"He is a member of the Quermian species, a race of sentient invertebrates related to the Troiken of Xexto. Poof's sensitive olfactory glands were located in his hands. Poof had two brains, one located inside his skull and the other in his chest cavity.
A sly Jedi Master, Poof was a master of Jedi mind tricks and could use the Force to quickly befuddle and mislead targets by conjuring false images in their minds. This is Poof's preferred method of combat, though like all Jedi, he carried a lightsaber. "
An INVERTEBRATE? How the hell does an invertebrate have a long, spindly neck like that...and olfactory glands?? Does that mean he smelled with his hands, or that his hands smelled.
Poof: Here, use my lightsaber.
Other Jedi Dude: Uh, no thanks Poof, I'll see if i can't use my Jedi powers to get it back from the Rancor.
Poof: Naw, c'mon, really you can use it - it's a cool green you know.
Other Jedi Dude: Um, actually Poof, it kinda stinks. Yeah... me and the other Jedi's have been talking about your "saber" and how much it smells. Could you look into a few sets of gloves or something"
i mean c'mon. I've seen 3 HDTV's broadcasting in my life - the first was prolly 7 years ago at the Smithsonian Museum in D.C. MAN! that thing rocked. They were playing a video of a fountain in Italy, and i swear i could see individual drops of water. Looked almost 3D.
Flash forward to today where i visit my photographer friend who couldn't wait to show me his new set that he got. Now keep in mind that this is a professional photographer who knows a thing or two about image quality, but not a whole lot about wiring, etc. (i was there to fix his Win2k box which he had fried fo the third time - Sircam? looks intersting, let me open it!!)
Anyway, he showed me back-to-back comparisons of regular HBO and HDTV HBO. Sure you could tell that there was an obvious quality improvement, but if he didn't tell me, i would never have been able to guess. Now, this was a tube screen, so i know it wasn't any rear-projection crap. I was all like, "Man, that's awesome" but inside, i was thinking, "Man, that sucks!"
Then, a few days i'm at Circuit City, and i browse through their HDTV section. Same thing!! Less-than-stellar picture. I couldn't believe it. There was a basketball game on, and there were all sorts of artifacts on the screen. It seemed to be especially prononounced in the areas immediately around something that was moving, i.e. someone was running down court, and he would hav a "halo of crap" around him.
So, the question is - does neither my photographer friend, nor the high-school kid working at Circuit City know how to properly wire these damn things, and does that have that dramatic an effect on the quality of an HDTV picture? Or does it just look better than regular TV, but not as good as HDTV should look?
Yeah, this is a great idea!! The "casual users" in my office call their machines modems and their monitors hard drives, fail to log into the network, and in general have a hard time doing more than one thing at a time "I'm Unitasking!!!
Blow away their desktop, and they be left in the fetal position under their desks wimpering about how they broke their Microsoft.
Ugh. Talk about a researcher or two with too much time on his hands.
So let me get this straight....you are advocating conforming to a lower standard so that you can, what, stick it to M$??!
That's rediculous!!!
The question is not "How can i downgrade to a non-M$ system and lose functionality?" But rather "Where are the apps that give me the functionality to do at the level that i'm accustomed to?!"
Asking someone to give you a document as XML, HTML, RTF or TXT will give you more strange looks, and cause more problems then having them send it to you in "Microsoft" format. MSOffice is popular because is can create documents in formats other than plain text...and XML and HTML doesn't cut it.
And saying "those sites are not worth viewing anyway" when talking about a flash site is just moronic!!
Any who gives a rat's ass if you like 4 color atari 2600 games better than Q3 or UT?!?! Kick-ass games are built for people who want to play kick-ass games. Why wouldn't you want to play a kick-ass game on a Linux box?
I'm so sick and tired over the petty bullshit that goes on between staunch linux-or-die-everything-else-is-a-monoplolistic-pl oy-to-implant-chips-in-your-penis camp, and the M$-is-the-greatest-company-in-the-world-just-look- at-my-MCSE camp.
It's over. M$ is here to stay. Yes, Linux has made great inroads in the past 24 months and has matured at a scale that exponentially exceeds what M$ has done to date. But M$ will alwaysbe around. Face facts.
As far as the windowless office is concerned, i would love to move to a pure Linux based network, but i have too many mission critical apps that need to run on Windows...some on Windows 9X!!
Ok, Ok, I admit it - i work for a telemarketing company. There, you happy?! I do it begrudgingly to support my "habit". Anyway, we use a number of methods, one of which being a predictive dialer running on SCO.
Our dialer has the ability to detect tritones - the "doo dee dii, the number you have reached...". There are several different tritones, and our dialer can distinguish between a "Changed Number" tritone, and a "Bad Number" tritone. I suppose that if this device sends out a tritone that matches the "Bad Number" tritone, our dialer wouldn't call it. You can, however, set your dialer to do whatever you like with those "dispositions". An unscrupulous company may set their dailer to pass those calls to the reps instead of dropping the line (We don't do that).
However, i happened to catch that commercial too, and it also says that it "...will automatically delete your name from their database". Of course, that's horse shit. It'll just dispo your record as bad number, what the company does with those is up to them.
Naturally i encourage everyone to check out their states' Do Not Call registry and add your name if you don't want to be disturbed (BTW, the laws about DNC'ing don't apply to things like election polling and charitable organizations - funny huh?)
I'm not a regular viewer or FarScape - although i really like the show, i can never seem to remeber when it's on (SciFi isn't on my regular mad-clicker rotation). I happened to catch it on Tuesday night, and can't help but draw a comparison to what i saw (the last half hour) of Enterprise.
The whole time-shift, while an elegant if overused theme, go old pretty quickly - also "oh goody, our brand new, um retro, phase pistols have just come in. They should come in handy!"
I think the concept is a good one, but the delivery was a bit tired.
Then again, when was the last time ou saw a show on network television (does UPN count) that rocked the house on the first episode. It'll have to prove itself, but i think folks should give it half a season before really judging it.
Gimme a break. You can't tell me that swiping and/or writing a check is faster that good ol' cash! And as far as carrying heavy cash around - it works better if you have one of those burlap sacks with the $ printed in green on the side. They're made to distribute the load evenly!
Don't you ever use your change at vending machines, or give money to homless folks? BTW what will the homeless folks do without cash - or street performers, or bellhops, or cabbies, or grandchildren...what will future generations use to decide who has to get the pizza (the side with the numbers on my debit card is heads).
Cash has ruled us since we moved from beads and shiny trinkets, and it will continue to rule far passed when we move to Unified Space Credits!!
I like cash. I also like paper. I'll bet i'm not the only one.
When it comes right down to it - there are a lot of intangibles that using cash provides - plus, is it really faster to swipe, enter a PIN and wait for authorization, than it is to get $2.15 change from a 5?
I was takin' myself back to the early 80's when i was playing with them.
You may not remember Reagan's famous quote, "A junk bond in every bank account, and a $25.00 sack of Legos scattered on the floor of every kids room."
Hmmmmmmm $300 from the gov't could by a lot of bulk legos.....
Even the directions made you think!
on
Why Can't LEGO Click?
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
One of the things i've always thought was cool was the way lego directions were worded - or rather, not worded. I'd always put together the set as it was supposed to be first, then after that was finished i'd make spaceships and tanks and cars and stuff.
The thing i liked about the directions was that they introduced a lot of spacial relationships - not just insert tab A into slot 1. On some of the more complex sets, you really had to take a minute to see, first of all what had changed from the previous picture, and second of all how did it get there.
Slashdot Mirror
Am i the only one that's getting sick of all these, "one (insert slashdot topic here) to rule them all..." regurgitated posts?
JEBUS!!!
And modded up to 5!?!?!?! WTF?!?!
Yes, we've all read the books, yes, we've all seen the movie...let...it....go.
You'd think it would inspire an original thought instead of this posting diarrhea..
Then again, you really have to ask yourself, "So?"
So what if it won an online poll? Do you really think that Mr. Getting B. Roadband will tout that he won a recent Slashdot poll? What does it matter?!
Sure, it's a ZDNet poll, so it'll prolly be seen by more folks, but i really don't think a lot of people put a lot of stock in online polls.
...or online Swedes, for that matter!!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/06/23222
The ol' Slashdot recyclo-tron hard at work!!
..the best part, is that he DVD will have around 30 to 40 minutes of extra footage! "
I think the she DVD should have 58008 (upside-down calculator) minutes of extra footage!!
forgot if i moderated or not on this thread...
From the Star Wars site:
"He is a member of the Quermian species, a race of sentient invertebrates related to the Troiken of Xexto. Poof's sensitive olfactory glands were located in his hands. Poof had two brains, one located inside his skull and the other in his chest cavity.
A sly Jedi Master, Poof was a master of Jedi mind tricks and could use the Force to quickly befuddle and mislead targets by conjuring false images in their minds. This is Poof's preferred method of combat, though like all Jedi, he carried a lightsaber. "
An INVERTEBRATE? How the hell does an invertebrate have a long, spindly neck like that...and olfactory glands?? Does that mean he smelled with his hands, or that his hands smelled.
Poof: Here, use my lightsaber.
Other Jedi Dude: Uh, no thanks Poof, I'll see if i can't use my Jedi powers to get it back from the Rancor.
Poof: Naw, c'mon, really you can use it - it's a cool green you know.
Other Jedi Dude: Um, actually Poof, it kinda stinks. Yeah... me and the other Jedi's have been talking about your "saber" and how much it smells. Could you look into a few sets of gloves or something"
Take a memo on your Newton - Beat up Martin...
Eat up Marting
oh yeah, this is a good idea
i mean c'mon. I've seen 3 HDTV's broadcasting in my life - the first was prolly 7 years ago at the Smithsonian Museum in D.C. MAN! that thing rocked. They were playing a video of a fountain in Italy, and i swear i could see individual drops of water. Looked almost 3D.
Flash forward to today where i visit my photographer friend who couldn't wait to show me his new set that he got. Now keep in mind that this is a professional photographer who knows a thing or two about image quality, but not a whole lot about wiring, etc. (i was there to fix his Win2k box which he had fried fo the third time - Sircam? looks intersting, let me open it!!)
Anyway, he showed me back-to-back comparisons of regular HBO and HDTV HBO. Sure you could tell that there was an obvious quality improvement, but if he didn't tell me, i would never have been able to guess. Now, this was a tube screen, so i know it wasn't any rear-projection crap. I was all like, "Man, that's awesome" but inside, i was thinking, "Man, that sucks!"
Then, a few days i'm at Circuit City, and i browse through their HDTV section. Same thing!! Less-than-stellar picture. I couldn't believe it. There was a basketball game on, and there were all sorts of artifacts on the screen. It seemed to be especially prononounced in the areas immediately around something that was moving, i.e. someone was running down court, and he would hav a "halo of crap" around him.
So, the question is - does neither my photographer friend, nor the high-school kid working at Circuit City know how to properly wire these damn things, and does that have that dramatic an effect on the quality of an HDTV picture? Or does it just look better than regular TV, but not as good as HDTV should look?
I'm perplexed!!
um...isn't there anything else going on in the world?!
One guy writes 5k lines of code a week...and this is newsworthy because....
Yeah, this is a great idea!! The "casual users" in my office call their machines modems and their monitors hard drives, fail to log into the network, and in general have a hard time doing more than one thing at a time "I'm Unitasking!!!
Blow away their desktop, and they be left in the fetal position under their desks wimpering about how they broke their Microsoft.
Ugh. Talk about a researcher or two with too much time on his hands.
"Stop chasing me...my belly is full of chocolate!!!"
Just had to see what that little screen saver coulda been huh?
Ahhhhh, the proomise of porn.
So let me get this straight....you are advocating conforming to a lower standard so that you can, what, stick it to M$??!
l oy-to-implant-chips-in-your-penis camp, and the M$-is-the-greatest-company-in-the-world-just-look- at-my-MCSE camp.
That's rediculous!!!
The question is not "How can i downgrade to a non-M$ system and lose functionality?" But rather "Where are the apps that give me the functionality to do at the level that i'm accustomed to?!"
Asking someone to give you a document as XML, HTML, RTF or TXT will give you more strange looks, and cause more problems then having them send it to you in "Microsoft" format. MSOffice is popular because is can create documents in formats other than plain text...and XML and HTML doesn't cut it.
And saying "those sites are not worth viewing anyway" when talking about a flash site is just moronic!!
Any who gives a rat's ass if you like 4 color atari 2600 games better than Q3 or UT?!?! Kick-ass games are built for people who want to play kick-ass games. Why wouldn't you want to play a kick-ass game on a Linux box?
I'm so sick and tired over the petty bullshit that goes on between staunch linux-or-die-everything-else-is-a-monoplolistic-p
It's over. M$ is here to stay. Yes, Linux has made great inroads in the past 24 months and has matured at a scale that exponentially exceeds what M$ has done to date. But M$ will alwaysbe around. Face facts.
As far as the windowless office is concerned, i would love to move to a pure Linux based network, but i have too many mission critical apps that need to run on Windows...some on Windows 9X!!
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
Ok, Ok, I admit it - i work for a telemarketing company. There, you happy?! I do it begrudgingly to support my "habit". Anyway, we use a number of methods, one of which being a predictive dialer running on SCO.
Our dialer has the ability to detect tritones - the "doo dee dii, the number you have reached...". There are several different tritones, and our dialer can distinguish between a "Changed Number" tritone, and a "Bad Number" tritone. I suppose that if this device sends out a tritone that matches the "Bad Number" tritone, our dialer wouldn't call it. You can, however, set your dialer to do whatever you like with those "dispositions". An unscrupulous company may set their dailer to pass those calls to the reps instead of dropping the line (We don't do that).
However, i happened to catch that commercial too, and it also says that it "...will automatically delete your name from their database". Of course, that's horse shit. It'll just dispo your record as bad number, what the company does with those is up to them.
Naturally i encourage everyone to check out their states' Do Not Call registry and add your name if you don't want to be disturbed (BTW, the laws about DNC'ing don't apply to things like election polling and charitable organizations - funny huh?)
So that's that!
Let's ask this Scienctician what he thinks!!
hello smithers...
You're quite good at turning me on!
I'm not a regular viewer or FarScape - although i really like the show, i can never seem to remeber when it's on (SciFi isn't on my regular mad-clicker rotation). I happened to catch it on Tuesday night, and can't help but draw a comparison to what i saw (the last half hour) of Enterprise.
The whole time-shift, while an elegant if overused theme, go old pretty quickly - also "oh goody, our brand new, um retro, phase pistols have just come in. They should come in handy!"
I think the concept is a good one, but the delivery was a bit tired.
Then again, when was the last time ou saw a show on network television (does UPN count) that rocked the house on the first episode. It'll have to prove itself, but i think folks should give it half a season before really judging it.
Gimme a break. You can't tell me that swiping and/or writing a check is faster that good ol' cash! And as far as carrying heavy cash around - it works better if you have one of those burlap sacks with the $ printed in green on the side. They're made to distribute the load evenly!
Don't you ever use your change at vending machines, or give money to homless folks? BTW what will the homeless folks do without cash - or street performers, or bellhops, or cabbies, or grandchildren...what will future generations use to decide who has to get the pizza (the side with the numbers on my debit card is heads).
Cash has ruled us since we moved from beads and shiny trinkets, and it will continue to rule far passed when we move to Unified Space Credits!!
I like cash. I also like paper. I'll bet i'm not the only one.
When it comes right down to it - there are a lot of intangibles that using cash provides - plus, is it really faster to swipe, enter a PIN and wait for authorization, than it is to get $2.15 change from a 5?
Me thinks not.
<META NAME="SUCKS" CONTENT="Microsoft Page 4.0"></PRE>
I was takin' myself back to the early 80's when i was playing with them.
You may not remember Reagan's famous quote, "A junk bond in every bank account, and a $25.00 sack of Legos scattered on the floor of every kids room."
Hmmmmmmm $300 from the gov't could by a lot of bulk legos.....
One of the things i've always thought was cool was the way lego directions were worded - or rather, not worded. I'd always put together the set as it was supposed to be first, then after that was finished i'd make spaceships and tanks and cars and stuff.
The thing i liked about the directions was that they introduced a lot of spacial relationships - not just insert tab A into slot 1. On some of the more complex sets, you really had to take a minute to see, first of all what had changed from the previous picture, and second of all how did it get there.
Big sack o' Legos - $25.00
100 count sleeve of BB's - $2.50
Battle testing lego spaceships from 20 ft. - Priceless