A totally frustrating toy, until you learned to rip it open with a screwdriver and reassemble the pieces into some semblance of order. The best was when other, sympathetic relatives bought you the 'how to do the Rubik's Cube' book, where you were immediately buried under a pile of obscure, set theory-like math, which only PROVED that you were a moron. No, don't get your kid a Rubik's Cube.
You have a cartoon that basically looks just like Tom Hanks, sounding like Tom Hanks, but isn't Tom Hanks... so why not just draw him totally synthetically, rather than attempting some live-action morph effect?
Look at Eastern Europe - ramshackle tenements, with satellite dishes. No payphones, everyone has a cell phone. Look at Japan, new high tech everything. It's easy when you start from nothing. The Eastern bloc had Soviet-era crap (meaning no progress since 1945) and Japan was bombed flat. China stopped being utterly backwards only recently, so it makes sense that any new investments are cutting edge. Try upgrading 300 year old streets, sewers and other infrastructure in cobblestone historic districts in Boston, MA, or Providence, RI, and its a different story. I live in one of the oldest, wealthiest areas of Providence, RI, and I can't get DSL, because my local loop has the oldest, shittiest copper in the city. When I lived in the ghetto side of Providence, a DSL install was a snap and I had killer speed. Why, because it was brand new stuff.
Many AOL "customers" aren't actually customers at all, but rather, people who think AOL=Internet, MS-Word and Windows are the same thing, and that their monitor is 'the computer' while the computer case is 'the hard drive'. AOL isn't losing actual customers, they're losing people who washed up there because they clicked on something when they booted their BestBuy PC for the first time. These people are simply moving to Broadband, or any one of the $6/month ISPs, or DSL, or something else.
On my XP machine, it sucks. XP refuses to use all available memory before paging, so I run into the situation where I have 140 MB of free RAM, and the machine starts swapping. WTF is up with that? If I could have Adobe coolness on an operating system with a sane VM, I'd be happy as a Troll at a Natalie Portman convention.
Too bad he's such an insufferable prick. (UltraSPARC III architecture crisis anyone?)
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This is when normally virulent assholes on either side can make themselves feel better by saying such crap as "it doesn't matter as long as you vote" and similar bromides. It's the equivalent of the Southern-US "bless your heart", where if you tack it onto the worst insult, it cancels out. "Bush? He's an asshole, bless his heart." "Kerry? He's an unabashed socialist, bless his heart." I say to all of you rabid, two-party-endorsing, Statist votemongers: Fuck you. YOU'RE trying to perpetuate the myth that there's any kind of control over the system, to prolong the amount of time you can crow on your dungheap. I say to everyone still with some shred of independent thought: Shrug. Don't vote. Don't pay a dime more in taxes, voluntary welfare contributions or government sleeze than you have to without threat to your person. Don't let them pretend that we all agree that today is a wonderfully warm fuckfest.
..he made it into the 'display' of a costume. Of an Apple product. Finally, someone comes out and says that the Emperor has no clothes, that Microsoft's FUD machine can't spin something out of nothing, and that the tablet-PC-using-dork in Starbucks really is just that, a dork. Thank you, for pointing out the retardation of Tablet PCs.
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"It ain't done, until Lotus won't run."
True then, probably true now.
A totally frustrating toy, until you learned to rip it open with a screwdriver and reassemble the pieces into some semblance of order. The best was when other, sympathetic relatives bought you the 'how to do the Rubik's Cube' book, where you were immediately buried under a pile of obscure, set theory-like math, which only PROVED that you were a moron.
No, don't get your kid a Rubik's Cube.
Google: Do No Evil
Microsoft: We'll Decide What's Evil, Thank You Very Much
You mean Ogg player.
10 LET BILL=10
20 LET STEVE=9
30 IF BILL>STEVE PRINT "HA HA STEVE IM COOL, LOVE BILL"
40 GOTO 10
Haven't we seen a dozen or so articles on Slashdot alone about CDR and other bitrot? Slow news day? Or is it because its an NYT article?
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Don't you?
Good thing they're not a bunch of socialist, America-hating, yellow journalists or anything!
You have a cartoon that basically looks just like Tom Hanks, sounding like Tom Hanks, but isn't Tom Hanks... so why not just draw him totally synthetically, rather than attempting some live-action morph effect?
No its not, thats why there's so many Chinese!!
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Look at Eastern Europe - ramshackle tenements, with satellite dishes. No payphones, everyone has a cell phone. Look at Japan, new high tech everything.
It's easy when you start from nothing. The Eastern bloc had Soviet-era crap (meaning no progress since 1945) and Japan was bombed flat. China stopped being utterly backwards only recently, so it makes sense that any new investments are cutting edge. Try upgrading 300 year old streets, sewers and other infrastructure in cobblestone historic districts in Boston, MA, or Providence, RI, and its a different story. I live in one of the oldest, wealthiest areas of Providence, RI, and I can't get DSL, because my local loop has the oldest, shittiest copper in the city. When I lived in the ghetto side of Providence, a DSL install was a snap and I had killer speed. Why, because it was brand new stuff.
So if its bad, don't snort/smoke/shoot it.
I already own a PC.
Many AOL "customers" aren't actually customers at all, but rather, people who think AOL=Internet, MS-Word and Windows are the same thing, and that their monitor is 'the computer' while the computer case is 'the hard drive'. AOL isn't losing actual customers, they're losing people who washed up there because they clicked on something when they booted their BestBuy PC for the first time. These people are simply moving to Broadband, or any one of the $6/month ISPs, or DSL, or something else.
And you bit. So, I'm sorry to say:
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Thank God that silly 'election' is over, now I can go back to worrying about the New England Patriots (American) Football team.
On my XP machine, it sucks. XP refuses to use all available memory before paging, so I run into the situation where I have 140 MB of free RAM, and the machine starts swapping. WTF is up with that? If I could have Adobe coolness on an operating system with a sane VM, I'd be happy as a Troll at a Natalie Portman convention.
Too bad he's such an insufferable prick. (UltraSPARC III architecture crisis anyone?)
This is when normally virulent assholes on either side can make themselves feel better by saying such crap as "it doesn't matter as long as you vote" and similar bromides. It's the equivalent of the Southern-US "bless your heart", where if you tack it onto the worst insult, it cancels out. "Bush? He's an asshole, bless his heart." "Kerry? He's an unabashed socialist, bless his heart."
I say to all of you rabid, two-party-endorsing, Statist votemongers: Fuck you. YOU'RE trying to perpetuate the myth that there's any kind of control over the system, to prolong the amount of time you can crow on your dungheap.
I say to everyone still with some shred of independent thought: Shrug. Don't vote. Don't pay a dime more in taxes, voluntary welfare contributions or government sleeze than you have to without threat to your person. Don't let them pretend that we all agree that today is a wonderfully warm fuckfest.
Try accessing Slashdot from Anti-Slash sometime - they check the HTTP referrers. Since I've been there, I've NEVER had mod points again.
Nobody gives a fsck about the stats on your computer.
Except Linus has a reputation for NOT being an asshole, simply because he doesn't care.
Have I been brainwashed, not realizing that I've actually been taking notes for almost 2 years on an Etch-A-Sketch?
Just make sure you hold it up and shake it to reset it when it crashes.
..he made it into the 'display' of a costume. Of an Apple product. Finally, someone comes out and says that the Emperor has no clothes, that Microsoft's FUD machine can't spin something out of nothing, and that the tablet-PC-using-dork in Starbucks really is just that, a dork. Thank you, for pointing out the retardation of Tablet PCs.
My favorite quote:
you should've used a GM rad lol that toyota one will give out lol
What the fsck does this mean?