MAybe the build quality on your Twingo beats that on my rather shoddily constructed Laguna. Even if it doesnt Ive always enjoyed the name of the Twingo. So yes - I give your twingo an exemption from my 'renaults are a bit like IE' assertion. Arent I generous.
Skodas are pretty much VWs now - part from the rather better interior trim on most models. Oh - and the 20-30% discount for the same model. Oh - and the fact that they look like shit from the outside.
All Skoda references should now be replaced with either Kia or Renault to maintain the effect. Trust me!
shit - correct - the flying of the kite is one of lifes greater pleasures - I just havent done it in a while. Damn!!! OK you can have wind on weekends! and public holidays. unless its raining - who wants to fly kites in the rain!
As a bit of a plant addict, I can tell you that rain is one of the BEST THINGS in the world when you're trying to get a good crop of pretty much ANYTHING tasty growing. Oops - shouting - sorry!
If you got warm & wet you dont need sunny for the majority of interesting plants - fruit excepted in most cases. Just so long as its not too windy! I hate wind! If I could impose a global wind limit I would - fuck global climate controls - just stop the damn wind! I cant hear myself think!!!!
Just in case you actually check you AC contributions I might as well explain. Some people need broadband for business. Business magazines tell you how to get broadband when its not easy. Business users tend to be happy to pay for shit, and to write complaining letters, so DTS (dopey telsales staff) are more likely to beleive them.
Somehow it seems right that god and atari are related. To create such joy from such meagre resources. God created 'ALL THIS' from... well... from fuck all!
But Atari created the single most entertaining game of all time from a half-hertz cpu and 3 bytes of ram! now THATS an achievement.
(the game in question, if your wondering, was COMBAT on the 2600 - games have all been downhill since then)
And I'm willing to bet the two chicks are only listed because they slept with someone, and threatened to tell his mom. "the day you sleep with a woman you move OUT of my basement young man!"
Or because the compilers searched for ANY chicks to list to avoid claims of sexism - no matter how small their contribution.
And remember folks. I'm 100% serious. Yes. Yes I am!
My new house suffers from this, but a quick hour on the phone to BT persuaded them that this 'sucked' and that upgrading my line was a 'good idea' so that I could get broadband.
For anyone in a similar position, heres how I did it. Remember at all times that the person you are talking to is a thick bastard who couldnt get a real job and hates his/her life and just wants to go home.
Is my phoneline split? I can only get 28Kbps on my dial up! Can I get broadband - I know my exchange is enabled. "Your line fails the test sir - you cant get broadband" "But is my line split? I beleive I read that if your line is split BT has to replace it if you order broadband on an enabled exchange" "I dont think thats right sir - where did you see that?" "In flight magazine probably - BA" "I'll ask my supervisor" "Hello - supervisor here - you have a line issue" "I want a new line because I suspect its shared and I want broadband and you have to change the line"... to cut a long story short (well - okay - lonng) I just repeated this about 2 dozen times until they booked me an engineer to replace the line. I dont think its true - but these guys just want an easy life so hassle them into giving you the line. Oh - but remember - when they say "where did you read it" say "Fortune" or "In flight magazine" not "/."
While most applications that hook into the Windows API for web stuff respect the preferred browser settings, there are still many that don't.
Example - when I hit 'About Java Technology' from my Java 2 Platform lurking icon it fires IE. Even the 'Web/Home' button on my Microsoft keyboard started firing firefox when I set it as default browser! If MS can do it why not Sun.
IE scares me and it should scare everyone else too. Patch like a mad quilting walton!
This is off topic to an extent - so shoot me! One of the things that bugs me about the Green party (wherever it might be - here in the UK we have elections shortly aswell for local and EU gov) is that they bolt on all these 'well its all good' fluffy stances to the core message.
Political parties start to get bland and shit when they start having just as many +s as -s in the eyes of the individual.
OSS - alienating to the majority who know nothing about it Gay Marriage - alienates a generation of old dudes who just think its all a bit odd Anti War - alienates a bunch of people who think saddam needed a kicking (oops - I mean that 'the war on terror is right and just')
there are more - and MANY more on a highly localised basis, from new roads, to planning applications.
It just takes one policy that you HATE to stop you voting for the other 99. If the greens just stuck to a basic stance of 'environmental sense' as the drive for all policies they would, in my opinion, gain a much greater support.
(and before the/. pink contingent start on me, I'm neither anti OSS, homophobic, or pro war - but face it - lots of people are who would otherwise vote to save the penguin).
Having worked on property details production and publishing for over a dozen real estate agencies I'd be delighted to have 6 well thought out photographs for each property rather than a couple of CDs full of identicrap.
She can spend all day there if she wants - just dont send the fucking images to me until shes sorted out the crap from the usable.
I'm not meaning to question your wifes abilities, but taking hundreds (maybe 500 if my maths is right) photographs of an empty home seems to smack of a 'shoot now think later' mindset. And the 500 assumes you are taking relatively high res shots - something I can't imagine being important on 'sell my house' shoots.
Much better to spend those 15 minutes working out which 6 photos to take, then taking a small burst of each than to simply walk around being Miss Snap Happy.
Portrait shoots are similar - spend a bit of time working out what your going to aim for - and then take aim. Don't just shoot until you explode.
The Austin Powers piss-take of David Bailey isn't too far off the mark - apart from he misses the part where Bailey interviews and observes his subject for an hour before his 5 minute burst of 'yeah baby yeah'.
It is likely a misprint, meaning 10,000 hours which is a hell of a long time unless you watch it 24 hours a day!
Even at a thousand or two hours though, if these displays are cheap and 'green' enough I dont mind buying a new one every now and again. I'm pretty sure Ive never kept a car for more than about 1000 hours of actual use (figure 40,000 miles at 40 miles per hour average as a loooooong time to keep a car).
Admitedly I dont scrap the car, but I sure as hell lose a lot of money on it!
You were joking of course. But seriously - never having watched an episode of this seeming pile of shit I'd be watching for that. Leak that he sleeps with every chick on the ship in the space of 24 hours and I'll be watching. Not for the gratuitous t and a, more for the comic value of. "OK... Whos....Next..."
A mile off topic, but I have to agree, the old side scroller genre has been sadly neglected over the past generation of consoles - its the fault of the PSX with its funky polygons beating the lovely Saturn with its sprites and scrolling.
Just think how cool mario and sonic would have been today if theyd avoided the evil that is the polygon!
When I move house I get a removals company to come over, box everything up, put it in a van, and unpack it in my new house. This is sweet. It saves me a lot of hassle and time.
When I swap OS I want a removals company to come over and spend a morning taking all my files off my old OS and putting them onto my new OS. Its not a windows media file I want to keep - its the home video of my son. Its not a word document I want to keep - it the letter I wrote to santa.
Of course in this case the removal guys would actually be a bit of software. And that bit of software would have to have legit licences. If Ive got broadband I can surely do this as an ASP and charge onlu partial licences to each user - so $50 of my swap costs would be file conversion. Sweet.
Now back to the real world - where did I save all those episodes of southpark I got through torrents!
Its not so much that I'm more likely to think it 'a good thing' if an independent party submits - more that it is more worth my time seeing if I DO think it a 'good thing' because of the independent approval already garnered.
Car reviews happen because the car was sent for review - not because the reviewer has 'something to say' or because the car is particularly newsworthy.
Self submits are similar. No disrespect to your fine submission - better than yet another 20 daily SCO stories anyway!
The real issue here is journalistic intergrity. When I pick up my copy of the Guardian and see a review of the new Aston Martin or the little Audi I know the company involved schmoozed the journo to within an inch of ejaculation and lent them the car for the weekend to take their mistress off to Tuscany with.
This pisses people off - but they know the auto section is a big money spinner for the paper and mainly just treat it as a big ad suppliment.
Slashdot has NO journalistic integrity. None. No editorial standards. None. And little by way of consistency. Little.
The assertion is not, I think, that you are evil for trying to plug your stuff (good luck to ya). The issue is really that the reader doesn't know that any objective view has been taken before the story makes front page.
An example! If I take a shit and think it looks like jesus thats one thing, if my stoner mate agrees, thats a bit better, but if my local minister comes round and proclaims that it truly DOES look like jesus I want to get on the front page of/. "Geek shits out jesus!".
In this example - you think your shit looks like jesus and the/. eds just said 'why the hell not!'
A goodly %age of geeks are wannabe fiction writers. As such they have a degree of respect for anyone who can actually write any fiction better than passable.
Given that they have a reasonable amount of time on their hands they will have attempted to write some fiction. Probably in a world of latex sex kittens and free bananas. They know its kinda hard.
If you enjoy someones work - respect the effort and talent involved - and most of all were impressed with some of the ideas in the guys work - its worth showing them a bit of respect when they comment on your life (work or personal) as an outside eye is always valuable.
That said, authors, like artists, CEOs and presidents are just dorks that got lucky.
Might take a few weeks - but covering your car / house / cube / desk with beer labels carefully removed from your Budweiser (the proper stuff - not that 'fresh beer tastes like pish' shit) has to be worth a crack for a few free cases.
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MAybe the build quality on your Twingo beats that on my rather shoddily constructed Laguna. Even if it doesnt Ive always enjoyed the name of the Twingo. So yes - I give your twingo an exemption from my 'renaults are a bit like IE' assertion. Arent I generous.
Skodas are pretty much VWs now - part from the rather better interior trim on most models. Oh - and the 20-30% discount for the same model. Oh - and the fact that they look like shit from the outside.
All Skoda references should now be replaced with either Kia or Renault to maintain the effect. Trust me!
shit - correct - the flying of the kite is one of lifes greater pleasures - I just havent done it in a while. Damn!!! OK you can have wind on weekends! and public holidays. unless its raining - who wants to fly kites in the rain!
As a bit of a plant addict, I can tell you that rain is one of the BEST THINGS in the world when you're trying to get a good crop of pretty much ANYTHING tasty growing. Oops - shouting - sorry!
If you got warm & wet you dont need sunny for the majority of interesting plants - fruit excepted in most cases. Just so long as its not too windy! I hate wind! If I could impose a global wind limit I would - fuck global climate controls - just stop the damn wind! I cant hear myself think!!!!
Just in case you actually check you AC contributions I might as well explain. Some people need broadband for business. Business magazines tell you how to get broadband when its not easy. Business users tend to be happy to pay for shit, and to write complaining letters, so DTS (dopey telsales staff) are more likely to beleive them.
Somehow it seems right that god and atari are related. To create such joy from such meagre resources. God created 'ALL THIS' from ... well... from fuck all!
But Atari created the single most entertaining game of all time from a half-hertz cpu and 3 bytes of ram! now THATS an achievement.
(the game in question, if your wondering, was COMBAT on the 2600 - games have all been downhill since then)
And I'm willing to bet the two chicks are only listed because they slept with someone, and threatened to tell his mom. "the day you sleep with a woman you move OUT of my basement young man!"
Or because the compilers searched for ANY chicks to list to avoid claims of sexism - no matter how small their contribution.
And remember folks. I'm 100% serious. Yes. Yes I am!
My new house suffers from this, but a quick hour on the phone to BT persuaded them that this 'sucked' and that upgrading my line was a 'good idea' so that I could get broadband.
...
For anyone in a similar position, heres how I did it. Remember at all times that the person you are talking to is a thick bastard who couldnt get a real job and hates his/her life and just wants to go home.
Is my phoneline split? I can only get 28Kbps on my dial up! Can I get broadband - I know my exchange is enabled.
"Your line fails the test sir - you cant get broadband"
"But is my line split? I beleive I read that if your line is split BT has to replace it if you order broadband on an enabled exchange"
"I dont think thats right sir - where did you see that?"
"In flight magazine probably - BA"
"I'll ask my supervisor"
"Hello - supervisor here - you have a line issue"
"I want a new line because I suspect its shared and I want broadband and you have to change the line"
to cut a long story short (well - okay - lonng) I just repeated this about 2 dozen times until they booked me an engineer to replace the line. I dont think its true - but these guys just want an easy life so hassle them into giving you the line. Oh - but remember - when they say "where did you read it" say "Fortune" or "In flight magazine" not "/."
While most applications that hook into the Windows API for web stuff respect the preferred browser settings, there are still many that don't.
Example - when I hit 'About Java Technology' from my Java 2 Platform lurking icon it fires IE. Even the 'Web/Home' button on my Microsoft keyboard started firing firefox when I set it as default browser! If MS can do it why not Sun.
IE scares me and it should scare everyone else too. Patch like a mad quilting walton!
This is off topic to an extent - so shoot me!
/. pink contingent start on me, I'm neither anti OSS, homophobic, or pro war - but face it - lots of people are who would otherwise vote to save the penguin).
One of the things that bugs me about the Green party (wherever it might be - here in the UK we have elections shortly aswell for local and EU gov) is that they bolt on all these 'well its all good' fluffy stances to the core message.
Political parties start to get bland and shit when they start having just as many +s as -s in the eyes of the individual.
OSS - alienating to the majority who know nothing about it
Gay Marriage - alienates a generation of old dudes who just think its all a bit odd
Anti War - alienates a bunch of people who think saddam needed a kicking (oops - I mean that 'the war on terror is right and just')
there are more - and MANY more on a highly localised basis, from new roads, to planning applications.
It just takes one policy that you HATE to stop you voting for the other 99. If the greens just stuck to a basic stance of 'environmental sense' as the drive for all policies they would, in my opinion, gain a much greater support.
(and before the
Always end with a crap pun! Thankyou!
Having worked on property details production and publishing for over a dozen real estate agencies I'd be delighted to have 6 well thought out photographs for each property rather than a couple of CDs full of identicrap.
She can spend all day there if she wants - just dont send the fucking images to me until shes sorted out the crap from the usable.
Trust me - thats how the industry operates!
you're a cock arent you!
I'm not meaning to question your wifes abilities, but taking hundreds (maybe 500 if my maths is right) photographs of an empty home seems to smack of a 'shoot now think later' mindset. And the 500 assumes you are taking relatively high res shots - something I can't imagine being important on 'sell my house' shoots.
Much better to spend those 15 minutes working out which 6 photos to take, then taking a small burst of each than to simply walk around being Miss Snap Happy.
Portrait shoots are similar - spend a bit of time working out what your going to aim for - and then take aim. Don't just shoot until you explode.
The Austin Powers piss-take of David Bailey isn't too far off the mark - apart from he misses the part where Bailey interviews and observes his subject for an hour before his 5 minute burst of 'yeah baby yeah'.
It is likely a misprint, meaning 10,000 hours which is a hell of a long time unless you watch it 24 hours a day!
Even at a thousand or two hours though, if these displays are cheap and 'green' enough I dont mind buying a new one every now and again. I'm pretty sure Ive never kept a car for more than about 1000 hours of actual use (figure 40,000 miles at 40 miles per hour average as a loooooong time to keep a car).
Admitedly I dont scrap the car, but I sure as hell lose a lot of money on it!
You were joking of course. But seriously - never having watched an episode of this seeming pile of shit I'd be watching for that. Leak that he sleeps with every chick on the ship in the space of 24 hours and I'll be watching. Not for the gratuitous t and a, more for the comic value of. "OK... Whos....Next..."
A mile off topic, but I have to agree, the old side scroller genre has been sadly neglected over the past generation of consoles - its the fault of the PSX with its funky polygons beating the lovely Saturn with its sprites and scrolling.
Just think how cool mario and sonic would have been today if theyd avoided the evil that is the polygon!
why thankyou - the most enjoyable most of May thusfar!
... and your friend can leave too. YES Im talking to YOU ... MR SCIENTIIIST
When I move house I get a removals company to come over, box everything up, put it in a van, and unpack it in my new house. This is sweet. It saves me a lot of hassle and time.
When I swap OS I want a removals company to come over and spend a morning taking all my files off my old OS and putting them onto my new OS. Its not a windows media file I want to keep - its the home video of my son. Its not a word document I want to keep - it the letter I wrote to santa.
Of course in this case the removal guys would actually be a bit of software. And that bit of software would have to have legit licences. If Ive got broadband I can surely do this as an ASP and charge onlu partial licences to each user - so $50 of my swap costs would be file conversion. Sweet.
Now back to the real world - where did I save all those episodes of southpark I got through torrents!
Its not so much that I'm more likely to think it 'a good thing' if an independent party submits - more that it is more worth my time seeing if I DO think it a 'good thing' because of the independent approval already garnered.
Car reviews happen because the car was sent for review - not because the reviewer has 'something to say' or because the car is particularly newsworthy.
Self submits are similar. No disrespect to your fine submission - better than yet another 20 daily SCO stories anyway!
The real issue here is journalistic intergrity. When I pick up my copy of the Guardian and see a review of the new Aston Martin or the little Audi I know the company involved schmoozed the journo to within an inch of ejaculation and lent them the car for the weekend to take their mistress off to Tuscany with.
/. "Geek shits out jesus!".
/. eds just said 'why the hell not!'
This pisses people off - but they know the auto section is a big money spinner for the paper and mainly just treat it as a big ad suppliment.
Slashdot has NO journalistic integrity. None. No editorial standards. None. And little by way of consistency. Little.
The assertion is not, I think, that you are evil for trying to plug your stuff (good luck to ya). The issue is really that the reader doesn't know that any objective view has been taken before the story makes front page.
An example! If I take a shit and think it looks like jesus thats one thing, if my stoner mate agrees, thats a bit better, but if my local minister comes round and proclaims that it truly DOES look like jesus I want to get on the front page of
In this example - you think your shit looks like jesus and the
How about - The fastest Londoner to eat 200 jacobs cream crackers... without a glass of water... with a toothpick... naked.
I think that one IS in the 2003 book, page 734 if Im not mistaken!
A goodly %age of geeks are wannabe fiction writers. As such they have a degree of respect for anyone who can actually write any fiction better than passable.
Given that they have a reasonable amount of time on their hands they will have attempted to write some fiction. Probably in a world of latex sex kittens and free bananas. They know its kinda hard.
If you enjoy someones work - respect the effort and talent involved - and most of all were impressed with some of the ideas in the guys work - its worth showing them a bit of respect when they comment on your life (work or personal) as an outside eye is always valuable.
That said, authors, like artists, CEOs and presidents are just dorks that got lucky.
Might take a few weeks - but covering your car / house / cube / desk with beer labels carefully removed from your Budweiser (the proper stuff - not that 'fresh beer tastes like pish' shit) has to be worth a crack for a few free cases.
Prove its a copyrighted work and THEN block me. It was my mates band - they are unrecognisably shit - so even if it WAS copyright you couldnt tell!