And by the way anyone considering they have cast a pretty boy might want to take a look at the guy. My mom said politely when she said his face has "character". Me I think he looks like the guy in the film "Mask".
Don't forget that he is a Brit. Different (lower) prettyboy standards.
Hair is still annoying though, head still looks way too big for the body, and he appears way too young for the role. It somehow just ain't right for the Docta to be younger than yours truly. Now I know how Frank Miller felt when he realized that he was older than Batman.
But at least the guy still has his own nose. If he was an Hollywood actor, half of it would be gone by now, and he would look even less like someone who treats bodies like I do jackets.
Gee... I wonder how health and life insurance companies will react to a test that will make people they insure - appear to be about to be dieing from cancer? At least on paper and where their insurance premiums and insurance contracts are concerned.
Pointing out (and cheering about) that "our team" has won scoring huge and unbelievable 21 while "their team" lost scoring ONLY 69.77, in the same game, makes one wonder not only what is there to be happy about but also if the person doing the cheering is capable of rational thinking at all.
Kinda like that old Soviet news report joke...
"We are pleased to report the results of the recently held 100 meter race between leaders of the Soviet Union and United States of America. Soviet Union has achieved another great victory, with Premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev winning the silver. President of United States, John F. Kennedy was not so lucky, arriving at the goal only seconds before the last runner."
It's similar to pointing out that less than 1/3 of car owners have modified their car or know how to fully utilize it. Most of us don't care - its just a tool to get from A to B. Those that do are probably car geeks as much as we are computer geeks.
If by "modifying car" you mean picking which gas station's services to use - then yeah its a great analogy.
Cause that is about as much the choice of browser has with "computing". Whatever it is that is understood by that name this week.
And a car IS a tool to get people and things from A to B. Attaching shiny lights, very loud speakers that make the music non-listenable (unless you are at least 4 cars behind), or fiddling with the engine/tires/suspension to get 0.07 more powwa out of it does nothing to improve what happens between A and B. Its like tattooing your penis with a picture of your own face.
Waste of time, makes you look like a dick, and it is painful to look at let alone try something like it.
Now... fixing that same car when the idiot described above totals it or pours Coca-Cola in the engine cause he heard it would get him that 0.3% more powwa - THAT is something.
Do you realize how pathetic any form of joyous cheering and celebration about something as "M$' Imperial Expander bellow 70% for first time in human history" is to anyone able to count above 69? Only thing more pathetic coming to mind at the moment is the fact that it is "bellow 70%" - BY 0.23%. Whoopdie-fuckin-doo!
Yeah, IE sucks. Yeah, Microsoft is a monopolistic behemoth that keeps churning out antiquated and broken software.
But they are, despite all that, STILL holding the 69.77% of the figurative (and actual - in TFA) pie depicting the use of a browser that I haven't seen in use since... well... not sure... I know I was using Netscape at the time... Well... years ago anyway.
How about NOT pointing out that more than two thirds of users on this planet are still browsing the net with IE - but instead using the title of the actual article as the "news" part of the story?
Firefox Share Tops 20% for November
Or how about... "Firefox used by 1 in five humans on this planet"
Gloating about the fat rich kid finally having ONLY 69.77% of the pie for himself is truly, really in the realm of "somebody please end my pathetic existence". Do you also celebrate when your team scores 3 times less then "those other bastards that wouldn't know what a ball is if they didn't have a pair attached to their body"?
As the audience for personal computing continues to grow, the number of senile, mentally ill or simply ignorant users will also grow. Mocking them leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
At least according to Slashdot Squad of Moderation Trolls.
Don't you know that it is hilariously entertaining to make fun of mentally challenged people? Rowan Atkinson and Jerry Lewis made careers on the fact that retards are inherently funny.
Check its browser cash. It might contain lotto numbers or stock reports from the future.
Not much use to you (unless cryogenic tech booms in next couple of years) - but your grandkids would love to have that info. Maybe you could blackmail them to clone you or something?
... seems to be off. Just bring up the DOS prompt and fix it using time and date commands. It is faster the clicking around through the program manager.
Current date is December 28, 2008. Not sure about your local time. You might have some small problems convincing your computer that it is 2008 if it is not Y2K compatible though.
And that's why your opinion is irrelevant. Please purchase a trade paperback version, support the creators of the original content, then try again.
Sorry to be harsh. I did the same thing. But after reading the electronic versions, I understood what all the fuss was about and went and got a paperback version so I could enjoy the writing and admire the artwork without sitting in front of a computer, and also so Moore and Gibbons received whatever royalties they still get from the sales of their original work. They deserve it.
No.. seriously.. Fuck off.
One's opinion is irrelevant since one has not payed for something? Then there is a shitload of stuff out there about which our opinions don't count. From online comics to pop music on the radio to motherfuckin Bible and Qur'an. Free stuff all... But you can't have an opinion on it. Unless you buy the printed/recorded version of it.
Or is the idea that one's opinion is irrelevant unless you pay the author of the work? Well fuck... guess we should just stop talking about Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Byron, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and every single dead artist and their work cause as much as we try it ain't likely that they will ever see a dime from us.
And since I too have read Watchmen first in scanned form, only later getting my own printed copy, I guess that makes our opinions about on the same level. BUT... Since I bought the more expensive Absolute Edition AAAAND a regular paperback edition for a friend of mine - my opinion counts more.
Now... had there not been that scanned version, I probably would never have heard about it until this summer. And even then - I'd probably just watch the movie. Downloaded, naturally, since my town still lacks the cinema. And it would remain at that. Moore and Gibbons wouldn't get a dime.
Scanned comics and free online versions of comics (see Warren Ellis' and Paul Duffield's FreakAngels) are a great way for an audience other than the members of hardcore comic book geek society who practically live inside the comic book shops - to get introduced to the story. Same goes for the fansubs of various anime series. Get the stuff to the people. If they like it - they will buy it. If it is good - they might buy it (eventually) even if they don't like it.
Let me end the rant with another Moore's work that illustrates this last point. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. I liked the first two volumes of "The League". In fact I found them to be great. And I loved the start of the "Black Dossier", with it's 1984 references and all (actually it is done practically as a sequel to 1984)...
But the more you read, the more you see that there is no real story. Only obscure cultural reference, upon reference, upon reference... The main characters just go from location A, to location B, to C with any real plot actually being in the stories in the dossier. Its great work - but in the end you realize that nothing really happened. Moore practically tells you - "Forget it kid, its only a comic.". And I could bet that he is laughing his ass off for making people wear those silly 3D glasses that come with the book.
Now don't get me wrong. I love the obscure cultural references and seeing artists just letting loose their creative vibe - but in the end, I liked the original League stories more. Much more. Did I like it? Sorta... In the beginning... less later. Was it good? Undoubtedly. Will I get it in printed form? Yes. Would I ever have read it or the first two volumes after that terrible movie, had they not been around for free? Highly unlikely.
Who ever said that practicing "law" or anything to do with it is a gentleman's game?
On contrary... You got a way to put that extra pound of pressure on your opponent, you use it. As long as it is legal and/or you don't get caught.
Heck... If duels were legal you can bet your ass that lawyers would start hiring people as proxies to challenge the members of opposing legal team prior to trial.
So you argument for an intrusive surveillance state is that without the money they collect through their surveillance they might start to monitor us in order to collect more money? That makes no sense at all.
You should check your logic circuits then.
X GETS easy money from you + X WANTS easy money + X has MEANS to make you give it your money. Easy.
Remove the cameras and you remove the GETS component. Need for the money and the means to make you fork it over are still there.
I like the tire and gasoline solution to the cameras. Make it unprofitable and they will go away.
The people that are paying the tickets (civilians) are the same people that pay for the new cameras (taxpayers). It is NEVER unprofitable for the police or government. They either get the money through the tickets OR through requests for more money from the budget for equipment and resources to fight those hooligans that keep burning the cameras.
Works for roadside RFID readers as well.
How do you burn a reader that is only a small metal plate buried INTO the road or into a large slab of concrete at the side of the road?
Yes... you COULD use TNT but it would be kinda... noticeable.
Speed cameras make money. Not extra money, not bonus money but MONEY money that police and government count on. Taking out the cameras would mean money straight out of their wallets.
Now why in hell do you think that they would just shrug their shoulders and take it like that?
Only thing that can come out of this is MORE surveillance, not less. For example, tagging your car, driver's license and while we are at it any and all equipment and tools you are required to have (like the first aid kit, or winter chains, or spare tire...) - with RFID tags and placing RFID reading arrays along the road.
You drive too fast - you get a ticket. Your car lacks the proper safety equipment - you get a ticket. Your driver's license ID and your car's ID don't match for some reason - you are arrested for stealing your own car.
Sure... it may cost a bit more of taxpayer's (that would be you) money at first to implement such a system but just think of all the extra fines they could deliver with properly tagged drivers and cars.
If only they have used the magic "iPhone" incantation this would have been a success. Like they did here. Not very scientistie.
Just compare these two titles.
"Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases" and "Scientists Hack iPhone To Detect Diseases"
Can't you see just how much cooler the one on the right is? No? Hmm... Did you try crossing and uncrossing your eyes or viewing it on an iPhone screen? It looks MUCH cooler on an iPhone...
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Don't forget that he is a Brit. Different (lower) prettyboy standards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmWRjo7gKI
It comes with sound of voice, facial gestures, gesticulation etc.
Hair is still annoying though, head still looks way too big for the body, and he appears way too young for the role.
It somehow just ain't right for the Docta to be younger than yours truly.
Now I know how Frank Miller felt when he realized that he was older than Batman.
But at least the guy still has his own nose.
If he was an Hollywood actor, half of it would be gone by now, and he would look even less like someone who treats bodies like I do jackets.
Gee... I wonder how health and life insurance companies will react to a test that will make people they insure - appear to be about to be dieing from cancer?
At least on paper and where their insurance premiums and insurance contracts are concerned.
Soo... MPC was this worlds CSC?
That is besides the point I was trying to make.
Pointing out (and cheering about) that "our team" has won scoring huge and unbelievable 21 while "their team" lost scoring ONLY 69.77, in the same game, makes one wonder not only what is there to be happy about but also if the person doing the cheering is capable of rational thinking at all.
Kinda like that old Soviet news report joke...
"We are pleased to report the results of the recently held 100 meter race between leaders of the Soviet Union and United States of America.
Soviet Union has achieved another great victory, with Premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev winning the silver.
President of United States, John F. Kennedy was not so lucky, arriving at the goal only seconds before the last runner."
It's similar to pointing out that less than 1/3 of car owners have modified their car or know how to fully utilize it. Most of us don't care - its just a tool to get from A to B. Those that do are probably car geeks as much as we are computer geeks.
If by "modifying car" you mean picking which gas station's services to use - then yeah its a great analogy.
Cause that is about as much the choice of browser has with "computing". Whatever it is that is understood by that name this week.
And a car IS a tool to get people and things from A to B.
Attaching shiny lights, very loud speakers that make the music non-listenable (unless you are at least 4 cars behind), or fiddling with the engine/tires/suspension to get 0.07 more powwa out of it does nothing to improve what happens between A and B.
Its like tattooing your penis with a picture of your own face.
Waste of time, makes you look like a dick, and it is painful to look at let alone try something like it.
Now... fixing that same car when the idiot described above totals it or pours Coca-Cola in the engine cause he heard it would get him that 0.3% more powwa - THAT is something.
Stop it already.
Do you realize how pathetic any form of joyous cheering and celebration about something as "M$' Imperial Expander bellow 70% for first time in human history" is to anyone able to count above 69?
Only thing more pathetic coming to mind at the moment is the fact that it is "bellow 70%" - BY 0.23%.
Whoopdie-fuckin-doo!
Yeah, IE sucks. Yeah, Microsoft is a monopolistic behemoth that keeps churning out antiquated and broken software.
But they are, despite all that, STILL holding the 69.77% of the figurative (and actual - in TFA) pie depicting the use of a browser that I haven't seen in use since... well... not sure... I know I was using Netscape at the time...
Well... years ago anyway.
How about NOT pointing out that more than two thirds of users on this planet are still browsing the net with IE - but instead using the title of the actual article as the "news" part of the story?
Firefox Share Tops 20% for November
Or how about... "Firefox used by 1 in five humans on this planet"
Gloating about the fat rich kid finally having ONLY 69.77% of the pie for himself is truly, really in the realm of "somebody please end my pathetic existence".
Do you also celebrate when your team scores 3 times less then "those other bastards that wouldn't know what a ball is if they didn't have a pair attached to their body"?
See what I mean?
At least according to Slashdot Squad of Moderation Trolls.
Don't you know that it is hilariously entertaining to make fun of mentally challenged people?
Rowan Atkinson and Jerry Lewis made careers on the fact that retards are inherently funny.
Check its browser cash. It might contain lotto numbers or stock reports from the future.
Not much use to you (unless cryogenic tech booms in next couple of years) - but your grandkids would love to have that info.
Maybe you could blackmail them to clone you or something?
... seems to be off.
Just bring up the DOS prompt and fix it using time and date commands. It is faster the clicking around through the program manager.
Current date is December 28, 2008. Not sure about your local time.
You might have some small problems convincing your computer that it is 2008 if it is not Y2K compatible though.
A female kind. Probably underage.
Those are hard to get rid off. It usually takes years before you get the ship em off to college or marry em off.
No.. seriously.. Fuck off.
One's opinion is irrelevant since one has not payed for something? Then there is a shitload of stuff out there about which our opinions don't count.
From online comics to pop music on the radio to motherfuckin Bible and Qur'an. Free stuff all... But you can't have an opinion on it.
Unless you buy the printed/recorded version of it.
Or is the idea that one's opinion is irrelevant unless you pay the author of the work?
Well fuck... guess we should just stop talking about Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Byron, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and every single dead artist and their work cause as much as we try it ain't likely that they will ever see a dime from us.
And since I too have read Watchmen first in scanned form, only later getting my own printed copy, I guess that makes our opinions about on the same level.
BUT... Since I bought the more expensive Absolute Edition AAAAND a regular paperback edition for a friend of mine - my opinion counts more.
Now... had there not been that scanned version, I probably would never have heard about it until this summer.
And even then - I'd probably just watch the movie. Downloaded, naturally, since my town still lacks the cinema.
And it would remain at that.
Moore and Gibbons wouldn't get a dime.
Scanned comics and free online versions of comics (see Warren Ellis' and Paul Duffield's FreakAngels) are a great way for an audience other than the members of hardcore comic book geek society who practically live inside the comic book shops - to get introduced to the story.
Same goes for the fansubs of various anime series.
Get the stuff to the people. If they like it - they will buy it.
If it is good - they might buy it (eventually) even if they don't like it.
Let me end the rant with another Moore's work that illustrates this last point.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.
I liked the first two volumes of "The League". In fact I found them to be great.
And I loved the start of the "Black Dossier", with it's 1984 references and all (actually it is done practically as a sequel to 1984)...
But the more you read, the more you see that there is no real story. Only obscure cultural reference, upon reference, upon reference...
The main characters just go from location A, to location B, to C with any real plot actually being in the stories in the dossier.
Its great work - but in the end you realize that nothing really happened. Moore practically tells you - "Forget it kid, its only a comic.".
And I could bet that he is laughing his ass off for making people wear those silly 3D glasses that come with the book.
Now don't get me wrong.
I love the obscure cultural references and seeing artists just letting loose their creative vibe - but in the end, I liked the original League stories more. Much more.
Did I like it? Sorta... In the beginning... less later.
Was it good? Undoubtedly.
Will I get it in printed form? Yes.
Would I ever have read it or the first two volumes after that terrible movie, had they not been around for free? Highly unlikely.
Who ever said that practicing "law" or anything to do with it is a gentleman's game?
On contrary... You got a way to put that extra pound of pressure on your opponent, you use it.
As long as it is legal and/or you don't get caught.
Heck... If duels were legal you can bet your ass that lawyers would start hiring people as proxies to challenge the members of opposing legal team prior to trial.
Its probably just a friendly warning.
Googling for the "long tail" in German may have unforeseen consequences.
Particularly if you do it at work.
Dogs are made out of protein too.
You should check your logic circuits then.
X GETS easy money from you + X WANTS easy money + X has MEANS to make you give it your money. Easy.
Remove the cameras and you remove the GETS component.
Need for the money and the means to make you fork it over are still there.
The people that are paying the tickets (civilians) are the same people that pay for the new cameras (taxpayers).
It is NEVER unprofitable for the police or government.
They either get the money through the tickets OR through requests for more money from the budget for equipment and resources to fight those hooligans that keep burning the cameras.
How do you burn a reader that is only a small metal plate buried INTO the road or into a large slab of concrete at the side of the road?
Yes... you COULD use TNT but it would be kinda... noticeable.
Speed cameras make money. Not extra money, not bonus money but MONEY money that police and government count on.
Taking out the cameras would mean money straight out of their wallets.
Now why in hell do you think that they would just shrug their shoulders and take it like that?
Only thing that can come out of this is MORE surveillance, not less.
For example, tagging your car, driver's license and while we are at it any and all equipment and tools you are required to have (like the first aid kit, or winter chains, or spare tire...) - with RFID tags and placing RFID reading arrays along the road.
You drive too fast - you get a ticket.
Your car lacks the proper safety equipment - you get a ticket.
Your driver's license ID and your car's ID don't match for some reason - you are arrested for stealing your own car.
Sure... it may cost a bit more of taxpayer's (that would be you) money at first to implement such a system but just think of all the extra fines they could deliver with properly tagged drivers and cars.
If only they have used the magic "iPhone" incantation this would have been a success.
Like they did here. Not very scientistie.
Just compare these two titles.
"Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases" and "Scientists Hack iPhone To Detect Diseases"
Can't you see just how much cooler the one on the right is?
No? Hmm...
Did you try crossing and uncrossing your eyes or viewing it on an iPhone screen?
It looks MUCH cooler on an iPhone...
They stay setup, open, on people desks, over the weekend.. I'm surprised that the cleaners haven't stolen a few buy now.
If your boss is unresponsive - talk to your cleaners. I'm sure "something" can be done about it.
On the other story, does the Dell "Adamo" has anything to do with Battlestar Galactica?
Noooo!
Its named after the first man Our Lord God created. Not some imaginary character on some space-robots TV show.
You insensitive heathen clod.
That their relationship is more like "Sauron and Orcs" than "Head vampire and his minions"?
178 cm is average or above average in most of the world.
Where do you live? Lost Kingdom of basketball players?
If there are no Koreans on your MMO server - you are not playing it right.
Might as well sit at your starting point and chat.