-ding-dong-
Good evening passengers, please take a look at our charming colleague Betty who will demonstrate emergency procedures for you...
...In case of fire please break the window next to you. Without oxygen the fire will be over quickly, which brings us to loss of cabin pressure. In the case of loss of cabin pressure, please assume the bloated expression demonstrated by Betty, stay calm, and wait until all your bodily fluids boil off. In case of a crash, make sure you wear your swim-vest with integrated whistle, even though both are useless when we smash into the moon. Thank you fo listening and enjoy your flight
Were reviews this bad back in the early 90's and 80's when gamers didn't have the access to the kind of preview stuff that's out there today?
In a word, yes. But we did have demo's. Review magazines came with 3.5" floppies stuck to the cover (or even,way back in the '80s, cassette tapes!) that usually contained a demo version or two along with the usual array of shareware tools.
I don't care wether Mozart himself jumped out of his coffin and composed it, After hearing them about ten times, those startup and closing sounds become the most grating and annoying sounds in the entire universe, and not just because they are associated with Windows.
And why oh why are they recorded at the highest possible volume? I don't want to listen to a "one second symphony" (A Eno prefers to call it.) every time someone in the office/room/street reboots a machine.
You'd think that a company that can hire a top class musician, can hire a panel of listeners to test those sounds in practice.
There, rant over. Next time, for balance, I'll criticize those $#%^$%$ Ubuntu drums...
You clearly don't understand the short attention span of today's youth, and the inability of their parents to stand up against unreasonable kid's demands that they must have the newest/best NOW!
Actually, I'm thankful for the existence of these people, because they beta test and subsidise the development of new hardware for the rest of us.
...to wait at least a year after launch before buying a new console. In addition to the cost savings, a chance to check out the competition, and developers learning to fully use the power of the new system.
I don't know what he's talking about, having given up in digust on the whole Star Wars thing after Phantom Menace (Thanks for raping my childhood memories George!), but anyone who reacts to a throwaway gag with a lenghty exposition on Star Wars history deserves some geek cred.
As far as I can tell, isn't that what American Football is about? 30 seconds of play followed by 15 minutes of standing around?
But I wouldn't know, being European myself, I am more into the kind of football where two teams run around the field for two hours without scoring a single point.
That post reminds me of Harry Dean Stanton's speech in a certain Alex Cox movie:
BUD: Never broke into a car, never hot-wired a car. I never broke into a trunk. I shall not cause harm to a vehicle,or the personal contents thereof. Nor through inaction, let vehicle or personal contents come to harm.
That's what I call the repo code, kid. Don't forget it. Etch it in your brain. Not many people got a code to live by anymore.
Look at those assholes over there!
Ordinary people. I hate them... An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.... Get into 3 or 4 tense situations a day and it don't mean shit. I've seen men stabbed, guns... don't mean shit!
Say the signal travels for 20 years through space, (if the are fairly close to earth) and they have an information lag on earth history of 20 years, so these aliens had to precisely predict on information from 1965 what kind of computer we would build yesterday to hold the data...
Unless they have time machines, this strikes me as highly unlikely.
The same could be said about Pablo Escobar, who may have been the biggest cocaine producer in the 1980s, but he did spend millions to improve conditions for the desperately poor in the slums of Medellin.
While it is laudable that Gates spends part of his vast disposable income on humanitarian projects, that does not make him a saint. It's the least he could do.
It's sad is that this behavior is an exception rather than the norm these days.
We live in hope. Perhaps they will put in a new startup noise. Has Brian Eno been spotted hiring a symphony orchestra to play a new one second symphony? Or will they hire Philip Glass this time? Hearing one chord repeated over and over while gazing at a Vista during the twenty minutes boot time would give the whole experience a nice Koyaanisqatsi feel.
No kidding. 10 years of observation, and only 2 instances of tool use?
That's how clever they are. Every time a researcher comes near, they cover their campfires
hide their bows and arrows and stop their discussions on the origins of life, the universe and everything.
Now this one gorilla obviously let her guard down, and got caught with a walking stick. Word has been sent to Yeti assassins, but they arrived too late to intercept the footage.
Slashdot Mirror
-ding-dong-
...In case of fire please break the window next to you. Without oxygen the fire will be over quickly, which brings us to loss of cabin pressure. In the case of loss of cabin pressure, please assume the bloated expression demonstrated by Betty, stay calm, and wait until all your bodily fluids boil off.
Good evening passengers, please take a look at our charming colleague Betty who will demonstrate emergency procedures for you...
In case of a crash, make sure you wear your swim-vest with integrated whistle, even though both are useless when we smash into the moon.
Thank you fo listening and enjoy your flight
Were reviews this bad back in the early 90's and 80's when gamers didn't have the access to the kind of preview stuff that's out there today?
In a word, yes. But we did have demo's. Review magazines came with 3.5" floppies stuck to the cover (or even,way back in the '80s, cassette tapes!) that usually contained a demo version or two along with the usual array of shareware tools.
I don't care wether Mozart himself jumped out of his coffin and composed it, After hearing them about ten times, those startup and closing sounds become the most grating and annoying sounds in the entire universe, and not just because they are associated with Windows.
And why oh why are they recorded at the highest possible volume?
I don't want to listen to a "one second symphony" (A Eno prefers to call it.) every time someone in the office/room/street reboots a machine.
You'd think that a company that can hire a top class musician, can hire a panel of listeners to test those sounds in practice.
There, rant over. Next time, for balance, I'll criticize those $#%^$%$ Ubuntu drums...
You clearly don't understand the short attention span of today's youth, and the inability of their parents to stand up against unreasonable kid's demands that they must have the newest/best NOW!
Actually, I'm thankful for the existence of these people, because they beta test and subsidise the development of new hardware for the rest of us.
They won't even get 99%.
Like many in the Slashdot community, I'm sticking with CowboyNeal for President in 2006.
...to wait at least a year after launch before buying a new console. In addition to the cost savings, a chance to check out the competition, and developers learning to fully use the power of the new system.
If you look like him ten square meters is not a luxury, it's a necessity.
I don't know what he's talking about, having given up in digust on the whole Star Wars thing after Phantom Menace (Thanks for raping my childhood memories George!), but anyone who reacts to a throwaway gag with a lenghty exposition on Star Wars history deserves some geek cred.
As far as I can tell, isn't that what American Football is about? 30 seconds of play followed by 15 minutes of standing around?
But I wouldn't know, being European myself, I am more into the kind of football where two teams run around the field for two hours without scoring a single point.
I for one can't wait to subscribe to Jane's Thinking Bots
That post reminds me of Harry Dean Stanton's speech in a certain Alex Cox movie:
.. ...
BUD:
Never broke into a car, never hot-wired a car.
I never broke into a trunk.
I shall not cause harm to a vehicle,or the personal contents thereof.
Nor through inaction, let vehicle or personal contents come to harm.
That's what I call the repo code, kid. Don't forget it. Etch it in your brain.
Not many people got a code to live by anymore.
Look at those assholes over there!
Ordinary people. I hate them.
An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations.
A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.
Get into 3 or 4 tense situations a day and it don't mean shit.
I've seen men stabbed, guns... don't mean shit!
But that's when you got to watch yourself.
Say the signal travels for 20 years through space, (if the are fairly close to earth) and they have an information lag on earth history of 20 years, so these aliens had to precisely predict on information from 1965 what kind of computer we would build yesterday to hold the data...
Unless they have time machines, this strikes me as highly unlikely.
You're SO right. Now you'll have to exuse me while I install Linux on all my boxen. I mean, I don't want to get virii.
Moondust bounces high
Suspended in emptiness
A scientist coughs
Young men find a new excuse for their irresponsible behavior.
You must be new here. Here is the slasdot-corporate-consensus module which you are obliged to install if you wish to continue posting here:
The same could be said about Pablo Escobar, who may have been the biggest cocaine producer in the 1980s, but he did spend millions to improve conditions for the desperately poor in the slums of Medellin.
While it is laudable that Gates spends part of his vast disposable income on humanitarian projects, that does not make him a saint. It's the least he could do.
It's sad is that this behavior is an exception rather than the norm these days.
Any feature new in Vista but the look and feel ?
We live in hope. Perhaps they will put in a new startup noise. Has Brian Eno been spotted hiring a symphony orchestra to play a new one second symphony? Or will they hire Philip Glass this time? Hearing one chord repeated over and over while gazing at a Vista during the twenty minutes boot time would give the whole experience a nice Koyaanisqatsi feel.
...walking sticks are for old gorillas.
No kidding. 10 years of observation, and only 2 instances of tool use?
That's how clever they are. Every time a researcher comes near, they cover their campfires
hide their bows and arrows and stop their discussions on the origins of life, the universe and everything.
Now this one gorilla obviously let her guard down, and got caught with a walking stick. Word has been sent to Yeti assassins, but they arrived too late to intercept the footage.
This story deserves to be modded +5 Funny.
(Seriously, we should be able to mod the stories.)
Are you trying to tell me that these dolphins are sitting around in their tanks with 'toxic dart' guns attached to them AT ALL TIMES?
Well why would you have a crack dolphin squad if you couldn't deploy them at a moments notice? Marine threats can occur at any time.
Do they shoot these darts from their asses?
Don't be silly. An ass would drown faster than a horse when ridden by an armed attack dolphin.
I don't comment much here on Slashdot but in the name of all that is holy, who posts this crap?
I have it on good authority that this article was submitted by slashdot user karvind and posted by Hemos.
At least it's not a dupe, yet.
Go on! Submit the article now! Taco or Zonk is bound to read it and post it within 24 hours.
This information may be useful for you.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?
Especially the children of future colonists that will live in the Bon Jovi crater.
At least they can make fun of the kids from Milli Vanilli valley.
Wow, it's fixed already! I like this new version of slashdot! Looks great too! Congratulations!