I was getting concerned that women were always complaining about us talking about their breastststststs...we must be emitting some kind of radiation that they're picking up...
California could try to ban salt, even with true health concerns, but that won't stop anyone from cooking with it.
I've also heard about the small bands of militants smuggling transfat at night and crossing the California border. Their target: Los Angeles, the heart of the botox-and-silicon regime.
ummm...in slashdot we prefer to stick to car analogies for a reason. To keep our breakfast in where it belongs, and not splattered on the table from whence it came.
And to top it off, they could be using it already and be the ones to ask, what's an OS/distro/linux? They'll just use the computer without caring what's spinning underneath...
Don't diss grampa just yet, having a box around just might activate enough brain cells or memory to keep some Alzheimers wolves at bay. But the old hands might have trouble with the mouse and might need the alternative pointing devices that logitech or wacom have.
...and the joy of E17 is you can have windows shade Left and shade right. Conkys and gkrellms can shade in the direction of the edge that they are close to. Also bound to a key.
The 2.5D does wonders on old hardware, but it came at a price: I miss E16's hi-quality snapshot pager. I tried going back, but the themes seem dated now. =(
Better yet, I not only shrink them, but convert those cartoony icons to their tasteful text equivalents (courtesy of Laurent Baumann). That way, Jack Bauer will ask *me* for the terrorist's IP address, with my why-so-serious desktop with hardly any eye-candy and plain gray wall, instead of asking the pretty hawt little co-worker with her waay too colorful fisher price icons and aquarium screensaver. BTW, Jack, it's 127.0.0.1./me leans back in chair, convinced of a job well-done
Yes, she had a variety show back then. One of the skits involved a WWII suicide mission, held in a tent, complete with a map they can point to from time to time. So the commander is brought in, they all stand at attention yadda yadda and when he starts the briefing he is half mumbling his words but the only words you could ever understand where the words suicide, death, and die. WHen he called in Cher to demonstrate gas masks (of all things) Cher also mumbles which even gets worse when she puts the gas mask on and continues talking! Her voice is muffled and when she removes it the words Instant death were very clear. The soldiers look at each other, confused. Funny as hell.
I had always felt it was George Lucas' story to begin with, and that we were the kids sitting around the campfire letting him tell it.
I've had some disappointments: there being a reason why the Force is strong in a person--a scientific one kinda ruined the magic, that clubs and rocks can beat a high tech destroyer of worlds, that R2D2 could fly, that the ultimate thing the dark side could do was, well, lightning (almost like finding out the Emperor's wrath could make the Statue of Liberty disappear). But in this case, see Rule number 1 above.
I agree 100%, he is George Fucking Lucas (hey if he can't be knighted...) Quite suitable, along with, 'Hey have *YOU* made a gajillion dollars out of a story about a farmboy a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ? Then you can whine about my movies'
All told, I can enjoy IV and V, and probably sit thru the prequels just to soak it all in, even if the armies in the prequels scream 'merchandise'. I think the political correctness had sunk its teeth in by the time the prequels were being made.
wow thanks for the replies, including the fellas above (I was in such a rush to reply I forgot DOOM didn't have mouselook) and yes I did play DOOM keyboard only on a 486 and it almost had me stuck using that on Quake.
It seems that now we have hardware to which Quake and other FPSes *could* be ported, since we have more than adequate horsepower, but we have gotten to the point where 'What would be the point' is the louder question, and only because of the limitations that the touch screen presents.
How is the gaming experience of DOOM on your nokia? On the PC, are you a mouse+keyboard gamer? I remember it being close to being intuitive on the PC, but then it has keys AND a mouse. I can imagine a game like Tetris being easily playable, but an FPS? (As you can see I'm having a major disconnect here:) )
I'd have to agree. Hell, I didn't know how to bowl, but at least the boss was going to buy the food and sodas. So I went, and it became a semi-regular thing (groups is small enough to decide ad hoc). THe boss can afford to miss it, but at least he started it. He was young and open enough to hang and even brought his kids one time so his family could play, not with us, but in their lane for some family time together (the food and video games helped bring in the kids).
To the OP, put out an informal bulletin board type survey, if the company had a barbecue, would you come? See how they respond, maybe they might even suggest a good place to go. Heck go even with a small group; the rest might see, hey it wasn't bad, I might go next time with the wife. But at least you can see if there is enough interest. So many companies have decided to skip sponsoring events like this because of the economy, and they end up sucking the life out of you.
Otherwise, the beer/wine on a friday works for me. And also when the company has that activity too =)
The device fills a gap, and it seems a lot of people were stuck there until this device came along. Why do we have to wave our torches and pitchforks outside the fence when we could simply let these people have the all the tech they will ever need in a sensible form factor (and leave us alone)? We will still have our toys anyway (Android, Nokia N800 et al), and to an extreme, in that same form factor if one is determined enough.
If there ever comes a time when they will need us say, to do some jailbreaking (there is enough documentation -- and warnings against it), just remember to look annoyed, as usual =)
freshmeat.net. I agree with the above. A regular stop would be kde-look.org.
What about google summer of code? and softpedia, plus I think you can mention it here now, in the comments. Start a wiki in case you don't have it yet.
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...which you can present to the boss using Powerpoint/Impress/OO applications, not xkcd or Dilbert comic strips. Those two you can use for his son.
I was getting concerned that women were always complaining about us talking about their breastststststs...we must be emitting some kind of radiation that they're picking up...
California could try to ban salt, even with true health concerns, but that won't stop anyone from cooking with it.
I've also heard about the small bands of militants smuggling transfat at night and crossing the California border. Their target: Los Angeles, the heart of the botox-and-silicon regime.
But 170 years? Were 169 of them spent going, "You bring it!?""Why me? I didn't find it! You return it!"
ummm...in slashdot we prefer to stick to car analogies for a reason. To keep our breakfast in where it belongs, and not splattered on the table from whence it came.
But they DID have Big Content!
Oh you weren't referring to their ta-ta's? My bad...
And to top it off, they could be using it already and be the ones to ask, what's an OS/distro/linux? They'll just use the computer without caring what's spinning underneath...
Don't diss grampa just yet, having a box around just might activate enough brain cells or memory to keep some Alzheimers wolves at bay. But the old hands might have trouble with the mouse and might need the alternative pointing devices that logitech or wacom have.
Pick two. Oh, wait...
...and the joy of E17 is you can have windows shade Left and shade right. Conkys and gkrellms can shade in the direction of the edge that they are close to. Also bound to a key.
The 2.5D does wonders on old hardware, but it came at a price: I miss E16's hi-quality snapshot pager. I tried going back, but the themes seem dated now. =(
Better yet, I not only shrink them, but convert those cartoony icons to their tasteful text equivalents (courtesy of Laurent Baumann). That way, Jack Bauer will ask *me* for the terrorist's IP address, with my why-so-serious desktop with hardly any eye-candy and plain gray wall, instead of asking the pretty hawt little co-worker with her waay too colorful fisher price icons and aquarium screensaver. BTW, Jack, it's 127.0.0.1. /me leans back in chair, convinced of a job well-done
Yes, she had a variety show back then. One of the skits involved a WWII suicide mission, held in a tent, complete with a map they can point to from time to time. So the commander is brought in, they all stand at attention yadda yadda and when he starts the briefing he is half mumbling his words but the only words you could ever understand where the words suicide, death, and die. WHen he called in Cher to demonstrate gas masks (of all things) Cher also mumbles which even gets worse when she puts the gas mask on and continues talking! Her voice is muffled and when she removes it the words Instant death were very clear. The soldiers look at each other, confused. Funny as hell.
Hey you're not asking me to go back in time to deny this kid's god-given right to his first ever DoS, that would be like Denying a DoS....
[waveshand]This isn't the reboot you're looking for. Move along.[/waveshand]
He did say he was on windows, so he might respond with 'what is this lunix that you speak of'?
So it's not just him, but also the horse he rode in on, thats f**ked.
...indicates that this *was* after all, the nostalgia patch.
You left out 'It made her look fat'.
Hey I know what she wants!
I just make sure that they *Supersize* it at her favorite drive-through.
I had always felt it was George Lucas' story to begin with, and
that we were the kids sitting around the campfire letting him
tell it.
I've had some disappointments: there being a reason why the Force
is strong in a person--a scientific one kinda ruined the magic,
that clubs and rocks can beat a high tech destroyer of worlds,
that R2D2 could fly, that the ultimate thing the dark side could
do was, well, lightning (almost like finding out the Emperor's
wrath could make the Statue of Liberty disappear). But in this
case, see Rule number 1 above.
I agree 100%, he is George Fucking Lucas (hey if he can't be
knighted...) Quite suitable, along with, 'Hey have *YOU* made a
gajillion dollars out of a story about a farmboy a long time ago
in a galaxy far, far away ? Then you can whine about my movies'
All told, I can enjoy IV and V, and probably sit thru the
prequels just to soak it all in, even if the armies in the prequels
scream 'merchandise'. I think the political correctness had sunk
its teeth in by the time the prequels were being made.
wow thanks for the replies, including the fellas above (I was in such a rush to reply I forgot DOOM didn't have mouselook) and yes I did play DOOM keyboard only on a 486 and it almost had me stuck using that on Quake.
It seems that now we have hardware to which Quake and other FPSes *could* be ported, since we have more than adequate horsepower, but we have gotten to the point where 'What would be the point' is the louder question, and only because of the limitations that the touch screen presents.
How is the gaming experience of DOOM on your nokia? On the PC, are you a mouse+keyboard gamer? I remember it being close to being intuitive on the PC, but then it has keys AND a mouse. I can imagine a game like Tetris being easily playable, but an FPS? (As you can see I'm having a major disconnect here :) )
I'd have to agree. Hell, I didn't know how to bowl, but at least the boss was going to buy the food and sodas. So I went, and it became a semi-regular thing (groups is small enough to decide ad hoc). THe boss can afford to miss it, but at least he started it. He was young and open enough to hang and even brought his kids one time so his family could play, not with us, but in their lane for some family time together (the food and video games helped bring in the kids).
To the OP, put out an informal bulletin board type survey, if the company had a barbecue, would you come? See how they respond, maybe they might even suggest a good place to go. Heck go even with a small group; the rest might see, hey it wasn't bad, I might go next time with the wife. But at least you can see if there is enough interest. So many companies have decided to skip sponsoring events like this because of the economy, and they end up sucking the life out of you.
Otherwise, the beer/wine on a friday works for me. And also when the company has that activity too =)
The device fills a gap, and it seems a lot of people were stuck there until this device came along. Why do we have to wave our torches and pitchforks outside the fence when we could simply let these people have the all the tech they will ever need in a sensible form factor (and leave us alone)? We will still have our toys anyway (Android, Nokia N800 et al), and to an extreme, in that same form factor if one is determined enough.
If there ever comes a time when they will need us say, to do some jailbreaking (there is enough documentation -- and warnings against it), just remember to look annoyed, as usual =)
freshmeat.net. I agree with the above. A regular stop would be kde-look.org.
What about google summer of code? and softpedia, plus I think you can mention it here now, in the comments. Start a wiki in case you don't have it yet.
Well, your friend was missing the fun part of the UI, the babe, going down on our protagonist in order to crack the DOD login security in 60 seconds.