I don't know, but we in the insurance industry are coming up with some pretty radical ideas to make sure this "global warming" doesn't affect our bottom line. Our lobbyists are hard at work getting some of these ideas to important governement people. A sneak peek (if you promise not to tell):
1. We're pretty sure that we can avert a total disaster if everyone would just DRINK MORE WATER. We will make sure this happens through a sort of "anti ration" where it is required by law that you drink x amount of water every day.
2. We will build a nuclear power plant used to power a gigantic ice making slash catapult machine that re freezes ocean water and then sends it back to the poles as nice ice cubes.
3. Build a space elevator which will take buckets of water way way up high and then just leave the water up there somewhere. We think a "space lake" would be good for the up and coming space tourism industry.
4. Water powered car. Hey, why not? Pretty soon you will just be able to use your "cold fusion match" and make a nice campfire from a bucket of water. This technology is not far away. You heard it first here. Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to roll.
5. Speaking of cars, we figure that with all of the oil that we have been using up, we can just fill up alot of these empty wells with all of our "extra water". Plus we could save it for later when we really need it in another million years.
You can see these need a bit of fleshing out, but with a few scientists and your insurance premiums, I am pretty sure we can make something happen.
Because regular iPods support Firewire 800, which all Power Macs also support, and which trumps USB 2.0's bandwidth by a healthy margin.
riiiiight... because we all know that those leetle teeny hard drives are soooooo fast, much much faster than the data rate of a regular old firewire 400 connection.
I had the thought a few months ago when this was brewing that any phone / music player should have two batteries somehow. These people are going to be plugging in to street lights to get a charge, no doubt.
Heh thats what they all say. But looking at your post history (1000+ comments), I would say you have a fairly nasty addiction. I give you a week tops before you hit the/. crack pipe again. I'll be watching !
At any rate I'm completely screwed. I ran kismet last week and detected around 60 wireless networks within range of my new york city apartment, that along with the cellular tranciever's on the roof of the building mean I'm blanketed 24/7. Good thing I already had kids.
I thought that in rifle shooting competitions you could be scored on aggregate spread, that is, how tight all of your shots from the round are. For instance, if you go off bullseye you can try to keep a tight spread near the original bad shot and get a decent score. I could be wrong though. This is all remembered from rifle and shotgun shooting merit badge at boy scout camp wolfeboro in 1985. It was an attempt at double entendre, you are quite right though, the joke works better with a shotgun.
No, but I have several butter related patents pending.
1. The Butter Pen. Put your standard stick of butter in and draw the butter on to your toast/pancakes/waffles/etc. The butter pen automatically maintains the butter at the perfect temperature for spreading. the butter.
2. The Butter Powered Clock. Harnessing the internal power of butter, just feed it a new stick of butter every sunday and this clock will keep running. Plus as an added bonus your room will smell nice and butttery.
3. Popcorn Irrigation System. Ever notice how the popcorn on top gets all the butter and by the time you reach the bottom, you are gnawing on dry butterless popcorn? The Popcorn Irrigation System solves that problem once and for all by equally distributing the butter to the entire batch. Using a system of pressurized tubes and nozzles along with liquid butter, each kernel is misted equally with delicious butter.
4. Butter Rifle. For long distance buttering hobbyists. How tight is your spread?
I better not spill all the beans, these inventions are really pushing the limits of butter technology to the next phase. You can see how exciting the field still is though.
Indeed. I ran kismet this weekend at my greenwich village apartment and found no less than 55 wireless networks, half of then unpassworded and unencrypted. Most of the wireless routers that had not been renamed had default passwords. I ran the capture through ethereal and instantly had half a dozen email passwords before I got bored of sifting data. This was all from a 20 minute capture. Who needs to break in when the front door is wide open ? Looking at the router logs, I discovered that quite a few people will jump on an open wireless network and let fly with an unencrypted session. The network I joined had seen about 50 mac addresses join in the last day.
You need to look at it from the game publishers' point of view.
They pay thousands for developer licenses and SDK's. To them, homebrew just flies in the face of that. Some kid can write a really fun game in a couple of days and never has to bother with any red tape.
They are also running a commercial business, and trying to rake in an obscene profit. The homebrewers are hobbyists, who really can't help but tinker with any hardware that comes their way. Homebrew is good for business, anyway, but as a publisher of content (video, audio and interactive) Sony has to protect their interests. Its just business, just like every other capitalist that is shovelling piles of money around. Besides, some kid can't write a really fun game in a couple of days anyway, but a community of hardware hackers can use their collective force to bring about some really freaking cool stuff.
More erroneously however is the mindshare idea. This is obviously nothing more than a vehicle for adware and spyware installation. They couldn't care less that it runs on Macs. They are having an increasingly hard time getting people to install their infested tool crap as people are starting to wise up to malware. Konfab will give them a fresh start in infecting PCs across the globe.
A little acerbic, but accurate. I was thinking that the recent shutting of yahoo chat rooms (you know, the ones with titles like, "old dirty men and underage girls 4 REAL") is the most recent press yahoo has gotten. Until Recently I was convinced that yahoo was just a bunch of computers left over from the.com era running themselves, with maybe a skeleton crew dusting the place now and then. The chat rooms are about 80% drones and bots, and the ads and content all come from somewhere else anyway.
HOLY CRAP! I must hear dub on that system ! I heard of a "30 foot bass machine" that was used in the production of the Rockers to Rockers album by Rockers Hi-Fi based on some design by king tubby or another dub wizard like Lee Perry. Has anyone ever heard of that ? I googled for it to no avail.
Season 1 was so dark and depressing that I could only make it through the first 3 episodes. Thankfully I found dr who to fill my sci-fi fix. Also the 'verite' style camera work didn't work for me.
I tuned in to this thread mostly for the inevitable +5 funnies, but I think it bears mentioning that Busta Rhymes name checks Dungeons and Dragons in A Tribe Called Quest's The Scenario. Not only was this one of the seminal songs of the era, but many would say that Busta's famous verse in that song is what catapulted his career to the level that it is now (his group, leaders of the new school was a floundering cutesey mess). While the verse is an exercise in non-sequiters and nonsense, his delivery and vocal style were innovative, fresh and imbued with an explosive energy, and he stole the stage right out from under the questers.
Watch, as I combine all the juice from the mind Heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind Powerful impact BOOM! from the cannon Not braggin, try to read my mind just imagine Vo-cab-u-lary's necessary When diggin into my library Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Eating a toadstool like the one Peter Tosh-a UH uh UH, all over the track, man UH, pardon me, UH, as I come back As I did it yo I had to beg your pardon When I travel to the Sun I roll with the squadron RRRRRROAW RRRRRRROAW like a dungeon dragon Change your little drawers cause your pants are saggin
what were we talking about again? Oh yeah.. These dungeon masters NEVER get laid.
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I don't know, but we in the insurance industry are coming up with some pretty radical ideas to make sure this "global warming" doesn't affect our bottom line. Our lobbyists are hard at work getting some of these ideas to important governement people. A sneak peek (if you promise not to tell):
1. We're pretty sure that we can avert a total disaster if everyone would just DRINK MORE WATER. We will make sure this happens through a sort of "anti ration" where it is required by law that you drink x amount of water every day.
2. We will build a nuclear power plant used to power a gigantic ice making slash catapult machine that re freezes ocean water and then sends it back to the poles as nice ice cubes.
3. Build a space elevator which will take buckets of water way way up high and then just leave the water up there somewhere. We think a "space lake" would be good for the up and coming space tourism industry.
4. Water powered car. Hey, why not? Pretty soon you will just be able to use your "cold fusion match" and make a nice campfire from a bucket of water. This technology is not far away. You heard it first here. Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to roll.
5. Speaking of cars, we figure that with all of the oil that we have been using up, we can just fill up alot of these empty wells with all of our "extra water". Plus we could save it for later when we really need it in another million years.
You can see these need a bit of fleshing out, but with a few scientists and your insurance premiums, I am pretty sure we can make something happen.
found a stick and a juice bottle, and I accidentally bopped my dog in the head with them during catch
suuuuuuuuuurrreeee......
Because regular iPods support Firewire 800, which all Power Macs also support, and which trumps USB 2.0's bandwidth by a healthy margin.
riiiiight... because we all know that those leetle teeny hard drives are soooooo fast, much much faster than the data rate of a regular old firewire 400 connection.
You were fervently aligned.
You were fast.
You are dead.
I had the thought a few months ago when this was brewing that any phone / music player should have two batteries somehow. These people are going to be plugging in to street lights to get a charge, no doubt.
mmmmmmmmm flying spaghetti overlords.
Heh thats what they all say. But looking at your post history (1000+ comments), I would say you have a fairly nasty addiction. I give you a week tops before you hit the /. crack pipe again. I'll be watching !
TOO LATE
At any rate I'm completely screwed. I ran kismet last week and detected around 60 wireless networks within range of my new york city apartment, that along with the cellular tranciever's on the roof of the building mean I'm blanketed 24/7. Good thing I already had kids.
I thought that in rifle shooting competitions you could be scored on aggregate spread, that is, how tight all of your shots from the round are. For instance, if you go off bullseye you can try to keep a tight spread near the original bad shot and get a decent score. I could be wrong though. This is all remembered from rifle and shotgun shooting merit badge at boy scout camp wolfeboro in 1985. It was an attempt at double entendre, you are quite right though, the joke works better with a shotgun.
Sir Richard Branson has a blog!!
$190,000 for a ticket on Virgin Galactic !
Is getting wieeeeeeeerd.......
Has anyone patented buttered bread yet?
No, but I have several butter related patents pending.
1. The Butter Pen. Put your standard stick of butter in and draw the butter on to your toast/pancakes/waffles/etc. The butter pen automatically maintains the butter at the perfect temperature for spreading. the butter.
2. The Butter Powered Clock. Harnessing the internal power of butter, just feed it a new stick of butter every sunday and this clock will keep running. Plus as an added bonus your room will smell nice and butttery.
3. Popcorn Irrigation System. Ever notice how the popcorn on top gets all the butter and by the time you reach the bottom, you are gnawing on dry butterless popcorn? The Popcorn Irrigation System solves that problem once and for all by equally distributing the butter to the entire batch. Using a system of pressurized tubes and nozzles along with liquid butter, each kernel is misted equally with delicious butter.
4. Butter Rifle. For long distance buttering hobbyists. How tight is your spread?
I better not spill all the beans, these inventions are really pushing the limits of butter technology to the next phase. You can see how exciting the field still is though.
"where" "the" "fuck" "are" "we" "going" "to" "get" "that" "much" "workable" "material"
we'll just teleport it, or use some sort of huge solar dust collecting bucket. Duh !
christ people, look before you open your mouth
round these parts we like to refer to it as a piehole.
thats exactly what I wanted. Kudos to you and your dope internet skillz. I'm downloading the Doom 2 Nightmare speed run right now!
Microsoft has solved that problem already silly, signed drivers. ;)
New improved Linux - With HAT!!!!!
are you implying that there is no hat in fedora or red HAT ?
They did have the good sense to make the hat green though,
the international color of GO!
Indeed. I ran kismet this weekend at my greenwich village apartment and found no less than 55 wireless networks, half of then unpassworded and unencrypted. Most of the wireless routers that had not been renamed had default passwords. I ran the capture through ethereal and instantly had half a dozen email passwords before I got bored of sifting data. This was all from a 20 minute capture. Who needs to break in when the front door is wide open ? Looking at the router logs, I discovered that quite a few people will jump on an open wireless network and let fly with an unencrypted session. The network I joined had seen about 50 mac addresses join in the last day.
You need to look at it from the game publishers' point of view.
They pay thousands for developer licenses and SDK's. To them, homebrew just flies in the face of that. Some kid can write a really fun game in a couple of days and never has to bother with any red tape.
They are also running a commercial business, and trying to rake in an obscene profit. The homebrewers are hobbyists, who really can't help but tinker with any hardware that comes their way. Homebrew is good for business, anyway, but as a publisher of content (video, audio and interactive) Sony has to protect their interests. Its just business, just like every other capitalist that is shovelling piles of money around. Besides, some kid can't write a really fun game in a couple of days anyway, but a community of hardware hackers can use their collective force to bring about some really freaking cool stuff.
More erroneously however is the mindshare idea. This is obviously nothing more than a vehicle for adware and spyware installation. They couldn't care less that it runs on Macs. They are having an increasingly hard time getting people to install their infested tool crap as people are starting to wise up to malware. Konfab will give them a fresh start in infecting PCs across the globe.
.com era running themselves, with maybe a skeleton crew dusting the place now and then. The chat rooms are about 80% drones and bots, and the ads and content all come from somewhere else anyway.
A little acerbic, but accurate. I was thinking that the recent shutting of yahoo chat rooms (you know, the ones with titles like, "old dirty men and underage girls 4 REAL") is the most recent press yahoo has gotten. Until Recently I was convinced that yahoo was just a bunch of computers left over from the
HOLY CRAP! I must hear dub on that system ! I heard of a "30 foot bass machine" that was used in the production of the Rockers to Rockers album by Rockers Hi-Fi based on some design by king tubby or another dub wizard like Lee Perry. Has anyone ever heard of that ? I googled for it to no avail.
Season 1 was so dark and depressing that I could only make it through the first 3 episodes. Thankfully I found dr who to fill my sci-fi fix. Also the 'verite' style camera work didn't work for me.
Its 1077, the price of a cheese pizza and a large coke back where you used to work, Panucci's Pizza.
I tuned in to this thread mostly for the inevitable +5 funnies, but I think it bears mentioning that Busta Rhymes name checks Dungeons and Dragons in A Tribe Called Quest's The Scenario. Not only was this one of the seminal songs of the era, but many would say that Busta's famous verse in that song is what catapulted his career to the level that it is now (his group, leaders of the new school was a floundering cutesey mess). While the verse is an exercise in non-sequiters and nonsense, his delivery and vocal style were innovative, fresh and imbued with an explosive energy, and he stole the stage right out from under the questers.
.. These dungeon masters NEVER get laid.
Watch, as I combine all the juice from the mind
Heel up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind
Powerful impact BOOM! from the cannon
Not braggin, try to read my mind just imagine
Vo-cab-u-lary's necessary
When diggin into my library
Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
Eating a toadstool like the one Peter Tosh-a
UH uh UH, all over the track, man
UH, pardon me, UH, as I come back
As I did it yo I had to beg your pardon
When I travel to the Sun I roll with the squadron
RRRRRROAW RRRRRRROAW like a dungeon dragon
Change your little drawers cause your pants are saggin
what were we talking about again? Oh yeah