Been saying lasers are cool for ages, but do they listen to me? Nooo...
So I'm out with the astronomy club with all our cool glass and tubes and stuff and have people looking at Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, M-13, fun stuff like that there. Someone asks, "Which star is Sirius?" I pull out my laser pointer and show them. Little kid says, "Whoa! That's COOL! Mom! Buy me one!"
I tell the mother, "No, do not buy him one. Laser is not toy. Can blind himself or a friend with it. Under no circumstances should you buy him a laser. Buy him a UV flashlight to look at centipedes or something."
Why would anyone ever release a bullshit FUD report?
If they release it someone could criticize it, if not they can keep making claims you can't refute.
Meanwhile, reports from the 1950's showed certain cigarettes didn't cause significant throat irritation. In other studies doctors recommended certain brands of cigarettes.
I guess it's just a matter of finding the right people to.. uh.. doctor your results.
Master Chief makes his appearance at 55 seconds into the video. If only for a second. And I'm pretty sure the "immersive" parts of it are just visual effects created for the following clip that carry over.
In their defense, it's really cool and I'm sure it's hard for even the Microsoft Research people to get access to the source code for Xbox games >.
Maybe if they knew the right people in Anonymous...
More like Microsoft may see their future survival as hinging on collaboration rather than confrontation.
Lord knows they've dropped the ball, missed the bus and done everything they can to paint themselves into a corner in the past few years.
XBox was supposed to be the gateway to them providing all the information services you need in your home (like anyone really needs to live like they would in Bruce Wayne's Bat-Cave.)
Sounds rosey, but honestly the paradigm wasn't how we used information in the house, that happened over 20 years ago, it's that we take it all with us and Apple has been eating their lunch.
You should rather ask who got a big bonus and/or a golden handshake in the meantime.
These days people like to put the success of their projects on their resume. If only prospective employers followed up on these things.
"So how did it work out?" "It was deemed a waste of resources and scrapped after they left, further it damaged team morale, which took a lot of milk and cookies to restore."
He or she is not smoking anything. If you are poor and you take advantage of what is out there, you can get a college education paid for. There are thousands of state, federal, charitable and private programs that help pay for education. A good academic adviser can help you get access.
Probably half of all students are already on some sort of grant, scholarship or other financial aid. I once worked with the financial aid office at a college and about half were getting at least some assistance there.
Who did the marketing research and how much ganja were they smoking when they did it?
The loss on this reminds me of an ill-considered plans where I worked ages ago. Someone bought a $20,000 system and contract to move EDI packaged records between institutions around the state. I has it foisted upon me (make it work, you peon) and spent the next year chasing down contacts and attending seminars. After a year the person who "bought" the product angrily wanted to know how it was I hadn't made any headway - this because none of the other institutions ever went through on the project and it was effectively dead. Then I had the gall to ask, so how much work are we saving by doing this anyway, and found we would move about 4 records per quarter. 4. End of project. That person should have been sacked, but was promoted. Go figure.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Offtopic, but shouldn't that be "Deja FUBAR" (Fouled/F***** up beyond all recognition)? "Foobar" is a metasyntactic variable(s) that might be derived from the former acronym, but doesn't have the same meaning.
See my journal entry on it from several years ago.
I've already done this experiment over 30 times. Its called winter.
Move to California. We're nuts out here. We run, bike, hike, walk dogs, everything in the pouring rain. We're so used to being out and about we can't control outselves.
"Jane!!! Stop this crazy thing! Jane!!!"
So the solutiion is to hang a bunch of wall paper in the space craft of golden hills, vinyards, redwood groves, beaches, granite infested mountain trails and a Jeep.
The USB protocol is not designed for high performance IO to the level where you really are going to see 'real' SSD gains.
True. True.
So it'll give a little tinge of suspense while some weasel stands at a server, dowloading the entire SQL database of all Taxpayers in the US, as the seconds tick by and the weasel begins to sweat as he hears footsteps approaching the door to the server room...
Holy crap, not only did someone make a Jurassic Park reference, but I got it without having to look it up.
You realize it's been twenty freaking years since that movie came out? I remember playing the theme song in my high school band. Sometimes I look at the guy in the mirror and wonder where the wrinkles and gray hair came from.
Then my nine-year-old daughter asks me to get out of the bathroom so she can do her hair before she goes to her mom's house.
"Oh, right."
Yeah. And I remember reading the book, at 3 AM with my heart pounding so hard in my chest that it hurt. Michael Crichton was a hell of a suspense writer -- too bad so little of it survived into the film. Steven Spielberg can be terribly overrated at times.
So any day now someone's going to do it. Clone a mammoth or something. Count on it.
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Did Mt. St. Rongbad asplode?
The mainstream media dub every Microsoft product 'the best yet!', even when it sucks.
It never pays to insult a heavy advertiser.
This is the best poop I've ever tasted!
So what the hell use is a cap that rises with demand?
This is government.
It raises its borrowing cap all the time.
They're just trying out this idea in other fields.
Watch out for when they start talking about a credibility cap - "We can lie this much..."
Is there anything left in the world that the big bad white man hasn't destroyed through 'racism'?
Well, I guess that'll put the skids on the Armenian Genocide play set...
Been saying lasers are cool for ages, but do they listen to me? Nooo...
So I'm out with the astronomy club with all our cool glass and tubes and stuff and have people looking at Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, M-13, fun stuff like that there. Someone asks, "Which star is Sirius?" I pull out my laser pointer and show them. Little kid says, "Whoa! That's COOL! Mom! Buy me one!"
I tell the mother, "No, do not buy him one. Laser is not toy. Can blind himself or a friend with it. Under no circumstances should you buy him a laser. Buy him a UV flashlight to look at centipedes or something."
Lasers are cool, but only for grown up kids.
Ze goggles, zey do NUTHINK!
I see nothing wrong with the goggles... I see NOTHING! AAAAAHHHHHH
In Soviet Russia, laser puts in the cooler you!
if after they made their own mine tailings, they noticed that there were already mine tailings there.
Be even funnier if they find a lot of methane stored in these asteroids, under a layer of dust.
"hey, we could pipe oxygen up from Earth and run big space engines!!!"
Why would anyone ever release a bullshit FUD report?
If they release it someone could criticize it, if not they can keep making claims you can't refute.
Meanwhile, reports from the 1950's showed certain cigarettes didn't cause significant throat irritation. In other studies doctors recommended certain brands of cigarettes.
I guess it's just a matter of finding the right people to .. uh .. doctor your results.
Show us your cards, it doesn't matter now Mr. Ballmer.
What, and show you all the spots they've put on them? That kind of ink isn't cheap, you know!
Master Chief makes his appearance at 55 seconds into the video. If only for a second. And I'm pretty sure the "immersive" parts of it are just visual effects created for the following clip that carry over.
In their defense, it's really cool and I'm sure it's hard for even the Microsoft Research people to get access to the source code for Xbox games >.
Maybe if they knew the right people in Anonymous...
j/k ... I think.
I'm guessing the R&D team didn't produce the ad.
probably produced by a bunch of people who knew their jobs were going to be cut.
More like Microsoft may see their future survival as hinging on collaboration rather than confrontation.
Lord knows they've dropped the ball, missed the bus and done everything they can to paint themselves into a corner in the past few years.
XBox was supposed to be the gateway to them providing all the information services you need in your home (like anyone really needs to live like they would in Bruce Wayne's Bat-Cave.)
Sounds rosey, but honestly the paradigm wasn't how we used information in the house, that happened over 20 years ago, it's that we take it all with us and Apple has been eating their lunch.
You should rather ask who got a big bonus and/or a golden handshake in the meantime.
These days people like to put the success of their projects on their resume. If only prospective employers followed up on these things.
"So how did it work out?" "It was deemed a waste of resources and scrapped after they left, further it damaged team morale, which took a lot of milk and cookies to restore."
What are you smoking?
He or she is not smoking anything. If you are poor and you take advantage of what is out there, you can get a college education paid for. There are thousands of state, federal, charitable and private programs that help pay for education. A good academic adviser can help you get access.
Probably half of all students are already on some sort of grant, scholarship or other financial aid. I once worked with the financial aid office at a college and about half were getting at least some assistance there.
Who did the marketing research and how much ganja were they smoking when they did it?
The loss on this reminds me of an ill-considered plans where I worked ages ago. Someone bought a $20,000 system and contract to move EDI packaged records between institutions around the state. I has it foisted upon me (make it work, you peon) and spent the next year chasing down contacts and attending seminars. After a year the person who "bought" the product angrily wanted to know how it was I hadn't made any headway - this because none of the other institutions ever went through on the project and it was effectively dead. Then I had the gall to ask, so how much work are we saving by doing this anyway, and found we would move about 4 records per quarter. 4. End of project. That person should have been sacked, but was promoted. Go figure.
my wheel barrow broke I just said, "Dang it!", went to the shed and invented an anti-gravity lift to move the manure around the back lot.
Dear Google,
How do you plan on overcoming internet dropping out for blocks around everytime someone wants to make some hot pockets?
Sincerely,
Unregulated Spectrum
The relays will be running at enough power to cook a passing pigeon, so there's also the bonus of feeding street people nourishing hot meals.
also, if you stay in the area long enough you won't need a tanning bed!
First they have this billionaire oligarch, then they just buy whatever players they want, then he keeps sacking managers...
We're talking about the same Chelsea, right?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Offtopic, but shouldn't that be "Deja FUBAR" (Fouled/F***** up beyond all recognition)? "Foobar" is a metasyntactic variable(s) that might be derived from the former acronym, but doesn't have the same meaning.
See my journal entry on it from several years ago.
Off to take a porcelain cruise, don't wait.
I've already done this experiment over 30 times. Its called winter.
Move to California. We're nuts out here. We run, bike, hike, walk dogs, everything in the pouring rain. We're so used to being out and about we can't control outselves.
"Jane!!! Stop this crazy thing! Jane!!!"
So the solutiion is to hang a bunch of wall paper in the space craft of golden hills, vinyards, redwood groves, beaches, granite infested mountain trails and a Jeep.
Can't talk now, carrying a piece of paper, which means I'm on an urgent business of some sort.
Explains why Riker stopped shaving second season.
Make it so, Number One.
The USB protocol is not designed for high performance IO to the level where you really are going to see 'real' SSD gains.
True. True.
So it'll give a little tinge of suspense while some weasel stands at a server, dowloading the entire SQL database of all Taxpayers in the US, as the seconds tick by and the weasel begins to sweat as he hears footsteps approaching the door to the server room...
Holy crap, not only did someone make a Jurassic Park reference, but I got it without having to look it up.
You realize it's been twenty freaking years since that movie came out? I remember playing the theme song in my high school band. Sometimes I look at the guy in the mirror and wonder where the wrinkles and gray hair came from.
Then my nine-year-old daughter asks me to get out of the bathroom so she can do her hair before she goes to her mom's house.
"Oh, right."
Yeah. And I remember reading the book, at 3 AM with my heart pounding so hard in my chest that it hurt. Michael Crichton was a hell of a suspense writer -- too bad so little of it survived into the film. Steven Spielberg can be terribly overrated at times.
So any day now someone's going to do it. Clone a mammoth or something. Count on it.