Hmm, I could argue that 'jagoff' is a reference to South Park
You'd be dead wrong if you did. I grew up with that phrase. I don't know how wide-spread it is outside the Pittsburgh area, but one surprisingly easy way to turn it up is in Mr. Belvedere, which was ostensibly shot in Beaver Falls, and therefore was replete with yinzer neologisms. The problem with playing the etymology card is when it turns out you don't know what you're talking about, you look dumber than if you hadn't opened your mouth at all.
Please stop feigning knowledge you don't actually have.
You know, I used to believe that, when I read fiction. Then I read Dianetics, and learned that there are in fact a few books with absolutely no grounding in reality.
Idle Hands are the Robot Devil's Playthings is arguably Bender-centric, and is a good candidate for Best Episode Evar. Godfellas is a great episode, and 30% Iron Chef isn't bad. Bend Her is a good episode, too.
Yes, you do. It's one of the most poignant moments in all of animation. My eyes get watery just thinking about it, and much like the billion other people admitting that at the moment, that doesn't happen to me for almost anything.
Watch it during the day. You need to be wholly awake to appreciate it.
Apparently you've never been to New Jersey, where there are many landfills several orders of magnitude larger than this. It's easy to get karma by saying "if you calculate it [out, sic]." However, pretending to run the numbers isn't good enough. If what you were saying was true, then one enterprising owner of strip-mined land could take up every refuse contract in the nation, and become an exceptionally rich individual overnight.
New York City produces 12,000 tons of garbage per day. If you honestly believe that a 25 square mile area 200 feet deep will handle this country for a thousand years, then sir, that location is on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, and I'll sell you both for a modest fee.
Don't say "if you calculate it" unless you're actually willing to do so. Stapling the suggestion that your lie is statistically backed onto your lie makes it no less a lie.
Well, it'd help to know what kind of arthritis it is. For example, if the arthritis is only in your hands, then you should be largely uncompromised on the Wii, which is largely about the shoulder and elbow. If that's not good enough, it depends a lot on the kinds of games you like. For example, if you prefer fighting games, you're pretty much out of luck. However, if you play strategy games, maybe shift away from realtime (like starcraft) and towards turn-based (like civilization.) That way you can move at a pace that's more in keeping with your hands, and you can consider alternate input devices - keyboards, tiltpads, even voice recognition software if it's bad.
Generally, if neither hand controllers like traditional joysticks nor shoulder-and-elbow controllers like the Wii suit you, then persistant speed-driven games and twitch games are pretty much out. No more tetris, no more street fighter, no more heli attack. On the other hand, timing based games like You Don't Know Jack and Jeopardy are largely unaffected, if you can type. Most turn based games - not just civilization, but traditional games like chess and poker, untimed puzzle games like bejewelled and bookworm, puzzles like sudoku and crosswords, et cetera.
It's more productive to ask which games are removed, and then to just look at a game catalog or a game site, than it is to ask which games are left. All of the console manufacturers have lists of games on their websites. The internet game sale sites have lists, too, unsurprisingly. Look for games which work with input devices you can still use - mice, keyboards, the microphone, et cetera. If you can use the joystick in some situations but not others, figure out what those situations are. Sure you can't play Tekken anymore, but is that because these two specific fingers are hurting, or all of them? What about your wrists? Can you play Wii Sports? There's only one button press anywhere in Wii Sports, namely letting go of the bowling ball.
The disease you have is terrible, but it's also very different for different people. There are a lot of games that are probably still open to you, but until we know what you can and cannot do, as well as what you do and do not enjoy, we can't give you good advice.
I feel for you, man. It's awful. I'm starting to feel it; I'll be where you are in five, maybe ten years if I'm lucky. There are a lot of games left for you, but you get any five people in the room and you're lucky to find two games in common. We need more data.
Blog oversight is healthy even when critical. The only real issue here is that in the specific case of NASA, oversight is both preposterous difficult and attracts an enormous number of unqualified individuals. You know, what with it being rocket science, and all.
Should we allow it to go on? Yes: NASA has a thick skin, and in other industries and venues (notably politics) it's crucially important. Here, well, it's just sort of detritus. Fermat's theorem attracted this kind of noise too. The short version? When it's at the very edge of human capacity, and when it's popularized, then you just have to crank the bullshit filter up a ways.
Now, the *best* would be if NASA left comments on these blogs explaining why these people were wrong, in a rude way, so that they'd shut up until they grokked. Unfortunately that'd be prohibitively time consuming, but it'd be great, wouldn't it?
The problem with dictionaries is that their sales are closely coupled to their size; therefore they have the financial incentive to bulk out their books with any half-assed definition they think they can get away with. Christ's sake, the OED lists company names as verbs now (go look up google, for example.) The Merr[i]am Webster is a well known bargain basement dictionary.
But hey, if you trust someone who's got a good reason to feed you anything under the sun instead of somoene who gives you clear etymological context, well, hell, more power to you. Or, less, as the case may be; who knows.
The major problem with the NHS is because people are treated according to clinical priority (rather than money or quality of insurance) if you have an ingrowing toe nail there is always someone worse off than you who gets treated first.
You think it's a problem that, when medical services are overtaxed, they're partitioned according to need?
Try it with your virus protection turned off. Not all lag is the domain of the browser. Norton in particular is a processor hog when frames come into play - it's looking for all sorts of crazy positioning hacks to cover legitimate forms with illegitimate forms, and the cost is sort of unavoidable.
Unless, of course, you go b ack to paying for monthly porn on paper. And making fire with sticks.
It will always mean Silicon Graphics Inc., no matter what some bonehead marketer does. It's just like how Borland was never actually named Inprise. You say one more thing about my Crimson's baby daddy and I'll stab you in the eye.
Yeah, I know the Playstation Portable hasn't been doing that well, but saying its performance is so bad that the platform is dead, man, that seems harsh. Besides, anti-Sony propoganda has no place in a story about SGI. (What? Oh, you didn't know there are two MIPS R4000s in every PSP? That was supposed to be about SGI? But. But that's like... fifty chips right there. Give or take. And that I'm a Nintendo zealot has nothing to do with that suspiciously low number.)
All things equal, even without the PSP, MIPS wouldn't be dead. But that's kind of a big example to miss, for someone who seems to think they have the pulse of the chip market. Yes, ARM is doing pretty damned well, but they're (barely) not the kudzu of embedded; other people have survived. I know checking sales stats before becoming the corporate coroner seems a bit passe, but unless you're using that egg on your face to make breakfast, it might have saved you some trouble.
This makes the faulty presumption that a web page designed for everyone cannot include IE, that the only pages which reach IE will be broken everywhere else. This isn't the case.
Would I prefer to have advertisements I'm not going to pay attention to targetted to me rather than at random? Hell, I don't care, I'm not going to notice either way. Is the difference worth enough to me to be aggregated as demographics? I don't really care about that either. Is it worth the various problems that end up occurring when browser helpers get installed? No.
This is the sort of effort in which commercial participation would be a strong benefit. If this was MIT or BSD license, I would put this into a specific one of my commercial products for the Nintendo DS, and I'd put a whole lot of work into it. But, I can't. Every time I talk about how I can't help certain projects, I get modded down as a troll, because I'm saying something a GPL fan doesn't want to hear. I'm not trolling, and I'm not being flamebait. This is a serious problem. I can name several other Nintendo software companies who would love to participate in the development of this library, but we can't.
It's a real shame. It'd be good for the library, it'd be good for the Nintendo and it'd be good for the games. Instead, because of the choice of license, everybody loses.
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Eighty bucks is an impossible price for a compiler now? Or, did you forget that Kylix was free for non-commercial projects?
Hmm, I could argue that 'jagoff' is a reference to South Park
You'd be dead wrong if you did. I grew up with that phrase. I don't know how wide-spread it is outside the Pittsburgh area, but one surprisingly easy way to turn it up is in Mr. Belvedere, which was ostensibly shot in Beaver Falls, and therefore was replete with yinzer neologisms. The problem with playing the etymology card is when it turns out you don't know what you're talking about, you look dumber than if you hadn't opened your mouth at all.
Please stop feigning knowledge you don't actually have.
Interesting. No wait, that other thing. Tedious.
(At least it's apropos.)
You know, I used to believe that, when I read fiction. Then I read Dianetics, and learned that there are in fact a few books with absolutely no grounding in reality.
Boo all you want, you know it's funny.
Idle Hands are the Robot Devil's Playthings is arguably Bender-centric, and is a good candidate for Best Episode Evar. Godfellas is a great episode, and 30% Iron Chef isn't bad. Bend Her is a good episode, too.
So sorry, but thanks for playing.
I don't think I ever want to see the ending.
Yes, you do. It's one of the most poignant moments in all of animation. My eyes get watery just thinking about it, and much like the billion other people admitting that at the moment, that doesn't happen to me for almost anything.
Watch it during the day. You need to be wholly awake to appreciate it.
I remember when sun predicted this about their search engine Altavista, their backend Enterprise Java and about Red Hat's linux deployment, too.
Nostradamus they are not.
How come not everything made out of concrete?
Just what do you think the Romans used to make aqueducts, colosseums and so on?
Apparently you've never been to New Jersey, where there are many landfills several orders of magnitude larger than this. It's easy to get karma by saying "if you calculate it [out, sic]." However, pretending to run the numbers isn't good enough. If what you were saying was true, then one enterprising owner of strip-mined land could take up every refuse contract in the nation, and become an exceptionally rich individual overnight.
New York City produces 12,000 tons of garbage per day. If you honestly believe that a 25 square mile area 200 feet deep will handle this country for a thousand years, then sir, that location is on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, and I'll sell you both for a modest fee.
Don't say "if you calculate it" unless you're actually willing to do so. Stapling the suggestion that your lie is statistically backed onto your lie makes it no less a lie.
Well, it'd help to know what kind of arthritis it is. For example, if the arthritis is only in your hands, then you should be largely uncompromised on the Wii, which is largely about the shoulder and elbow. If that's not good enough, it depends a lot on the kinds of games you like. For example, if you prefer fighting games, you're pretty much out of luck. However, if you play strategy games, maybe shift away from realtime (like starcraft) and towards turn-based (like civilization.) That way you can move at a pace that's more in keeping with your hands, and you can consider alternate input devices - keyboards, tiltpads, even voice recognition software if it's bad.
Generally, if neither hand controllers like traditional joysticks nor shoulder-and-elbow controllers like the Wii suit you, then persistant speed-driven games and twitch games are pretty much out. No more tetris, no more street fighter, no more heli attack. On the other hand, timing based games like You Don't Know Jack and Jeopardy are largely unaffected, if you can type. Most turn based games - not just civilization, but traditional games like chess and poker, untimed puzzle games like bejewelled and bookworm, puzzles like sudoku and crosswords, et cetera.
It's more productive to ask which games are removed, and then to just look at a game catalog or a game site, than it is to ask which games are left. All of the console manufacturers have lists of games on their websites. The internet game sale sites have lists, too, unsurprisingly. Look for games which work with input devices you can still use - mice, keyboards, the microphone, et cetera. If you can use the joystick in some situations but not others, figure out what those situations are. Sure you can't play Tekken anymore, but is that because these two specific fingers are hurting, or all of them? What about your wrists? Can you play Wii Sports? There's only one button press anywhere in Wii Sports, namely letting go of the bowling ball.
The disease you have is terrible, but it's also very different for different people. There are a lot of games that are probably still open to you, but until we know what you can and cannot do, as well as what you do and do not enjoy, we can't give you good advice.
I feel for you, man. It's awful. I'm starting to feel it; I'll be where you are in five, maybe ten years if I'm lucky. There are a lot of games left for you, but you get any five people in the room and you're lucky to find two games in common. We need more data.
New to Slashdot, are we?
Blog oversight is healthy even when critical. The only real issue here is that in the specific case of NASA, oversight is both preposterous difficult and attracts an enormous number of unqualified individuals. You know, what with it being rocket science, and all.
Should we allow it to go on? Yes: NASA has a thick skin, and in other industries and venues (notably politics) it's crucially important. Here, well, it's just sort of detritus. Fermat's theorem attracted this kind of noise too. The short version? When it's at the very edge of human capacity, and when it's popularized, then you just have to crank the bullshit filter up a ways.
Now, the *best* would be if NASA left comments on these blogs explaining why these people were wrong, in a rude way, so that they'd shut up until they grokked. Unfortunately that'd be prohibitively time consuming, but it'd be great, wouldn't it?
Personally, I prefer high end gaming machines to have games.
sorry, gonna trust Merram Webster
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Explains the quality of the writing
The problem with dictionaries is that their sales are closely coupled to their size; therefore they have the financial incentive to bulk out their books with any half-assed definition they think they can get away with. Christ's sake, the OED lists company names as verbs now (go look up google, for example.) The Merr[i]am Webster is a well known bargain basement dictionary.
But hey, if you trust someone who's got a good reason to feed you anything under the sun instead of somoene who gives you clear etymological context, well, hell, more power to you. Or, less, as the case may be; who knows.
That's not what irony means.
The major problem with the NHS is because people are treated according to clinical priority (rather than money or quality of insurance) if you have an ingrowing toe nail there is always someone worse off than you who gets treated first.
You think it's a problem that, when medical services are overtaxed, they're partitioned according to need?
Here are 42 books that have helped me.
Try it with your virus protection turned off. Not all lag is the domain of the browser. Norton in particular is a processor hog when frames come into play - it's looking for all sorts of crazy positioning hacks to cover legitimate forms with illegitimate forms, and the cost is sort of unavoidable.
Unless, of course, you go b ack to paying for monthly porn on paper. And making fire with sticks.
The image you're looking for.
It will always mean Silicon Graphics Inc., no matter what some bonehead marketer does. It's just like how Borland was never actually named Inprise. You say one more thing about my Crimson's baby daddy and I'll stab you in the eye.
Yeah, I know the Playstation Portable hasn't been doing that well, but saying its performance is so bad that the platform is dead, man, that seems harsh. Besides, anti-Sony propoganda has no place in a story about SGI. (What? Oh, you didn't know there are two MIPS R4000s in every PSP? That was supposed to be about SGI? But. But that's like ... fifty chips right there. Give or take. And that I'm a Nintendo zealot has nothing to do with that suspiciously low number.)
All things equal, even without the PSP, MIPS wouldn't be dead. But that's kind of a big example to miss, for someone who seems to think they have the pulse of the chip market. Yes, ARM is doing pretty damned well, but they're (barely) not the kudzu of embedded; other people have survived. I know checking sales stats before becoming the corporate coroner seems a bit passe, but unless you're using that egg on your face to make breakfast, it might have saved you some trouble.
This makes the faulty presumption that a web page designed for everyone cannot include IE, that the only pages which reach IE will be broken everywhere else. This isn't the case.
Maybe I'm just naïve, but a firewall should be able to block the program from accessing the internet.
And this is a problem, because it prevents you from playing on the internet too. Local-only first person shooters are boring.
Would I prefer to have advertisements I'm not going to pay attention to targetted to me rather than at random? Hell, I don't care, I'm not going to notice either way. Is the difference worth enough to me to be aggregated as demographics? I don't really care about that either. Is it worth the various problems that end up occurring when browser helpers get installed? No.
I was considering this game. I'm not, anymore.
This is the sort of effort in which commercial participation would be a strong benefit. If this was MIT or BSD license, I would put this into a specific one of my commercial products for the Nintendo DS, and I'd put a whole lot of work into it. But, I can't. Every time I talk about how I can't help certain projects, I get modded down as a troll, because I'm saying something a GPL fan doesn't want to hear. I'm not trolling, and I'm not being flamebait. This is a serious problem. I can name several other Nintendo software companies who would love to participate in the development of this library, but we can't.
It's a real shame. It'd be good for the library, it'd be good for the Nintendo and it'd be good for the games. Instead, because of the choice of license, everybody loses.