommends a Diet Coke, because you're fat and need to lose a few (dozen), or it offers you a regular Coke, because it knows you probably drink a LOT of it. Its a lawsuit either way. Either the fatso has their feelings hurt and sues for emotional damage, or some random do-gooder sues for pushing sugary drinks to those who lack the willpower to say "no."
Well hell, if we develop wormhole technology, we can open a gateway, visit Gliese 581g, and be back home in time to watch the next episode of Fringe. Can I be quoted in the Discoblog too?
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None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.
"Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire which has broken out at the premises of..."
No, that's too formal.
"Dear Sir / Madam. Fire! Fire! Help me! 123 Carrendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Maurice Moss."
Neither Spacechem nor Uplink are actually playable on an Android phone, FYI, which is a real shame.
I hate to agree. I loved loved loved Neuromancer, but everything he has written since has been awful (well, Idoru was so-so) to the point where I'm half-convinced he didn't actually write Neuromancer himself. I gave up completely after All Tomorrow's Parties.
Noted sci-fi author John Barnes recently wrote something about this in his blog: http://thatjohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2012/06/hobo-queen-of-sciences.html
tl;dr version (though its quite a good read, as his books that I have read so far): Girl in her class tried using angry pounding shouting as a debate tactic, and when asked about it, she declared it was "logic." "I was totally logical. I pointed things out real loud and told people they were dumb if they didn't believe it, and I yelled so they'd get the point."
Yeah. Back in my day "Logic" was a little bird tweeting in the meadow, nowadays its "agrees with me."
I signed the petition (once I FOUND it, thanks Slashdot for not actually linking to the thing). I was then immediately hit with a "GIVE MONEYS PL0X" page. It really didn't feel right.
If I do give moneys, I'll also be supporting the campaign to repeal Obamacare (the petition for which I am intentionally not linking to), so no thanks.
The patient has no ability to tell that IRL, either. I dunno, seems a week argument.
And let's not forget, he was the Cambridge physicist who invented the laser!
This was announced on October, and you only post about it NOW, a day before the event is to occur? I could have actually made plans to go if this had been mentioned in any sort of timely fashion.
Oh, that's okay then. I'll just go right back to torrenting the shows I want to watch, then, and you'll lose the few pennies of advertising dollars you were getting from me. Bye!
I'll be sure to run out and purchase it - just as soon as they release a copy that isn't infected with DRM!
HTML has NOT been around as long as the internet. Its been along as long as the world wide web.
>thinks WWW = internet
>I seriously hope you don't do this
I met my girlfriend of four years now on okcupid. We've talked about this very thing. So one day she logged on to show me her inbox. She was getting like 2-3 messages per day even though her profile was marked with her no longer being single. When she was single, she was getting like a dozen messages per day.
So yeah, she didn't feel the desire to respond to most of that, and didn't need to spend a lot of time looking around at random profiles.
I'm potentially cool with a shorter game - If I get a lower price tag attached to it.
lol u tk him 2 da bar|?
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I ignore it. It isn't my responsibility to route somebody else's email. And if I'm stuck on somebody else's email address, I set up an filtering to 1) discard all email from that address, and 2) send an autoreply to unsubscribe, which may or may not annoy somebody at the sender's origin.
1) Has LAN play been restored?
2) Can I stay 100% offline at ALL times, including during installation and single-player gameplay?
If the answer to either question is "no," I'm not buying. I'm actually perilously close to switching to Linux full-time, since I've already skipped GTA4, Civ 5, the first SC2, Fallout New Vegas, and several other games over similar issues, thereby knocking out my last reasons for using Windows (gaming).
Barrett Brown was NEVER a member of Anoymous.
We know who he is.
Therefore, by definition, he is not part of Anonymous.
So I upgraded to 11.04 on my laptop, a Dell D620. Its a decent laptop, dual-core CPU, works quite well for what I use it for (not games).
Well, when I first logged on after the upgrade I was notified my computer could not handle Unity and would default to the old desktop. So that's where I'm at now, and I have no problem with that. I'd have LIKED to try Unity, but I've been given no option to.
Undoing uncorrect mod-up!
The blog Colony Drop has been compiling quotes on the quake through the eyes of fans of Japan (and, more specificly, their cartoons), at their new website "Shit Otaku Say," which is recommended reading.
Whether you interpret what you read there as sad or funny is up to you.
I own two cel phone jammers. I have been trapped in too many inescapable situations (bus, train, lines, etc) with somebody having a loud and/or annoying conversation near me that even my headphones cannot drown out. I jam their cel phone signal and shut them the hell up. And I feel good about it, too. I'm like a secret superhero to everyone else within earshot.
I use a P20B jammer, which seems to jam most ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon phones. It isn't 100% effective - Cricket and MetroPCS seem to to completely immune, not sure about Sprint/Nextel, and Alltel doesn't exist in my area. I recommend it for just about everybody.* If anyone knows of a jammer that ALSO works on those other carriers, I'd love to know about it.
* May not be legal in your jurisdiction.
I can't wait until a big fatso waddles up to one of these machines in America so I can see what the machine recommends. It either recommends a Diet Coke, because you're fat and need to lose a few (dozen), or it offers you a regular Coke, because it knows you probably drink a LOT of it. Its a lawsuit either way. Either the fatso has their feelings hurt and sues for emotional damage, or some random do-gooder sues for pushing sugary drinks to those who lack the willpower to say "no."
Meanwhile, in the USA, Smartwater is something very different indeed!
Well hell, if we develop wormhole technology, we can open a gateway, visit Gliese 581g, and be back home in time to watch the next episode of Fringe. Can I be quoted in the Discoblog too?