i'm obviously not sure about the grandparent, but from a foreign (non-US) perspective, the military budget is by far the most visible non-essential activity that the US engages in.I don't see the money being pissed away in bureaucracy in the US (hell, i have to pay attention to see it over here, that's how good those bandits are at hiding themselves), i do however see the US engaging in all sorts of "war on terrorism" military campaigns, with no other obvious goal then securing oil and playing a game of middle eastern sock-puppet theather
First "first shuttle pilot" and "first female shuttle commander"? How is that any more different or special then "first female pilot" or "first female commander" both achieved by the Soviets in 1963? First African American is historic for America but not for other countries that came to their senses long before us. Putting a politician in space? People have been dreaming of that _long_ before rockets were even invented.
Had you posted this yesterday, i would have had a big shiny "+1 insightfull" for you
These kind of achievements are the same as ford making a hybrid, and claiming to have achieved the first ford hybrid ever!!!!!!!! never mind the prius/insight who have been around for years or anything...
I am not the kind of guy to swear in code (i prefer my code neat, my cursing is reserved for anyone within earshot), but if i were, i'd at least try to keep it to a minimum when working on work code, and i certainly wouldnt check any profane shit into source control. Hobby code that no-one else sees, pah who cares, just as long as you yourself dont start vomitting from reading it, it doesnt matter
Dutch reader here, but i watch enough bbc/british shows to know the word, and it always struck me as a stupid name for the system. Whenever i hear someone talk about git i visualise an idiotic (twat-faced if you will) gnome sitting in a server-room trying to keep multiple versions of text organized...
Same goes for GIMP by the way.. it might be a fine image manipulation tool, but any software which makes you think of rubber full body suits and chains is gonna be difficult to market
there is a difference for me between having a coke symbol on the side of the rocket, and interrupting the show right at the moment supreme for commercials
the former i wouldnt mind, hell, i enjoy all sorts of motorsports, and actually think all the sponsor logo's add a lot of visual flair to the cars, but commercial breaks, i hate them with a passion
Even if you forget all the back and forth discussion about flopping flags, prop-marked rocks and such, there is one very good reason to believe the moon landings actually happened:
If there ever was one party that would have anything to gain by discrediting the US moon landings, it would be the soviets (just think of the propaganda), if there ever was a party that would have the means to discredit the moon landings, it would be the soviets (hell, drive up there with a robotic lander and show the crashed space-debris they shot at the moon to fool the radars), it would allow them to also claim that space victory for them selves, on a slightly more leasure timetable (the US wouldnt bother with keeping up right untill the soviets prove them to be frauds)
X-prize lunar landing control center transcript *beginning lunar decent* *30k feet to go, firing retro rockets* *20k feet to go, retro rockets to full thrust* *10k feet to go decent velocity at 100 feet/second* *1000 feet to go, beginning final decent, scouting for landing spot* *500 feet to go, and we'll be right back after a message from our sponsors*
exactly the same experience here, my girlfriend wandered off after half an hour, and i strugled through the whole movie just to see when it would get good
i'm sure it is miles better if you actually know the comic and such, but to the unintroduced layman, it is just a waste of time
yet am allowed to carry a magazine, a metal pen and a pencil, all which can be used to kill a person much easier than I could with a pocket knife with a 2 inch blade.
death by a thousand papercuts? seriously, i'm curious, how do you kill someone with a magazine?
keeping the accounts, sure, but at the very fricking least reset the password so the account isnt directly usable by anyone
As for good terms and leaving, i am currently sitting out my last days at the current job, and i'm not in a fight with anyone, but if they call me up next month asking for my help, they better be prepared to pay me ten times what they are paying now before i even lift a finger. Even when leaving on good terms people have very good reasons to leave their job.
Windows isnt just windows either, it is 95, 98, 98se, me, 2000, xp, vista and 7
All games specify that they only run on version X or newer, i assume OS X works the same way, with some software requiring 10.5 or better, and refusing to run on 10.4
Just do the following for your linux games, support debian/ubuntu and perhaps the redhat derivatives with version support for 1-2 years old releases max (upgrading your release is typically free), debian/ubuntu probably catches 80% of gaming interested linux users out there, and those die-hard slackware nuts are probably much more likely to install ubuntu on a seperate partition rather then buying/installing windows.
interesting idea, adding some vegetation/microbes to mars might make it a more friendly place (not sure about the atmospheric conditions, but some oxygen producing plants cant be a bad thing can they?)
I wonder if we have anything here on earth that would survive (or even thrive) in martian conditions, but i guess the lack of liquid water is one hell of a hurdle
If you purchased an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch in the last 2 years (new, retail), you can still get the current OS. It may not work as well on "mature" hardware (such as the iPhone 3G and 2nd Gen iPod Touch), but you can install it.
Then what is the point? i have a 3g ipod touch (8gb, so 2g hardware), and yes i run iOS 4.0, what did that get me over 3.x? a 3d-ish effect on the pinned appes bar at the bottom of the screen, conversation threading in the mail app (which is still miles behind the various gmail apps on other platforms) and the ability to make "folders" on my homescreen with multiple apps in them.. in return i get reduced performance when doing most things (ipod app loads slower then before etc..)
Sure, the update works on my ipod, but to me it provides 0 value, if someone magically reverted my ipod back to 3.x, i wouldnt bother with the 4.x update again
buying a device for future (and in sony's case current) functionality is stupid, and has always been stupid in the world of technology.
Sure, the expected 2.2 update was an argument for picking up my current HTC (and they actually did update), but i would have been satisfied with the device with 2.1 loaded just fine.
when you buy a device, buy it based on the current specs/features and be happy with it, anything else is just gravy
HTC took quite a while to update the desire to 2.2, the legend took even longer.
They did update though, which in the current market is a credit to them, besides, the desire is an excellent piece of hardware
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I think the sales of Wii Sports alone are greater than all the sales of all games for Xbox and Xbox 360. Ever. Combined.
you are an idiot with no sense of scale.
wikipedia (yes yes, i know, sadly more directly gaming related sources are blocked by the work firewall..) puts overall wii sales at 86 milion at years end 2010, the 360 has sold 50 milion up to the same date. Now even if you include wii sports resort (and not just the original bundled wii sports) into your little "thought" and assume every single wii owner bought it, that gets you roughly 170 milion copies of wii sports out there (while the truth is probably more along 120m). Now compare that to 50 milion 360s with a attach rate of 9, for 450 milion games (and lets not forget the 24 milion original xboxes)
next time, try not to ruin your point by making stupid statements and pulling random thoughts out of your ass
Granted, it is a bit of a bottom-feeder as android phones are concerned (128mb ram, resistive touch, QVGA screen), and i dont know jack about vodafone UKs relative tariffs (dont live in the UK), but you get a fully functional (and rootable) android phone with 2.1 on it.
I bought one (they also sell it in holland) last year, and used it for a few months untill my subscription was up for renewall (had a 2 year plan with a shitty nokia) to try out android a bit, sim-unlocked it (god bless the chinese) and used it with my plan simcard. It is a far cry from my current HTC desire, but it gave me a good glimpse into the android experience, a decent amount of apps work on it (perhaps more today then back then, considering the htc wildfire has identical resolution etc.. boosting developer support for QVGA?) and allows for a much better internet experience then any non-smart phone i previously used (and every symbian s60 device i ever used)
Also, vodafone is supposed to introduce the 945 shortly in the uk, same price point, better specs!
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i'm obviously not sure about the grandparent, but from a foreign (non-US) perspective, the military budget is by far the most visible non-essential activity that the US engages in.I don't see the money being pissed away in bureaucracy in the US (hell, i have to pay attention to see it over here, that's how good those bandits are at hiding themselves), i do however see the US engaging in all sorts of "war on terrorism" military campaigns, with no other obvious goal then securing oil and playing a game of middle eastern sock-puppet theather
First "first shuttle pilot" and "first female shuttle commander"? How is that any more different or special then "first female pilot" or "first female commander" both achieved by the Soviets in 1963? First African American is historic for America but not for other countries that came to their senses long before us. Putting a politician in space? People have been dreaming of that _long_ before rockets were even invented.
Had you posted this yesterday, i would have had a big shiny "+1 insightfull" for you
These kind of achievements are the same as ford making a hybrid, and claiming to have achieved the first ford hybrid ever!!!!!!!! never mind the prius/insight who have been around for years or anything...
insightfull right here!
I am not the kind of guy to swear in code (i prefer my code neat, my cursing is reserved for anyone within earshot), but if i were, i'd at least try to keep it to a minimum when working on work code, and i certainly wouldnt check any profane shit into source control. Hobby code that no-one else sees, pah who cares, just as long as you yourself dont start vomitting from reading it, it doesnt matter
well they tried, but the system didnt accept the username "Snoop d o double gizzle" and he refuses to use underscores...
The only rapper i can think of responsible for that comment is eminem...
Dutch reader here, but i watch enough bbc/british shows to know the word, and it always struck me as a stupid name for the system. Whenever i hear someone talk about git i visualise an idiotic (twat-faced if you will) gnome sitting in a server-room trying to keep multiple versions of text organized...
Same goes for GIMP by the way.. it might be a fine image manipulation tool, but any software which makes you think of rubber full body suits and chains is gonna be difficult to market
wrong disaster, you need the werewolf apocalypse to have any use for your brick of solid silver
there is a difference for me between having a coke symbol on the side of the rocket, and interrupting the show right at the moment supreme for commercials
the former i wouldnt mind, hell, i enjoy all sorts of motorsports, and actually think all the sponsor logo's add a lot of visual flair to the cars, but commercial breaks, i hate them with a passion
Even if you forget all the back and forth discussion about flopping flags, prop-marked rocks and such, there is one very good reason to believe the moon landings actually happened:
If there ever was one party that would have anything to gain by discrediting the US moon landings, it would be the soviets (just think of the propaganda), if there ever was a party that would have the means to discredit the moon landings, it would be the soviets (hell, drive up there with a robotic lander and show the crashed space-debris they shot at the moon to fool the radars), it would allow them to also claim that space victory for them selves, on a slightly more leasure timetable (the US wouldnt bother with keeping up right untill the soviets prove them to be frauds)
Did they? NO
just as long as Craig Charles can do the commentary on the BBC broadcast, i would so watch that!
now there is an idea
X-prize lunar landing control center transcript
*beginning lunar decent*
*30k feet to go, firing retro rockets*
*20k feet to go, retro rockets to full thrust*
*10k feet to go decent velocity at 100 feet/second*
*1000 feet to go, beginning final decent, scouting for landing spot*
*500 feet to go, and we'll be right back after a message from our sponsors*
COCA COLA, IT EVEN TASTES GOOD ON THE MOON!!!
exactly the same experience here, my girlfriend wandered off after half an hour, and i strugled through the whole movie just to see when it would get good
i'm sure it is miles better if you actually know the comic and such, but to the unintroduced layman, it is just a waste of time
yet am allowed to carry a magazine, a metal pen and a pencil, all which can be used to kill a person much easier than I could with a pocket knife with a 2 inch blade.
death by a thousand papercuts? seriously, i'm curious, how do you kill someone with a magazine?
given what some corporations/bosses pull which ends up with people quiting their jobs, yes
keeping the accounts, sure, but at the very fricking least reset the password so the account isnt directly usable by anyone
As for good terms and leaving, i am currently sitting out my last days at the current job, and i'm not in a fight with anyone, but if they call me up next month asking for my help, they better be prepared to pay me ten times what they are paying now before i even lift a finger. Even when leaving on good terms people have very good reasons to leave their job.
yeah i know, i loved the fact that my ut2k4 windows DVDs also have a linux install script on them.
You dont need to standardize on deb/rpm, but i thought sticking with one major distro/family would make support somewhat easier
Windows isnt just windows either, it is 95, 98, 98se, me, 2000, xp, vista and 7
All games specify that they only run on version X or newer, i assume OS X works the same way, with some software requiring 10.5 or better, and refusing to run on 10.4
Just do the following for your linux games, support debian/ubuntu and perhaps the redhat derivatives with version support for 1-2 years old releases max (upgrading your release is typically free), debian/ubuntu probably catches 80% of gaming interested linux users out there, and those die-hard slackware nuts are probably much more likely to install ubuntu on a seperate partition rather then buying/installing windows.
finally, we get our high-resolution screens?
Too bad it'll probably be at the cost of having to upgrade everything to blu-ray 2.0 or something...
*raises hands* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
On a serious note, Intel must be shitting themselves right now, if Dell were to buy AMD, intel just lost their biggest customer
interesting idea, adding some vegetation/microbes to mars might make it a more friendly place (not sure about the atmospheric conditions, but some oxygen producing plants cant be a bad thing can they?)
I wonder if we have anything here on earth that would survive (or even thrive) in martian conditions, but i guess the lack of liquid water is one hell of a hurdle
Galaxy S fag here
I stopped reading right there
Please leave your 4chan lingo at the door
If you purchased an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch in the last 2 years (new, retail), you can still get the current OS. It may not work as well on "mature" hardware (such as the iPhone 3G and 2nd Gen iPod Touch), but you can install it.
Then what is the point? i have a 3g ipod touch (8gb, so 2g hardware), and yes i run iOS 4.0, what did that get me over 3.x? a 3d-ish effect on the pinned appes bar at the bottom of the screen, conversation threading in the mail app (which is still miles behind the various gmail apps on other platforms) and the ability to make "folders" on my homescreen with multiple apps in them.. in return i get reduced performance when doing most things (ipod app loads slower then before etc..)
Sure, the update works on my ipod, but to me it provides 0 value, if someone magically reverted my ipod back to 3.x, i wouldnt bother with the 4.x update again
buying a device for future (and in sony's case current) functionality is stupid, and has always been stupid in the world of technology.
Sure, the expected 2.2 update was an argument for picking up my current HTC (and they actually did update), but i would have been satisfied with the device with 2.1 loaded just fine.
when you buy a device, buy it based on the current specs/features and be happy with it, anything else is just gravy
HTC took quite a while to update the desire to 2.2, the legend took even longer.
They did update though, which in the current market is a credit to them, besides, the desire is an excellent piece of hardware
I think the sales of Wii Sports alone are greater than all the sales of all games for Xbox and Xbox 360. Ever. Combined.
you are an idiot with no sense of scale.
wikipedia (yes yes, i know, sadly more directly gaming related sources are blocked by the work firewall..) puts overall wii sales at 86 milion at years end 2010, the 360 has sold 50 milion up to the same date. Now even if you include wii sports resort (and not just the original bundled wii sports) into your little "thought" and assume every single wii owner bought it, that gets you roughly 170 milion copies of wii sports out there (while the truth is probably more along 120m). Now compare that to 50 milion 360s with a attach rate of 9, for 450 milion games (and lets not forget the 24 milion original xboxes)
next time, try not to ruin your point by making stupid statements and pulling random thoughts out of your ass
Find me a smart phone for under £100 on Pay-as-you-go, with a decent tariff and data rate.
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-phone/vodafone-845-payg
Granted, it is a bit of a bottom-feeder as android phones are concerned (128mb ram, resistive touch, QVGA screen), and i dont know jack about vodafone UKs relative tariffs (dont live in the UK), but you get a fully functional (and rootable) android phone with 2.1 on it.
I bought one (they also sell it in holland) last year, and used it for a few months untill my subscription was up for renewall (had a 2 year plan with a shitty nokia) to try out android a bit, sim-unlocked it (god bless the chinese) and used it with my plan simcard. It is a far cry from my current HTC desire, but it gave me a good glimpse into the android experience, a decent amount of apps work on it (perhaps more today then back then, considering the htc wildfire has identical resolution etc.. boosting developer support for QVGA?) and allows for a much better internet experience then any non-smart phone i previously used (and every symbian s60 device i ever used)
Also, vodafone is supposed to introduce the 945 shortly in the uk, same price point, better specs!