The "Ren & Stimpy Log" song is based on the old "Slinky" toy jingle... which is what the R&S parodies of course. But then again, most people have only heard the Log version and not the original slinky jingle.
Most of the time I would rather play a good computer or console game than watch tv. There are still some good movies out there for sure, but I would rather play a good game than watch a bad movie.
And as Jack Handey once said, "I'd rather be rich than stupid."
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Oh no, the day has come when modding up an AYB reference is Informative instead of Funny! The end is definately upon us.
Considering they're both huge geeks, you should know that the conversation was held via SMS text messaging on cell phones, while driving in a car. Oh yes, this marriage is going good places.
Yes, yes, we all know foreigners are stupid compared to the genius Americans, but I'd hope that the literate foreigners could at least count. How would a little Chinese kid know instinctively that the blue fifty dollar bill is worth more than the orange ten dollar bill? Honestly?
I cranked my computer speakers up pretty damn loud to actually hear the 'lowercase' song samples in the article. Then, I got a new email and Brak screamed at me at 90dB to "READ THE MAIL, READ THE MAIL, READ THE MAIL!!!!!" I need new pants now.
Suing your American neighbor for having a dog that barks too loud is stupid... but NOT suing your employer for violating many laws when they fire you is just silly too.
Sure, some banner ads are the internet equivalent of normal TV ads, such as Thinkgeek's banners, for one, and others that just show you something humerous or witty and hope you remember their company in the future. The banner ads that are doing their best to be the most annoying shit on the planet are the internet equivalents of the short informercials trying to get you to buy their stupid compilation CD, or handy-dandy new gadget that is "Only available through this special TV offer! Buy now! Operators are standing by!" If they don't see sales jump immediately, they're going to cancel those TV commercials (or pull their banner ads from an ad network).
Big companies can afford to run ads that just get you interesting in the brand name, or force you to remember their name whether you like it or not. They plan to be around for years, so they can play the waiting game... aww the waiting game sucks, let's play hungry hungry hippos instead! Smaller companies that rely on selling one little invention or gadget or service can't afford to wait weeks or months for business to start rolling in, they need clicks to their sites now, and if they don't get them, they're going to either start pulling their ads, or finding ways to make their ads more intrusive, so you have no choice but to watch them, and probably will be more likely to click on them (if for no other reason than by mistake cause they're covering up the story you want to read;)
Dell at least is still going after educational contracts. Michigan struck a deal with Dell to distribute Inspiron laptops to all the teachers in the state. My mom got one, and the fan is already broke on the thing... hope they don't ship out the crappy batch to the educators.
I can see some benefits to these computers, but I seriously doubt kids are going to learn anything from things like wireless networking, Dev Tools, & TCO. The reliability, no viruses & "unhackability" would be much stronger selling points. I can see how it would be better for kids to use their own laptops for things like typing reports or taking notes during class, or doing touch-typing exercises, or looking up research immediately.
However I doubt they'll be used to their full extent; I would imagine that 95% of the usage kids get out of these computers will be IM'ing each other during classes, playing simple games instead of listening to the teacher, and looking up sports scores. That's the usages I put my TI-83 to, and it didn't have a fraction of the functionality of an iBook.
I don't know the current condition of Colorado schools, but Michigan isn't in great shape either. Michigan recently approved the distribution of laptops to every teacher in the state, but I hope to God they wouldn't think of giving out laptops to every kid in the state yet. I recently had the pleasure of doing volunteer work at some Detroit inner-city school districts, and many of these kids wouldn't have the slighest clue what to do with a computer, even the high-schoolers. I could think of 100 better things to do with that money than buying laptops. Our state needs to figure out how to keep schools from stinking like urine, having ceiling and walls that don't leak, ensuring more than 50% of students actually graduate from high school, and making heating systems that don't run on coal (yes folks, there are school districts in Michigan and Ohio that still use coal for heat) then maybe we could splurge on such luxuries as fancy laptops for every kid.
Actually I just turned on my riovolt 250, and it was less than 15 seconds before it was up and playing a VBR mp3. I don't know what kind of directory structure you use, I just throw everything on the root.
I now know that Katz lives in some alternate dimension unto his own.
But unknown to the most people, Katz lives in multiple alternate dimensions, and this "evil Katz" in our dimension *must* be getting his super troll-writing powers by killing the good Katz's in other dimensions. It's up to last remaining super-Katz to face off in a fud-writing contest... TO THE DEATH.
Doesn't carbon dating only work on organic matter? Most material in a photo isn't really organic, so I don't know how useful carbon dating would be. Plus, if you can't tell the difference between a picture from 1910 and a picture from 1960, you've got bigger problems. And I think we would be able to tell pictures from 1998 from pictures from 2058 by the flying cars.
And oddly enough, windows works in exactly the same way. Rename a.jpg to.txt, and drop it into internet explorer, and you'll see the jpg image. All microsoft does it put their way of associating files in a different place. This author is apparently just a lazy bastard and just wants one simple-to-use control panel option for adjusting file associations.
The towns mentioned in the article (at least Coldwater, I lived 5 minutes away from it) *are* exactly that, in the sticks. Cities of less than 10,000 people, especially in rural Michigan, have few choices when it comes to broadband. Forget about DSL. The only option is really crappy cable companies who always underestimate demand, so service & performance suffer. Or you go with some kind of Satellite provider, or stick with dialup.
Sturgis, nearby Coldwater, was trying to roll out a city-wide fiber optic backbone funded by the local government. Unfortunately, it took them nearly a year to figure out that costs would be WAY more than what they initially expected. So only major businesses could really afford the > 1 MBps connections. Maybe 5 or 10 years down the road it'll happen, but it's really not feasible today.
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The "Ren & Stimpy Log" song is based on the old "Slinky" toy jingle... which is what the R&S parodies of course. But then again, most people have only heard the Log version and not the original slinky jingle.
Most of the time I would rather play a good computer or console game than watch tv. There are still some good movies out there for sure, but I would rather play a good game than watch a bad movie.
And as Jack Handey once said, "I'd rather be rich than stupid."
Oh no, the day has come when modding up an AYB reference is Informative instead of Funny! The end is definately upon us.
Considering they're both huge geeks, you should know that the conversation was held via SMS text messaging on cell phones, while driving in a car. Oh yes, this marriage is going good places.
Oops, so I see I'm on the same side as swb. Your wording confused my meager American brain. Carry on.
Yes, yes, we all know foreigners are stupid compared to the genius Americans, but I'd hope that the literate foreigners could at least count. How would a little Chinese kid know instinctively that the blue fifty dollar bill is worth more than the orange ten dollar bill? Honestly?
Which reminds me, why the hell hasn't anyone registered backslashdot.org yet? I've got an incredible urge to go and do JUST THAT!
I cranked my computer speakers up pretty damn loud to actually hear the 'lowercase' song samples in the article. Then, I got a new email and Brak screamed at me at 90dB to "READ THE MAIL, READ THE MAIL, READ THE MAIL!!!!!" I need new pants now.
mmm, this Score:5 Funny post is gonna be even funnier once lowtax changes that linked pic to something [b]awful[/b]! har har... yarr.
But where's the CowboyNeal option? He should get at least 30% of the vote.
I like that, instead of Software Piracy or Software Theft, call it Software Purloinery. Purloin is a freakin awesome word.
Suing your American neighbor for having a dog that barks too loud is stupid... but NOT suing your employer for violating many laws when they fire you is just silly too.
Sure, some banner ads are the internet equivalent of normal TV ads, such as Thinkgeek's banners, for one, and others that just show you something humerous or witty and hope you remember their company in the future. The banner ads that are doing their best to be the most annoying shit on the planet are the internet equivalents of the short informercials trying to get you to buy their stupid compilation CD, or handy-dandy new gadget that is "Only available through this special TV offer! Buy now! Operators are standing by!" If they don't see sales jump immediately, they're going to cancel those TV commercials (or pull their banner ads from an ad network).
;)
Big companies can afford to run ads that just get you interesting in the brand name, or force you to remember their name whether you like it or not. They plan to be around for years, so they can play the waiting game... aww the waiting game sucks, let's play hungry hungry hippos instead! Smaller companies that rely on selling one little invention or gadget or service can't afford to wait weeks or months for business to start rolling in, they need clicks to their sites now, and if they don't get them, they're going to either start pulling their ads, or finding ways to make their ads more intrusive, so you have no choice but to watch them, and probably will be more likely to click on them (if for no other reason than by mistake cause they're covering up the story you want to read
Dell at least is still going after educational contracts. Michigan struck a deal with Dell to distribute Inspiron laptops to all the teachers in the state. My mom got one, and the fan is already broke on the thing... hope they don't ship out the crappy batch to the educators.
I can see some benefits to these computers, but I seriously doubt kids are going to learn anything from things like wireless networking, Dev Tools, & TCO. The reliability, no viruses & "unhackability" would be much stronger selling points. I can see how it would be better for kids to use their own laptops for things like typing reports or taking notes during class, or doing touch-typing exercises, or looking up research immediately.
However I doubt they'll be used to their full extent; I would imagine that 95% of the usage kids get out of these computers will be IM'ing each other during classes, playing simple games instead of listening to the teacher, and looking up sports scores. That's the usages I put my TI-83 to, and it didn't have a fraction of the functionality of an iBook.
I don't know the current condition of Colorado schools, but Michigan isn't in great shape either. Michigan recently approved the distribution of laptops to every teacher in the state, but I hope to God they wouldn't think of giving out laptops to every kid in the state yet. I recently had the pleasure of doing volunteer work at some Detroit inner-city school districts, and many of these kids wouldn't have the slighest clue what to do with a computer, even the high-schoolers. I could think of 100 better things to do with that money than buying laptops. Our state needs to figure out how to keep schools from stinking like urine, having ceiling and walls that don't leak, ensuring more than 50% of students actually graduate from high school, and making heating systems that don't run on coal (yes folks, there are school districts in Michigan and Ohio that still use coal for heat) then maybe we could splurge on such luxuries as fancy laptops for every kid.
Actually I just turned on my riovolt 250, and it was less than 15 seconds before it was up and playing a VBR mp3. I don't know what kind of directory structure you use, I just throw everything on the root.
A full-screen animated photo-colored fading-in gif? That sure sounds non-efficient.
If a corporation wants to take down trademarked material, they simply submit the site to slashdot, and it's gone 5 minutes later.
I now know that Katz lives in some alternate dimension unto his own.
But unknown to the most people, Katz lives in multiple alternate dimensions, and this "evil Katz" in our dimension *must* be getting his super troll-writing powers by killing the good Katz's in other dimensions. It's up to last remaining super-Katz to face off in a fud-writing contest... TO THE DEATH.
Doesn't carbon dating only work on organic matter? Most material in a photo isn't really organic, so I don't know how useful carbon dating would be. Plus, if you can't tell the difference between a picture from 1910 and a picture from 1960, you've got bigger problems. And I think we would be able to tell pictures from 1998 from pictures from 2058 by the flying cars.
And oddly enough, windows works in exactly the same way. Rename a .jpg to .txt, and drop it into internet explorer, and you'll see the jpg image. All microsoft does it put their way of associating files in a different place. This author is apparently just a lazy bastard and just wants one simple-to-use control panel option for adjusting file associations.
Long live Tenacious D! They do a great cover of that. Search for Tenacious D - Star Trek in your favorite mp3 sharing proggy.
Hey I'm a monkey. But I'm not a troll. I just scheme and plot.
Us innocent monkeys are going to be endangered by your anti-monkey hatred! Peace for all monkeys!
The towns mentioned in the article (at least Coldwater, I lived 5 minutes away from it) *are* exactly that, in the sticks. Cities of less than 10,000 people, especially in rural Michigan, have few choices when it comes to broadband. Forget about DSL. The only option is really crappy cable companies who always underestimate demand, so service & performance suffer. Or you go with some kind of Satellite provider, or stick with dialup.
Sturgis, nearby Coldwater, was trying to roll out a city-wide fiber optic backbone funded by the local government. Unfortunately, it took them nearly a year to figure out that costs would be WAY more than what they initially expected. So only major businesses could really afford the > 1 MBps connections. Maybe 5 or 10 years down the road it'll happen, but it's really not feasible today.