I'd like them to replace "In God we trust" from banknotes with "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle..." Nah, that's a mistranslation. The original line was that it was easier to pass a cam through the knee of an idol. I tried it once, and it's bloody hard.
There is a substantial difference. You are perfectly free to walk around street-corners yelling about how much you hate the jews; but when you start yelling "SOMEONE SHOULD KILL THE JEWS" and their speech... Interesting - I wonder if their censorship rules would include this post as an example. Have we just gotten/. blacklisted in.ca?
It's not even that helpful, unfortunately. From the Dell web page concerning the n-series desktops:
Note: Dell does not support non-Dell installed operating systems.
So *whatever* OS you install, even if it's the free version of DOS that comes with it (because it's not Dell-installed), you're screwed. Even if you decide to install XP on it, you're still SOL.
no need to cram those last 4 oints down your neck and then head into the street with hundreds of others when the pub remains open for hours more
Although it does deny us Scots the once-amusing spectacle of hundreds of paralytic sassenachs wobbling around Edinburgh's streets at about 11pm, while everyone else is just heading out for the evening...
Ah - I hadn't heard that one before. Maybe it's a.usian thing (I'm in the UK).
My current contract which ISN'T a major global bank, insists on Ties, Which is kinda irritating.
Do they insist that you have to wear them 'round your neck? I prefer the "kamikaze/rambo" look, myself...
Add on to that no use of headphones
NNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I hate the dress code thing. What I wear has no bearing on what I can do. It's always shite managers who don't know their arse from their elbows that insist on these stupid rules.
Amen to that, and then some. We recently persuaded management that we don't really need to wear suits & ties, since we're seldom in the public gaze, but I still feel your pain.
I think he means BCR, which would be short for ball-closure ring - an open circle, the missing part of which is filled by a (usually) metal ball which clips into the empty space. I haven't done any kind of actual research to confirm this, but I suspect that selling spare balls or replacement rings to people who've suffered the same fate is a non-trivial source of income for piercers.
it seems the more I use the mouse, the less output I am making
Not at all - using my mouse extensively, I spent last night making a large pile of severed limbs, shrapnel and assorted body parts, both human and alien. Yay UT2K4!
The technology of science fiction is just part of the (generally) accepted setting
If the technology's "just part of the setting", then what is it that makes it sci-fi? The technology of science fiction is not "just" anything - it's what defines it as sci-fi as opposed to space opera / speculative fiction.
I have to disagree. In my opinion, neither SW or ST are what I'd call sci-fi. Star Trek is an attempt at sci-fi, seen from the perspective of Hollywood - from a distance it looks like sci-fi should (space ships, matter transportation, FTL travel, etc), but sci-fi is all about the technology and how it affects things - that's what makes the fi sci. SW/ST are character-driven stories with a (pseudo)scientific backdrop (case in pont: all the "particle of the week" ST storylines). The science hardly ever stands up to any kind of detailed scrutiny.
Star Wars, in fact, is a classic fantasy story with all the usual fantasy elements (swords, black knight, evil sorceror, inexperienced hero who ends up saving the day, magic) replaced with futuristic parallels (lightsabres, Darth Vader, Palpatine, Luke, the force). That's why the introduction of midichlorians in EP1 irritated me so much - it was an attempt to graft a scientific explanation on to something that shouldn't have had one.
None of the technology is ever explored in any kind of depth - rather than go into any kind of detail about how a lightsabre might actually work, we're told that it's an elegant weapon for a more civilised age, and it's left at that. The stories (both SW and ST) are all character-based rather than being more explicitly about the technology and how it affects things, which to me is one of the fundamental tenets of sci-fi. Don't get me wrong - I love SW and ST as much as the next geek, but I can't call them sci-fi and mean it.
And yes, I'm fully aware of how badly flamed deriding these two bastions of geekiness is probably going to get me, but I still had to say it.
I 100% agree - if you want to really fsck up some piece of electronics, you can't do much better than a can of Coke. It's conductive (so it'll short out any contacts it comes across), corrosive (so it'll eat through what it doesn't short), and very, very sticky (so it's hell to clean off). If you need to destroy some electronics, Coke is your friend.
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no longer pushing their beliefs down the publics' throats
They're not beliefs...
I'd like them to replace "In God we trust" from banknotes with "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle..."
Nah, that's a mistranslation. The original line was that it was easier to pass a cam through the knee of an idol. I tried it once, and it's bloody hard.
...baring/vector navigation...
"Turn to 135 and drop your pants!"
My poor little grammar^W English nazi head just exploded :(
Then obviously you're just the guy we need to cut the Gordian knot out of the centre of the woodpile.
A woman won't accept a 3.5" floppy.
Or, mysteriously, a 300GB RAID5 array. Not even if you push it really hard.
We can move forward with renaming Britannia to "Airstrip One."
Sorry, when did it get renamed "Britannia"? Last I checked, we were still the UK...
for mental sanity...
...as opposed to the physical kind? I know what you mean. My left leg is totally barmy. Keeps me awake at nights.
There is a substantial difference. You are perfectly free to walk around street-corners yelling about how much you hate the jews; but when you start yelling "SOMEONE SHOULD KILL THE JEWS" and their speech... /. blacklisted in .ca?
Interesting - I wonder if their censorship rules would include this post as an example. Have we just gotten
You don't CAPTURE the king. You CHECK-MATE the king.
I thought "check mate" came from the Persian "Shah Mat", which means "the King is dead".
And some of the bugs are pretty outstanding.
How big is MS Office?
Ha! I've just installed Project; a ~200MB install, and it's currently downloading about another 80MB worth of *updates*.
Do ghosts go "Wooooh!" all over the world or just here in Little Britain?
Just the English ones. French ghosts go "Le Wooooh!", German ones go "Ich Wooooh!"... should I carry on?
It's not even that helpful, unfortunately. From the Dell web page concerning the n-series desktops:
Note: Dell does not support non-Dell installed operating systems.
So *whatever* OS you install, even if it's the free version of DOS that comes with it (because it's not Dell-installed), you're screwed. Even if you decide to install XP on it, you're still SOL.
So, has anyone actually managed to buy one of them yet? Interesting analysis from The Register here
no need to cram those last 4 oints down your neck and then head into the street with hundreds of others when the pub remains open for hours more
Although it does deny us Scots the once-amusing spectacle of hundreds of paralytic sassenachs wobbling around Edinburgh's streets at about 11pm, while everyone else is just heading out for the evening...
They've killed Ed Bloom!
Why are resturants so prone to this sort of thing? There's one a few blocks from where I live that offers a wide selection of "panini's"...
Is it really so difficult to pronounce the second "r" in "rather," or any other such word with a final "r?"
Hey! Don't tar us all with the same linguistic brush! I'm Scottish, and *my* final Rs are hard to avoid...
NetHack.
BCR = Ball-Closure Ring
.usian thing (I'm in the UK).
CBR = Captive Bead Ring
Ah - I hadn't heard that one before. Maybe it's a
My current contract which ISN'T a major global bank, insists on Ties, Which is kinda irritating.
Do they insist that you have to wear them 'round your neck? I prefer the "kamikaze/rambo" look, myself...
Add on to that no use of headphones
NNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I hate the dress code thing. What I wear has no bearing on what I can do. It's always shite managers who don't know their arse from their elbows that insist on these stupid rules.
Amen to that, and then some. We recently persuaded management that we don't really need to wear suits & ties, since we're seldom in the public gaze, but I still feel your pain.
ta,
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I think he means BCR, which would be short for ball-closure ring - an open circle, the missing part of which is filled by a (usually) metal ball which clips into the empty space.
I haven't done any kind of actual research to confirm this, but I suspect that selling spare balls or replacement rings to people who've suffered the same fate is a non-trivial source of income for piercers.
it seems the more I use the mouse, the less output I am making
Not at all - using my mouse extensively, I spent last night making a large pile of severed limbs, shrapnel and assorted body parts, both human and alien. Yay UT2K4!
The technology of science fiction is just part of the (generally) accepted setting
If the technology's "just part of the setting", then what is it that makes it sci-fi? The technology of science fiction is not "just" anything - it's what defines it as sci-fi as opposed to space opera / speculative fiction.
I have to disagree. In my opinion, neither SW or ST are what I'd call sci-fi. Star Trek is an attempt at sci-fi, seen from the perspective of Hollywood - from a distance it looks like sci-fi should (space ships, matter transportation, FTL travel, etc), but sci-fi is all about the technology and how it affects things - that's what makes the fi sci. SW/ST are character-driven stories with a (pseudo)scientific backdrop (case in pont: all the "particle of the week" ST storylines). The science hardly ever stands up to any kind of detailed scrutiny.
Star Wars, in fact, is a classic fantasy story with all the usual fantasy elements (swords, black knight, evil sorceror, inexperienced hero who ends up saving the day, magic) replaced with futuristic parallels (lightsabres, Darth Vader, Palpatine, Luke, the force). That's why the introduction of midichlorians in EP1 irritated me so much - it was an attempt to graft a scientific explanation on to something that shouldn't have had one.
None of the technology is ever explored in any kind of depth - rather than go into any kind of detail about how a lightsabre might actually work, we're told that it's an elegant weapon for a more civilised age, and it's left at that. The stories (both SW and ST) are all character-based rather than being more explicitly about the technology and how it affects things, which to me is one of the fundamental tenets of sci-fi. Don't get me wrong - I love SW and ST as much as the next geek, but I can't call them sci-fi and mean it.
And yes, I'm fully aware of how badly flamed deriding these two bastions of geekiness is probably going to get me, but I still had to say it.
I 100% agree - if you want to really fsck up some piece of electronics, you can't do much better than a can of Coke. It's conductive (so it'll short out any contacts it comes across), corrosive (so it'll eat through what it doesn't short), and very, very sticky (so it's hell to clean off). If you need to destroy some electronics, Coke is your friend.