Yeek Gads, I wish that I had the chutzpah to name my company EBone. Imagine what you could do with that domain name...
1- Sell femurs ONLINE!
2- Get rich off of chewy naugahyde treats and have a sock-puppet dog as a mascot. Then get your panties in a bunch, have a HUGE ego trip, then sue NBC for DARING having a show that runs a comedy piece with a lookalike-sock puppet dog.
3- Break into Bill Gates' private subeterranean warehouse/Fortress of Pain and liberate the Elephant Man's real bones. Turn around and sell them back to him through EBone.com, make a small fortune.
4- Set up your own Linux distro, slap a.jpg culled from a TGP listing on the top of the CD, (step unknown), PROFIT!
5- Derive a line of "vegetarian steaks" Say that they're like, made of textured tofu or some shit, implant a E-shaped "bone" composed of plastic therin, sell to vegetarians, watch them keel over and die because their guts have been made pathetic and WEAK from years of digesting food that they weren't intended to. Laugh menacingly while twisting your waxed moustache.
6- I dunno, turn it into your one-stop dicklicking emporium? It's not like the name is indicitave or anything?
THIS ARTICLE BLATANTLY OFFENDS MY FINE LIBERAL SENSIBILITIES! For I was educated at one of the greatest colleges in the world, and therefore my intellect has far surpassed yours, and frankly, this article, this blatant grandizing of the Military Industrial Complex just makes me sick. Haven't we gotten to an era of peace and understanding in which we needn't construct these brutal weapons of mass destruction to fight a people whose belief structure and society are, granted different from ours, but no less wholesome? Sure, I campained for womyn's rights, despite my having a penis, I was called "rapist," "demagogue" and even "dildo substitute" but dammit, it was a small price to pay for equal treatment here at Berkely! For shame, Slashdot. Your unabashed conservative leanings in this posting bring your true colors to the forefront. I was once a proud reader of this nest of liberal propaganda, but NO MORE. I'll take my reading minutes to MSNBC, thank you very much. At least they're OBJECTIVE about the news...
Fucking liberals. Hey, dicklickers, QUIT FAGGING UP MY SLASHDOT. Last time I checked, I was reading this site long before this place became a haven of liberal, military technology bashing hippies. Every time that there's a post regarding (way fucking cool, BTW) military tech, there's always a slew, a slurry, if you will, of posts that GET MODDED UP FOR SOME UNKNOWN FUCKING REASON that simultaneously decry the act of building newer and better technologies (that, SOO-PRIZE SOO-PRIZE! benefit the Civilian Sector every time) and the fact that someone out there has a bit more than one-hunnert eye kyoo points and finds these things intriguing.
Bah, Socia^H^H^H^H^H Liberals have fagged this once Great Website up almost beyond the point of repair.
"Integrity Shmentegrity, I don't understand journalists' obsessive-compulsive desire to get every little number correct. I mean, this is Journalism, not Rocket Science. We're here to entertain the masses, not put men on the goddamned moon." -- Me at my job interview for the Nevada Appeal. Guess who's still unemployed?
Awhile back, some friends and I were lamenting the obscene amount of "power" that Diz-nee and co. have. One of us piped up "why don't we just set up a pirate teevee station, place the transmitter on Indian land?"
Could the govies/Disney pursue suit, should we be about six feet into Indian land and broadcasting Disney movies over free air?
Just curious.
(also, I could have SWORN that I saw said Screensavers interview a month ago)
Back in high school Chem class, we had to argue pro or con for a Nuke plant to be built locally (one, rural Nevada... why bother?). Me, always being an argumentative dickhead, chose to Devil's Advocate the task, and sided with the whiny, anti-nuke hippies.
Aaaanyhow, one of the arguments that I had used was that there are extinct civilizations that have only died out as recent as FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, and we, with all our fancy European-style education have yet to come within reasonable nearness to decyphering their written language.
So, I argued, what if... Something catastrophic happens again, and in a few thousand years, after civilization has dragged itself back up through the ashes to the point where its out exploring the seas again in galleys and colonizing the farthest reaches of the globe. What if... What if they stumble across the Yucca Mountain dump? Now, they have absolutley no knowledge of what that yellow and black circle, divided up into sixths means. They're seeing metal signs with an indecypherable alien text on them. They find these vaults, and manage to tunnel in and are exposed to radiation. Potential catastrophy there...
Anyhow. Since I got to thinking about that, then I start thinking some more. What if it had already happened once? What if Jericho weren't really the "First City?" What if we humans became significantly advanced (pre-industrial age or so?) then got wiped out by the encroaching glaciation? Which would explain the decided lack of structures and monuments, with the notable exception of the alleged sunken cities in the Sea of Japan, off India and Cuba.
I read somewhere that the temples at Ankor could be upwards of 12k years old. Which predates the "Fertile Crescent" civs by at least a thousand years...
Just the ruminations of a crazy drunk that's been up for three days. Responses would be keen, a full-fucking-fledged discussion would rock.
Take it you've never checked prices for a Film AVID system? FilmAVID costs (since I last checked) $32k. Thirty. Two. Thousand. Dollars. American.
Just for the software.
Add in an AVIDMedia Capture Card, that's your paltry $4k right there, just for the capture card.
Add in the Film Capture device, another $12-15k. Then you've got your RAIDs, your SP decks ($8-12k, depending on the brand), your monitors (not cheapass NTSC teevees, we're talking real-live production monitors, they run about $500 each, and you need at least one), and not to mention minimum of TWO >19" monitors to edit with.
All in all, to edit film on an AVID system, you're looking at about $65k for a "good" system.
$4k for a G4 box and the Final Cut bundle = DIRT FUCKING CHEAP.
Not to mention that the people that this software is marketed to make $4k on a slow week (shit, I videograph weddings and parties and I make $50/hr)
Excellent! Now maybe I can erase that FAGGY FAGGY Premiere from my drive and use some NON-CONSUMER editing software.
Premiere is okay for those of you who have not had the religious experience that is working with AVID. Compared to AVID, Premiere is a worthless, Pinnacle Video-level sack of bits.
Now, Premiere's After Effects/Photoshop intergration is incredibly sweet, something that AVIDDV doesn't do exactly right.
Also, AVIDDV is NT-only for some goddamned reason (unless that's changed since I knuckled under and spent $2k on the NT port). So, once I get this new software, I'll actually be able to USE the G4 machine that, because I've no professional-level editing software for it, has been sitting on my desk, gathering dust.
Or better yet, eye movement tracking (silent). If I was able to use my monkey-thought input device with something, that would be the best!
Imagine, for a moment, that your machine was set up with a silent, eye-reading cursor system. Then, you set about jerking. The jerking gets good, but all of the sudden, as happens every fucking time you troll through the porn listings, you enter that special place that I like to call Popup Hell. FUCK! you exclaim and frantically dart your eyes about in a vain, feeble attempt to close out all those god damned popups. But more keep coming. Soon you develop eyestrain, which totally ruins the jerk session. That, my friend. Is why said technology will never take off
After using a Wacom back in school, I have a hard time using the damn mouse anymore. But then again, when one is using the stylus, you always have your left hand on the keyboard, for the most part, to decrease the amount of swishandclick you have to do with the stylus (quickswitching tools in photochop).
So, I don't really see how a stylus could replace the keyboard. I've always had ass handwriting, I was left handed, but my dicksuck of a kindergarten teacher FORCED me to use my right (I still shoot a handgun lefthanded, use chopsticks, swing a baseball bat, et al) to write. My handwriting is so awful that even Graphitti doesn't pick up every letter that I tap into my Palm. Not to mention that I have a tough time inserting text significantly slower than my speed of thought, which is blazing, and I can almost keep up with the keyboard. Using a stylus would just impede thought, kind of like typing one handed in a heated AIM flamewar. It just doesn't work.
Fuck. I need to lay off the beers this "early" in the morning...
Bill Gates/Micheal Dell/Steve Jobs steps up to a podium. He holds out a plain white mouse in one hand. Then swiftly, he closes his hand upon it. The rodent makes a sharp, shrill sqeak that booms in the ampitheatre...
He drops the mouse to the floor, and silently, solemnly walks offstage...
In all seriousness, doesn't Microsoft have orders of magnitude more LIQUID CASH than the Movie/Record industries make per annum? Why don't they just crush these ninnies, remind them that their place is to entertain us, not create laws in which to enslave us.
Oh, just fucking WONDERFUL. A show based on the most boring game ever made! Hurrah! SIGN MY ASS UP TO WATCH THAT, BABY! So, let me see, SF is axing Farscape, producing another series of the abysmal Lexx and a Myst series... Fuck, I thought my girlfriend leaving me was the worst news of the week.
Anybody want to bet that this is Cyan's attempt to wrest the "Most sold game ever" crown from the pointy heads of those irksome, lamer-than-Everquest Sims? Actually, it makes some kind of perverse sense. Cyan shits out a crappy, licensed show to push more copies of their horrible-horrible interactive slideshow (allegedly, some people called Myst a "game" I have no idea how anybody could confuse the two) into Wal-Mart electronics department aisles.
Well, all them terabits are all well and good. But what about ping times? Would this system make them infantesimally small? Or would it ping as bad as satmodems do? 1 mu57 kn0w! 1 n33d 17 70 pl4y my c0un7ar57r13k!
Bah. All I really care about is that 2 terabits/second would download me a whole lotta porn, a whole lotta fast.
Er, no, scratch that. Most servers are on ADSL/T1/T3s, which can only output at a certain, arbitrary, preset rate. So. I ask you, what's really the point? It'd be like having a cablemodem back in the days that everybody's BBSes were running off of 300 baud modems. I honestly don't think that you'd see a terribly higher transfer rate than you already do off of your cablemodem or dorm T1/T3/whatever.
But, baby... Imagine these 2tb lines becoming the standard... drool baby drool.
I still long for the day that I can pull broadband out of thin air. Now THAT'D be sweet...
Heavy heavy fuel... Heavy heavy fuel... if you wanna run cool... you've got to run...
Yeah baby, feel the plagarizm...
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Hey dickwad. Does the phrase "fr1st p0st!" mean anything to you? Yes folks, I was the first, non-AC post on this thread. So eat me, AC fagknocker
Ah yes. The Buttered Cat drive. Actually works too. Got a car powered with that very drive. Well, I did, until those bastards at the oil companies crushed it into a tiny tiny cube.
Simple premise of the Buttered Cat drive is based in elementary physics. First, go and butter a slice of toast, then drop it on the floor. Note that it will, without err, land butter-side-down.
Next, obtain a cat. Fling it. Observe how it persists on landing feet-side-down.
Simple deduction would see that by attaching a buttered slice of toast to the back of a feline, would simply spin in place several feet above the ground.
Harnessing this energy is simple. All one needs is multiple cats and multiple slices of buttered toast. And string. Mustn't forget the string. Place the Buttered Cats into an enclosure, and marvel as it rises from the ground. Attach a ship around it, and voila! One flying saucer. To power this ship, tack shag carpet to the interior of the enclosure and draw the static electricity from within.
This explains the bright blue lights and humming/buzzing/PURRING that UFOs emit.
Try it yourself. Its great fun!
Teeee-quila! baby, Ten shots tonight. Let's try for twelve before I hit the floor. Heh...
Am I the only one here that would KILL SOMEBODY WITH HOT BULLETS OF SHOTGUN to get that show on American teevee? I mean, weren't there some 180 or so eps, only about 35-40 or so got the ol' dub-and-vomit-into-the-welcome-and-waiting-mouths- of-american-consumers treatment
Now, maybe 20mya, we would have had dirty hippy environmentalist Giant Sloths slowly banging rocks on tables, having very slow bake sales to SAVE THE DIRE WOLF OH GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN rallies. Despite the fact that Dire Wolves devoured Giant Sloth babies until the three-toed proto-cows came home. "BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT THEY"RE INDANGERED [sic.]!" the Sloths slowly scream, their pulses revving up to six per minute, any more agitation, and they'll have a fuckin' aneurysm.
Which folks, is why they died out. Not because of their morbid obesity, but because of activism. I think that we can all learn something from the Giant Sloth Hippies. Take all ye want, but eat all ye take, and don't try to save critters that DEVOUR YOU FOR A LIVING.
So, let me get this straight? There's a company that PAYS PEOPLE TO WATCH MOVIES, and it's UNDERSTAFFED.
I've got a film degree, and am UNEMPLOYED. Would you happen to have the adress of said film review rag in London?
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Bah, I'm at negative K anyway...
"Yes, it LOOKS powerful. Don't touch it. But I predict within the next hundred years computers will be almost TWICE as powerful, one hundred times larger, and SO expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own one."
To paraphrase Prof Frink.
Seriously though. Aren't computers supposed to be getting SMALLER, not collos-o-big? Or do I suffer from Slashdotter's Lament (aka, not reading the fucking article before posting something "witty")?
After getting that damn message ten times in a row, I just stopped hitting the damn "preview" button. Only after I had posted, had I remembered that I left out an R from the good old break tag. Whoops.
Actually, an idea that I had proposed (and had shot down by those who called in "unpractical." bastards) was, instead of building a massive waste dump 90 miles north of Stenchburg (aka cruddy Vegas) we construct an immense mass driver in the Great Smoky Valley, which is smack dab in the center of the Greatest State in the Union (Nevada). This mass driver would have to be approxamatley 90 miles long and slowly arc upward to a height of two miles. Instead of burying the waste in the ground, where it could possibly leak, or even worse, be stumbled across by an archeological team in a future that has long forgotten about us.
This immense mass driver could hurl ten thousand (10,000g) gallon drums of nuclear waste into a rapidly-decaying solar orbit. Just dunk the stuff into the sun. This immense project would create thousands of jobs (construction, operation and maintenance), as well as being a stepping stone on the high, jagged cliff face that is the complete eradication of our dependance on fossil fuels.
But nay, the (Californicated) local government (fuck you Douglas County) thought that it would be decidedly too costly and was shot down before even making it to state assembly. I don't see how it could be though. Sure, it would take about four nuke plants on its own to operate, but the costs would be essentially negated by the charge placed upon each ten thousand gallon drum of waste. And not to mention the added tourist dollars. I mean, who in their right mind WOULDN'T want to see that thing fired? Clouds would part and thunder would roll as the drums travel at twenty-five times the speed of sound...
Imagine the casino revenue, brothel revenue, et cetera. We were sitting on (another) gold mine there people. But they wanted to go with the lame, unambitious, non-dramatic way of eliminating a major stumbling block for the widestream acceptance of nuclear power...
Also, it could be used to liquefy those that pronounce The Great State's second A incorrectly. Listen here people, it's like "can" not "soft." Fuck, if it were like "soft" it'd be spelled Nevawda, you fucking savages.
Revelations 13:17 (if I'm not mistaken) says, in a nutshell, that only he who bears the name of the Beast or the number of the name of the Beast is allowed to make purchases.
The Intel Inside logo (well, back in the 486 days) looked an awful lot like a red 6.
Ergo, if we have Intel tracking chips inside of us, and Intel Inside tatoos on the outside... And only be able to make sales... Oh shit... We're through the looking glass here people. Now that we've stumbled across their little conspiracy, all our lives are in danger. Yours, mine, even the life of the complacent and idiotic Joe Sixpacks out there, who will willingly and enthusiastically get this little red (now blue, as if that would throw us off the track. ha!) 6 tatooed upon their buttocks.
This terrifying New World Order that Bush threatened back in '91 is beginning to rear its festering black head. I'm not sure if we, as a society will be able to handle the massive upheaval, this horrendous expulsion of civil liberties...
Oh no, in my agitated state, I seem to have knocked off my special wave-nullifying helmet. Now FEMA knows where I am, and their black helicopters will begin their inexorable swoop down onto my location. I've only moments before the elite paramilitary units rappell through my windows.
SLASHDOTTERS! MAKE SURE MY MESSAGE IS SPREAD THROUGHT THE LAND!
Now, If you'll excuse me, my Kalashnikov and I have a date with those who dare edit out Article Five of our Great Bill of Rights...
This is slightly OT, but I've no peers that have the cable modem setup, and I can't get a word in edgewise in the other @home-related strings.
For the past week or so, I've been running dog slow, like 8kb/s downstream slow. To test the waters, I downloaded something from windowsupdate, and off of a server that I typically get ~750kB/s off of, I was getting a whopping 2.2kB/s.
What's up with this? Anybody in the Northern Nevada (Charter Pipe) area having similar problems?
Thanks in advance, if you need me, I'll be waiting for the page to load...
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Yeek Gads, I wish that I had the chutzpah to name my company EBone. Imagine what you could do with that domain name...
.jpg culled from a TGP listing on the top of the CD, (step unknown), PROFIT!
1- Sell femurs ONLINE!
2- Get rich off of chewy naugahyde treats and have a sock-puppet dog as a mascot. Then get your panties in a bunch, have a HUGE ego trip, then sue NBC for DARING having a show that runs a comedy piece with a lookalike-sock puppet dog.
3- Break into Bill Gates' private subeterranean warehouse/Fortress of Pain and liberate the Elephant Man's real bones. Turn around and sell them back to him through EBone.com, make a small fortune.
4- Set up your own Linux distro, slap a
5- Derive a line of "vegetarian steaks" Say that they're like, made of textured tofu or some shit, implant a E-shaped "bone" composed of plastic therin, sell to vegetarians, watch them keel over and die because their guts have been made pathetic and WEAK from years of digesting food that they weren't intended to. Laugh menacingly while twisting your waxed moustache.
6- I dunno, turn it into your one-stop dicklicking emporium? It's not like the name is indicitave or anything?
THIS ARTICLE BLATANTLY OFFENDS MY FINE LIBERAL SENSIBILITIES! For I was educated at one of the greatest colleges in the world, and therefore my intellect has far surpassed yours, and frankly, this article, this blatant grandizing of the Military Industrial Complex just makes me sick. Haven't we gotten to an era of peace and understanding in which we needn't construct these brutal weapons of mass destruction to fight a people whose belief structure and society are, granted different from ours, but no less wholesome? Sure, I campained for womyn's rights, despite my having a penis, I was called "rapist," "demagogue" and even "dildo substitute" but dammit, it was a small price to pay for equal treatment here at Berkely!
For shame, Slashdot. Your unabashed conservative leanings in this posting bring your true colors to the forefront. I was once a proud reader of this nest of liberal propaganda, but NO MORE. I'll take my reading minutes to MSNBC, thank you very much. At least they're OBJECTIVE about the news...
Fucking liberals. Hey, dicklickers, QUIT FAGGING UP MY SLASHDOT. Last time I checked, I was reading this site long before this place became a haven of liberal, military technology bashing hippies. Every time that there's a post regarding (way fucking cool, BTW) military tech, there's always a slew, a slurry, if you will, of posts that GET MODDED UP FOR SOME UNKNOWN FUCKING REASON that simultaneously decry the act of building newer and better technologies (that, SOO-PRIZE SOO-PRIZE! benefit the Civilian Sector every time) and the fact that someone out there has a bit more than one-hunnert eye kyoo points and finds these things intriguing.
Bah, Socia^H^H^H^H^H Liberals have fagged this once Great Website up almost beyond the point of repair.
"Integrity Shmentegrity, I don't understand journalists' obsessive-compulsive desire to get every little number correct. I mean, this is Journalism, not Rocket Science. We're here to entertain the masses, not put men on the goddamned moon." -- Me at my job interview for the Nevada Appeal. Guess who's still unemployed?
Fuck off Micro$oft luser. The day I use M$ technology is the day I get laid.
Well, that just about encapsulates the entire Slashdot crowd right there. Beautiful, just beautiful.
Also note that I'm posting this in Linux, and BABY, DO THE CHIXXORS FORM A LINE AROUND THE BLOCK TO MY DOOR.
Awhile back, some friends and I were lamenting the obscene amount of "power" that Diz-nee and co. have. One of us piped up "why don't we just set up a pirate teevee station, place the transmitter on Indian land?"
Could the govies/Disney pursue suit, should we be about six feet into Indian land and broadcasting Disney movies over free air?
Just curious.
(also, I could have SWORN that I saw said Screensavers interview a month ago)
Back in high school Chem class, we had to argue pro or con for a Nuke plant to be built locally (one, rural Nevada... why bother?). Me, always being an argumentative dickhead, chose to Devil's Advocate the task, and sided with the whiny, anti-nuke hippies.
Aaaanyhow, one of the arguments that I had used was that there are extinct civilizations that have only died out as recent as FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, and we, with all our fancy European-style education have yet to come within reasonable nearness to decyphering their written language.
So, I argued, what if... Something catastrophic happens again, and in a few thousand years, after civilization has dragged itself back up through the ashes to the point where its out exploring the seas again in galleys and colonizing the farthest reaches of the globe. What if... What if they stumble across the Yucca Mountain dump?
Now, they have absolutley no knowledge of what that yellow and black circle, divided up into sixths means. They're seeing metal signs with an indecypherable alien text on them. They find these vaults, and manage to tunnel in and are exposed to radiation. Potential catastrophy there...
Anyhow. Since I got to thinking about that, then I start thinking some more. What if it had already happened once? What if Jericho weren't really the "First City?" What if we humans became significantly advanced (pre-industrial age or so?) then got wiped out by the encroaching glaciation? Which would explain the decided lack of structures and monuments, with the notable exception of the alleged sunken cities in the Sea of Japan, off India and Cuba.
I read somewhere that the temples at Ankor could be upwards of 12k years old. Which predates the "Fertile Crescent" civs by at least a thousand years...
Just the ruminations of a crazy drunk that's been up for three days. Responses would be keen, a full-fucking-fledged discussion would rock.
Man, I could anally-violate you with a beer bottle.
God knows I've got about ten of 'em on my desk tongiht.
Heh
Take it you've never checked prices for a Film AVID system? FilmAVID costs (since I last checked) $32k. Thirty. Two. Thousand. Dollars. American.
Just for the software.
Add in an AVIDMedia Capture Card, that's your paltry $4k right there, just for the capture card.
Add in the Film Capture device, another $12-15k. Then you've got your RAIDs, your SP decks ($8-12k, depending on the brand), your monitors (not cheapass NTSC teevees, we're talking real-live production monitors, they run about $500 each, and you need at least one), and not to mention minimum of TWO >19" monitors to edit with.
All in all, to edit film on an AVID system, you're looking at about $65k for a "good" system.
$4k for a G4 box and the Final Cut bundle = DIRT FUCKING CHEAP.
Not to mention that the people that this software is marketed to make $4k on a slow week (shit, I videograph weddings and parties and I make $50/hr)
Excellent! Now maybe I can erase that FAGGY FAGGY Premiere from my drive and use some NON-CONSUMER editing software.
Premiere is okay for those of you who have not had the religious experience that is working with AVID. Compared to AVID, Premiere is a worthless, Pinnacle Video-level sack of bits.
Now, Premiere's After Effects/Photoshop intergration is incredibly sweet, something that AVIDDV doesn't do exactly right.
Also, AVIDDV is NT-only for some goddamned reason (unless that's changed since I knuckled under and spent $2k on the NT port). So, once I get this new software, I'll actually be able to USE the G4 machine that, because I've no professional-level editing software for it, has been sitting on my desk, gathering dust.
Imagine, for a moment, that your machine was set up with a silent, eye-reading cursor system. Then, you set about jerking. The jerking gets good, but all of the sudden, as happens every fucking time you troll through the porn listings, you enter that special place that I like to call Popup Hell.
FUCK! you exclaim and frantically dart your eyes about in a vain, feeble attempt to close out all those god damned popups. But more keep coming.
Soon you develop eyestrain, which totally ruins the jerk session.
That, my friend. Is why said technology will never take off
After using a Wacom back in school, I have a hard time using the damn mouse anymore. But then again, when one is using the stylus, you always have your left hand on the keyboard, for the most part, to decrease the amount of swishandclick you have to do with the stylus (quickswitching tools in photochop).
So, I don't really see how a stylus could replace the keyboard. I've always had ass handwriting, I was left handed, but my dicksuck of a kindergarten teacher FORCED me to use my right (I still shoot a handgun lefthanded, use chopsticks, swing a baseball bat, et al) to write. My handwriting is so awful that even Graphitti doesn't pick up every letter that I tap into my Palm.
Not to mention that I have a tough time inserting text significantly slower than my speed of thought, which is blazing, and I can almost keep up with the keyboard.
Using a stylus would just impede thought, kind of like typing one handed in a heated AIM flamewar. It just doesn't work.
Fuck. I need to lay off the beers this "early" in the morning...
Bill Gates/Micheal Dell/Steve Jobs steps up to a podium. He holds out a plain white mouse in one hand. Then swiftly, he closes his hand upon it. The rodent makes a sharp, shrill sqeak that booms in the ampitheatre...
He drops the mouse to the floor, and silently, solemnly walks offstage...
In all seriousness, doesn't Microsoft have orders of magnitude more LIQUID CASH than the Movie/Record industries make per annum? Why don't they just crush these ninnies, remind them that their place is to entertain us, not create laws in which to enslave us.
Oh, just fucking WONDERFUL. A show based on the most boring game ever made! Hurrah! SIGN MY ASS UP TO WATCH THAT, BABY! So, let me see, SF is axing Farscape, producing another series of the abysmal Lexx and a Myst series... Fuck, I thought my girlfriend leaving me was the worst news of the week.
Anybody want to bet that this is Cyan's attempt to wrest the "Most sold game ever" crown from the pointy heads of those irksome, lamer-than-Everquest Sims? Actually, it makes some kind of perverse sense. Cyan shits out a crappy, licensed show to push more copies of their horrible-horrible interactive slideshow (allegedly, some people called Myst a "game" I have no idea how anybody could confuse the two) into Wal-Mart electronics department aisles.
Well, all them terabits are all well and good. But what about ping times? Would this system make them infantesimally small? Or would it ping as bad as satmodems do? 1 mu57 kn0w! 1 n33d 17 70 pl4y my c0un7ar57r13k!
Bah. All I really care about is that 2 terabits/second would download me a whole lotta porn, a whole lotta fast.
Er, no, scratch that. Most servers are on ADSL/T1/T3s, which can only output at a certain, arbitrary, preset rate. So. I ask you, what's really the point? It'd be like having a cablemodem back in the days that everybody's BBSes were running off of 300 baud modems. I honestly don't think that you'd see a terribly higher transfer rate than you already do off of your cablemodem or dorm T1/T3/whatever.
But, baby... Imagine these 2tb lines becoming the standard... drool baby drool.
I still long for the day that I can pull broadband out of thin air. Now THAT'D be sweet...
Heavy heavy fuel... Heavy heavy fuel... if you wanna run cool... you've got to run...
Hey dickwad. Does the phrase "fr1st p0st!" mean anything to you? Yes folks, I was the first, non-AC post on this thread. So eat me, AC fagknocker
Ah yes. The Buttered Cat drive. Actually works too. Got a car powered with that very drive. Well, I did, until those bastards at the oil companies crushed it into a tiny tiny cube.
Simple premise of the Buttered Cat drive is based in elementary physics. First, go and butter a slice of toast, then drop it on the floor. Note that it will, without err, land butter-side-down.
Next, obtain a cat. Fling it. Observe how it persists on landing feet-side-down.
Simple deduction would see that by attaching a buttered slice of toast to the back of a feline, would simply spin in place several feet above the ground.
Harnessing this energy is simple. All one needs is multiple cats and multiple slices of buttered toast. And string. Mustn't forget the string. Place the Buttered Cats into an enclosure, and marvel as it rises from the ground. Attach a ship around it, and voila! One flying saucer. To power this ship, tack shag carpet to the interior of the enclosure and draw the static electricity from within.
This explains the bright blue lights and humming/buzzing/PURRING that UFOs emit.
Try it yourself. Its great fun!
Teeee-quila! baby, Ten shots tonight. Let's try for twelve before I hit the floor. Heh...
See post header. You have a link? Also, when the fuck is Propaganda going back up? I miss that little sack of cynicism.
Am I the only one here that would KILL SOMEBODY WITH HOT BULLETS OF SHOTGUN to get that show on American teevee?- of-american-consumers treatment
I mean, weren't there some 180 or so eps, only about 35-40 or so got the ol' dub-and-vomit-into-the-welcome-and-waiting-mouths
Dinosaurs didn't exist 20mya, dingus m'gee.
Now, maybe 20mya, we would have had dirty hippy environmentalist Giant Sloths slowly banging rocks on tables, having very slow bake sales to SAVE THE DIRE WOLF OH GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN rallies. Despite the fact that Dire Wolves devoured Giant Sloth babies until the three-toed proto-cows came home. "BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT THEY"RE INDANGERED [sic.]!" the Sloths slowly scream, their pulses revving up to six per minute, any more agitation, and they'll have a fuckin' aneurysm.
Which folks, is why they died out. Not because of their morbid obesity, but because of activism. I think that we can all learn something from the Giant Sloth Hippies. Take all ye want, but eat all ye take, and don't try to save critters that DEVOUR YOU FOR A LIVING.
So, let me get this straight? There's a company that PAYS PEOPLE TO WATCH MOVIES, and it's UNDERSTAFFED.
I've got a film degree, and am UNEMPLOYED. Would you happen to have the adress of said film review rag in London?
Bah, I'm at negative K anyway...
"Yes, it LOOKS powerful. Don't touch it. But I predict within the next hundred years computers will be almost TWICE as powerful, one hundred times larger, and SO expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own one."
To paraphrase Prof Frink.
Seriously though. Aren't computers supposed to be getting SMALLER, not collos-o-big? Or do I suffer from Slashdotter's Lament (aka, not reading the fucking article before posting something "witty")?
After getting that damn message ten times in a row, I just stopped hitting the damn "preview" button. Only after I had posted, had I remembered that I left out an R from the good old break tag. Whoops.
This immense mass driver could hurl ten thousand (10,000g) gallon drums of nuclear waste into a rapidly-decaying solar orbit. Just dunk the stuff into the sun. This immense project would create thousands of jobs (construction, operation and maintenance), as well as being a stepping stone on the high, jagged cliff face that is the complete eradication of our dependance on fossil fuels.
But nay, the (Californicated) local government (fuck you Douglas County) thought that it would be decidedly too costly and was shot down before even making it to state assembly. I don't see how it could be though. Sure, it would take about four nuke plants on its own to operate, but the costs would be essentially negated by the charge placed upon each ten thousand gallon drum of waste. And not to mention the added tourist dollars. I mean, who in their right mind WOULDN'T want to see that thing fired? Clouds would part and thunder would roll as the drums travel at twenty-five times the speed of sound...
Imagine the casino revenue, brothel revenue, et cetera. We were sitting on (another) gold mine there people. But they wanted to go with the lame, unambitious, non-dramatic way of eliminating a major stumbling block for the widestream acceptance of nuclear power...
Also, it could be used to liquefy those that pronounce The Great State's second A incorrectly. Listen here people, it's like "can" not "soft." Fuck, if it were like "soft" it'd be spelled Nevawda, you fucking savages.
The Intel Inside logo (well, back in the 486 days) looked an awful lot like a red 6.
Ergo, if we have Intel tracking chips inside of us, and Intel Inside tatoos on the outside... And only be able to make sales... Oh shit... We're through the looking glass here people. Now that we've stumbled across their little conspiracy, all our lives are in danger. Yours, mine, even the life of the complacent and idiotic Joe Sixpacks out there, who will willingly and enthusiastically get this little red (now blue, as if that would throw us off the track. ha!) 6 tatooed upon their buttocks.
This terrifying New World Order that Bush threatened back in '91 is beginning to rear its festering black head. I'm not sure if we, as a society will be able to handle the massive upheaval, this horrendous expulsion of civil liberties...
Oh no, in my agitated state, I seem to have knocked off my special wave-nullifying helmet. Now FEMA knows where I am, and their black helicopters will begin their inexorable swoop down onto my location. I've only moments before the elite paramilitary units rappell through my windows.
SLASHDOTTERS! MAKE SURE MY MESSAGE IS SPREAD THROUGHT THE LAND!
Now, If you'll excuse me, my Kalashnikov and I have a date with those who dare edit out Article Five of our Great Bill of Rights...
For the past week or so, I've been running dog slow, like 8kb/s downstream slow. To test the waters, I downloaded something from windowsupdate, and off of a server that I typically get ~750kB/s off of, I was getting a whopping 2.2kB/s.
What's up with this? Anybody in the Northern Nevada (Charter Pipe) area having similar problems?
Thanks in advance, if you need me, I'll be waiting for the page to load...