Hehehe - I am reminded now of this little comic strip. It's outrageous, in more ways than one.
Try as I might, I never did find that D&D group full of Hot Wicca Recruiter Chicks. I had to play with greasy-haired male nerds who'd never even HEARD OF the Temple of Diana!
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Its my understanding that its based of an SNL skit. The words you here are from the skit, they (the Summoner animators) were simply showing off the graphics.
Actually, it's an audio clip from a comedy album (vinyl record!) by some group in Wisconsin and the Summoner guys set animation to it. I have heard that the actual bit is longer and they later did a SECOND animation, which is a continuation of the first.
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It was cooler to play it back in the day when hardly anyone had heard of it
I don't think it actually made you any cooler back then, it just wasn't well known enough to be a serious "nerd mark". People still knew we were nerds-- they just knew it for different reasons*.
* e.g. glasses, particularly damaged glasses fixed with [tape|wire|epoxy]; posession of calculating devices; reading books we weren't assigned to read; marginal enthusiasm/ability WRT team sports; "practical" rather than fashionable wardrobe; &cetera.
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'I'm sorry, the girl makes a saving throw against your 1st level charm spell. You really need to work on your CHR.'
'Is there any Mountain Dew? Can I have one?'
Is that the from the "sequel"? I have seen Summoner Geeks, but I understand there's a second clip. Anyone have a link?
The act of consuming a piece of digitized entertainment--a song, or a movie, or whatever--without paying for it is stealing, and it is against the law.
Actually it's not consumption, and likewise not stealing. Your analogy involves the diminishment of physical property (food eaten), whereas copyright infringement diminishes nothing tangible.
So next time you're in a car accident, or your home is burglarized, or someone swipes your wallet, you'd have no problem if the cops didn't show up because they're all trying to solve rapes and murders?
Please. Just try and get a cop to come out and take a report on a stolen wallet or a residential burglary in a big city. And car accidents? Unless someone has to leave the scene in an ambulance, they won't even stop. They already selectively apply manpower to the areas they have determined are imnportant.
but gmail is actually a whole desktop email app written in javascript. Several hundred KB of javascript. Or atleast a cross between webmail and a desktop app. Such attempts have never worked in the past. (I remember some horrors like html editors written in java on web hosting sites, before the dot.bust).
Most people hate the viewing habit feature on a TiVo. For me it was unpredicatable and produced some interesting results. Not to say it's a bad feature, but it's definitely something I can do without.
Other than it thinking that I'd like to watch spanish language TV, my TiVo has about 40% accuracy finding things I'd watch. It's another YMMV feature.
I've heard soda, of any kind, generically reffered to as coke down south... But now that i think about it i usually order "a coke" at restraunts.
Well, I don't know how this fits in with it all, but my boss, who's from Wisconsin, calls ANY sugared soft drink a "coke". It really annoys the owner of the local deli when he says "Gimme a ham sandwich and to drink I'll grab a coke". He then pays for a sandwich and an 85 cent can of soda, then walks over to the self-serve cooler where the drinks are and pulls out a $1.50 bottle of Snapple. He's not even trying to pull a fast one and get a bigger drink for less-- he just thinks it's all "cokes" in there.
As a former member of the US armed forces I had to wear a kevlar vest from time to time. The vests I wore hindered movement considerably. They were not that heavy, but the inflexibility was the worst part. As I was finishing my term new vest were just making their way into use that incorporated ballistic plates (steel I think, maybe ceramic) to actually stop bullets. The vest I wore were only said to stop fragments not a direct bullet impact. The downside to the newer vests was heavier weight. If they can make the vest more flexible, lighter weight, and have better stopping great.
Was that the big ol' shoulder pad looking kevlar vest, or the REALLY old ballistic nylon/kevlar combo vest? We had the stupid shoulder-pad monster in Saudi in '91 and they SUCK! You feel like an inflexible barrel with stubby arms. You can't turn your head very far and forget looking up with that stupid collar.
As the first test message from the field team on a new intel reporting system I helped test said: "Send help; privates angry; need beer to placate them; CPT Janss"
Yes, but by the time you move sixty feet away, the light will lag by forty additional nanoseconds, which forces you to have to move further away still... so they can never be in sync. It's the Zenith Paradox.
Heh. Man, you're soul is gonna be damned to eternal hellfire for THAT one.
For ever argument, there's a counter-argument. A consensus consisting of such climate experts physiologists and economists doesn't convince me. If it convinces you, okey dokey.
Humanity will survive. Life will go on. That's a good thing.
But millions, perhaps tens or hundreds of millions, maybe even billions, of people will die in the ensuing chaos.
At a rise of.024 deg C a year, I seriously doubt the flooding and and mass migration will happen in a short enough span to cause "chaos", much less the kind that kills billions..
So which Atari hacking are we talking about? Arcade PCBs, 2600s, home computers, Atari Calculators, Atari UNIX boxes [!]. what?
For those who think a mere link to the books TOC isn't actually an answer to the question, the book seems to concentrate on mods for the early Atari consoles, like the 2600, 5200, and 7800. Other notable devices listed as subjects in the TOC include:
PlayStation 2
802.11 devices
iPod
Nokia 6210
Palm devices
it doesn't even consume power when it's idling on a page
It consumes power all the time, whether refreshing the page or not.
Are you talking about the display or the device as a whole? The display, which is what we're discussing, doesn't draw any power at rest. From the press release:
"Because the display uses power only when an image is changed, "
Nope, that's incorrect. A patent, if granted, is valid from the date it is first applied for. This date is called the filing date
He's not incorrect, man. That's how it is now, but until recently the approval date was when they started counting. Read here about previous exploits of this now closed loophole.
Wow, that's a crass, inaccurate overstatement if I've ever seen one.
Heh. I prefer to think of it as cynical hyperbole. My mother teaches algebra to 8th graders in a Los Angeles Unified School District school. The bureaucratically-induced despair has rubbed off on me. It's certainly not as bad as that, but some of the (ahem) less effective school districts tend to lean that way.
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Try as I might, I never did find that D&D group full of Hot Wicca Recruiter Chicks. I had to play with greasy-haired male nerds who'd never even HEARD OF the Temple of Diana!
Actually, it's an audio clip from a comedy album (vinyl record!) by some group in Wisconsin and the Summoner guys set animation to it. I have heard that the actual bit is longer and they later did a SECOND animation, which is a continuation of the first.
I don't think it actually made you any cooler back then, it just wasn't well known enough to be a serious "nerd mark". People still knew we were nerds-- they just knew it for different reasons*.
* e.g. glasses, particularly damaged glasses fixed with [tape|wire|epoxy]; posession of calculating devices; reading books we weren't assigned to read; marginal enthusiasm/ability WRT team sports; "practical" rather than fashionable wardrobe; &cetera.
'Is there any Mountain Dew? Can I have one?'
Is that the from the "sequel"? I have seen Summoner Geeks, but I understand there's a second clip. Anyone have a link?
"Are there any girls there?"
Actually it's not consumption, and likewise not stealing. Your analogy involves the diminishment of physical property (food eaten), whereas copyright infringement diminishes nothing tangible.
Please. Just try and get a cop to come out and take a report on a stolen wallet or a residential burglary in a big city. And car accidents? Unless someone has to leave the scene in an ambulance, they won't even stop. They already selectively apply manpower to the areas they have determined are imnportant.
OK, I'm with you. I misread the comment and thought you were making a direct comparison. My bad.
Huh?
java != javascript
[/sarcasim]: to simulate taking a cutting or ironic tone
not to be confused with-
sarchasm: a deep hole or canyon into which one pushes those who give you snotty back-talk
Other than it thinking that I'd like to watch spanish language TV, my TiVo has about 40% accuracy finding things I'd watch. It's another YMMV feature.
Well, I don't know how this fits in with it all, but my boss, who's from Wisconsin, calls ANY sugared soft drink a "coke". It really annoys the owner of the local deli when he says "Gimme a ham sandwich and to drink I'll grab a coke". He then pays for a sandwich and an 85 cent can of soda, then walks over to the self-serve cooler where the drinks are and pulls out a $1.50 bottle of Snapple. He's not even trying to pull a fast one and get a bigger drink for less-- he just thinks it's all "cokes" in there.
Was that the big ol' shoulder pad looking kevlar vest, or the REALLY old ballistic nylon/kevlar combo vest? We had the stupid shoulder-pad monster in Saudi in '91 and they SUCK! You feel like an inflexible barrel with stubby arms. You can't turn your head very far and forget looking up with that stupid collar.
As the first test message from the field team on a new intel reporting system I helped test said: "Send help; privates angry; need beer to placate them; CPT Janss"
Enemy fuel supplies.
A $3100 Mk84 iron bomb, or (even better) a $2893 CBU-58 incendiery cluster bomb would be cheaper and more likely to be effective.
You forgot a link to the parent poster like this. Now I'll reap the +5 Informative. Or the -1 Overrated...
Heh. Maybe he meant that the projector had absolutely no tendency to intermingle its parts with other objects in the room.
Heh. Man, you're soul is gonna be damned to eternal hellfire for THAT one.
For ever argument, there's a counter-argument. A consensus consisting of such climate experts physiologists and economists doesn't convince me. If it convinces you, okey dokey.
At a rise of .024 deg C a year, I seriously doubt the flooding and and mass migration will happen in a short enough span to cause "chaos", much less the kind that kills billions..
For those who think a mere link to the books TOC isn't actually an answer to the question, the book seems to concentrate on mods for the early Atari consoles, like the 2600, 5200, and 7800. Other notable devices listed as subjects in the TOC include:
PlayStation 2
802.11 devices
iPod
Nokia 6210
Palm devices
It consumes power all the time, whether refreshing the page or not.
Are you talking about the display or the device as a whole? The display, which is what we're discussing, doesn't draw any power at rest. From the press release:
Nope, that's incorrect. A patent, if granted, is valid from the date it is first applied for. This date is called the filing date
He's not incorrect, man. That's how it is now, but until recently the approval date was when they started counting. Read here about previous exploits of this now closed loophole.
Hiding teenage girls in my house?
heh. When you phrase it that way, it almost has that "Girls Gone Wild" sound to it...
Heh. I prefer to think of it as cynical hyperbole. My mother teaches algebra to 8th graders in a Los Angeles Unified School District school. The bureaucratically-induced despair has rubbed off on me. It's certainly not as bad as that, but some of the (ahem) less effective school districts tend to lean that way.