Nice try, if you were drinking real methanol, you couldn't see the screen. Even Metholated spirits hasn't actually contained any metho for years and years coz people would drink it and go blind- What you call alcohol scientists call ethanol. That's why distilling is illegal, get it right you get ethanol and drunk, fuck it up and you get methanol and you're dead/blind.
Actually unless you're using a dedicated system, you always remap fuel settings in windows. But running the car too rich would just blow fuel and smoke out the back and backfire, not over-rev the engine.
"Should I keep using windows98, even though microsoft doesn't support it any more, or should I switch to this lie-nucks thing that I don't understand, nobody supports it, and bob's son down the street can't fix for me?"
and 3 years ago everyone of the media companies we did business with always wanted QT, NOW, when we get new "Developer Guidelines", they almost always ask for Real or WindowsMedia...
we've continued to push QT, but just finished a film site that we were ordered to use WindowsMedia "or else"
at this rate, WindowsMedia and REAL will not be leaving much room for a competitive product in the next 18-36 months
And when that happens, I will be a happy man. Windows media is a better product, the compression in aif files is so much nicer than.mov (I know it's a wrapper but most.movs are in the same codec which sucks), and frankly, the only company more evil than Microsoft is Apple. WHY SHOULD I PAY AU$120 TO SEE A HIGH-RES STARWARS TRAILER I CAN'T EVEN SAVE TO MY DRIVE!?!?!?
These are all interesting ideas, except for the a few things:
1. Computers organise things hierachically because we like it that way. We haven't been conditioned into it by computers. Remember the game where you pick a number between 1 and 100 and somebody tells you higher or lower? Remember how much easier it was when you learned to start in the middle? It's the nature of things.
2. 98% of the time, you don't need to "search", if you organise things properly. No matter how great the search is, it's always going to be more efficient if you stick things in relevant folders (/documents/biz/2000-2001/invoice110.doc)
Personally, I think the biggest problem with the wimp interface is modal windows (this should not happen ever ever ever amen), and a decent way to keep track of more than 10 open windows/programs.
I believe there was only one version of visual basic for dos, before then it was known as quickbasic, of which qbasic was a cut-down version sans compiler (and I imagine quite a bit else).
Seriously tho, I think all operating systems should come with a version of basic, for learners and people old to the game but new to the OS to play with.
Stop telling this poor bastard that this is his fault!!! This is a protection racket as sure as any run your local mafia. How on earth have we gotten to the state where we need to pay money (disguised as "insurance") to keep UPS (or anybody else) from kicking and mishandling our goods? This is a bigger ass-raping than people who think a blue-screen is how computers work! I've seen people who work on shipping goods on trains and busses, and they mistreat your goods, and if they overhear you complain they do it worse. I've had my girlfriend drag me out of a train station coz I was gonna hit some idiot for kicking my bags around. What the fuck are we paying for? We're paying for a professional service, but we're willing to accept not getting anywhere near a professional result! They have insurance to cover any losses if a truck crashes or if your goods get stolen, so why should we pay "insurance"??? We pay them extra so their employees don't throw around what we're paying them to look after in the first place.
People like you are what's wrong with the world today, your holier-than-thou attitudes are the beginning of the oppressive dictatorships whos opinions and histories you're trying to suppress.
I have every right to dislike you.
I have every right to like you.
I have every right to dislike you because you are tall.
I have every right to like you because you are tall.
I have every right to dislike you because you are white.
I have every right to like you because you are white.
I have every right to dislike you because you are black.
I have every right to like you because you are black.
I have every right to dislike you because you have blond hair....
You know where I'm going with this. I also have every right to tell anybody who cares to listen that I dislike you, and why I dislike you.
I'm have no right to punch you in the face, wether it's because you called me a name, or because you've got brown eyes.
That is the difference, and it's what's important.
Indeed. The one place where you can blame a crash on cosmic rays and get away with it, and they debug the code too well to use our favourite excuse (well save the phase of the moon).
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Nice try, if you were drinking real methanol, you couldn't see the screen. Even Metholated spirits hasn't actually contained any metho for years and years coz people would drink it and go blind- What you call alcohol scientists call ethanol. That's why distilling is illegal, get it right you get ethanol and drunk, fuck it up and you get methanol and you're dead/blind.
I think his server was made of lego too! Only 20 comments and it's on fire! Can somebody post a mirror?
Actually unless you're using a dedicated system, you always remap fuel settings in windows. But running the car too rich would just blow fuel and smoke out the back and backfire, not over-rev the engine.
"Should I keep using windows98, even though microsoft doesn't support it any more, or should I switch to this lie-nucks thing that I don't understand, nobody supports it, and bob's son down the street can't fix for me?"
Hmmmm
Damn you americans.... Damn you all to hell. And damn all my mates who bought gta3 before they pulled it...
Australian satellite sucks, since you have to use a modem for upstream and it's not that fast, given what you pay.
and 3 years ago everyone of the media companies we did business with always wanted QT, NOW, when we get new "Developer Guidelines", they almost always ask for Real or WindowsMedia...
.mov (I know it's a wrapper but most .movs are in the same codec which sucks), and frankly, the only company more evil than Microsoft is Apple. WHY SHOULD I PAY AU$120 TO SEE A HIGH-RES STARWARS TRAILER I CAN'T EVEN SAVE TO MY DRIVE!?!?!?
we've continued to push QT, but just finished a film site that we were ordered to use WindowsMedia "or else"
at this rate, WindowsMedia and REAL will not be leaving much room for a competitive product in the next 18-36 months
And when that happens, I will be a happy man. Windows media is a better product, the compression in aif files is so much nicer than
I think a few dysfunctional tazzie tigers that _may_ die of a cold one day are better than no tazzie tigers at all, no?
Or just type your password in notepad, copy it, start pgp, and the fbi will learn your password is ctrl-v :)
These are all interesting ideas, except for the a few things:
1. Computers organise things hierachically because we like it that way. We haven't been conditioned into it by computers. Remember the game where you pick a number between 1 and 100 and somebody tells you higher or lower? Remember how much easier it was when you learned to start in the middle? It's the nature of things.
2. 98% of the time, you don't need to "search", if you organise things properly. No matter how great the search is, it's always going to be more efficient if you stick things in relevant folders (/documents/biz/2000-2001/invoice110.doc)
Personally, I think the biggest problem with the wimp interface is modal windows (this should not happen ever ever ever amen), and a decent way to keep track of more than 10 open windows/programs.
I believe there was only one version of visual basic for dos, before then it was known as quickbasic, of which qbasic was a cut-down version sans compiler (and I imagine quite a bit else).
Seriously tho, I think all operating systems should come with a version of basic, for learners and people old to the game but new to the OS to play with.
You mean, like Lingua::Romana::Perligata [monash.edu.au], an interface that lets you write Perl programs in Latin?
;-)
Yeah, like you'd notice!
Stop telling this poor bastard that this is his fault!!! This is a protection racket as sure as any run your local mafia. How on earth have we gotten to the state where we need to pay money (disguised as "insurance") to keep UPS (or anybody else) from kicking and mishandling our goods? This is a bigger ass-raping than people who think a blue-screen is how computers work! I've seen people who work on shipping goods on trains and busses, and they mistreat your goods, and if they overhear you complain they do it worse. I've had my girlfriend drag me out of a train station coz I was gonna hit some idiot for kicking my bags around. What the fuck are we paying for? We're paying for a professional service, but we're willing to accept not getting anywhere near a professional result! They have insurance to cover any losses if a truck crashes or if your goods get stolen, so why should we pay "insurance"??? We pay them extra so their employees don't throw around what we're paying them to look after in the first place.
Worse though is when dark address space and normal address space collide, releasing a ddos beyond compare to all hosts within 15 hops....
=)
Maybe it'll just print things like *scratches head* *waves madly* *picks nose*, or other things...
*Stop that dave*
*Dave, what would Karen think?*
*Dave, you'll go blind you know*
0. A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Mario. Samus. Link. Falcon. Pikachu.
Sony hasn't won this one yet...
What a load of bull.
People like you are what's wrong with the world today, your holier-than-thou attitudes are the beginning of the oppressive dictatorships whos opinions and histories you're trying to suppress.
I have every right to dislike you.
I have every right to like you.
I have every right to dislike you because you are tall.
I have every right to like you because you are tall.
I have every right to dislike you because you are white.
I have every right to like you because you are white.
I have every right to dislike you because you are black.
I have every right to like you because you are black.
I have every right to dislike you because you have blond hair....
You know where I'm going with this. I also have every right to tell anybody who cares to listen that I dislike you, and why I dislike you.
I'm have no right to punch you in the face, wether it's because you called me a name, or because you've got brown eyes.
That is the difference, and it's what's important.
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Darwin award anyone?
SHOTGUN!
Even if there's no garuntee I'm gonna make it more than 3 weeks on the surface of mars, pack me up and ship me off... The missus will understand.
...Which would be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual- who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, mmm,glaven.
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...The .pak files?
*ducks*
I can see it now...
:-)
Geek1: "You've landed on Redhat ave, with 3 houses, that'll be $280"
Geek2: "Howabout I give you BSD street and $25?"
Of course the purple ones nobody wants will be named after places in Redmond
Indeed. The one place where you can blame a crash on cosmic rays and get away with it, and they debug the code too well to use our favourite excuse (well save the phase of the moon).
Sheesh!