My guess - they're trying to build demand for a product that doesn't exist (or only exists in prototype) to attract a buyer who would rather buy out a competitor than out-perform them.
I wonder who might do that... If the Phantom announces an oversized controller designed for kids with hand-gigantism, my suspicions will be confirmed.
My mom gets *some* porn spam (probably harvested through a virus - she never posts anywhere) and the first time it happened she called me with this elaborate theory about how someone must have seen her name ("Shawn") and mistaken her for a man.
It kind of ruined her day when I told her they didn't put that kind of thought into it. After all, how dare they solicit filth to her AND not care if she was their target market?
Except for Wisconsin and Minnesota, my home state and state of current residence, respectively.
There are also California, Oregon and Washington to consider. Some will claim Oregon and Washington will bite it when the San Andreas Fault causes California to slide into the ocean, but here in Real Science land, that still leaves five blue states.
"The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner."
They would make a vacuum-cleaner that doesn't suck, which means it doesn't do what it's supposed to, which would suck....and look there! My brain just melted.
Luckily, they could still include a BSOD feature - Blue Smoke of Death. Judging from the most recent poll, you can activate it by not reading the manual.
I have never encountered a ill willed Linux installer so watch the FUD as Microsoft is very nervous nowadays. Also and in fact it is MS that dosesn't play well with others.
What I meant to say is "NTFS is not as well-supported as XFS, JFS, FAT, FAT-32, QNX partitions, etc." I've never had an ill-willed Linux installer, either. If anything, I've had installers that are TOO compliant, even when I didn't know what I was doing.
For example, using cfdisk to resize a FAT-32 partition, even after defragging it. In theory, it should have worked. Not so much, though.
An early snag: Chapter 4's instructions on reformatting a hard drive to let Windows and Linux both exist happily on the same PC didn't work for me. I was installing onto a brand new hard drive, and I thought I'd give dual-booting a shot to see what Windows was like nowadays, and so followed the instructions on setting up a machine to dual-boot.
That's because Linux doesn't play well with NTFS (mounts it read-only), and NTFS (or some variant thereof) lies under WinXP. If you were truly starting with a new hard drive, your best bet is to set up your partitions ahead of time, install XP where you want XP and Linux where you want Linux.
Messing around with the partition-size probably hosed whatever checksum XP does on the partition, and it refused to boot from it.
No, it was cancelled because Fox doesn't want another 800 pound gorrilla like the X-Files and the Simpsons. They want to keep a steady churn of new shows that will capture interest for a season or two. Then, before they become too entrenched with popularity and the actors/producers start looking for more money they can dump the show and put the next-new-thing on in it's place.
That's an interesting thought, even if it is wholly unsupported by facts. There was never any danger of Firefly becoming an 800-lb gorilla. It did poorly in its time slot, end of story. There was no hope of bringing it back as a mid-season replacement (like what did the trick for X-Files) because it cost $1e6+ per episode to produce, and you can always churn out another Joe Millionaire for a quarter of that.
Remember, for every X-Files that made the jump from Friday obscurity to Sunday limelight, you have a Lone Gunmen, Harsh Realm, M.A.N.T.I.S. and Brisco County, Jr. that didn't.
Plato was telling a tale with similar themes to Star Wars, etc
Except that Star Wars is actually true.
You should keep an open mind about Atlantis; remember, people thought the Death Star was made up until the Hubble picked up its wreckage in long-range phots.;)
... and just think how handy all that ass raping experience will be on your honeymoon.
If you ass-rape your bride on your wedding night, what's your marriage going to be like? Luckily, I have a few URLs for $25 divorces if you need them.:)
I'd suggest turning the 'puter off, laying the case on its side and pouring in a box of baking soda for a few days. Dump out the baking soda a few days later and blow out the residue, and your computer should smell remarkably "less bad." Mixing a little alum with the baking soda can't hurt, either.
The smell of a rendering plant will be hard to remove, but this is how I remove the "beef scent" from tallow when I'm making soap.
and we've had new $100, $10 and $5 bills for ages now.
Kinda makes them old bills then, doesn't it?;)
Seriously though, being the best quality of "detected" counterfeit bills is something of a booby prize. Okay, yeah, so he made good fakes. But it was found out they were fakes, and unlike real cash, they were traced back to him. How smart could he be?
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The 'insta latex clothes' could be fun too...
;)
You have non-porous skin?!?!?
Either that, or you have a much higher tolerance to damage to your original finish than I do.
My guess - they're trying to build demand for a product that doesn't exist (or only exists in prototype) to attract a buyer who would rather buy out a competitor than out-perform them.
I wonder who might do that... If the Phantom announces an oversized controller designed for kids with hand-gigantism, my suspicions will be confirmed.
My mom gets *some* porn spam (probably harvested through a virus - she never posts anywhere) and the first time it happened she called me with this elaborate theory about how someone must have seen her name ("Shawn") and mistaken her for a man.
It kind of ruined her day when I told her they didn't put that kind of thought into it. After all, how dare they solicit filth to her AND not care if she was their target market?
Except for Wisconsin and Minnesota, my home state and state of current residence, respectively.
There are also California, Oregon and Washington to consider. Some will claim Oregon and Washington will bite it when the San Andreas Fault causes California to slide into the ocean, but here in Real Science land, that still leaves five blue states.
"The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner."
They would make a vacuum-cleaner that doesn't suck, which means it doesn't do what it's supposed to, which would suck....and look there! My brain just melted.
Luckily, they could still include a BSOD feature - Blue Smoke of Death. Judging from the most recent poll, you can activate it by not reading the manual.
" I had an onion on my belt." , which was the style at the time.
The year was Nineteen Dickety-Two, and the Kaiser had stolen our word for 'twenty.' I chased him for dickety-seven miles...
This is what happens when... people mistake "free exchange of ideas" and "I don't have to pay for it."
Barratry runs rampant?
...if his new calendar allows for "Slashdotting time."
And it starts:
"Anna Nicole Smith walks into a chip fabrication facility..."
you mean like short round?
Exactly Short Round.
Rumor once had it that Indy 4 would be post-Last-Crusade and would have Henry Jones, Sr., Sallah, Marcus, and Short Round as supporting characters.
Of course, rumor once held that Shyamalan was writing the script, too. Then he did "Unbreakable." (which I liked a lot, but no one else did)
Just think what the egyptian kings would have made had they lived that long... :)
Especially with all that cool alien technology they used to build the pyramids!
Maybe that's why 6% of iPod users want to buy Macs. Nothing to do with iTunes, iPods and OSX, they just want to be free of pop-up ads.....
Free of pop-up ads telling me to squash the cockroach and I win an iPod?
I have never encountered a ill willed Linux installer so watch the FUD as Microsoft is very nervous nowadays. Also and in fact it is MS that dosesn't play well with others.
What I meant to say is "NTFS is not as well-supported as XFS, JFS, FAT, FAT-32, QNX partitions, etc." I've never had an ill-willed Linux installer, either. If anything, I've had installers that are TOO compliant, even when I didn't know what I was doing.
For example, using cfdisk to resize a FAT-32 partition, even after defragging it. In theory, it should have worked. Not so much, though.
An early snag: Chapter 4's instructions on reformatting a hard drive to let Windows and Linux both exist happily on the same PC didn't work for me. I was installing onto a brand new hard drive, and I thought I'd give dual-booting a shot to see what Windows was like nowadays, and so followed the instructions on setting up a machine to dual-boot.
:)
That's because Linux doesn't play well with NTFS (mounts it read-only), and NTFS (or some variant thereof) lies under WinXP. If you were truly starting with a new hard drive, your best bet is to set up your partitions ahead of time, install XP where you want XP and Linux where you want Linux.
Messing around with the partition-size probably hosed whatever checksum XP does on the partition, and it refused to boot from it.
Not really newbie-friendly, is it?
No, it was cancelled because Fox doesn't want another 800 pound gorrilla like the X-Files and the Simpsons. They want to keep a steady churn of new shows that will capture interest for a season or two. Then, before they become too entrenched with popularity and the actors/producers start looking for more money they can dump the show and put the next-new-thing on in it's place.
That's an interesting thought, even if it is wholly unsupported by facts. There was never any danger of Firefly becoming an 800-lb gorilla. It did poorly in its time slot, end of story. There was no hope of bringing it back as a mid-season replacement (like what did the trick for X-Files) because it cost $1e6+ per episode to produce, and you can always churn out another Joe Millionaire for a quarter of that.
Remember, for every X-Files that made the jump from Friday obscurity to Sunday limelight, you have a Lone Gunmen, Harsh Realm, M.A.N.T.I.S. and Brisco County, Jr. that didn't.
I agree - maybe that guy should go to work in rural America. ;)
As for a Simpsons' reference, how's this one grab you?
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
Plato was telling a tale with similar themes to Star Wars, etc
;)
Except that Star Wars is actually true.
You should keep an open mind about Atlantis; remember, people thought the Death Star was made up until the Hubble picked up its wreckage in long-range phots.
Damn... I'd just finished compiling 2004.2!
Lucky you - I'm still working on 'emerge kde,' well into its 29th hour.
And no, I'm not kidding.
... and just think how handy all that ass raping experience will be on your honeymoon.
:)
If you ass-rape your bride on your wedding night, what's your marriage going to be like? Luckily, I have a few URLs for $25 divorces if you need them.
Sweet zombie Jesus. When did a 'wink' emoticon become necessary for people to get a joke?
That's "perfectly well" English.
Nope, but there is a reason I got into soap-making to begin with...
I'd suggest turning the 'puter off, laying the case on its side and pouring in a box of baking soda for a few days. Dump out the baking soda a few days later and blow out the residue, and your computer should smell remarkably "less bad." Mixing a little alum with the baking soda can't hurt, either.
The smell of a rendering plant will be hard to remove, but this is how I remove the "beef scent" from tallow when I'm making soap.
student gets ahead of teacher's lessons plan...news at 11.
;)
In the U.S., that is a big deal.
and we've had new $100, $10 and $5 bills for ages now.
;)
Kinda makes them old bills then, doesn't it?
Seriously though, being the best quality of "detected" counterfeit bills is something of a booby prize. Okay, yeah, so he made good fakes. But it was found out they were fakes, and unlike real cash, they were traced back to him. How smart could he be?