Not to sound like a skin flint or something, but their stuff being free has been, at least for me, a big reason I'm interested in them. They tend to give off this idea that they're a company with a bottomless purse that buys things out and liberates them. The satellite maps, Google Earth/Keyhole, gigantic email accounts, etc. If they started charging for any of their services directly, people would turn on them like a herd of rabid gerbils.
Google is like some rich dude walking through town dropping $100 bills everywhere he goes and people follow him from place to place and think he can do no wrong.
"What will the rich fat white guy do next that we can get in on??"
Can't blame people. It's human nature. I love free stuff, too man, but we're being predictable, and probably played like violins.
Like cynics like to remind us, nothing is free. And they're right. We'll pay the piper sooner or later. Something doesn't add up.:P
I did a quick search of the root of the comments before I posted, but I guess I missed it. I'd gladly hand over whatever score my post receives if I could.:P
Funny, I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. That whole thing where the brain does real-time error correction while reading kicked in, I suppose. You know, where the first and last letters are right, but the middle junk is scrambled and you can still read it as the right word when reading fast?
A lot of schmucks will probably treat these sorts of interesting things like novelty party tricks and move on.
Most people can't even treat other people with respect, so to me it's unrealistic to expect them to ever care about anything outside their own species except for personal gain or as lunch.
I mean, 12 hours from now it won't be true. Even right now it's not true anymore. Oh my god...time is slipping away from me...help...Calgon! *brrzzt-thud*
I think, given time, and access to a hard drive image, I would be really surprised if sometime down the line, maybe 3 or 4 months from now we don't see a custom recreated reverse-engineered DVD image of a completely cracked and unofficial OS/X installation.
It'll be messy, but I bet we'll see it. It's too big a challenge not to undertake, especially since the potential prestige for whatever group that releases it is astronomical.
I am so glad you blew a mod point pointing out the obvious. Rock on, smarty-man. Maybe you can mod this one down too and lose another point. Wee! Isn't this fun?
I ended up making a small post with this quote as well (huge fan of the show), but I figured someone else would have before me.
So I did the polite thing and searched the thread for the start of the quote...but I spelled it with a 'Q'. Quizibuck. Naturally I didn't see this post. It hadn't even occured to me that it could be spelled that way...
If you REALLY wanted to spread the BS a little more... we could take the "test of maneuverability" explanation as fact and say that Han was purposely trying to do a verbal slight of hand of sorts... Perhaps the Falcon isn't as fast as he'd like his potential passengers to believe, and he was trying to confuse, hoping they wouldn't know what a parsec really is. Lie to make a quick cred? Sure, why not.
Bless you Star Trek for giving the fans the ability to bullshit their way out of even the worst writing.;D
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*shrug*
Yeah, but even that train ran out of steam once before. :P
Not to sound like a skin flint or something, but their stuff being free has been, at least for me, a big reason I'm interested in them. They tend to give off this idea that they're a company with a bottomless purse that buys things out and liberates them. The satellite maps, Google Earth/Keyhole, gigantic email accounts, etc. If they started charging for any of their services directly, people would turn on them like a herd of rabid gerbils.
:P
Google is like some rich dude walking through town dropping $100 bills everywhere he goes and people follow him from place to place and think he can do no wrong.
"What will the rich fat white guy do next that we can get in on??"
Can't blame people. It's human nature. I love free stuff, too man, but we're being predictable, and probably played like violins.
Like cynics like to remind us, nothing is free. And they're right. We'll pay the piper sooner or later. Something doesn't add up.
Whoa, you weren't fuckin' kidding. [Mirror]
I did a quick search of the root of the comments before I posted, but I guess I missed it. I'd gladly hand over whatever score my post receives if I could. :P
...wifi.google.com. Yes, it returns an error. But the host resolved, as opposed to, say, porn.google.com.
Interesting.
Let's continue to spread the usage of this riduculous term by encouraging it's usage. YES! Good idea.
Same here. (Geforce 6600GT, latest drivers)
How else would a civilized person transport mints? :O
Funny, I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. That whole thing where the brain does real-time error correction while reading kicked in, I suppose. You know, where the first and last letters are right, but the middle junk is scrambled and you can still read it as the right word when reading fast?
:)
goevrnemnt
Weird.
Still sloppy, though.
Best keyboards ever. Bought a couple spares and ensured that I had one available for work when I started. The common plastic keyboards make me cry. :(
A lot of schmucks will probably treat these sorts of interesting things like novelty party tricks and move on.
:P
Most people can't even treat other people with respect, so to me it's unrealistic to expect them to ever care about anything outside their own species except for personal gain or as lunch.
Of course, there are exceptions.
What can I say? I'm just a cynical bastard.
...Tron? ;D
I mean, 12 hours from now it won't be true. Even right now it's not true anymore. Oh my god...time is slipping away from me...help...Calgon! *brrzzt-thud*
Or was that 815? Damn it.
This will make it a lot easier to find the island those poor people from Flight 812 crashed on. Just look for a big pirate ship, and we'll be close.
Yeah, but then we'd never know Marty existed, and we'd have to test it on someone else over and over into infinity.
Okay, [hated group] form a line to the left!
I think, given time, and access to a hard drive image, I would be really surprised if sometime down the line, maybe 3 or 4 months from now we don't see a custom recreated reverse-engineered DVD image of a completely cracked and unofficial OS/X installation.
It'll be messy, but I bet we'll see it. It's too big a challenge not to undertake, especially since the potential prestige for whatever group that releases it is astronomical.
Here's a couple updates on that.
I am so glad you blew a mod point pointing out the obvious. Rock on, smarty-man. Maybe you can mod this one down too and lose another point. Wee! Isn't this fun?
I ended up making a small post with this quote as well (huge fan of the show), but I figured someone else would have before me.
;)
So I did the polite thing and searched the thread for the start of the quote...but I spelled it with a 'Q'. Quizibuck. Naturally I didn't see this post. It hadn't even occured to me that it could be spelled that way...
Next time, I'll use 'Duketastrophy' to search.
That's a Duketastrophy!
If you REALLY wanted to spread the BS a little more... we could take the "test of maneuverability" explanation as fact and say that Han was purposely trying to do a verbal slight of hand of sorts... Perhaps the Falcon isn't as fast as he'd like his potential passengers to believe, and he was trying to confuse, hoping they wouldn't know what a parsec really is. Lie to make a quick cred? Sure, why not.
;D
Bless you Star Trek for giving the fans the ability to bullshit their way out of even the worst writing.
The title of this article almost sounds like a Photoshop Phriday over on SA.
The Crossbow Project. There's no defense like a good offense.