Look, when my son was 9, it was a way different matter when he tackled me. Now that he's 14, a tackle would probably hurt a bit. I hate to think what'll happen when he's 19:) but the point is, the larger you are the more responsibility you have *not* to hurt others.
It's in their contracts: "The Party of the First Part (hereinafter referred to as 'Satan') agrees to perpetuate said business in exchange for the mortal souls of the Party of the Second Part (hereinafter referred to as 'The Board of Directors')..."
Great locations, great acting, great (big) budget, great source material (with attention to same) makes a great movie, apparently.:) Somebody should fax this concept to all the studios. Not that it would do any good.
You know those guys who've queued up four months in advance for the SW EP2 premiere? Would it be too much to queue up 11 months in advance for Two Towers? What about 7 months for the DVD of FotR?:)
Well, the Federation won't be exposed to true-to-life holodeck technology until 2151 when the Enterprise meets up with the Xyrillians. It's a while to wait, but worth it I bet.:)
Does this mean that the older, behind-the-times folks I know who still refer to all Windows machines as "IBM-Compatible" or "IBM PCs" can shut the hell up?;-)
IF people could be just ALITTLE more serious, perhaps we wouldnt be having economy trouble, terrorist attacks, problems with virii, hackers, worms.
Instead of using your computer to play stupid games, use your computer to do stuff thats important and play a game no more than a half hour to an hour per week.
You know, most economists and terrorists (meatspace and cyber) I know of are severely serious people. If they had a fscking modicum of playfulness in their bodies, much less a sense of humor, we would probably have a lot fewer recessions and suicide bombers.
Now that we've put economists and terrorists in the same boat, let's throw you in -- a/. flamebait-poster who really needs to get out more and have some fun.;-)
You should spam a bunch of people with the above message, add "Would you like to know my secret?", and see how much dough you can rake in. Now *that* would be a study.:)
Naw, they'd just blackmail a couple of drunk mandrake geeks, put them in a windowless room for a week to Find and Replace all the keywords in the code with MS references, then release the new Microsoft linuXP with much fanfare. I can hear the Lame Biskit song playing in their commercials already.
don't kow that if you type jan in one cell, and feb in the next, you can drag out the rest of the year.
You knowing how to do that *must* be a drag.;-)
Also, don't start dragging with just JAN in one cell, 'cause it creates a 3x3 grid with the format:
MARCIA | CAROL | GREG
JAN | ALICE | PETER
CINDY | MICHAEL | BOBBY
Then Alice morphs into the PaperClip(TM) and the spreadsheet style switches to something in 70s style avacado green and forest gold. This will cause permanent retinal damage, so do be careful.
<dr_evil_voice>How about NO, Scott?</dr_evil_voice>
Seriously, why should I have to wait an entire year to see if GameCube 'picks up steam' when I can be playing the entire back catalogue of PS1 games, brand-new PS2 games, *and* DVDs now, on a box that's way easier to find?
Besides, those 'Help me, I'm trapped in a cube' commercials are freakin' annoying.:)
For those interested, from the Apple developer site here:
"Quartz is a powerful graphics system which forms the foundation of the imaging model for Mac OS X. Quartz offers a sophisticated two-dimensional drawing engine and an advanced windowing environment. Quartz's feature-rich drawing engine leverages the Portable Document Format (PDF) drawing model and offers Mac OS X applications professional-strength drawing functionality. Quartz's windowing services provide low-level functionality like window buffering, event handling/dispatch as well as dynamically creating the translucency and drop shadow effects found in the Aqua user interface."
I guess you didn't get the errata sheet for the secret geek manual:
On page 844, in the paragraph that ends
"...being a geek is the worst thing ever, a meaningless existence full of drudgery and pain."
substitute "isn't" for "is", "meaningful" for "meaningless" and "with no" for "full of"
Also, at the bottom of page 1299 (this is a Peachpit Press book after all), replace the sentence "Never ever have a good time -- just keep staring at the monitor no matter what" with "Be sure to get out more -- staring at a monitor all the time is bad for your eyes."
I've seen suggestions online that as soon as they find those responsible for the attack planning and support, that they should be held until the WTC is rebuilt.... then dropped from the observation deck.
I would like to suggest adding Falwell and Robertson to the drop.
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Look, when my son was 9, it was a way different matter when he tackled me. Now that he's 14, a tackle would probably hurt a bit. I hate to think what'll happen when he's 19 :) but the point is, the larger you are the more responsibility you have *not* to hurt others.
What about Jones, as in the jacked-in dolphin from Johnny Mnemonic?
AHA! I'll bounce off that broad, flat surface and be in a lot of pain!
Your sig is strangely appropriate given your attitude toward switching OS's.
What software are you so tied up in to not try something else? Not a flame, I'm just curious.
The story date is set at January 14, 2002.
;-D
That's the problem with the Metric system. I know it's all 'logical' and stuff, but you can never tell what day it actually is. Frickin' Canadians.
Oh and by the way.....
It's in their contracts: "The Party of the First Part (hereinafter referred to as 'Satan') agrees to perpetuate said business in exchange for the mortal souls of the Party of the Second Part (hereinafter referred to as 'The Board of Directors')..."
Great locations, great acting, great (big) budget, great source material (with attention to same) makes a great movie, apparently. :) Somebody should fax this concept to all the studios. Not that it would do any good.
:)
You know those guys who've queued up four months in advance for the SW EP2 premiere? Would it be too much to queue up 11 months in advance for Two Towers? What about 7 months for the DVD of FotR?
Microsoft will keep their mits in every big deal in the tech industry.
Hmm. I'm surprised this article wasn't from the loking-in-the-crystal-bal dept.
mit
Man: Is your uh, is your wife interested in....holography, ay? 'Holographs, ay', he asked him knowingly?
Squire: Holography?
Man: Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?
Squire: Laser pointer diodes, eh?
Man: They could be, they could be taken with diodes. Candid, you know, CANDID holography?
Squire: No, no I'm afraid we don't have a laser pointer.
Well, the Federation won't be exposed to true-to-life holodeck technology until 2151 when the Enterprise meets up with the Xyrillians. It's a while to wait, but worth it I bet. :)
Does this mean that the older, behind-the-times folks I know who still refer to all Windows machines as "IBM-Compatible" or "IBM PCs" can shut the hell up? ;-)
Imagine a Rudolph cluster of those!
Wow, you own that many original ROMs? That's amazing! You must be rich! ;-D
from the tis-the-season form-making-lists dept.
/. Do we really have to fill out a making-lists form?
Aw, Christ. Bureaucracy takes over
IF people could be just ALITTLE more serious, perhaps we wouldnt be having economy trouble, terrorist attacks, problems with virii, hackers, worms.
/. flamebait-poster who really needs to get out more and have some fun. ;-)
Instead of using your computer to play stupid games, use your computer to do stuff thats important and play a game no more than a half hour to an hour per week.
You know, most economists and terrorists (meatspace and cyber) I know of are severely serious people. If they had a fscking modicum of playfulness in their bodies, much less a sense of humor, we would probably have a lot fewer recessions and suicide bombers.
Now that we've put economists and terrorists in the same boat, let's throw you in -- a
You should spam a bunch of people with the above message, add "Would you like to know my secret?", and see how much dough you can rake in. Now *that* would be a study. :)
Naw, they'd just blackmail a couple of drunk mandrake geeks, put them in a windowless room for a week to Find and Replace all the keywords in the code with MS references, then release the new Microsoft linuXP with much fanfare. I can hear the Lame Biskit song playing in their commercials already.
don't kow that if you type jan in one cell, and feb in the next, you can drag out the rest of the year.
;-)
You knowing how to do that *must* be a drag.
Also, don't start dragging with just JAN in one cell, 'cause it creates a 3x3 grid with the format:
MARCIA | CAROL | GREG
JAN | ALICE | PETER
CINDY | MICHAEL | BOBBY
Then Alice morphs into the PaperClip(TM) and the spreadsheet style switches to something in 70s style avacado green and forest gold. This will cause permanent retinal damage, so do be careful.
Give the Gamecube a year to pick up steam.
:)
<dr_evil_voice>How about NO, Scott?</dr_evil_voice>
Seriously, why should I have to wait an entire year to see if GameCube 'picks up steam' when I can be playing the entire back catalogue of PS1 games, brand-new PS2 games, *and* DVDs now, on a box that's way easier to find?
Besides, those 'Help me, I'm trapped in a cube' commercials are freakin' annoying.
For those interested, from the Apple developer site here:
"Quartz is a powerful graphics system which forms the foundation of the imaging model for Mac OS X. Quartz offers a sophisticated two-dimensional drawing engine and an advanced windowing environment. Quartz's feature-rich drawing engine leverages the Portable Document Format (PDF) drawing model and offers Mac OS X applications professional-strength drawing functionality. Quartz's windowing services provide low-level functionality like window buffering, event handling/dispatch as well as dynamically creating the translucency and drop shadow effects found in the Aqua user interface."
Dorkenheimer Maximus, feel free to click on the disc and select "Burn Disc" from the File menu. Sheesh.
I guess you didn't get the errata sheet for the secret geek manual:
On page 844, in the paragraph that ends
"...being a geek is the worst thing ever, a meaningless existence full of drudgery and pain."
substitute "isn't" for "is", "meaningful" for "meaningless" and "with no" for "full of"
Also, at the bottom of page 1299 (this is a Peachpit Press book after all), replace the sentence "Never ever have a good time -- just keep staring at the monitor no matter what" with "Be sure to get out more -- staring at a monitor all the time is bad for your eyes."
;)
Erector, schmarector.
LEGO rocks. Always has. Always will.
Imagine a StarCat Cluster of these! :)
From now on, the official phrase should be "Whoa! Imagine a Starcat Cluster of those!"
And is it just me or did the old "Thundercats" show just pop into your head?
I've seen suggestions online that as soon as they find those responsible for the attack planning and support, that they should be held until the WTC is rebuilt.... then dropped from the observation deck.
I would like to suggest adding Falwell and Robertson to the drop.