...Millions of sheep named dolly attack tatooine. All is feared lost, until annakin decides to release his keeler blue heeler to save the day.
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No, it's not a correct translation. Translation requires you to take the meaning from a sentence in one language, and write something with the same meaning in the target language. Direct translations are only half the job, as All Your Base admirably shows.
I know what it means, and that's what it is. The translation is "buy our product and you will have good luck" which is the intended meaning, but sounds silly to us because it's (probably) illegal to advertise that sort of thing in the western world, so we've never heard it.
So what you're saying is, you had a ball, everybody in the cinema had a ball, you all wet yourself laughing, you reccomend people go see it, but it's not a grade A movie? If it says comedy in the top right corner (or whatever) and the whole damned cinema is in stitches, I'd say it's a grade a movie.
Disclaimer: the above is true for all cases except where the audience is 8 and you're seeing a police academy film.
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As funny as this seems to us, it's often a correct translation. In many asian cultures, advertisements and whatnot are very likely to say "Buy our chips and be maximum lucky and prosperous", and it's perfectly normal there, just like the sad crap we have here, but when it's translated to english and read by a westerner it looks stupid.
Like the abused wife that toddles on back to her jerk of a husband, so the users return to Outlook, because "this time it will be better" and "I don't know how I could possibly function if my calendar and e-mail client were two separate programs."
Ok you had me untill this part mate, and that's going way too far. Sorry to tell you, but the hassle of deleting and not opening annakournikova_jpg.vbs doesn't quite compare to some woman getting beaten by her husband. Not to mention the fact that it's nobody's fault that you get a virus except the prick who wrote the virus. Not microsoft's, and not even your less pooter-savvy mate who thought he was gonna see anna's tits. If enough people used a standard linux desktop for it to be worthwhile, more people would write virii for linux. As linux's popularity grows, so will virii begin to appear, or I'll eat my hat.
This is a total troll. I can't vouch for ATI, but I damn sure know there's no proprietry interface for Nivida chips. You use DirectX, or you use opengl. There are some nvidia extensions to opengl, but it's not like you'll break your game, if the functions aren't there, the game just doesn't use them. Wow! How dare they! They gave us extra features instead of asking the people who run opengl nicely for them to put things in the standard and waiting 5 years! The bastards!
Sweet! I've always wanted to do this! Not cooling beer, but making a turbo into a little jet engine. Ages ago I was explaining to my little bro that a turbo and a 747 jet engine are more or less the same thing, which got me thinking how I'd try to do it:)
And now this bloke's beaten me to it. I was gonna have a play and see what I could do when I upgrade the turbo on my 180sx! There goes my chance to get slashdotted!
I for one am damned glad this happened. I want a p4, but there's no way I was ever going to get rambus. It's just too damned expensive. I thought it was eventually coming, but I'm definitely glad that it's official now, this should drop the price of a p4 system by a few hundred dollars here, which is frankly good for everybody...
Plus, we all know rambus inc is evil with it's frivoulus litigations, so this is a good thing for the rest of the industry as well as intel and us.
What I'm wondering is, how long will it be from the time we have quantum computers till one of them helps us design an infinite probability drive. Of course we know that every slashdot geek will get it and go "well the probability of me actually pouring hot grits down natalie portman's pants isn't 0, just very very small"....
Hardly a troll, but anway, just thought I'd pipe up-
League is nothing like NFL at all. Not a damned thing. They use a ball, and there's goalposts, and the idea is to get to the other end of the field, but that's about it. Now I like NFL, but they're definitely not alike. Pass forwards in league and it's handover time, sheparding (sp?) is half the game in NFL, illegal in League.
Hahaha, no no no, you english call soccer football. You call football rugby league:):)
All national footy perspectives aside, a soccer mom is (and I'm australian so if I'm wrong don't shoot me) the mother of a well-off family who live in the burbs (picket fence?) and drives her landcruiser/explorer/suburban only to drop the kids off at soccer on sunday. That's my perception, anybody got anything more precise?
Mexican truck driver, who had shot it and cooked it for dinner. The significance of his meal seemed lost on him, because when told the woodpecker was extinct, he looked sad and said, "Too bad...it was good and meaty, and I was looking forward to shooting another one."
Sorry, no tears here. There's these things called the food chain, and natural selection. That's nature, hard at work.
Of course they'll patent "brain shields". If the media suddenly starts telling people that blue cars are more likely to kill you so they can sell more ads/newspapers/hits (and lets face it that's what the real problem here is), then gm is gonna make less blue cars, doesn't mean they're admitting that there's a problem.
However, you shoot yourself in the foot here. You should not have to read a 300-page tome about the operating system before installing it for the first time.
No, much better if you have to read through the source becuase there's only a few howto's that never seem to work the way they say they will.
But of what quality? Try pulling a floppy out of the drive while WinDOS 98 is writing it. Now do it on Linux. Now that's quality.
Wow, you take it out, and windows tells you to put it back in. What crappy crappy software. They must be the devil's own creation.
Or, try not taking a floppy out while it's being written? It's also a good idea to put the clutch in before you change gears, does that mean manual cars are a piece of shit? I mean other people make clutchless sequentials, so all manual cars must be crap, right?
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> what do you think IS under those stormtrooper helmets?
Daleks!
Don't you mean Kaleds?
...Millions of sheep named dolly attack tatooine. All is feared lost, until annakin decides to release his keeler blue heeler to save the day.
No, it's not a correct translation. Translation requires you to take the meaning from a sentence in one language, and write something with the same meaning in the target language. Direct translations are only half the job, as All Your Base admirably shows.
I know what it means, and that's what it is. The translation is "buy our product and you will have good luck" which is the intended meaning, but sounds silly to us because it's (probably) illegal to advertise that sort of thing in the western world, so we've never heard it.
So what you're saying is, you had a ball, everybody in the cinema had a ball, you all wet yourself laughing, you reccomend people go see it, but it's not a grade A movie? If it says comedy in the top right corner (or whatever) and the whole damned cinema is in stitches, I'd say it's a grade a movie.
Disclaimer: the above is true for all cases except where the audience is 8 and you're seeing a police academy film.
As funny as this seems to us, it's often a correct translation. In many asian cultures, advertisements and whatnot are very likely to say "Buy our chips and be maximum lucky and prosperous", and it's perfectly normal there, just like the sad crap we have here, but when it's translated to english and read by a westerner it looks stupid.
Like the abused wife that toddles on back to her jerk of a husband, so the users return to Outlook, because "this time it will be better" and "I don't know how I could possibly function if my calendar and e-mail client were two separate programs."
Ok you had me untill this part mate, and that's going way too far. Sorry to tell you, but the hassle of deleting and not opening annakournikova_jpg.vbs doesn't quite compare to some woman getting beaten by her husband. Not to mention the fact that it's nobody's fault that you get a virus except the prick who wrote the virus. Not microsoft's, and not even your less pooter-savvy mate who thought he was gonna see anna's tits. If enough people used a standard linux desktop for it to be worthwhile, more people would write virii for linux. As linux's popularity grows, so will virii begin to appear, or I'll eat my hat.
This is a total troll. I can't vouch for ATI, but I damn sure know there's no proprietry interface for Nivida chips. You use DirectX, or you use opengl. There are some nvidia extensions to opengl, but it's not like you'll break your game, if the functions aren't there, the game just doesn't use them. Wow! How dare they! They gave us extra features instead of asking the people who run opengl nicely for them to put things in the standard and waiting 5 years! The bastards!
Now that would be a go-cart worthy of a GLH designation. GOES LIKE HELL!
:)
More like Darwin award to me
--Gfunk
Sweet! I've always wanted to do this! Not cooling beer, but making a turbo into a little jet engine. Ages ago I was explaining to my little bro that a turbo and a 747 jet engine are more or less the same thing, which got me thinking how I'd try to do it :)
And now this bloke's beaten me to it. I was gonna have a play and see what I could do when I upgrade the turbo on my 180sx! There goes my chance to get slashdotted!
--Gfunk
I'd say more like "Owwww!... Ya f**kin pr**k!!"
--Gfunk
I for one am damned glad this happened. I want a p4, but there's no way I was ever going to get rambus. It's just too damned expensive. I thought it was eventually coming, but I'm definitely glad that it's official now, this should drop the price of a p4 system by a few hundred dollars here, which is frankly good for everybody...
Plus, we all know rambus inc is evil with it's frivoulus litigations, so this is a good thing for the rest of the industry as well as intel and us.
--Gfunk
You forgot "all your ISS are belong to RUS(sia)
--Gfunk
It's a fair bit less than 35 kg, and do you think 35kg of plutonium takes up much space?
--Gfunk
What I'm wondering is, how long will it be from the time we have quantum computers till one of them helps us design an infinite probability drive. Of course we know that every slashdot geek will get it and go "well the probability of me actually pouring hot grits down natalie portman's pants isn't 0, just very very small"....
--Gfunk
Hardly a troll, but anway, just thought I'd pipe up-
League is nothing like NFL at all. Not a damned thing. They use a ball, and there's goalposts, and the idea is to get to the other end of the field, but that's about it. Now I like NFL, but they're definitely not alike. Pass forwards in league and it's handover time, sheparding (sp?) is half the game in NFL, illegal in League.
--Gfunk
Hahaha, no no no, you english call soccer football. You call football rugby league :) :)
All national footy perspectives aside, a soccer mom is (and I'm australian so if I'm wrong don't shoot me) the mother of a well-off family who live in the burbs (picket fence?) and drives her landcruiser/explorer/suburban only to drop the kids off at soccer on sunday. That's my perception, anybody got anything more precise?
--Gfunk
I'm gonna cop it for this, but frankly, _nothing_ amuses me more than coffee snobs. Not a damned thing. Makes me laugh every time I come across it.
--Gfunk
Ah, now you've done it. Called him a nazi, and now this discussion is officially over :)
--Gfunk
...What I want is some Blake's 7 action. That show was great.
--Gfunk
Mexican truck driver, who had shot it and cooked it for dinner. The significance of his meal seemed lost on him, because when told the woodpecker was extinct, he looked sad and said, "Too bad...it was good and meaty, and I was looking forward to shooting another one."
Sorry, no tears here. There's these things called the food chain, and natural selection. That's nature, hard at work.
--Gfunk
Do you think you could travel ~6000 km/h in water? You'd vaporize the water around you due to the friction alone...
With cavitating technology and a jet (read: starship) engine this would be fairly easily achieved methinks.
--Gfunk
If you get the jokes, you are suddenly part of a club.
:)
I think you just made his point
--Gfunk
Of course they'll patent "brain shields". If the media suddenly starts telling people that blue cars are more likely to kill you so they can sell more ads/newspapers/hits (and lets face it that's what the real problem here is), then gm is gonna make less blue cars, doesn't mean they're admitting that there's a problem.
--Gfunk
However, you shoot yourself in the foot here. You should not have to read a 300-page tome about the operating system before installing it for the first time.
No, much better if you have to read through the source becuase there's only a few howto's that never seem to work the way they say they will.
--Gfunk
But of what quality? Try pulling a floppy out of the drive while WinDOS 98 is writing it. Now do it on Linux. Now that's quality.
Wow, you take it out, and windows tells you to put it back in. What crappy crappy software. They must be the devil's own creation.
Or, try not taking a floppy out while it's being written? It's also a good idea to put the clutch in before you change gears, does that mean manual cars are a piece of shit? I mean other people make clutchless sequentials, so all manual cars must be crap, right?
--Gfunk