I think the guys with the giant rubber feet got bored because no one-cared about Bigfoot hoaxes anymore, so they decided to put the fake feet to good usage stomping on corn. Hence, crop circles.
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Here's a bit from a song "Pretty Boy Floyd" which says it all about abuse of the "legal process":
"Now as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen."
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The news these days is filled with stories of stealing by the RIAA.
What else can you call people being forced to give money to the RIAA through the use of threats?
10. FP, Overlords, Dead Stephen King, Goatse, beowulf cluster, and all the other cliche posts (get them out of the way now so we can move on)
9. Discussion about whether or not the Borg icon applies to the story or not.
8. Someone whines about Microsoft-bashing
7. Someone whines about how bad Microsoft is.
6. "If you use Linux, you won't have this problem"
5. Something relating whatever the issue is to SCO.
4. A post about the latest gaping hole in Windows security, likely to be fresh news to many since new hole reports are coming out very frequently now.
3. A ton of complaints about the NYT's password-locked site, if the Microsoft story points there.
2. Smirking Apple users.
1. Something about *BSD being dead.
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Well, this one did not get off the ground. Volvo sued Doc Brown because there was Volvo engine technology in the De Lorean. No villain, either: Bill Clinton sued Biff for looking like him. What little was left, the H.G.Wells estate shut down completely.
" While manned spaceflight has been non-existent. The success of the various probes, landers and Hubble have more than made up for that"
Probes? We were pretty good at that since the 1960s. Hubble? It's another Earth orbit thing, no advance there in terms of space exploration. Landers? Well, there are the Viking and Mars landers. That's about the only real advance mentioned so far.
"So definetely as a mankind we did not stand still."
"We" stood still. At best, we were marching in place. We got more experience in the Earth orbit matters, not space. "To boldly go where the Gemini capsule had gone before many years ago" is not any sort of advance.
It is hard to beat the car ad: "Eagle Vision: Not intended for the general public".
The general public took the hint and stayed away from this ungainly thing that looked like the grille of a Honda Prelude stuck onto the body of an Intrepid.
If this ad campaign had failed to keep buyers away, I suppose that Chrysler would have next tried putting snipers near Eagle dealerships.
Do you mean the one little problem with this idea, the good ol' "it would work great if we had this magic stuff that no one has invented yet and we have no idea if anyone will invent it" problem?
You will agree with me the first time you get on one and find out that the jerk who got off on the previous floor pressed all 677,803 floor buttons on the way out.
"We really need to rationalise this who space enterprise thing"
I think we need to cancel it, as this new Trek show is like Voyager but without the shock value of an annoying alien with the head of a basketball with Ron Howard hair.
"No, it doesn't. We've learned a LOT about spaceflight in the last 30 years, from both successes and failures"
Have we really done spaceflight in the last 30 years? Certainly nothing manned, outside of low-earth orbit which is barely space at all. Sure, we've sent tin buckets with cameras to a few more planets, but we were already pretty good at that.
"He suggests: "Loading times are quite possibly the single worst thing about today's games"
Is this a result of everything using DVD or similar media? You do not have to go very far back in the generations of videogames to find fast-loading games: look at the N-64. It used cartridges.
""the ideal game should never require pausing or fast-forwarding","
You mean the game is so addictive that you never pause play until you are through? How long before the Sony "PotStation" toilet-equiped recliner is sold as a popular game accessory.
HTML would be better than PDF. More "open", and none of the problems of the PDF's confusing interface and inability to cut-and-paste, and having to bang away at the "+" icon to get the text letters larger than the tiny default size which is smaller than a typical minimum (1) size in HTML.
The only way $1 pdf's would be good is if they are unencrypted so they can quickly be converted to a usable format.
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I think the guys with the giant rubber feet got bored because no one-cared about Bigfoot hoaxes anymore, so they decided to put the fake feet to good usage stomping on corn. Hence, crop circles.
Here's a bit from a song "Pretty Boy Floyd" which says it all about abuse of the "legal process":
"Now as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen."
The news these days is filled with stories of stealing by the RIAA.
What else can you call people being forced to give money to the RIAA through the use of threats?
"Put two Borgs on this article - it deserves two."
Here you go: click here.
10. FP, Overlords, Dead Stephen King, Goatse, beowulf cluster, and all the other cliche posts (get them out of the way now so we can move on)
9. Discussion about whether or not the Borg icon applies to the story or not.
8. Someone whines about Microsoft-bashing
7. Someone whines about how bad Microsoft is.
6. "If you use Linux, you won't have this problem"
5. Something relating whatever the issue is to SCO.
4. A post about the latest gaping hole in Windows security, likely to be fresh news to many since new hole reports are coming out very frequently now.
3. A ton of complaints about the NYT's password-locked site, if the Microsoft story points there.
2. Smirking Apple users.
1. Something about *BSD being dead.
Well, this one did not get off the ground. Volvo sued Doc Brown because there was Volvo engine technology in the De Lorean. No villain, either: Bill Clinton sued Biff for looking like him. What little was left, the H.G.Wells estate shut down completely.
"Settlers of Catan" sounds like a typo for a game about pioneers in Hell.
Dream on. It is very likely that the next generation of spacecraft will have names like "Comerica", "CitiCorp", "Cisco", and "LexCorp".
" Given the choice, I would fly to space on a Soyuz any day over the shuttle."
Bottle of vodka? $16 rubles.
That pretty Ludmilla sitting next to you in babushka-and-spacesuit? $30 a night at a Tel Aviv brothel.
Lance Bass, earthbound and angry because you stole his seat? Priceless.
It's about the media. If you have a cartridge directly connected in by a nice wide bus, you don't have to worry much about optimizing the loading.
" While manned spaceflight has been non-existent. The success of the various probes, landers and Hubble have more than made up for that"
Probes? We were pretty good at that since the 1960s. Hubble? It's another Earth orbit thing, no advance there in terms of space exploration. Landers? Well, there are the Viking and Mars landers. That's about the only real advance mentioned so far.
"So definetely as a mankind we did not stand still."
"We" stood still. At best, we were marching in place. We got more experience in the Earth orbit matters, not space. "To boldly go where the Gemini capsule had gone before many years ago" is not any sort of advance.
How about bad advertising slogans that are real?
It is hard to beat the car ad: "Eagle Vision: Not intended for the general public".
The general public took the hint and stayed away from this ungainly thing that looked like the grille of a Honda Prelude stuck onto the body of an Intrepid.
If this ad campaign had failed to keep buyers away, I suppose that Chrysler would have next tried putting snipers near Eagle dealerships.
"explain that to my 1998 Ford Ranger? It's built like a truck."
I sure would hope that the Ford engineers would reach a point where a truck would be built like a truck.
Do you mean the one little problem with this idea, the good ol' "it would work great if we had this magic stuff that no one has invented yet and we have no idea if anyone will invent it" problem?
You will agree with me the first time you get on one and find out that the jerk who got off on the previous floor pressed all 677,803 floor buttons on the way out.
"We really need to rationalise this who space enterprise thing"
I think we need to cancel it, as this new Trek show is like Voyager but without the shock value of an annoying alien with the head of a basketball with Ron Howard hair.
As long as it is a one-way ticket....two words:
Lance Bass.
"No, it doesn't. We've learned a LOT about spaceflight in the last 30 years, from both successes and failures"
Have we really done spaceflight in the last 30 years? Certainly nothing manned, outside of low-earth orbit which is barely space at all. Sure, we've sent tin buckets with cameras to a few more planets, but we were already pretty good at that.
Pokemon? It's the new hot property. Look for lots of new games!
Refusal to come out with "Vice City"-style Zelda game in which Link has a Hookershot weapon.
Mario now jumps and smashes Geritol bottles instead of bricks.
Rumors of R&D department having the next-generation console load games off of a "Close and Play" phonograph.
"Dharma and Greg" TV tie-in game, coming soon!
"He suggests: "Loading times are quite possibly the single worst thing about today's games"
Is this a result of everything using DVD or similar media? You do not have to go very far back in the generations of videogames to find fast-loading games: look at the N-64. It used cartridges.
""the ideal game should never require pausing or fast-forwarding","
You mean the game is so addictive that you never pause play until you are through? How long before the Sony "PotStation" toilet-equiped recliner is sold as a popular game accessory.
The original "no-echo" conclusions came about because the test subject was Daffy, and the location was space.
In space, no one can hear you quack, let alone hear an echo.
HTML would be better than PDF. More "open", and none of the problems of the PDF's confusing interface and inability to cut-and-paste, and having to bang away at the "+" icon to get the text letters larger than the tiny default size which is smaller than a typical minimum (1) size in HTML.
The only way $1 pdf's would be good is if they are unencrypted so they can quickly be converted to a usable format.
"OTOH the Newton had all these properties and excellent handwriting recognition."
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