This is obviously sone new definition of "hilarious" that we weren't previously made aware of.
He's obviously using the subdermal geriatrical form of "hilarious," which is Latin for "things that only old farts find funny." Here's another example of the subdermal geriatrical "hilarious:"
I was waiting for the bus, and some young buck stepped in front of me! I said, "Sonny, in my day we let the old farts go first!" and he said, "Sorry, mister." Then I said, "Don't use that tone of voice with me!" and I done smacked him across the head with an adult incontinence product.
That there's prime Prairie Home Companion material.
Wife bothering you to take out the trash? Sure honey right after I demonstrate that every simply connected closed three-manifold is homeomorphic to the three-sphere (in a topologist's sense) S^3, where a three-sphere is simply a generalization of the usual sphere to one dimension higher. Never be at a loss for words again!
Alternatively, you could go to grad school. You'd have reservoirs upon reservoirs of useless phrases at your disposal.
"Sorry, honey, I'm currently working on a new correlation algorithm for stereo matching and subimage finding based on an inner-product L-k norm. I'll be done in a few minutes."
They should go one step further and include information on how to crack the DRM on each label.
Re:We'll Be Prepared for the Rarest of Events
on
Back to the Bunker
·
· Score: 1
Frankly, if these bunkers became necessary, I'd probably be pretty offended that they don't consider me valuable enough to warrant a place in one.
I'd personally be offended that they don't consider you valuable enough to warrant a place in one. If there's a small-arms nuclear attack against our government centers, I wouldn't want to be without you to keep the government - and thus the economy - going.
Three thoughts. Glad I'm taking vacation this week. I'll be sure to see Cars on Friday. And, I for one, posthumously welcome our underground bureaucratic overlords.
If reading about this has started you jonesin' for the good ol' days, you can always play interactive fiction.
It's like Zork, except literary. I heartily recommend anything by Adam Cadre, especially Photopia (actually made me cry - it's an amazing piece of art) and Shrapnel.
Instead of restricting reporting dupes to subscribers, they could restrict it to those with good Karma. That way only the people that seem to add something to/. can report problems.
Or restrict it to subscribers with good karma, so people who subscribe actually get something for their money.
Of course, that's yet one more step toward "subscribe so you can help us lazy editors do our jobs," isn't it?
Seriously, I have never heard any one abbreviate Tim O'Reilly TOR.
Oh, yeah. And Linus is LBT (which is also Lettuce, Bacon, and Tomato), Alan Cox is AC (anonymous coward), Paul Graham is PG (parental guidance - which is way too mild, IMO, for his near-pornographic technical book, On Lisp), and Bruce Perens is BP (blood pressure, Black Panthers, or Solomon Islands, of all things).
Huh. Maybe we should stick to spelling out the names. Except RMS (root mean square - voltage and stuff) and ESR (electron spin resonance), because we've been using those for years.
I'll say "Sweetie, he's like God." She'll reply "What do you mean, Daddy, all knowing, all powerful and something to be in awe of?" "No dear," I'll reply, "a make-believe thing people in power use against the masses to keep them scared."
Being a religious person, I usually take some kind of offense at things like this, but these Canadians have somehow made your comment palatable.
In comes Captain Copyright. Ask: What do you think Captain Copyright will say?
Yikes. "What would Jesus do?" came to mind when I read that.
Yet another reason to keep your kids out of the public schools.
GameDaily summarized (or copied) what they found most interesting. I find this moreso:
Q: Why does your controller have a speaker?
Iwata: This feature was absent from the prototype a year ago - we introduced it fairly recently. We discussed what type of feedback the games should provide the user with. Households sporting 5.1 channel speakers will certainly be able to enjoy realistic sound, yet not all homes have such audio equipment. Adding a speaker to the controller will enable us, for example, to have it emit sound effects when hitting the ball in ping-pong, tennis or golf games.
Not only that, but 5.1 can't produce a sound exactly where you are no matter where you are in the room.
Yet another instance of Nintendo anticipating their customer's needs rather than (or in addition to) listening to their gripes. What customer would have said "speaker in the controller!" rather than "more 5.1 support?"
Sony's problem is they've just made a playstation Mark 3. Except the Mark 2 was a huge step up from the original, where as the third step is all but unnoticable as it is.
Actually, I think the Mark 3 is a huge step up. It's just that people aren't so impressed with that - what they want is a step away.
I have no confidence whatsoever that any of those "justices" who ruled in the majority on that case have even SEEN the Constitution.
Waah, waah. Did you read Roberts's majority opinion on the Harvard Law School ruling? He came out of nowhere - said that, since Congress is supposed to provide for the common defense, they can definitely enforce their duty in a weaker way. That is, if they can lawfully demand to put recruiters on campus, they can lawfully incentivize it.
It was back to basic constitutional principles. The Roberts court reads the Constitution better than any group I know. I've never read such a clear, unarguable opinion from the USSC before.
But then, they don't read the Constitution your favorite way, do they?
Well, you're right. HOWEVER, as we all know, money talks in Washington. If this company bribes the right politicians, and promises some kind of benefit to a given congressman's state, then it WILL happen.
Hang on, you forgot some:
Company bribes the right politicians
Company promises the right kind of benefit to a given congressman's state
Bill is actually drafted
Bill is voted on in the House and passes
Bill is voted on in the Senate and passes
The president doesn't veto (someone besides G.W. will be in by then, so there's a chance)
The Supreme Court doesn't smack it down (no anti-Alito flames, please - they would, despite your anti-conservative conspiracy theories, because it's so obviously an invasion of privacy)
For heck's sake, moderators, this is not a troll. Did you notice how he actually pointed out logical flaws in the grandparent's soppy poem? Here they are in a bulleted list, in case you were blinded by rage when you read the parent's "Troll":
No one is forcing you to get a microchip placed in your dog
Nobody has actually placed microchips in immigrants - VeriChip Corporation chairman Scott Silverman proposed it
Nobody has even proposed placing microchips in felons
But you know, if you're swayed by emotional words and slippery slopes that totally piggyback off real, great literature, I suppose you won't care.
Thank you. My faith in Slashdot based on that moderation has taken a pummeling.
On the other hand, the moderator could have been trying to give me some karma, because +1, Funnydoesn't actually affect it. Which really sucks when I'm doing my Mister Language Person impression, but there you go.
Slashdot Mirror
This is obviously sone new definition of "hilarious" that we weren't previously made aware of.
He's obviously using the subdermal geriatrical form of "hilarious," which is Latin for "things that only old farts find funny." Here's another example of the subdermal geriatrical "hilarious:"
I was waiting for the bus, and some young buck stepped in front of me! I said, "Sonny, in my day we let the old farts go first!" and he said, "Sorry, mister." Then I said, "Don't use that tone of voice with me!" and I done smacked him across the head with an adult incontinence product.
That there's prime Prairie Home Companion material.
Wife bothering you to take out the trash? Sure honey right after I demonstrate that every simply connected closed three-manifold is homeomorphic to the three-sphere (in a topologist's sense) S^3, where a three-sphere is simply a generalization of the usual sphere to one dimension higher. Never be at a loss for words again!
Alternatively, you could go to grad school. You'd have reservoirs upon reservoirs of useless phrases at your disposal.
"Sorry, honey, I'm currently working on a new correlation algorithm for stereo matching and subimage finding based on an inner-product L-k norm. I'll be done in a few minutes."
They should go one step further and include information on how to crack the DRM on each label.
Frankly, if these bunkers became necessary, I'd probably be pretty offended that they don't consider me valuable enough to warrant a place in one.
I'd personally be offended that they don't consider you valuable enough to warrant a place in one. If there's a small-arms nuclear attack against our government centers, I wouldn't want to be without you to keep the government - and thus the economy - going.
Three thoughts. Glad I'm taking vacation this week. I'll be sure to see Cars on Friday. And, I for one, posthumously welcome our underground bureaucratic overlords.
Posthumously?
Wow, you really do need a vacation.
If reading about this has started you jonesin' for the good ol' days, you can always play interactive fiction.
It's like Zork, except literary. I heartily recommend anything by Adam Cadre, especially Photopia (actually made me cry - it's an amazing piece of art) and Shrapnel.
That's like Associate VP. I mean, A 16-bit slashdot id... looks like you're doing great work :)
Either that, or he's exceptionally good at trawling eBay.
That would be an oxymoron!
A GNU/oxymoron, Philistine.
Instead of restricting reporting dupes to subscribers, they could restrict it to those with good Karma. That way only the people that seem to add something to /. can report problems.
Or restrict it to subscribers with good karma, so people who subscribe actually get something for their money.
Of course, that's yet one more step toward "subscribe so you can help us lazy editors do our jobs," isn't it?
runescape characters may in fact sit (and rock!) in their new chairs.
That's it. I'm buying the game.
There's nothing like being lazy in two places at once. I could get twice as much loafing around done this way.
Seriously, I have never heard any one abbreviate Tim O'Reilly TOR.
Oh, yeah. And Linus is LBT (which is also Lettuce, Bacon, and Tomato), Alan Cox is AC (anonymous coward), Paul Graham is PG (parental guidance - which is way too mild, IMO, for his near-pornographic technical book, On Lisp), and Bruce Perens is BP (blood pressure, Black Panthers, or Solomon Islands, of all things).
Huh. Maybe we should stick to spelling out the names. Except RMS (root mean square - voltage and stuff) and ESR (electron spin resonance), because we've been using those for years.
you ever tell your child not to do something because it is againsts gods will?
Yes.
Every threaten to punish a child if the question a belief?
No.
I stopped reading your post after this.
I'll say "Sweetie, he's like God." She'll reply "What do you mean, Daddy, all knowing, all powerful and something to be in awe of?" "No dear," I'll reply, "a make-believe thing people in power use against the masses to keep them scared."
Being a religious person, I usually take some kind of offense at things like this, but these Canadians have somehow made your comment palatable.
In comes Captain Copyright. Ask: What do you think Captain Copyright will say?
Yikes. "What would Jesus do?" came to mind when I read that.
Yet another reason to keep your kids out of the public schools.
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/2006
GameDaily summarized (or copied) what they found most interesting. I find this moreso:
Not only that, but 5.1 can't produce a sound exactly where you are no matter where you are in the room.
Yet another instance of Nintendo anticipating their customer's needs rather than (or in addition to) listening to their gripes. What customer would have said "speaker in the controller!" rather than "more 5.1 support?"
We're on Quake 4, Doom 3, but I never hear anyone complaining about id.
:D
You must be new here.
im going to reserve mine as soon as it's possible. $600 is nothing when it means that ill have 5+ years of awesome gameplay with it. rock on sony!
I honestly can't tell if you were being serious. In case you weren't, here's a tip in the form of an example:
$600 is nothing when it means that ill have 5+ years of awesome gameplay and the most amazing hi-tech cup holder ever. rock on sony!
Sony's problem is they've just made a playstation Mark 3. Except the Mark 2 was a huge step up from the original, where as the third step is all but unnoticable as it is.
Actually, I think the Mark 3 is a huge step up. It's just that people aren't so impressed with that - what they want is a step away.
I have no confidence whatsoever that any of those "justices" who ruled in the majority on that case have even SEEN the Constitution.
Waah, waah. Did you read Roberts's majority opinion on the Harvard Law School ruling? He came out of nowhere - said that, since Congress is supposed to provide for the common defense, they can definitely enforce their duty in a weaker way. That is, if they can lawfully demand to put recruiters on campus, they can lawfully incentivize it.
It was back to basic constitutional principles. The Roberts court reads the Constitution better than any group I know. I've never read such a clear, unarguable opinion from the USSC before.
But then, they don't read the Constitution your favorite way, do they?
Hang on, you forgot some:
THEN it WILL happen.
What US history class did you take?
But you know, if you're swayed by emotional words and slippery slopes that totally piggyback off real, great literature, I suppose you won't care.
Sheesh.
Take two of these and call me in the morning.
I'd have, like, the most amazing bathtub ever.
Thanks. Take an LOL - that was awesome.
Thank you. My faith in Slashdot based on that moderation has taken a pummeling.
On the other hand, the moderator could have been trying to give me some karma, because +1, Funny doesn't actually affect it. Which really sucks when I'm doing my Mister Language Person impression, but there you go.
I'd assume this is a joke, but if it's not - wouldn't it be confectionery?
It's Latin. Any fool knows that.
After all, earning a profit to M$ is customer satisfaction, because if customers weren't satisfied, they wouldn't be buying more games still, right?
How else would you measure it? By listening to rabid Slashdot Nintendo fanboys?
"Still selling" is a great measure of satisfaction, next to hiring Zogby to do a survey.