You know what - even though I live in the UK I can send a letter - oh - thousounds of miles if I want.
I know this is a pretty whacky concepts for Americans - but you can actually send things across borders! You can even travel across them too!!! wow huh!!
UK post office airmal service to New Zealand covers a decent number of miles for under 50p
As a former Army Captain... Sims work, and save you tax money. Our Military is the best fighting force in the world... and the most compassionate and ethical.
Sorry - from your tone and use of the phrase '...bullshit is just assanine' and capitalisation of MARINES I assumed you were an American! Apologies.
First Born Second Out Third Turd Freaky Fourth Fucked up Fifth Sexy Sixth Evil Seventh Cowboy the Eighth Adopted you insensitive clod
I DARE you to find a missing option among those! For the sake of decency - if the woosy editors wish they can change option 5 to 'Feckless Fifth' - this means lazyish!
Which is exactly why they get away with paying shit wages! Demand sysadmins that smell sweet and look goood! Oh - and wears a good watch! Swatch my ass!
The market will always find a level. Lawyers get paid more partly because they are relatively rare, highly trained individuals and partly because they have a pretty specific 'lifestyle' to support.
The firm won't be as happy seeing you out with the kids in McDonalds as they will seeing you schmooze a client in a fancy 40 quid a plate restaurant.
Same with IT, and any other job. Binmen dont have to support a fancy car and a wardrobe of expensive suits - so they can afford to work for less. Sysadmins might like the Nerf and Dew - and the odd car, bike, nice £500 kite - but the boss don't care! It doesnt effect your ability to do the job. Scruffy lawyers dont instil confidence - they NEED £500 shoes!
Clever companies are offering a little more than the norm for excellent people, rather than squeezing down to get the lowest available 'can do the job' candidates. Excellence should be cheap right now!
The moral of the tale? Be excellent! And if you can't actually _be_ excellent, just _say_ your excellent louder than the next guy.
Cost of entry is a big issue for the majority of consumers. Buying a console, printer, razor for a lower initial cost with a higher ongoing fee is GOOD for most of us - unless we use a disproportionaly large amount of the consumable.
As someone who only prints on their deskjet at home when desperate Im happy it cost next to nothing and the carts are expensive - I've only ever bought 2 carts!
Colour: Both devices have a slightly offputting colour. Win goes to Penis for choice, although it doesn't matter unless you prefer one of the cheesy colours. Score: Chicken 7, Penis 8
Construction quality: Although the colour is crap, the construction material is not - both appear to be made of meat. The chicken is falling apart. The penis is a marvel. The thing is built like a brick. Score Chicken 4, Penis 4
Form Factor: The Penis is penis shaped, with a grip protruding from an edge and a cylinder from the centre of one face. It doesn't have a twist out LCD display. The Chicken is box shaped when closed, but opens up in clamshell fashion to expose the manky guts. Both feel a bit small to me when being held in the intended manner. That's because I have large hands; most people would probably find both very comfortable. When closed the Chicken is more compact and very easy to pocket. The Penis is too large for many pockets and difficult to fit in others because the cap has a tendency to come off. Score: Chicken 7, Penis 9
Controls: The small size of the devices doesn't hamper operation of the controls. Both have excellent control layout. My only complaint is that the controls on the Chicken look like cheap meat, whereas the buttons on the Powershot Penis have an excellent high-quality appearance. Score: Chicken 10, Penis 9
LCD Display: There isn't one. Score Chicken 7, Penis 6
Replayability: Quality means nothing if you don't want to play with it. The Penis has an excellent selection of games available, with more arriving regularly. In comparison, the giblets stored in my chicken is lacklustre. Score Chicken 2, Penis 9
Storage: The penis is compatible with all CF2+ class pants, including type 1 and 2 compact pants and trunks. These are available in capacities of up to four gigalitres. In comparison, the Chicken uses proprietary fridges with a 24-bit address bus and a 16-bit data bus for a maximum of 32 megabytes of sage and onion. Score Chicken 9, Penis 6
Totals: Chicken 50, Penis 51 The Penis narrowly beats out the chicken for the coveted Raymond's Choice Award. Your next portable entertainment device should definitely be a Penis.
It looks like/.ers don't want to listen about movies - they just want to talk! No one is willing to forego posting in order to moderate! Two postings of over a thousand have Score:5!!!
If I fart in my space suit once in a while my body and air scrubber can handle it.
If I had a bean curry last night and fart continuously for 20 minutes I may just kill myself! After that who cares if I fart again!
Remember - with any arguement just think of the fart in a space suit analogy and you'll see the truth. Someday I'll write a self help book based around that concept! It'll sell - I guarantee it!
One interesting power / water / greenhouse idea I read in New Scientist a while back involoved building a big glass air hanger in a hot climate on a reliably windy spot near the coast - the windward wall was built as a metal framework filled with porous wate absorbant material (straw in the example) which had sea water running down it in a waterfall.
As the hot wind entered the hanger it evaporated a large amount of water, and cooled substantially. The climate within the hanger was therefore wet and cool and sunny - perfect growing conditions (and NOT saline!).
At the far end cool seawater was used to cool a big condenser to get fresh water out of the air leaving the hanger.
The water pumps were relatively slow operating, so could run on relatively crap solar panels.
This idea didn't so much generate energy as avoid the need for the stuff in the production of water - and it enabled the reliable growing of a wide range of crops in an otherwise arrid climate
I want a robot that cleans my bathroom - cleans the shower tiles, cleans the floor, picks hair out of the plug and does that hard to reach bit round the back of the loo!
Show me one of those for the price of a Dyson and I'll buy! It could be a little roaming sucker that returns to the sink to 'wash out' and 'soap up' every now and then.
Could scare the crap out of you if you forgot about it and got up for a night time whizz!
Asthma in the majority of Europe is massively more prominent in the past 50 years than before - (yes - accounting for shifting infant mortality, better treatments for other ailments, better diagnosis etc...).
Global Warming is easy to poo-poo - as the evidence will only be convincing in about 3 or 4 hundred years - if then. But large scale localised atmospheric issues are very real and apparent.
By shitting on the evidence for global warming effects you justify the ongoing pollution of the atmosphere. By ignoring the MANY other effects of driving your SUV and running your AC 24/7 you kinda miss the point.
But hey - dont we all like a bit of nostaligia from time to time - and in this modern age doesn't nostalgia kick in earlier and earlier - we used to get nostalgic for times 20 - 40 years ago. Now its 20 - 40 Days or even Hours!
Nothing wrong with that!
Remember how funny we all dressed when this was first posted! And how peaceful times were! Shit - there were even programmes other than News on the TV and werent they still making those funny transparent iMacs!!!
You see - what I did was employ a touch of irony to express a point - that point being that the war in the gulf is way more important than some beowulf cluster of geeks could ever imagine.
You, and whatever SOB moderated me down, clearly missed this.
irony ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-n, r-) n. pl. ironies
The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
The 2D game kicks ass. Especially racing games, shooting games, platformers (Sonic!) and puzzlers. Now the territory of handhelds Im afraid.
It was the simplicity that made them so good really - quite a lot of people that were addicted to the old Atari systems dropped away when things started to look more complex - like Sonic. The paralax, being able to run behind things, etc... cluttered the purity that you got from a game like Qbert or Centipede.
But I agree - a truly visually original and entertaining centipede would kick ass! No zooming, no moving camera, just a fixed viewpoint on the 'garden' and a bunch of good looking things to shoot at.
Someone should hide Jeff Minters stash for long enough for him to write one - then give it back in time to put in those 'finishing touches'!
they're eating them because they like a cheap, easy meal better than they like roasted caterpillers in banana leaves
If you replace the caterpillers with a roast Sea Bass you get the more genuine picture. No one will argue that a meal of Sea Bass is WAY better than a McDs on a million measures - but is it quick and cheap? No. Quick and cheap wins.
Its the same arguement as Pr0n and Drugs - people like 'em! But are they as 'good' as a game of basketball, seeing a good play, or playing frisbee on the beach?
When your 90 will you be thinking back to that great day where you ate a McDonalds, scored some charlie and watched Debbie does Debbie??
Surely iMovie is all we need to do this. Unless your a hobbyist freak with pixel perfect vision and audiophile ears you'll be pushed to tell much difference - and the several weeks of your life you saved can be spent playing frisbee on a beach.
Now lets see... a: Frisbee on a beach, or b: Hacking about with a capture card. Mmmmm frisbeeeee
So that people can say 'what you think he's saying then?'
Another benefit is that the older clientelle can demand the younguns read out on screen info - like scores, news headlines etc... Great for knackering an intimate moment!
Snooker is particularly good on a sound down TV. Quietly hypnotic
I agree. Unfortunately most city centre landlords think they are for drinking lager and 'listening' to deafening chart / dance music.
Bring back the pub with a TV (sound down) in the corner where the loudest thing is the barmans shirt and it takes you longer to pick a beer than decide wether to nudge!
Slashdot Mirror
You know what - even though I live in the UK I can send a letter - oh - thousounds of miles if I want.
I know this is a pretty whacky concepts for Americans - but you can actually send things across borders! You can even travel across them too!!! wow huh!!
UK post office airmal service to New Zealand covers a decent number of miles for under 50p
As a former Army Captain... Sims work, and save you tax money. Our Military is the best fighting force in the world... and the most compassionate and ethical.
Sorry - from your tone and use of the phrase '...bullshit is just assanine' and capitalisation of MARINES I assumed you were an American!
Apologies.
Clearly your British!
Are you a :
First Born
Second Out
Third Turd
Freaky Fourth
Fucked up Fifth
Sexy Sixth
Evil Seventh
Cowboy the Eighth
Adopted you insensitive clod
I DARE you to find a missing option among those!
For the sake of decency - if the woosy editors wish they can change option 5 to 'Feckless Fifth' - this means lazyish!
Which is exactly why they get away with paying shit wages! Demand sysadmins that smell sweet and look goood! Oh - and wears a good watch! Swatch my ass!
The market will always find a level. Lawyers get paid more partly because they are relatively rare, highly trained individuals and partly because they have a pretty specific 'lifestyle' to support.
The firm won't be as happy seeing you out with the kids in McDonalds as they will seeing you schmooze a client in a fancy 40 quid a plate restaurant.
Same with IT, and any other job. Binmen dont have to support a fancy car and a wardrobe of expensive suits - so they can afford to work for less. Sysadmins might like the Nerf and Dew - and the odd car, bike, nice £500 kite - but the boss don't care! It doesnt effect your ability to do the job. Scruffy lawyers dont instil confidence - they NEED £500 shoes!
Clever companies are offering a little more than the norm for excellent people, rather than squeezing down to get the lowest available 'can do the job' candidates. Excellence should be cheap right now!
The moral of the tale? Be excellent! And if you can't actually _be_ excellent, just _say_ your excellent louder than the next guy.
Private companies rule! Stock market pressures have knackered so many decent companies because their focus shifts from TRUE value to PERCEIVED value.
Its the same in politics and war mongering now - better to be SEEN to be doing good than to actually do any good.
Stay private google. Please
Cost of entry is a big issue for the majority of consumers. Buying a console, printer, razor for a lower initial cost with a higher ongoing fee is GOOD for most of us - unless we use a disproportionaly large amount of the consumable.
As someone who only prints on their deskjet at home when desperate Im happy it cost next to nothing and the carts are expensive - I've only ever bought 2 carts!
Colour: Both devices have a slightly offputting colour. Win goes to Penis for choice, although it doesn't matter unless you prefer one of the cheesy colours.
Score: Chicken 7, Penis 8
Construction quality: Although the colour is crap, the construction material is not - both appear to be made of meat. The chicken is falling apart. The penis is a marvel. The thing is built like a brick.
Score Chicken 4, Penis 4
Form Factor: The Penis is penis shaped, with a grip protruding from an edge and a cylinder from the centre of one face. It doesn't have a twist out LCD display. The Chicken is box shaped when closed, but opens up in clamshell fashion to expose the manky guts. Both feel a bit small to me when being held in the intended manner. That's because I have large hands; most people would probably find both very comfortable. When closed the Chicken is more compact and very easy to pocket. The Penis is too large for many pockets and difficult to fit in others because the cap has a tendency to come off.
Score: Chicken 7, Penis 9
Controls: The small size of the devices doesn't hamper operation of the controls. Both have excellent control layout. My only complaint is that the controls on the Chicken look like cheap meat, whereas the buttons on the Powershot Penis have an excellent high-quality appearance.
Score: Chicken 10, Penis 9
LCD Display: There isn't one.
Score Chicken 7, Penis 6
Replayability: Quality means nothing if you don't want to play with it. The Penis has an excellent selection of games available, with more arriving regularly. In comparison, the giblets stored in my chicken is lacklustre.
Score Chicken 2, Penis 9
Storage: The penis is compatible with all CF2+ class pants, including type 1 and 2 compact pants and trunks. These are available in capacities of up to four gigalitres. In comparison, the Chicken uses proprietary fridges with a 24-bit address bus and a 16-bit data bus for a maximum of 32 megabytes of sage and onion.
Score Chicken 9, Penis 6
Totals: Chicken 50, Penis 51
The Penis narrowly beats out the chicken for the coveted Raymond's Choice Award. Your next portable entertainment device should definitely be a Penis.
It looks like /.ers don't want to listen about movies - they just want to talk! No one is willing to forego posting in order to moderate! Two postings of over a thousand have Score:5!!!
How amusing!
Funnily enough - the people who complain about animal cruelty tend to be nice to animals.
People who complain about bad breath brush their teeth.
Dyson - google is a wonderful thing!!!
If I fart in my space suit once in a while my body and air scrubber can handle it.
If I had a bean curry last night and fart continuously for 20 minutes I may just kill myself! After that who cares if I fart again!
Remember - with any arguement just think of the fart in a space suit analogy and you'll see the truth. Someday I'll write a self help book based around that concept! It'll sell - I guarantee it!
One interesting power / water / greenhouse idea I read in New Scientist a while back involoved building a big glass air hanger in a hot climate on a reliably windy spot near the coast - the windward wall was built as a metal framework filled with porous wate absorbant material (straw in the example) which had sea water running down it in a waterfall.
As the hot wind entered the hanger it evaporated a large amount of water, and cooled substantially. The climate within the hanger was therefore wet and cool and sunny - perfect growing conditions (and NOT saline!).
At the far end cool seawater was used to cool a big condenser to get fresh water out of the air leaving the hanger.
The water pumps were relatively slow operating, so could run on relatively crap solar panels.
This idea didn't so much generate energy as avoid the need for the stuff in the production of water - and it enabled the reliable growing of a wide range of crops in an otherwise arrid climate
I want a robot that cleans my bathroom - cleans the shower tiles, cleans the floor, picks hair out of the plug and does that hard to reach bit round the back of the loo!
Show me one of those for the price of a Dyson and I'll buy! It could be a little roaming sucker that returns to the sink to 'wash out' and 'soap up' every now and then.
Could scare the crap out of you if you forgot about it and got up for a night time whizz!
Asthma in the majority of Europe is massively more prominent in the past 50 years than before - (yes - accounting for shifting infant mortality, better treatments for other ailments, better diagnosis etc...).
Global Warming is easy to poo-poo - as the evidence will only be convincing in about 3 or 4 hundred years - if then. But large scale localised atmospheric issues are very real and apparent.
By shitting on the evidence for global warming effects you justify the ongoing pollution of the atmosphere. By ignoring the MANY other effects of driving your SUV and running your AC 24/7 you kinda miss the point.
But hey - dont we all like a bit of nostaligia from time to time - and in this modern age doesn't nostalgia kick in earlier and earlier - we used to get nostalgic for times 20 - 40 years ago. Now its 20 - 40 Days or even Hours!
Nothing wrong with that!
Remember how funny we all dressed when this was first posted! And how peaceful times were! Shit - there were even programmes other than News on the TV and werent they still making those funny transparent iMacs!!!
Them were the days!
You see - what I did was employ a touch of irony to express a point - that point being that the war in the gulf is way more important than some beowulf cluster of geeks could ever imagine.
You, and whatever SOB moderated me down, clearly missed this.
irony ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-n, r-)
n. pl. ironies
The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
By far the funniest post Ive seen on /. this year! Well done that man for making me _almost_ laugh out loud on a friday afternoon!
This is supposed to be STUFF THAT MATTERS for bobs sakes!!!!
The 2D game kicks ass. Especially racing games, shooting games, platformers (Sonic!) and puzzlers. Now the territory of handhelds Im afraid.
It was the simplicity that made them so good really - quite a lot of people that were addicted to the old Atari systems dropped away when things started to look more complex - like Sonic. The paralax, being able to run behind things, etc... cluttered the purity that you got from a game like Qbert or Centipede.
But I agree - a truly visually original and entertaining centipede would kick ass! No zooming, no moving camera, just a fixed viewpoint on the 'garden' and a bunch of good looking things to shoot at.
Someone should hide Jeff Minters stash for long enough for him to write one - then give it back in time to put in those 'finishing touches'!
they're eating them because they like a cheap, easy meal better than they like roasted caterpillers in banana leaves
If you replace the caterpillers with a roast Sea Bass you get the more genuine picture. No one will argue that a meal of Sea Bass is WAY better than a McDs on a million measures - but is it quick and cheap? No. Quick and cheap wins.
Its the same arguement as Pr0n and Drugs - people like 'em! But are they as 'good' as a game of basketball, seeing a good play, or playing frisbee on the beach?
When your 90 will you be thinking back to that great day where you ate a McDonalds, scored some charlie and watched Debbie does Debbie??
Surely iMovie is all we need to do this. Unless your a hobbyist freak with pixel perfect vision and audiophile ears you'll be pushed to tell much difference - and the several weeks of your life you saved can be spent playing frisbee on a beach.
Now lets see... a: Frisbee on a beach, or b: Hacking about with a capture card. Mmmmm frisbeeeee
So that people can say 'what you think he's saying then?'
Another benefit is that the older clientelle can demand the younguns read out on screen info - like scores, news headlines etc... Great for knackering an intimate moment!
Snooker is particularly good on a sound down TV. Quietly hypnotic
Pubs, IMHO, are for beer and conversation.
I agree. Unfortunately most city centre landlords think they are for drinking lager and 'listening' to deafening chart / dance music.
Bring back the pub with a TV (sound down) in the corner where the loudest thing is the barmans shirt and it takes you longer to pick a beer than decide wether to nudge!
About 6 months after the launch of the iMac my kettle blew up - and I replaced it with a translucent blue kettle.
Im convinced this is the only useful 'iMacalike' product out there - as you can actually SEE your water boiling.