And a female terminator? Does no one else see something wrong with that. I sincerely hope they didn't just do that for lame PC reasons.
No, they did it for the laughs. You just know there's going to be a scene where some dude (or group of dudes) tries to pick her up or rape her and she'll kick ass and everyone in the movie theatre will cheer.
I loved that book when I was a kid. That was the first thing I thought of when I read the article (well, that and wondering if the smoke annoyed the butterflys).
About two years ago I purchased a Sony DirecTiVo and VCR. I bought a Sony VCR so I could archive TiVo stuff to tape using the o-so-sexy Sony-to-Sony interface.
The first VCR didn't at all work out of the box. I brought it to Sony service (about a half-hour drive away). They mailed me a new one, but I had to wait two weeks for it to get there. When the replacement arrived, I discovered that the front panel buttons worked sometimes, so I would have to do everything with the remote (good thing I had a spare left over from the original VCR). I decided it was too much time and trouble to send it back, just to get the same model again, so I've been making do.
The TiVo shit the bed after the first month with a contant reboot problem, and I took a little trip over to Sony service. It took a couple weeks for them to replace the hard drive. It was still under warranty when the fan started to make bad noises. Rather than give up the TiVo for another two weeks, I removed the "DO NOT OPEN THIS BOX" sticker with a razor blade and replaced the fan myself.
After all that, I've never been able to get the magical Sony TiVo-to-VCR auto-record feature to work. The phone tech suggested that I bring both items to Sony service. Fuck that noise.
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I use a Mac because that's where the creative tools are.
I believe they prefer the term "artist."
Chrichton always screws up the tree for the forest
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Disclosure is all about hammering out the problems in CD-ROM drive production, but meanwhile, the fact that the same company has solved virtual reality doesn't get a comment.
Jurassic Park: Yeah, we can re-create extinct animals and basically fuck with genetics all we want. So what do we do with it? Open a zoo.
Having "solved" time travel, in Timeline, what's it going to be used for? Stock market speculation? Changing history in a big land grab? No, an amusement park.
Chrichton stories are all about getting super powers, and then using them to order a pizza.
Sure enough, about 2 months after it happened, I saw my first Tshirt with Bin Laden's face in the crosshairs.
Where do you live, Hong Kong? One *week* after, I saw tons of different t-shirts with Osama in the cross hairs, running in front of a tank, or pictures of F-15s with "Hijack this, asshole" captions.
If you're just sitting on your fat ass all day, tapping a keyboard, it's not like it matters what you wear. You're not capping an oil rig. Grow the fuck up. You're an adult with a job that presumably is ultimately necessary for people to earn their paychecks. Dress like it.
Those who bitch about suits/ties being uncomfortable need to buy ones that fit. Go to a place where they'll measure you. It's not difficult. Wear a properly fitted suit and you'll realize that jeans that are actually tighter and more confining.
It's an ugly but true fact that if you dress better, people treat you better. People in stores are more attentive, and women are more likely to give you a first chance if at first glance you look like you have a job with responsibilities, rather than some guy who unloads trucks at UPS.
Wearing a suit does not help your skills, but it will affect how management feels about you. It may be "selling out" to dress like management, but when it comes time for cutbacks, do you think some superficial manager is going to cut the people who at least look like they fit in with everyone else or the guys in t-shirts who dress like gas station attendants?
Vermont actually has the least restrictive gun laws of any state, including Texas. Compare that to Massachusetts, which has the most restrictive gun laws.
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And because that's where Santa keeps his Fortress of Solitude.
Don't forget the scratch card tickets. I live near a 7-11 and I'm always finding those goddamned things on the ground.
Sheesh, poeple, it's not bad enough that you're a loser (in so many ways), but must you litter too?
Obviously my good deed of the day would be to write a script signing up every number in MA.
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(617) 111-0001
(617) 111-0002
(617) 111-0003
or does the author look like Kaga from Iron Chef?
give it to me like you never have before
Like that'll be hard to fake.
new snow mobiles that are able to climb extreme slopes (for alpine rescue crews).
...who'll be rescuing the idiots who were climing extreme slopes in their new snow mobiles.
And a female terminator? Does no one else see something wrong with that. I sincerely hope they didn't just do that for lame PC reasons.
No, they did it for the laughs. You just know there's going to be a scene where some dude (or group of dudes) tries to pick her up or rape her and she'll kick ass and everyone in the movie theatre will cheer.
Microsoft provides the #1 small-system OS
But their security is for #2.
Computing is about ideas, and as long as we are human, we'll always have new ideas.
You haven't seen a movies or television lately, have you?
It's just staggering - over 20 billion in 1961 dollars. Guessing based on nothing more than intuition, that's 100 billion dollars today.
According to the inflation calculator, what cost $20,000,000,000 in 1961 would cost $115,019,019,272.52 in 2001.
This is why cave rescue organizations (good ones) have the ability to lay a mile or two of phone wire in really horrible conditions.
"Nothing much. Trapped in a cave, having a Bud. Hold on a sec. Hello?"
"Wassssuuuup!"
Yessssss!
I loved that book when I was a kid. That was the first thing I thought of when I read the article (well, that and wondering if the smoke annoyed the butterflys).
About two years ago I purchased a Sony DirecTiVo and VCR. I bought a Sony VCR so I could archive TiVo stuff to tape using the o-so-sexy Sony-to-Sony interface.
The first VCR didn't at all work out of the box. I brought it to Sony service (about a half-hour drive away). They mailed me a new one, but I had to wait two weeks for it to get there. When the replacement arrived, I discovered that the front panel buttons worked sometimes, so I would have to do everything with the remote (good thing I had a spare left over from the original VCR). I decided it was too much time and trouble to send it back, just to get the same model again, so I've been making do.
The TiVo shit the bed after the first month with a contant reboot problem, and I took a little trip over to Sony service. It took a couple weeks for them to replace the hard drive. It was still under warranty when the fan started to make bad noises. Rather than give up the TiVo for another two weeks, I removed the "DO NOT OPEN THIS BOX" sticker with a razor blade and replaced the fan myself.
After all that, I've never been able to get the magical Sony TiVo-to-VCR auto-record feature to work. The phone tech suggested that I bring both items to Sony service. Fuck that noise.
I'll never buy Sony again.
Excellent, dude. I'm getting that SUV after all.
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Was the design of your book's cover influenced by the goatse man?
I use a Mac because that's where the creative tools are.
I believe they prefer the term "artist."
Disclosure is all about hammering out the problems in CD-ROM drive production, but meanwhile, the fact that the same company has solved virtual reality doesn't get a comment.
Jurassic Park: Yeah, we can re-create extinct animals and basically fuck with genetics all we want. So what do we do with it? Open a zoo.
Having "solved" time travel, in Timeline, what's it going to be used for? Stock market speculation? Changing history in a big land grab? No, an amusement park.
Chrichton stories are all about getting super powers, and then using them to order a pizza.
The English C4 was a plastic explosive car. It was quirky in the English tradition. It died immediately after introduction.
Sure enough, about 2 months after it happened, I saw my first Tshirt with Bin Laden's face in the crosshairs.
Where do you live, Hong Kong? One *week* after, I saw tons of different t-shirts with Osama in the cross hairs, running in front of a tank, or pictures of F-15s with "Hijack this, asshole" captions.
If I might posit a guess, I'd say it had something to do with the independant nature of both beasties.
Naw. You don't have to outside to take a cat for a walk.
If I were Apple (which I am not) I'd have this bundled with 10.2 and promote the living daylights out of it.
That doesn't exactly make sense. If someone's buying 10.2, they already have a Mac.
If it were going to be bundled, it would make more sense to do it with new Mac systems, where someone might be upgrading from a Windows machine.
NJ isn't such a bad place when you actually take a turn off the NJ Turnpike.
Which exit?
If you're just sitting on your fat ass all day, tapping a keyboard, it's not like it matters what you wear. You're not capping an oil rig. Grow the fuck up. You're an adult with a job that presumably is ultimately necessary for people to earn their paychecks. Dress like it.
Those who bitch about suits/ties being uncomfortable need to buy ones that fit. Go to a place where they'll measure you. It's not difficult. Wear a properly fitted suit and you'll realize that jeans that are actually tighter and more confining.
It's an ugly but true fact that if you dress better, people treat you better. People in stores are more attentive, and women are more likely to give you a first chance if at first glance you look like you have a job with responsibilities, rather than some guy who unloads trucks at UPS.
Wearing a suit does not help your skills, but it will affect how management feels about you. It may be "selling out" to dress like management, but when it comes time for cutbacks, do you think some superficial manager is going to cut the people who at least look like they fit in with everyone else or the guys in t-shirts who dress like gas station attendants?
Depends on your definition of "liberal."
Vermont actually has the least restrictive gun laws of any state, including Texas. Compare that to Massachusetts, which has the most restrictive gun laws.