Comedians like Letterman killed the golden goose when they backed Obama. McCain would have been reasonable material (he's old and cranky, both of which are politically correct targets), but a Obama? What can comedians say about him?
1. Water vapor is by a feedback effect. Google "op amps" or something. Water vapor multiplies the effects of carbon (and methane, and other effects that are not modified by feedback).
2. The life that was supported was single celled algae. No cows = no steak = low quality of life.
3. Global temperature is dead accurate for 30 years. It has been measured to a high standard for a century, and has been reconstructed over millennium. It's been rising the whole time.
4. Yeah, we could shut down the THC, and screw up England and the West Coast. That would cool things down. Didn't you see the movie?
OK, The Day After Tomorrow was a little inaccurate, but the idea of global warming freezing New York does have a grain of truth, you just wouldn't get supercell ice tornadoes, or whatever they made up to make it more exciting. The process would take years, or decades. Compare it to 300 (Spaaraaa!) which was also a weird mix of real history, and crazy impossible special effects.
I can't even uninstall it, since it's Windows only (AFAIK).
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1996 was Quake (no 3D cards, just lean mean C code), Duke Nukem 3D (the one that got actually got released), Diablo (single player, IIRC), and Tamagotchis. Remember those little annoying pets that beeped when the teacher dropped them into a bucket of water?
Yeah, but he's a union employee, and Parliament is a union shop. You can only get members of the Labor or Tory unions in his job, so we're pretty much stuck with him.
It is important that he keeps his communications private.
It's not like he is some tin-pinny official like the Governor of Alaska, running for Vice President of the United States of America. His job is really important!
This whole thread was predestined to be flamebait. It has the words "Microsoft", "Apple", "Linux", "CEO", "Steve", and "Ballmer" in the summary, any one of which can set off a flame war.
It's a good point - a lot of Windows copies are stolen, and Linux is one of the obvious replacements.
Still, as a computer enthusiast, I see Apple and Linux as competitors. Windows is a thing we use at work, alongside the legacy database systems and mainframes.
Casual users just want a machine that runs fast, doesn't break down, and has a copy of Firefox. The last thing they want to do is install an operating system. OEMs are moving to Linux, in a big way. Netbooks. Soon the 12 inch laptops will run Linux. From there it will all snowball.
Do we really thing Vista SP 3 (a.k.a. Windows 7) will run like a dream on an Atom?
Also, the city had a responsibility to not fuck things up. If somebody steals your car keys and you smash your windscreen (rather than hiring a locksmith to jimmy your lock), you can't sue for damages you caused yourself.
Well, maybe standards should just stick to unpatentable things. Like solutions that would be "obvious" to an expert in the field. That way there can't be patents, right?
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Comedians like Letterman killed the golden goose when they backed Obama. McCain would have been reasonable material (he's old and cranky, both of which are politically correct targets), but a Obama? What can comedians say about him?
Ah, for the days when a monkey was president.
1. Water vapor is by a feedback effect. Google "op amps" or something. Water vapor multiplies the effects of carbon (and methane, and other effects that are not modified by feedback).
2. The life that was supported was single celled algae. No cows = no steak = low quality of life.
3. Global temperature is dead accurate for 30 years. It has been measured to a high standard for a century, and has been reconstructed over millennium. It's been rising the whole time.
4. Yeah, we could shut down the THC, and screw up England and the West Coast. That would cool things down. Didn't you see the movie?
OK, The Day After Tomorrow was a little inaccurate, but the idea of global warming freezing New York does have a grain of truth, you just wouldn't get supercell ice tornadoes, or whatever they made up to make it more exciting. The process would take years, or decades. Compare it to 300 (Spaaraaa!) which was also a weird mix of real history, and crazy impossible special effects.
I can't even uninstall it, since it's Windows only (AFAIK).
1996 was Quake (no 3D cards, just lean mean C code), Duke Nukem 3D (the one that got actually got released), Diablo (single player, IIRC), and Tamagotchis. Remember those little annoying pets that beeped when the teacher dropped them into a bucket of water?
OMG, Vista? That's really auspicious, that is!
They are going to name their life support after an unreliable piece of go-se?
Yeah. Japan is lobbying China for help. Not gonna happen, what with China's not-entirely-friendly attitude towards Japan.
And they are lobbying Spain, to stop pirates. It's like we are back in 1700 ...
Yeah, but he's a union employee, and Parliament is a union shop. You can only get members of the Labor or Tory unions in his job, so we're pretty much stuck with him.
It is important that he keeps his communications private.
It's not like he is some tin-pinny official like the Governor of Alaska, running for Vice President of the United States of America. His job is really important!
You have to get elected. I'm assuming that you lose all your real friends, and all the fake ones will be happy to contact you.
It sounds like a review of Ultima Online. Apparently you can do *anything*, and on the internet that generally reduces to "be a prick".
This whole thread was predestined to be flamebait. It has the words "Microsoft", "Apple", "Linux", "CEO", "Steve", and "Ballmer" in the summary, any one of which can set off a flame war.
It's a good point - a lot of Windows copies are stolen, and Linux is one of the obvious replacements.
Still, as a computer enthusiast, I see Apple and Linux as competitors. Windows is a thing we use at work, alongside the legacy database systems and mainframes.
Casual users just want a machine that runs fast, doesn't break down, and has a copy of Firefox. The last thing they want to do is install an operating system. OEMs are moving to Linux, in a big way. Netbooks. Soon the 12 inch laptops will run Linux. From there it will all snowball.
Do we really thing Vista SP 3 (a.k.a. Windows 7) will run like a dream on an Atom?
A million shades of brown? So it's the Ubuntu of FPS?
Also, the city had a responsibility to not fuck things up. If somebody steals your car keys and you smash your windscreen (rather than hiring a locksmith to jimmy your lock), you can't sue for damages you caused yourself.
(I'm not a lawyer, that's not advice.)
Well, maybe standards should just stick to unpatentable things. Like solutions that would be "obvious" to an expert in the field. That way there can't be patents, right?
It's been 6 years, and he still can't install it? Maybe he should install Wubi, and try apt-get, that usually works.
Even more than the AVN awards?
... ratpoison?
Don't tell EA!
.NET is more like Python, in some ways.
It's so Clippy can get out of my way when I throw my chair at him.
"It looks like you're trying to kill the help assistant!"
Dept Agriculture might do OK, but NASA will flop. It won't be monotonous enough.
Drunk crimes are irrational crimes, so rational deterrents (like cameras) won't work so well.
Being able to stop them in the act (like putting police on the beat) is a good way to stop that sort of crime.
Good point, but trademark infringement is meant to protect against domain spoofing, and RL equivalents.
It's not just an excuse to sue someone who uses your name, right?