Oddly enough, it turns out that 90 odd percent of all gays caught on camera having sex in public are reported to the police by the CCTV operators, whereas only about 5% of straight couples are reported.
Like the idiot today who managed to first hit me with his brand new SUV weighing in at aprox 51/2 metric tons, then get out and yell at ME for him not paying attention and noticing a few things:
1) Red lights 2) Pedestrian Crossing 3) Cars running perpendicular to his lane at the intersection
after which he got back in the car, waited for the light to turn green (yes, I was very surprised at this) and then managed to rear end a bus picking up passengers.
What about idiots like that?
Oh, and no, he didn't quit hit me, as much as I hit his car, when I knocked off his side rear view mirror in anger at the fucking asshole.
Sun and IBM and anyone else interested in furthering Java should collaborate on 1 killer IDE that puts any MS tools to shame, and allows lazy programmers (like me!) to be more productive in less time:)
Well, I don't know if I have ADHD or ADD or something else, but I can hear if a monitor/tv is "bad" or what you want to call it.
Examples: I have an old Nokia 17" monitor, that can do 1280x1024@85Hz at the max. However, the guy I got it from always ran it at 1280x960@75Hz, because higher res/freq gave him headaches. I certainly found out why, as it gave a high pitched whine when it went above that. Seriously high pitched.
A friend of mine used to run his monitor at 16x12@90Hz, because he could. This was within range of the monitors ability, but I could always hear the whine. Then when he wasn't looking, I set it to 85hz, the whine dissapeared and he didn't notice. A week later or so he told me, that out of the blue, the constant headache he had, that the doctor could find no cause of, had dissapeared. I told him what I'd done, thinking it might be that. He didn't believe me and put it back to 90Hz. A few days later he said he'd turned it back down to 85Hz, because the headache came back, and it dissapeared and hasn't come back after he set it to 85Hz.
My mom gets a headache at the local super store, when she's at the electronics department, and I certainly understand this, as I can't go anywhere near it, as I can hear the whine 50 feet from the television stand.
My friends parrents bought a new television that their cat didn't want to lie on. They didn't really know why, thinking maybe it didn't smell like home anymore. No. High pitched whine again.
I have no idea wether it's the line scan, bad electronic components or whatever, but I can tell you, if your monitor/television is likely to give you a headache...
I think the LotR trilogy adhered more to the books on which they're based than any other film I can care to mention
Then I'll care to mention Harry Potter. Most. Boring. Movies. Ever.
They don't diviate from the books - at all, except skipping entire chapters, and leaving out lots of Quiditch (+/- spelling). VERY boring. At the premiere of the first movie, I was reciting lines for the characters, before they did themselves - it's that bad. If you want something that sticks that close to the books - READ THE DAMN BOOKS!!!
So LotR doesn't follow the books like canon. They take liberties. They interpret. Good! Books are NOT the same media as films, just as radio is not the same media as books. Look at the H2G2 discussion for what I mean. "Waa waa waa, they won't follow the books to the letter, waa waa waa." Get a grip - the books didn't even follow the radio show that closely, as Douglas Adams, creator of both, knew that they are entirely different media.
Sometimes I wonder if the universe wouldn't be better off, if the Vogons actually destroyed earth.
Okay, English isn't my first language, and I've never quite learned all the punctuation rules, so I pretty much stick with Danish punctuation (hence, all, the, commas,.!):-)
However, I'm very good at Danish and I can't really discribe the pain and suffering I go through every time I read a Danish site. I think it's a general thing, no matter what language we're talking about.
Well, in an average month I watch about four movies in the cinema and four on dvd. Not that that makes me an expert or anything.
And other than that - do you speak Portugeese? I don't, so I can't say wether or not the actors sounded like they were reading aloud or if it's just how Portugese is spoken, and personally I don't like that kind of "acting". It gives me about as much pleasure as eating cardboard pizza.
So I don't know all the fancy cinematic words. Sue me. I know what I like, I know what I don't like. I didn't like Dogville for a week or two, then it grew on me the more I thought about it. I didn't like Breaking the Waves for a week or to, then it grew on me, just like Dogville, for exactly the same reasons. I liked City of God, I liked RotK, but RotK has grown on me, City of God hasn't. To me City of God is a good movie, excelent entertainment and a good way to spend a few hours debating afterwards. RotK, maybe due to its connection with FotR and TTT is all that and more. To me it provides material for debate for far longer than City of God. That, to me, is the mark of a good movie. And both Dogville and Breaking the Waves provide more than the other two movies.
I saw the movie, and I still think PJ did better. Yes, City of God is mostly kid actors, but that doesn't change the facts (IMHO), that
1) PJ did something on a scale FAR FAR larger than City of God accomplished 2) PJ did it better, even if there are a few blunders in the script 3) That the acting in City of God is not that good
Yes, they are mostly kids, but they aren't that good. Better than me, certainly. A lot better. Not better than say Elijah Wood, who was ALSO a kid when production of LotR started. Not by a long shot.
Also, while City of God tells a powerful story, so does RotK, and RotK is (again IMHO) a much more powerful story, and it is done better. Maybe this is because of the money they could throw at it, but that doesn't change the fact, that PJ has been able to keep more balls in the air than any other director - and that he didn't drop any of them, even if one of them was an at times bad script.
But a while back Discovery had a mini series about extreme survival, and one of the shows was about artic survival. The main character, so to speak, tried on an electrical vest of sort, which heated his torso. This allowed him to stay in a -40(I think) degree windtunnel with I think 5 mph winds for more than three hours without losing any dexterity in his fingers.
When the guy who supervised the dexterity and mental acuity test took of his gloves, it took less than three minutes for his hands to be freezing cold, while the infrared camera clearly showed that the main characters fingers were still warm.
Seemed fairly conclusive to me, that the trick was keeping the torso heated, as that would prevent the problems, these gloves are supposed to fix.
Besides - if you can have warm dextorous fingers without wearing gloves, I'd go for that any day of the week, as long as I'm not working with objects, that can hurt my hands.
Who the hell would insure a load like that? Worse - who'd PAY for it?
- "Yeah, we'd like to transport 5,000 gallons of highly flammable materials through hostile territory, where people are attacking us on a daily basis. How much would that cost?" - "How about a million bucks per mile?"
Insurance should be called "incase" because you have it "in case shit happens". When transporting flammable materials through hostile territory it's not a matter of if and when, but simply when it won't happen.
The harddrive cache is PART of the harddrive. It's not like you can remove it or anything (unless you have some really weird/expensive/exotic/old harddrive).
The only other alternative that I see is that we wait until we can move an entire population to Mars before leaving anyone there. This is very unlikely to happen. You can't engineer such an elaborate project, in one heap.
Sure you can. I say we start out by sending hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants, jingle writers, telephone sanitisers (but not ALL of them - can't risk that), you name it! All the middle men. Heck, we could send off an entire useless third of the population!
And, we could tell them some tall tale to get them to go along with it. Somthing like... I don't know... that the planet is going to crash into the sun, that the planet is about to be eaten by a mutated star goat or something involving 12 foot pirahna killer bees. If we do it right, we don't even have to program the ship for landing on a planet... just have it crash into it.
I'm looking for a motherboard in that size, but noone seems to sell those. Sure, I could buy a case, but it would be like buying a Ford Ka just to get your hands on the engine. Any ideas as to where one can get them?
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Oddly enough, it turns out that 90 odd percent of all gays caught on camera having sex in public are reported to the police by the CCTV operators, whereas only about 5% of straight couples are reported.
Odd that.
And what about the 6'3 body builder guys?
Like the idiot today who managed to first hit me with his brand new SUV weighing in at aprox 51/2 metric tons, then get out and yell at ME for him not paying attention and noticing a few things:
1) Red lights
2) Pedestrian Crossing
3) Cars running perpendicular to his lane at the intersection
after which he got back in the car, waited for the light to turn green (yes, I was very surprised at this) and then managed to rear end a bus picking up passengers.
What about idiots like that?
Oh, and no, he didn't quit hit me, as much as I hit his car, when I knocked off his side rear view mirror in anger at the fucking asshole.
Me.
I'm so brilliant, I don't even have feel the need to be famous.
"Oh geez, he's watching Angel again."
So, you're the one?
Well, I don't know if I have ADHD or ADD or something else, but I can hear if a monitor/tv is "bad" or what you want to call it.
...
Examples:
I have an old Nokia 17" monitor, that can do 1280x1024@85Hz at the max. However, the guy I got it from always ran it at 1280x960@75Hz, because higher res/freq gave him headaches. I certainly found out why, as it gave a high pitched whine when it went above that. Seriously high pitched.
A friend of mine used to run his monitor at 16x12@90Hz, because he could. This was within range of the monitors ability, but I could always hear the whine. Then when he wasn't looking, I set it to 85hz, the whine dissapeared and he didn't notice. A week later or so he told me, that out of the blue, the constant headache he had, that the doctor could find no cause of, had dissapeared. I told him what I'd done, thinking it might be that. He didn't believe me and put it back to 90Hz. A few days later he said he'd turned it back down to 85Hz, because the headache came back, and it dissapeared and hasn't come back after he set it to 85Hz.
My mom gets a headache at the local super store, when she's at the electronics department, and I certainly understand this, as I can't go anywhere near it, as I can hear the whine 50 feet from the television stand.
My friends parrents bought a new television that their cat didn't want to lie on. They didn't really know why, thinking maybe it didn't smell like home anymore. No. High pitched whine again.
I have no idea wether it's the line scan, bad electronic components or whatever, but I can tell you, if your monitor/television is likely to give you a headache
They don't diviate from the books - at all, except skipping entire chapters, and leaving out lots of Quiditch (+/- spelling). VERY boring. At the premiere of the first movie, I was reciting lines for the characters, before they did themselves - it's that bad. If you want something that sticks that close to the books - READ THE DAMN BOOKS!!!
So LotR doesn't follow the books like canon. They take liberties. They interpret. Good! Books are NOT the same media as films, just as radio is not the same media as books. Look at the H2G2 discussion for what I mean. "Waa waa waa, they won't follow the books to the letter, waa waa waa." Get a grip - the books didn't even follow the radio show that closely, as Douglas Adams, creator of both, knew that they are entirely different media.
Sometimes I wonder if the universe wouldn't be better off, if the Vogons actually destroyed earth.
I concur. It is absolutely horrific.
:-)
Okay, English isn't my first language, and I've never quite learned all the punctuation rules, so I pretty much stick with Danish punctuation (hence, all, the, commas,.!)
However, I'm very good at Danish and I can't really discribe the pain and suffering I go through every time I read a Danish site. I think it's a general thing, no matter what language we're talking about.
And it's horrific.
Well, in an average month I watch about four movies in the cinema and four on dvd. Not that that makes me an expert or anything.
And other than that - do you speak Portugeese? I don't, so I can't say wether or not the actors sounded like they were reading aloud or if it's just how Portugese is spoken, and personally I don't like that kind of "acting". It gives me about as much pleasure as eating cardboard pizza.
So I don't know all the fancy cinematic words. Sue me. I know what I like, I know what I don't like. I didn't like Dogville for a week or two, then it grew on me the more I thought about it. I didn't like Breaking the Waves for a week or to, then it grew on me, just like Dogville, for exactly the same reasons. I liked City of God, I liked RotK, but RotK has grown on me, City of God hasn't. To me City of God is a good movie, excelent entertainment and a good way to spend a few hours debating afterwards. RotK, maybe due to its connection with FotR and TTT is all that and more. To me it provides material for debate for far longer than City of God. That, to me, is the mark of a good movie. And both Dogville and Breaking the Waves provide more than the other two movies.
In my humble oppinion anyway.
As opposed to Russel "Gladiator" Crowe, who won an Oscar for one and a half facial expression:
Angry/Sad
Sad/Annoyed
I saw the movie, and I still think PJ did better. Yes, City of God is mostly kid actors, but that doesn't change the facts (IMHO), that
:-)
1) PJ did something on a scale FAR FAR larger than City of God accomplished
2) PJ did it better, even if there are a few blunders in the script
3) That the acting in City of God is not that good
Yes, they are mostly kids, but they aren't that good. Better than me, certainly. A lot better. Not better than say Elijah Wood, who was ALSO a kid when production of LotR started. Not by a long shot.
Also, while City of God tells a powerful story, so does RotK, and RotK is (again IMHO) a much more powerful story, and it is done better. Maybe this is because of the money they could throw at it, but that doesn't change the fact, that PJ has been able to keep more balls in the air than any other director - and that he didn't drop any of them, even if one of them was an at times bad script.
Put that in your hat and smoke it
Well, we seem quite adept at hitting Mars with objects, so a well aimed probe should do the trick ...
But a while back Discovery had a mini series about extreme survival, and one of the shows was about artic survival. The main character, so to speak, tried on an electrical vest of sort, which heated his torso. This allowed him to stay in a -40(I think) degree windtunnel with I think 5 mph winds for more than three hours without losing any dexterity in his fingers.
When the guy who supervised the dexterity and mental acuity test took of his gloves, it took less than three minutes for his hands to be freezing cold, while the infrared camera clearly showed that the main characters fingers were still warm.
Seemed fairly conclusive to me, that the trick was keeping the torso heated, as that would prevent the problems, these gloves are supposed to fix.
Besides - if you can have warm dextorous fingers without wearing gloves, I'd go for that any day of the week, as long as I'm not working with objects, that can hurt my hands.
INSURANCE??? You have GOT to be kidding!
Who the hell would insure a load like that? Worse - who'd PAY for it?
- "Yeah, we'd like to transport 5,000 gallons of highly flammable materials through hostile territory, where people are attacking us on a daily basis. How much would that cost?"
- "How about a million bucks per mile?"
Insurance should be called "incase" because you have it "in case shit happens". When transporting flammable materials through hostile territory it's not a matter of if and when, but simply when it won't happen.
yeah, I came to that conclusion myself about ten seconds after I posted it ...
:-)
didn't bother to correct myself, though, this being da intarwaep and all
Well, yeah ... but not quite ...
The harddrive cache is PART of the harddrive. It's not like you can remove it or anything (unless you have some really weird/expensive/exotic/old harddrive).
Completely off topic, but your signature got me wondering.
...
>My hard drive is just a 5th-level cache between the CPU and the Internet.
5th?
CPU
L1 cache (1st level)
L2 cache (2nd level)
RAM (3rd level)
Harddrive (4th level)
Internet
What am I missing?
And, we could tell them some tall tale to get them to go along with it. Somthing like
*dons asbestos suit*
My 31/2" floppy can turn into an 8" solid state ...
Yeah ...
But I would claim he can act. Have you seen The Gift? He can certainly play a bastard son of a bitch.
Combine the best prices. That way you end up with:
One Partridge in a Pear Tree $77.50 (Regular)
Partridge 15.00 (Regular)
Pear Tree 62.50 (Regular)
Two Turtle Doves 58.00 (Regular)
Three French Hens 15.00 (Regular)
Four Calling Birds 330.00 (Internet)
Five Gold Rings 183.75 (Internet)
Six Geese-a-Laying 150.00 (Regular)
Seven Swans-a-Swimming 3,500.00 (Regular)
Eight Maids-a-Milking 41.20 (Regular)
Nine Ladies Dancing 4,230.89 (Regular)
10 Lords-a-Leaping 3,921.44 (Regular)
11 Pipers Piping 1,600.00 (Internet)
12 Drummers Drumming 687.50 (Internet)
For a grand total of $14,872.28, which is $2,013 less than their estimate. Well worth the effort.
I'm looking for a motherboard in that size, but noone seems to sell those. Sure, I could buy a case, but it would be like buying a Ford Ka just to get your hands on the engine. Any ideas as to where one can get them?