I guess Niue Island will just have to make the money back through its sex phone call business. That's right, something like 40% of all phone sex calls go through Niue Island. The reason? Due to its remoteness, it's one of the most expensive places on the planet to make a phone call to, with charges ranging from $4 to $6 per minute. Look in the back of any of the usual suspect magazines, and the calls to 683-XXX-XXXX are Niue Island. Ones that start with 678 are Vanuatu, another postage-stamp sized island "nation".
Besides,.nu domains are gay. They're SO 1998. They were gay then, and they're gay now.
Come on, admit it, you just wanted to say "The Americans are threatening the local people!" The entire nation of America is threatening them? Puh-leez.
Having been sent to China as I am, and dealing with Chinese factories, I must say I'm rather surprised that there are ANY factories still left in America, of any type.
Is it really a good idea to disrupt these peoples' traditional way of life, so that they can download pornography? That's what'll happen, make no mistake. The do-gooders implementing this change don't care a whit for the traditional way of life, and in fact want to destroy it altogether because it doesn't fit into their "modern standards". The children will see a larger world outside their village, and quite naturally won't want to live in a mud hut when they can see everyone else in the world is living in skyscrapers.
My XP install won't let msmsgs.exe go away. It starts every time I boot, and when I tell it to exit via right-click on the systray, it tells me it can't exit, because other applications depend on it (Outlook). I have outlook uninstalled. I have to kill it with the task manager every time I reboot.
I remember one of the newspaper ads for one of the Naked Gun movies...they were actually quoting the negative reviews their film had gotten..."Terrible" --Gene Shalit, "I hated this" --Siskel & Ebert
I actually wish they'd do this more often...if a movie critic likes a movie, that means it probably sucks and is a piece of insular crap that was intended for a movie critic audience.
Heck, "metrosexual" isn't even needed. The English language has several words already to express this exact concept. Among them:
fop: A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners.
dandy: A man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners.
dapper: a. Neatly dressed; trim. b. Very stylish in dress.
gentleman: A well-mannered and elegant man with high standards of proper behavior.
I can go on...there are others. But come on, pretending the reemergence of the gentleman fop is something new is just retarded. Jumping on the bandwagon of some writer's column...yuk. Might as well start incorporating slogans from WWE into your daily speech, it's the same concept.
Kindly direct your vitriol towards the NYT, and not its victims. They're the ones with the fucked-up situation.
Of course, why would you want to read the NYT anyway, tickling the political and racial biases of their editors is far more important than getting stories right.
Newsflash...attention wealthy suburbanite, Africa does not want your garbage. Any "donations" of 486/DX-33's will not be used, and the Africans will do exactly what you would do with such a useless artifact...throw it away. If you want to help Africa, get them real computers, not rubbish.
Buying respect with a charity is an old, old, old tactic. It works, too...it worked for Carnegie and Rockefeller and all the old robber barons who make Bill Gates look like a benevolent old man. Microsoft is evil as hell, but they never had people killed or beaten.
No, because then whoever it is who designs the polls would have a whole bunch of stupid options. I don't know what it is, but slashdot polls used to be fairly amusing. These days, they're just dumb, and worst of all unentertaining.
you want to input kana and have it output kanji. You must be a beginner, because you don't seem to realize there is no one-to-one correspondence between words written in kana and kanji.
Ever used a Japanese cell phone? That's exactly what they do.
They have cell phones with dictionaries now. Very useful, and eliminates the need to carry one more loseable droppable electronic item around with you.
No, it's the mark of a person who has a life outside of computers. Someday, if you're lucky, you'll have one. It's not healthy to spend your life in one pursuit, no matter what it is.
Yeah, you said it yourself, you want a game for pros. I don't. I had loads of fun with Tribes before I started wondering why people could go so damn fast and get away from me.
"We all hope" to have a game where you have to practice for days? WTF dude? Get out of your ivory tower and mingle with the common folk.
Skiing absolutely sucked. It was only power-gaming twits that liked it, because it meant the people who read voraciously had an insurmountable advantage over casual players who just bought the box from the store. Having an unfair advantage over other players sucks in my book, but I understand why people go apeshit over it...heck why else is online cheating so rampant, people would rather win than have fun playing.
Maybe mozilla is the one that needs fixing. I bet IE downloads the file just fine.
I remember once complaining about www.ff-j.com to Opera developers...the site displays fine in IE but gives an error in Opera. I got a sniffy reply that the site wasn't following some standard exactly. Well bully for Opera, the site works fine, outputs valid HTML, and hurrah for making your browser break if the web server has the nerve to be different.
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Besides, .nu domains are gay. They're SO 1998. They were gay then, and they're gay now.
Come on, admit it, you just wanted to say "The Americans are threatening the local people!" The entire nation of America is threatening them? Puh-leez.
Web programming is hard!
Having been sent to China as I am, and dealing with Chinese factories, I must say I'm rather surprised that there are ANY factories still left in America, of any type.
Is it really a good idea to disrupt these peoples' traditional way of life, so that they can download pornography? That's what'll happen, make no mistake. The do-gooders implementing this change don't care a whit for the traditional way of life, and in fact want to destroy it altogether because it doesn't fit into their "modern standards". The children will see a larger world outside their village, and quite naturally won't want to live in a mud hut when they can see everyone else in the world is living in skyscrapers.
My XP install won't let msmsgs.exe go away. It starts every time I boot, and when I tell it to exit via right-click on the systray, it tells me it can't exit, because other applications depend on it (Outlook). I have outlook uninstalled. I have to kill it with the task manager every time I reboot.
I actually wish they'd do this more often...if a movie critic likes a movie, that means it probably sucks and is a piece of insular crap that was intended for a movie critic audience.
If you're offended, here's a clue: SHOW SOME TOLERANCE. Thank you.
Satellite transmission time lag. Speed of light, you know.
fop: A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners.
dandy: A man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners.
dapper: a. Neatly dressed; trim. b. Very stylish in dress.
gentleman: A well-mannered and elegant man with high standards of proper behavior.
I can go on...there are others. But come on, pretending the reemergence of the gentleman fop is something new is just retarded. Jumping on the bandwagon of some writer's column...yuk. Might as well start incorporating slogans from WWE into your daily speech, it's the same concept.
I beg to differ.
Of course, why would you want to read the NYT anyway, tickling the political and racial biases of their editors is far more important than getting stories right.
I don't know...comments from Africans that they don't want our garbage? How many Africans do you know?
That's "beaucoup". It's French. Before you mangle Cajun slang, at least look it up. Thank you.
Newsflash...attention wealthy suburbanite, Africa does not want your garbage. Any "donations" of 486/DX-33's will not be used, and the Africans will do exactly what you would do with such a useless artifact...throw it away. If you want to help Africa, get them real computers, not rubbish.
Buying respect with a charity is an old, old, old tactic. It works, too...it worked for Carnegie and Rockefeller and all the old robber barons who make Bill Gates look like a benevolent old man. Microsoft is evil as hell, but they never had people killed or beaten.
Dude, you know waaay more about some website than you need to. Step away from the keyboard, and power down the computer
No, because then whoever it is who designs the polls would have a whole bunch of stupid options. I don't know what it is, but slashdot polls used to be fairly amusing. These days, they're just dumb, and worst of all unentertaining.
Tom Cruise as John Walker Lindh? No thanks.
And quit being a Microsoft apologist. They don't need you, really.
Ever used a Japanese cell phone? That's exactly what they do.
They have cell phones with dictionaries now. Very useful, and eliminates the need to carry one more loseable droppable electronic item around with you.
No, it's the mark of a person who has a life outside of computers. Someday, if you're lucky, you'll have one. It's not healthy to spend your life in one pursuit, no matter what it is.
"We all hope" to have a game where you have to practice for days? WTF dude? Get out of your ivory tower and mingle with the common folk.
Skiing absolutely sucked. It was only power-gaming twits that liked it, because it meant the people who read voraciously had an insurmountable advantage over casual players who just bought the box from the store. Having an unfair advantage over other players sucks in my book, but I understand why people go apeshit over it...heck why else is online cheating so rampant, people would rather win than have fun playing.
I remember once complaining about www.ff-j.com to Opera developers...the site displays fine in IE but gives an error in Opera. I got a sniffy reply that the site wasn't following some standard exactly. Well bully for Opera, the site works fine, outputs valid HTML, and hurrah for making your browser break if the web server has the nerve to be different.