This is in Miami. The yard has tall palm trees in a row behind a diamond link fence. There is a giant spiderweb between two of them so it spans the front of the yard. A huge spider is on it (the stuff that used to scare me in the old serial reruns like Flash Gordon or vintage Batman--not the Adam West stuff but even older)
Under one of the palm trees: a crashed helicopter mockup, broken rotors and all, and a dazed pilot is RIGHT THERE, stuck on the web.
I would drive there at night with my two daughters, and whenever we are about to pass by, I start clutching my daughter's arm, pretending to be really scared.
Of course my daughters roll their eyes. Some nights we scream together. I wonder if the family that lives there gets a Doppler effect of our mock screams. One particular night, I turned to them and said in all seriousness, We've got to save him!
Hey if we can make out a mustache by zooming in on somebody's 2-pixel wide face (see Enemy of the State or any episode of The Unit or 24, oh wait that's IP address) or a backpack among millions of New Yorkers (Peacemaker), they should be able to make out the inhabitants of this Mostly Harmless planet.
You may have missed his point. Without opening up a browser and all the baggage that entails (desktop space, resource use, and so on), he could just leave the ebook reader there, next to his workstation, and flip to the page he needs. Just the right tool for the job.
No, no. Maybe a minor attention to that detail, but it would definitely bump up the functionality a notch. I'd like to be able to tell someone who needs the time to look at the laptop cover, or point to it, with a Spock-ian eyebrow lift. Remember when Intel made some concept art for laptops? Some of them managed to trickle down to actual implementation in the form of CD/MP3 players that didn't require you to boot up or open the laptop. Another was a display on the lid that could show the time and so on.
Reponse to apple: Think you're so smug, eh? Let me use this Time Machine to show you that I did post said article. Now let me hit the back button on this brows
You left out the infflatable slides. Which leads me even more to the conclusion that the astronauts are behind this, that they not only want the rollercoaster exhileration of launch (Yes, I've seen Armageddon, thankyou). but the sheer excitement of sliding at less than zero g. If there is such a thing.
I do encourage them to bombard us...with interstellar pr0n! Henceforth all our transmissions should include instructions on how to set up a YouTube account.
It's a guilty pleasure, like the Point Break DVD tucked away behind the ST:TNG collection. Buddy, you can take it out: there won't be a girlfriend to show it to anytime soon.
At least Canonical has a reason for it to suck though
Might be OT: Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly did you mean by this? Was the release intended as a development release similar to kernels that end in an odd number? Kind of like, 'Use at your own risk, but do help us search for bugs'. I haven't been following Ubuntu closely enough, so the statement could be misinterpreted as having a double standard.
if we follow the theory of evolution, in a million more years a third sting would develop in the wasp so that when administered, the roach will feel no pain while being consumed by larvae...
But by then, the wasps's brain would have the thought pattern equivalent to saying, Naaaaah; don't think so.
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Yes, like that office in Brazil where the desk, if you could call it that, slides out to next door when your co-worker has to use it.
Get a filing cabinet, some drawers and some shelves to keep your stuff in.
Also useful for those Katie-bar-the-door-type situations.
Does this make me look fat?
Well, who said she doesn't don a cape at night and fight crime?
Or at least star in amateur softcore videos...that'd still work
This is in Miami. The yard has tall palm trees in a row behind a diamond link fence. There is a giant spiderweb between two of them so it spans the front of the yard. A huge spider is on it (the stuff that used to scare me in the old serial reruns like Flash Gordon or vintage Batman--not the Adam West stuff but even older)
Under one of the palm trees: a crashed helicopter mockup, broken rotors and all, and a dazed pilot is RIGHT THERE, stuck on the web.
I would drive there at night with my two daughters, and whenever we are about to pass by, I start clutching my daughter's arm, pretending to be really scared.
Of course my daughters roll their eyes. Some nights we scream together. I wonder if the family that lives there gets a Doppler effect of our mock screams. One particular night, I turned to them and said in all seriousness, We've got to save him!
Talk about 'misread': I thought you wrote, it would be cool to see it in prison.
Hey if we can make out a mustache by zooming in on somebody's 2-pixel wide face (see Enemy of the State or any episode of The Unit or 24, oh wait that's IP address) or a backpack among millions of New Yorkers (Peacemaker), they should be able to make out the inhabitants of this Mostly Harmless planet.
No, don't. I'm ready. I just knew my skillz in 2.5-D FPS would come in handy someday...
let's see...idclip...check
iddqd...check
idkfa...check
to paraphrase Mr Dent:
Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word brick that I wasn't previously aware of.
You may have missed his point. Without opening up a browser and all the baggage that entails (desktop space, resource use, and so on), he could just leave the ebook reader there, next to his workstation, and flip to the page he needs. Just the right tool for the job.
Duck!
I kid, I kid! Love this move on Dell's part. Get me a laptop with a working built-in webcam and I'm sold. Telecommuter? Naaa, just an expat.
In unrelated news, there's a Duke Nukem teaser. Is it April 1 already?
No, no. Maybe a minor attention to that detail, but it would definitely bump up the functionality a notch. I'd like to be able to tell someone who needs the time to look at the laptop cover, or point to it, with a Spock-ian eyebrow lift. Remember when Intel made some concept art for laptops? Some of them managed to trickle down to actual implementation in the form of CD/MP3 players that didn't require you to boot up or open the laptop. Another was a display on the lid that could show the time and so on.
Still, kudos to the artist! We're not worthy!
Reponse to apple: Think you're so smug, eh? Let me use this Time Machine to show you that I did post said article. Now let me hit the back button on this brows
/*head explodes
but even with parachute and pillow systems
You left out the infflatable slides. Which leads me even more to the conclusion that the astronauts are behind this, that they not only want the rollercoaster exhileration of launch (Yes, I've seen Armageddon, thankyou). but the sheer excitement of sliding at less than zero g. If there is such a thing.
I do encourage them to bombard us...with interstellar pr0n! Henceforth all our transmissions should include instructions on how to set up a YouTube account.
Now all I have to do is sit back...
Yes, but that's our alphabet. What's their alphabet like? /*me starts to worry
...and we carry it around on a USB stick.
It's a guilty pleasure, like the Point Break DVD tucked away behind the ST:TNG collection. Buddy, you can take it out: there won't be a girlfriend to show it to anytime soon.
Now to locate and ident the second girl who reads slashdot...Dude. where's my pleo?
'iddqd' was unpronounceable and make it less marketable except to some Eastern Bloc countries
Well, if you *did* check it out, you are presented with a blank screen. McDonald's can always claim they just rolled it out of beta.
a resounding recommendation for Geeks on Call.
Unless they happen to be ex-DoD IT employees, trying to make ends meet.
Methinks you better use T,Not G when you use the word automatically next time...
Yes, but it can only take you back to when you first activated the time machine, no sooner.
Screw Sarah Connor then, I guess.
Oh, wait...
At least Canonical has a reason for it to suck though
Might be OT: Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly did you mean by this? Was the release intended as a development release similar to kernels that end in an odd number? Kind of like, 'Use at your own risk, but do help us search for bugs'. I haven't been following Ubuntu closely enough, so the statement could be misinterpreted as having a double standard.
if we follow the theory of evolution, in a million more years a third sting would develop in the wasp so that when administered, the roach will feel no pain while being consumed by larvae...
But by then, the wasps's brain would have the thought pattern equivalent to saying, Naaaaah; don't think so.