The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down on a Dance Dance Revolution device hooked to a Linux computer
How did Roblimo know that the guy had six piercings? Was he completely naked? Perhaps that should have said 'six visible piercings'.
If Peter Jackson had anything to do with the book it would consist of nothing but surfing elfs and dwarf jokes.
No, that would have been 20% of it. The other 80% would have been battles, more battles and extra battles with some bad dialog (e.g. "if you want him come and get him") scattered in.
Ms. Betterly says she follows a lot of the rules laid out by most of the state laws: She doesn't forge or falsify the message headers; she doesn't use a third-party company's Internet address or domain name unknowingly
From the PC in his tidy two-bedroom Tampa apartment, Chris Connell, the company's computer expert, recently launched a large, promising campaign for Ms. Betterly.
He [Chris Connell] labors over a message's subject line; he's found people are more likely to open e-mail if it appears to be from a real person, so he types his friends' names on "from" lines.
So she claims that she doesn't 'forge or falsify' headers, but her employee uses other peoples names in the 'from' header field. That looks very much like falsifying headers (& therefor illegal) to me.
They didn't install it on the 'right hardware'. Read the article:
Instead of reviewing the $199 Microtel box, we decided to review Lindows 2.0 as a stand-alone Linux distro. To that end, we installed Lindows on a middle-of-the-road Dell Dimension 4100 (1Ghz with 256MB of RAM and a 40GB hard disk).
If it installs perfectly on a Dell, there's a good chance that it will do the same on a Compaq or Gateway.
Only a few minutes ago, I was looking at my IE browser at work, thinking 'If only I could have something like Galeon on Windoze'. Then up pops Pheonix. Wow! I probably won't install the 0.1 release, but hopefully we won't have to wait years for 1.0 to arrive. I'm replacing IE with Mozilla right now.
Yep, but the Sinar is a medium-format back, not a 35mm camera. Also, look at the cost of the Sinar. I think that it's somewhere around the $20000 mark.
I don't watch TV either. Most things on TV are absolute rubbish. Buffy is the exception - it's brilliantly written, well acted and is generally way better, funnier, dramatic and entertaining than most movies that I've seen recently.
Violence has nothing to do with computer games. It's in our genetic makeup as a species. In the last 100 years we have had wars that have killed many millions of people. This was BEFORE computer games were ever invented. A few hundred years ago, the Spanish Inquisition were torturing people and roasting them alive for 'heretical beliefs'. They'd never played GTA3. We're a violent species. Blaming computer games is not the answer. Computer games may even be a way to safely release our violent instincts. I love blasting people away on Wolf3D, but I'm not going to ever got down to my local shopping mall and do it.
I'm going to rent it on DVD now and wait until November for the 4 disk 'extended edition'. I may also rip the rented DVD for further watching until November. Is this ethical, since I'm going to pay more for the extended edition than I would if I bought it now and I refuse to be ripped off by buying both DVDs.
Wouldn't an easier way to get a 2% reduction in weight be to remove it from the passengers. Set a weight limit for plane passengers and weight everyone at check-in. Anyone over the limit gets immediate liposuction.
Never have to sit next to a fat person on a plane again.
Let's see: let's say the extra energy lost requires you to eat an extra hamburger.
Macdonalds Quarter Pounder with Cheese - 530 calories
Big Mac - 560 calories
30 minutes of pedalling exercise bike at gym this lunchtime - 250 calories.
I don't know how much effort it would require to use this phone charger, but it's got to be a lot less than 30 minutes on an exercise bike. Most north americans are probably carrying around tens of thousands of calories worth of stored fat. You might as well use it for something.
There's the Porterhouse brew pub in Dublin (& one in Covent Garden in London). The beer there is wonderful. I'd especially recommend the Porterhouse Red. They also sell bottled beers from around the world. The Latvian porter (Porteris) is expensive but very, very good.
If it works, then you should try to interest gaming companies. I believe that online multiplayer games will increasingly target broadband connections (Doom 3 MP may be broadband only) and live chat between players will be a killer (as long as anti-asshole measures are in place). But with a 'business-friendly' open-source license, you could really be on to something here.
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The hottest thing I've seen at this show so far is a guy with six piercings jumping up and down on a Dance Dance Revolution device hooked to a Linux computer
How did Roblimo know that the guy had six piercings? Was he completely naked? Perhaps that should have said 'six visible piercings'.
HH
If Peter Jackson had anything to do with the book it would consist of nothing but surfing elfs and dwarf jokes.
No, that would have been 20% of it. The other 80% would have been battles, more battles and extra battles with some bad dialog (e.g. "if you want him come and get him") scattered in.
HH
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Does the bat detector come with a rabies vaccine?
HH
ps don't mod up as funny
From the article:
Ms. Betterly says she follows a lot of the rules laid out by most of the state laws: She doesn't forge or falsify the message headers; she doesn't use a third-party company's Internet address or domain name unknowingly
From the PC in his tidy two-bedroom Tampa apartment, Chris Connell, the company's computer expert, recently launched a large, promising campaign for Ms. Betterly.
He [Chris Connell] labors over a message's subject line; he's found people are more likely to open e-mail if it appears to be from a real person, so he types his friends' names on "from" lines.
So she claims that she doesn't 'forge or falsify' headers, but her employee uses other peoples names in the 'from' header field. That looks very much like falsifying headers (& therefor illegal) to me.
HH
Are you ever mistaken for a member of Steely Dan?
They didn't install it on the 'right hardware'. Read the article:
Instead of reviewing the $199 Microtel box, we decided to review Lindows 2.0 as a stand-alone Linux distro. To that end, we installed Lindows on a middle-of-the-road Dell Dimension 4100 (1Ghz with 256MB of RAM and a 40GB hard disk).
If it installs perfectly on a Dell, there's a good chance that it will do the same on a Compaq or Gateway.
HH
I'd seen the name Kmeleon and had assumed that it was a galeon-style browser for KDE. Some people have no clue about naming konventions.
HH
Only a few minutes ago, I was looking at my IE browser at work, thinking 'If only I could have something like Galeon on Windoze'. Then up pops Pheonix. Wow! I probably won't install the 0.1 release, but hopefully we won't have to wait years for 1.0 to arrive. I'm replacing IE with Mozilla right now.
HH
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This should really piss off the pr0nsters:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/home/ftp/pub/blowjob.mpg bs=1024 count=100000
HH
Thats Sir Mick Jagger nowadays. Mr Keith Richards is said to be very angry about the Jagger's new title.
aol disk-turned-coaster-turned-frisbees-turned-blowjob holes-turned-solar eclipes viewer
Blowjob holes?! Me no understand. If your dick is small enough to fit though the hole in the center of a CD, I wouldn't brag about it.
HH
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Maybe not "problematic" for Windoze users, but for Linux and Mac users it's currently "impossible".
HH
New poll idea:
Which Slashdot editor should be sacked
o Cmdr Taco
o Hemos
* Timothy
o Cliff
o ChrisD
o Cowboy Neal
Yep, but the Sinar is a medium-format back, not a 35mm camera. Also, look at the cost of the Sinar. I think that it's somewhere around the $20000 mark.
HH
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It says that the visitors are British.
HH
Quoth the AC, "Kenda had the worst Jamaican accent this side of Miss Cleo"
Agreed. Her accent sounded like the bastard offspring of Jamaican and Welsh. Wanted to strangle her, it was so painful to listen to.
HH
I don't watch TV either. Most things on TV are absolute rubbish. Buffy is the exception - it's brilliantly written, well acted and is generally way better, funnier, dramatic and entertaining than most movies that I've seen recently.
HH
Violence has nothing to do with computer games. It's in our genetic makeup as a species. In the last 100 years we have had wars that have killed many millions of people. This was BEFORE computer games were ever invented. A few hundred years ago, the Spanish Inquisition were torturing people and roasting them alive for 'heretical beliefs'. They'd never played GTA3. We're a violent species. Blaming computer games is not the answer. Computer games may even be a way to safely release our violent instincts. I love blasting people away on Wolf3D, but I'm not going to ever got down to my local shopping mall and do it.
HH
I'm going to rent it on DVD now and wait until November for the 4 disk 'extended edition'. I may also rip the rented DVD for further watching until November. Is this ethical, since I'm going to pay more for the extended edition than I would if I bought it now and I refuse to be ripped off by buying both DVDs.
HH
Wouldn't an easier way to get a 2% reduction in weight be to remove it from the passengers. Set a weight limit for plane passengers and weight everyone at check-in. Anyone over the limit gets immediate liposuction.
Never have to sit next to a fat person on a plane again.
HH
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Let's see:
let's say the extra energy lost requires you to eat an extra hamburger.
Macdonalds Quarter Pounder with Cheese - 530 calories
Big Mac - 560 calories
30 minutes of pedalling exercise bike at gym this lunchtime - 250 calories.
I don't know how much effort it would require to use this phone charger, but it's got to be a lot less than 30 minutes on an exercise bike. Most north americans are probably carrying around tens of thousands of calories worth of stored fat. You might as well use it for something.
HH
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There's the Porterhouse brew pub in Dublin (& one in Covent Garden in London). The beer there is wonderful. I'd especially recommend the Porterhouse Red. They also sell bottled beers from around the world. The Latvian porter (Porteris) is expensive but very, very good.
HH
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How is playing your own, legally purchased, DVDs 'piracy'?
HH
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If it works, then you should try to interest gaming companies. I believe that online multiplayer games will increasingly target broadband connections (Doom 3 MP may be broadband only) and live chat between players will be a killer (as long as anti-asshole measures are in place). But with a 'business-friendly' open-source license, you could really be on to something here.
HH
Perhaps Transmeta should switch to designing roll-up processors for roll-up laptops.