Branson needs to live up to his manly man self-image and fly through highly concentrated areas of the ash clouds himself (alone).
I would contribute money for a cheap funeral for his ashes, based on the payout of a death pool of course.
Look at what the Finnish Air Force found out about the sustainability and safety of flying through this stuff. Not safe practices.
Please, no more PDFs, I don't care if there's no manual, there are tons of sites where people sperg out about every Easter Egg and obscure command/key combination. I just want PDF to die. The only times I have to use that shite I use Foxit or a program that can rip the text and images out of a PDF w/o using reader.
Of all of Adobe's atrocities PDF is the worst.
I recognized Crispin right off (having just seen Alice in Wonderland) but couldn't think of Reilly's name until the credits, I just kept thinking, that dumb cop in Magnolia (who I really like).
I thought we were the mods.:ohdear:
But yeah, follow Taco's law, rate down if it's irrelevant or interesting, not because you are the legendary grammar Nazi or if you disagree with a valid point.
Oh you younglings. Back when I worked with Charles Babbage all we had was brass and steam. Now all the dorks on the block are wearing aviator goggles and leather and calling themselves punks. Disgraceful behaviour. Just disgraceful.
I just know that training my computer to recognize words in my mind would end up with me juxtaposing all of my brain farts into a completely unusable jumble. Or it would train me to clarify my internal monologue (dialogue?) so I made sense to myself. One of those. And a lot of proofreading would be mandatory for everything I "typed" with this.
Basically, you're all just trying to think of how we can relate this to an operating system argument, rather than nostalgia for 16bit consoles. And throw in a slippery slope argument, whammo, it's f*ing Ebaum's world in here. No, it's just funny/weird and a little misplaced. Enjoy or ignore. Slashdot should welcome the diversity (err, pagehits) and attracting new members, as long as they don't stink the place up with lousy posts (like this one). It is hard to be relevant with such an irrelevant OP though.
I just turned off admin rights to my own account (win7) and added an admin account, but I seem to be able to elevate it back to admin just by clicking it back, no admin password required.
The (I assume automatically targeted) ads were awful. They had one for an add-on sound card on the second page of the article, "The Death of the Sound Card". Lovely pictures and remembrances of old stuff though; I still remember my first 3dfx Voodoo, and sending the daughter-card back for a Monster when I found out the frame rate in GLQuake was weak sauce. Good times.
if web video formats follow the precedents of home video, porn will be the deciding factor. See Betamax v. VHS, and Bluray v. HD DVD. As goes porn so goes mainstream content providers, right? I should probably do some research into the delivery method of choice in online stag films, but it's just so tedious.
This is true. The new personas features are butt ugly. Use Stylish (I recommend Gradient iCool for the nice dark black and blue) and the custom/. black with green text mod. It looks like an old CRT.
It's an improvement. That's what counts, some of us don't want to trade our lovely open-source browser for a product from Google or Apple, or MS for that matter. I can wait on javascript performance, TYVM.
My first thoughts exactly. I've always assumed any Windows PC I'm using could have been rooted long ago to an extent that no security tool could detect or repair it. I guess I'm just paranoid, I should really just switch to a Linux distro and start compiling my own kernels. As if I wouldn't screw that up too.
Sounds like it has a ways to go before it catches up with Silly Putty. It's been encoding newsprint for decades, and I believe it would definitely hold the content for more than a day. I hope Rupert Murdoch doesn't get wise to this "technology".
I recently heard an interesting question from someone on somethingawful. "What would an earthquake feel like from an airplane?" Curiously, the question went unanswered and I was wondering if any of you engineer types had a good answer.
Brawndo is the Thirst Mutilator, it has electrolytes because that's what plants crave. If you're so smart why come you dont no that? Wutter u? A *EXPLETIVE DELETED*?!?
opening a jar of vegemite displays dexterity, not intelligence. Only a crazy aussie would think vegemite-seeking behavior was a sign of anything but blind dumb exploration... the results of opening one, presumably underwater, or even in the kitchen are never good.
I find it offensive to be compared to a damn dirty ape. We won, they lost.
This is due to Arthur Dent's meddling in time travel. And, as a phone sanitizer/hairdresser I feel superior to all previous extinct hominids.
Now, I'm off to gather leafy duckets.
the poor saps have to meet, they aren't all just for traffic violations or the annual seat-belt round-up.
For an ambitious officer to advance him/herself they need to make felony arrests which means asking you a series of really dumb questions such as whether you have a gun, knife or weapon (slingshot maybe?) also explosives, IEDs, and grenades (not lumped in with explosives?) and of course narcotics or open containers. Then after you say no they ask to inspect your vehicle... say no, and you look suspicious, they'll call for backup, probably K-9.
Actually predators regulate their prey species, weeding out the sickly and unfit. You never wonder why the people ruling over you aren't too big into social services?
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Branson needs to live up to his manly man self-image and fly through highly concentrated areas of the ash clouds himself (alone). I would contribute money for a cheap funeral for his ashes, based on the payout of a death pool of course. Look at what the Finnish Air Force found out about the sustainability and safety of flying through this stuff. Not safe practices.
Please, no more PDFs, I don't care if there's no manual, there are tons of sites where people sperg out about every Easter Egg and obscure command/key combination. I just want PDF to die. The only times I have to use that shite I use Foxit or a program that can rip the text and images out of a PDF w/o using reader. Of all of Adobe's atrocities PDF is the worst.
I recognized Crispin right off (having just seen Alice in Wonderland) but couldn't think of Reilly's name until the credits, I just kept thinking, that dumb cop in Magnolia (who I really like).
I thought we were the mods. :ohdear:
But yeah, follow Taco's law, rate down if it's irrelevant or interesting, not because you are the legendary grammar Nazi or if you disagree with a valid point.
Oh you younglings. Back when I worked with Charles Babbage all we had was brass and steam. Now all the dorks on the block are wearing aviator goggles and leather and calling themselves punks. Disgraceful behaviour. Just disgraceful.
I just know that training my computer to recognize words in my mind would end up with me juxtaposing all of my brain farts into a completely unusable jumble. Or it would train me to clarify my internal monologue (dialogue?) so I made sense to myself. One of those. And a lot of proofreading would be mandatory for everything I "typed" with this.
Basically, you're all just trying to think of how we can relate this to an operating system argument, rather than nostalgia for 16bit consoles. And throw in a slippery slope argument, whammo, it's f*ing Ebaum's world in here. No, it's just funny/weird and a little misplaced. Enjoy or ignore. Slashdot should welcome the diversity (err, pagehits) and attracting new members, as long as they don't stink the place up with lousy posts (like this one). It is hard to be relevant with such an irrelevant OP though.
I just turned off admin rights to my own account (win7) and added an admin account, but I seem to be able to elevate it back to admin just by clicking it back, no admin password required.
The (I assume automatically targeted) ads were awful. They had one for an add-on sound card on the second page of the article, "The Death of the Sound Card". Lovely pictures and remembrances of old stuff though; I still remember my first 3dfx Voodoo, and sending the daughter-card back for a Monster when I found out the frame rate in GLQuake was weak sauce. Good times.
another paradigm shift in law enforcement. Keeping the keyboard cops on their butts and the streets of England safe, with Hunter Taser bots!
if web video formats follow the precedents of home video, porn will be the deciding factor. See Betamax v. VHS, and Bluray v. HD DVD. As goes porn so goes mainstream content providers, right? I should probably do some research into the delivery method of choice in online stag films, but it's just so tedious.
This is true. The new personas features are butt ugly. Use Stylish (I recommend Gradient iCool for the nice dark black and blue) and the custom /. black with green text mod. It looks like an old CRT.
It's an improvement. That's what counts, some of us don't want to trade our lovely open-source browser for a product from Google or Apple, or MS for that matter. I can wait on javascript performance, TYVM.
My first thoughts exactly. I've always assumed any Windows PC I'm using could have been rooted long ago to an extent that no security tool could detect or repair it. I guess I'm just paranoid, I should really just switch to a Linux distro and start compiling my own kernels. As if I wouldn't screw that up too.
Sounds like it has a ways to go before it catches up with Silly Putty. It's been encoding newsprint for decades, and I believe it would definitely hold the content for more than a day. I hope Rupert Murdoch doesn't get wise to this "technology".
I recently heard an interesting question from someone on somethingawful. "What would an earthquake feel like from an airplane?" Curiously, the question went unanswered and I was wondering if any of you engineer types had a good answer.
Brawndo is the Thirst Mutilator, it has electrolytes because that's what plants crave. If you're so smart why come you dont no that? Wutter u? A *EXPLETIVE DELETED*?!?
opening a jar of vegemite displays dexterity, not intelligence. Only a crazy aussie would think vegemite-seeking behavior was a sign of anything but blind dumb exploration... the results of opening one, presumably underwater, or even in the kitchen are never good.
I find it offensive to be compared to a damn dirty ape. We won, they lost. This is due to Arthur Dent's meddling in time travel. And, as a phone sanitizer/hairdresser I feel superior to all previous extinct hominids. Now, I'm off to gather leafy duckets.
the poor saps have to meet, they aren't all just for traffic violations or the annual seat-belt round-up. For an ambitious officer to advance him/herself they need to make felony arrests which means asking you a series of really dumb questions such as whether you have a gun, knife or weapon (slingshot maybe?) also explosives, IEDs, and grenades (not lumped in with explosives?) and of course narcotics or open containers. Then after you say no they ask to inspect your vehicle... say no, and you look suspicious, they'll call for backup, probably K-9.
That's the funniest part of this whole thread (for Futurama fans anyway) needs a higher score. Even though it seems obvious in retrospect.
Actually predators regulate their prey species, weeding out the sickly and unfit. You never wonder why the people ruling over you aren't too big into social services?