Is it me or does Garrett Hedlund look like a young Peter Weller? They should get him for that Robocop reboot that has been in development hell for ages.
For that matter, maybe we could get a Buckaroo Bonzai sequel.
Equilibrium??? The movie with "gun fu", where you take a fucking gun and instead of shooting the guy with it your best option is to flip it over and start clubbing people in the head? Really? What, did they run out of bullets in the future? I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for things like "guy gets sucked into a computer" - but when it comes to sheer idiocy and illogical thinking by supposedly rational people, you gotta draw the line.
Maybe because, unlike bullets, use of guns as blunt instruments can't be traced? Maybe next time you can try puzzling it out for yourself or asking for the answer instead of assuming everyone is stupid and going ballistic.
I have yet to see the innate superiority of touch typing, so I can't really acknowledge it as proper.
It's probably more efficient if you're writing blocks of English text, but I suspect that the advantage disappears when writing code, due to the increased use of punctuation.
People didn't care when Apple removed the PageUp/PageDown from the MacBook. (Of course, they lost at least one potential customer that way.)
Did they? My unibody MacBook Pro has Page Up/Down (though they're not marked as such) but lacks the numeric keypad overlay, so typing "/* and "*/" is a pain.
Every Apple keyboard and laptop made recently (that's millions upon millions of keyboards) has protection against accidental capslock activation - you have to hold the key down briefly, it won't activate with just a tap.
This is even worse -- it means that Caps Lock won't engage when I hit the key normally, even intentionally. It means I can't rely on muscle memory but have to think about what I'm doing -- just to press a key.
Preventing accidents shouldn't come at the price of impeding correct behavior. And delay-sensitive interfaces inherently invite errors.
The NeXT keyboards had no Caps Lock key. Caps Lock mode was toggled by pressing Shift while holding down Command. They may also have been the first keyboards to integrate the Caps Lock mode LED indicator into the key itself (the Shift key, in this case).
Apple's original approach was a physically locking Caps Lock key, which also succeeded in preventing accidental engagement of Caps Lock mode. Sadly, they don't use either of these methods anymore.
So... calling the pope and pretending to be Henry Kissenger (nicer legs than Hitler and bigger tits than Cher) counts for nuthin'?
It's someone's alias, not a merit-based rank.
Even if Woz goes around with perforated sheets of two-dollar bills and a military ID card showing him wearing an eye patch (with the job title "Laser Safety Officer"), that doesn't make him Captain Crunch.
Actually, OldSCO was pretty cool, if a little pricey. Caldera Linux, after purchasing the name and UNIX business was a bunch of pricks.
While the Santa Cruz Operation had a legitimate business, SCO UNIX was the most painful operating system I've ever had to use or administer. Out of the box, hitting Delete would backspace over the prompt. Even DOS didn't do that.
It got me to check 404 though, which actually displays a 404, given 403 and 405 do point to actual comics leads me to believe is actually intentional, geeze this guy is committed.
403 was posted on Monday, March 31, and 405 on Wednesday, April 2. Do the math...
Your sense of entitlement is overwhelming. I know it's been said by others, but honestly, don't buy the fucking thing if you don't like something about it that much. Period. Bitching and whining, whining and bitching comprises so much of tech comment these days- It's like watching a kid at Toys-R-Us rolling around on the floor screaming when they can't have something.
If you don't like his comment, then don't read it.
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Is it me or does Garrett Hedlund look like a young Peter Weller? They should get him for that Robocop reboot that has been in development hell for ages.
For that matter, maybe we could get a Buckaroo Bonzai sequel.
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Evidently, Obama has done fuck-all for people who use NoScript.
Who cares where we start as long as we start. Waste is waste isn't it?
Profile before you optimize. The Pareto Principle applies here -- we're better off cutting the huge wastes before the relatively tiny ones.
See also, "We have to do something; X is something; therefore we must do X."
In other places in the world, the first thing a doctor reaches for when a patient reaches a hospital is their pulse. In the US, its their purse.
Fixed for poetic justice.
Here's a proposal where we can cut in the "science" spending: All the pseudoscience projects rooted in some kind of religious bull.
If they have something worth funding at all, the James Randi Educational Foundation has a million dollars waiting for them.
Equilibrium??? The movie with "gun fu", where you take a fucking gun and instead of shooting the guy with it your best option is to flip it over and start clubbing people in the head? Really? What, did they run out of bullets in the future? I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for things like "guy gets sucked into a computer" - but when it comes to sheer idiocy and illogical thinking by supposedly rational people, you gotta draw the line.
Maybe because, unlike bullets, use of guns as blunt instruments can't be traced? Maybe next time you can try puzzling it out for yourself or asking for the answer instead of assuming everyone is stupid and going ballistic.
Pacman is a more iconic image that the thousands of characters introduced in games for more powerful systems isn't he?
Indeed, Pac-Man even has a cameo in Tron. (And I'm not talking about Flynn's arcade.)
So how do you explain that fucking bearded cunt in a suit saying stuff like `the holocaust didn't happen` and `we have no homosexuals in Iran`?
He's demonstrating ignorance, but not admitting it.
So... you're suggesting manual transmission for cool...?
My car has manual transmission and cruise control. The two are orthogonal.
I have yet to see the innate superiority of touch typing, so I can't really acknowledge it as proper.
It's probably more efficient if you're writing blocks of English text, but I suspect that the advantage disappears when writing code, due to the increased use of punctuation.
People didn't care when Apple removed the PageUp/PageDown from the MacBook. (Of course, they lost at least one potential customer that way.)
Did they? My unibody MacBook Pro has Page Up/Down (though they're not marked as such) but lacks the numeric keypad overlay, so typing "/* and "*/" is a pain.
Every Apple keyboard and laptop made recently (that's millions upon millions of keyboards) has protection against accidental capslock activation - you have to hold the key down briefly, it won't activate with just a tap.
This is even worse -- it means that Caps Lock won't engage when I hit the key normally, even intentionally. It means I can't rely on muscle memory but have to think about what I'm doing -- just to press a key.
Preventing accidents shouldn't come at the price of impeding correct behavior. And delay-sensitive interfaces inherently invite errors.
The NeXT keyboards had no Caps Lock key. Caps Lock mode was toggled by pressing Shift while holding down Command. They may also have been the first keyboards to integrate the Caps Lock mode LED indicator into the key itself (the Shift key, in this case).
Apple's original approach was a physically locking Caps Lock key, which also succeeded in preventing accidental engagement of Caps Lock mode. Sadly, they don't use either of these methods anymore.
So... calling the pope and pretending to be Henry Kissenger (nicer legs than Hitler and bigger tits than Cher) counts for nuthin'?
It's someone's alias, not a merit-based rank.
Even if Woz goes around with perforated sheets of two-dollar bills and a military ID card showing him wearing an eye patch (with the job title "Laser Safety Officer"), that doesn't make him Captain Crunch.
The Woz?
No, Woz is not Captain Crunch.
I thought that was Captain Crunch? Err, the cereal, not the phreak...
In that case you're thinking of Cap'n Crunch. The phone phreak is Captain Crunch.
now, what do you think it is they are most likely trying to protect here: You? Or the airline?
Their careers.
What you're describing is simply successful lobbying.
Not that it isn't a bad reason for something to happen, it's just not correct to call it pork.
How about 'corruption'?
Hawking: But what if they blow up that checkpoint?
Old woman: You're very clever, young man, very clever, but it's security checkpoints all the way down!
No need to give them ideas.
Actually, OldSCO was pretty cool, if a little pricey. Caldera Linux, after purchasing the name and UNIX business was a bunch of pricks.
While the Santa Cruz Operation had a legitimate business, SCO UNIX was the most painful operating system I've ever had to use or administer. Out of the box, hitting Delete would backspace over the prompt. Even DOS didn't do that.
It got me to check 404 though, which actually displays a 404, given 403 and 405 do point to actual comics leads me to believe is actually intentional, geeze this guy is committed.
403 was posted on Monday, March 31, and 405 on Wednesday, April 2. Do the math...
Your sense of entitlement is overwhelming. I know it's been said by others, but honestly, don't buy the fucking thing if you don't like something about it that much. Period. Bitching and whining, whining and bitching comprises so much of tech comment these days- It's like watching a kid at Toys-R-Us rolling around on the floor screaming when they can't have something.
If you don't like his comment, then don't read it.
Well, he'd be considered liberal now, if he wasn't dead.
I didn't realize being dead was recognized as a conservative value.
no that would be an "Upload," to "download" would be to relieve them of what they carry, obviously.
Actually, downloading would be giving them so much stuff that it reduces their carrying speed.
my friend has to tell the court what I said, or risk being charged for perjury.
What? No! Your friend has the right to not answer! Yeesh, hasn't anyone here ever heard of the Fifth Amendment?
You mean the one guaranteeing the right not to incriminate oneself?