I'm reminded of one of Enoch Root's lines in Cryptonomicon, about a quarter of the way through the book, when asked if he could speak Italian.
"But my Italian is heavily informed by the Latin that my father insisted that I learn. So I would probably sound rather old-fashioned to the locals. In fact, I would probably sound like a seventeenth-century alchemist or something."
The seventeenth century sounds about right for Quicksilver. Interesting, huh?
I kind of liked the advertisements in the GT games. It added a sort of authentic feel to the game. They weren't shoved in front of your face, either, they were tucked nicely out of the way on passing billboards.
Human eyes are not designed for reading, they were meant to look far.
Uh oh! I'd better stop my 5-to-10-books-per-week habit that I've had for the past 17 years since I was 4, before my above average 20/17 vision gets worse!
You're either an idiot or a troll. I'm guessing the former.
Sort of. At least in Canada, recording a broadcast signal is legal. That doesn't mean the broadcaster is obligated to broadcast in the clear, just that they're not allowed to sue you or charge you if you happen to be able to record their signal. It's probably different in other countries.
I'm American, and like many other Americans, I respect the idea of a free Quebec.
You don't understand what's at stake. I'm from one of the Atlantic provinces (For people who learned geography in the US, these provinces are the ones that border the Atlantic ocean) and I don't want to be physically seperated from the rest of the country, as would happen if Quebec became independant.
And before some wiseass says "Join the US!" let me just say that the US is a festering cesspool of political corruption, racial bigotry, media censorship, and environmental destruction, and I want no part of it.
And regarding signs, not all French speaking people live in Quebec. Ever heard of Acadians?
That buttfucker DeGaulle really screwed things up. May he rot in hell.
(PS: Fuck my karma. I'll speak my mind, and I'll use the +1 bonus if I want to.)
One use I'd heard of is in construction work where there's limited room to move around. Instead of constantly moving in and out of small spaces to check a paper contruction plan, one could just put on a wearable, review the design without having to get out, and in the end be able to get the job done a lot quicker. Might be useful for diving, too. Wearables seem destined for industrial use in the near future. And maybe those who really, really want to be gargoyles. But I'm probably 100% wrong.:)
Yahoo has pop and smtp. Until Jan 31, the smtp is pop-before-smtp, but afterwards it's normal smtp-auth. But yes, they also add that damn footer.
there is NO legitimate need for a dial-up user to connect directly to someone else's SMTP server. EVER.
What if one's ISP doesn't have SMTP service in the first place? Furthermore, suppose one lives where there is no competition in the ISP business, so it would be impossible to switch? Don't laugh, I've seen both cases in fairly large cities.
Big companies swallowing up the small ones. Just because you might not have seen something, doesn't mean it hasn't happened to someone else.
Maybe, just maybe, moderation is showing you what the people are thinking? You know, like democracy?
Silly me, I forgot. You don't live in one, so you don't know what democracy is like. Two-thirds of you don't even bother to vote.
Anytime a story is posted based on our rights, department of justice, business, etc... there always has to be a flame aimed towards the United States of America.
Stop carpet bombing innocents in vengeance against the actions of a few individuals, and then we'll talk.
(Not posting anonymously because I'm not afraid to speak my mind, unlike you CNN-bred sheep. Baaaaaaaaah.)
Yes. And I'd just like to add my pet peeve that happened in the last Olympics: BBC radio's streaming audio was shut down by the IOC because the BBC broadcasts Olympic information in the course of it's news reporting.
Luckily, I also have a pretty good shortwave radio, so I could get my BBC fix from across the atlantic anyway, but it still pissed me off. I like the quality of the stream. Shortwave is unpredictable where I am.
A bit offtopic, but you should have seen the really nasty looks I got from coworkers when I said I was glad Toronto lost their recent bid for the 2008 summer games. Now those IOC crooks won't be draining money from more worthy projects in my country.
What do you people have against Clinton? Sure, he was a bought-off slimeball, but no worse than any other politician. Personally, I admire a president who not only got a blowjob, but got it in the oval office. That's more than a lot of other old decrepit presidents ever got.
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I'm reminded of one of Enoch Root's lines in Cryptonomicon, about a quarter of the way through the book, when asked if he could speak Italian.
"But my Italian is heavily informed by the Latin that my father insisted that I learn. So I would probably sound rather old-fashioned to the locals. In fact, I would probably sound like a seventeenth-century alchemist or something."
The seventeenth century sounds about right for Quicksilver. Interesting, huh?
I kind of liked the advertisements in the GT games. It added a sort of authentic feel to the game. They weren't shoved in front of your face, either, they were tucked nicely out of the way on passing billboards.
My first guess would be physical beauty, but I've seen a lot of ugly parents out there, so I'd be wrong.
Human eyes are not designed for reading, they were meant to look far.
Uh oh! I'd better stop my 5-to-10-books-per-week habit that I've had for the past 17 years since I was 4, before my above average 20/17 vision gets worse!
You're either an idiot or a troll. I'm guessing the former.
Science is what makes man powerful, after all.
:) )
( How sad is it that out of all the characters on that show, I identify with Kensuke the most?
The fact that we have machinery to get over physical limitations is proof that we have these limitations in the first place.
The previous poster never denied that we have limitations, he was pointing out that we have a non-biological means of overcoming those limitations.
The hubris levels in this article's comments are just amazing, eh? :)
Why were planes flown into the Pentagon and the Trade Center, for example, and not into targets in Ottawa and Toronto?
Because the hijackers hated Canadians and want us to suffer by leaving Parliament intact.
Sort of. At least in Canada, recording a broadcast signal is legal. That doesn't mean the broadcaster is obligated to broadcast in the clear, just that they're not allowed to sue you or charge you if you happen to be able to record their signal. It's probably different in other countries.
Right here. "Configure-make-make install" friendly, too.
No, he couldn't. Hot grits don't make for very good ascii art.
I'm American, and like many other Americans, I respect the idea of a free Quebec.
You don't understand what's at stake. I'm from one of the Atlantic provinces (For people who learned geography in the US, these provinces are the ones that border the Atlantic ocean) and I don't want to be physically seperated from the rest of the country, as would happen if Quebec became independant.
And before some wiseass says "Join the US!" let me just say that the US is a festering cesspool of political corruption, racial bigotry, media censorship, and environmental destruction, and I want no part of it.
And regarding signs, not all French speaking people live in Quebec. Ever heard of Acadians?
That buttfucker DeGaulle really screwed things up. May he rot in hell.
(PS: Fuck my karma. I'll speak my mind, and I'll use the +1 bonus if I want to.)
One use I'd heard of is in construction work where there's limited room to move around. Instead of constantly moving in and out of small spaces to check a paper contruction plan, one could just put on a wearable, review the design without having to get out, and in the end be able to get the job done a lot quicker. Might be useful for diving, too. Wearables seem destined for industrial use in the near future. And maybe those who really, really want to be gargoyles. But I'm probably 100% wrong. :)
Yahoo has pop and smtp. Until Jan 31, the smtp is pop-before-smtp, but afterwards it's normal smtp-auth. But yes, they also add that damn footer.
there is NO legitimate need for a dial-up user to connect directly to someone else's SMTP server. EVER.
What if one's ISP doesn't have SMTP service in the first place? Furthermore, suppose one lives where there is no competition in the ISP business, so it would be impossible to switch? Don't laugh, I've seen both cases in fairly large cities. Big companies swallowing up the small ones. Just because you might not have seen something, doesn't mean it hasn't happened to someone else.
Maybe, just maybe, moderation is showing you what the people are thinking? You know, like democracy?
Silly me, I forgot. You don't live in one, so you don't know what democracy is like. Two-thirds of you don't even bother to vote.
Anytime a story is posted based on our rights, department of justice, business, etc... there always has to be a flame aimed towards the United States of America.
Stop carpet bombing innocents in vengeance against the actions of a few individuals, and then we'll talk.
(Not posting anonymously because I'm not afraid to speak my mind, unlike you CNN-bred sheep. Baaaaaaaaah.)
Uh, you mean like GAIM?
You're right about the BBC dropping shortwave, but the last olympics happened before that.
You're an english major, aren't you?
Mozilla? Nah, Opera's a better choice. It requires less than a half gig of ram and processors under 1.5GHz can run it's interface without it lagging.
I bloody-well hate explicit links; they pre-empt the intuitiveness/intelligence of the viewer.
What the hell you smoking? Is everyone supposed to hover their mouse over every goddamn word to see if it's a link or not?
Yes. And I'd just like to add my pet peeve that happened in the last Olympics: BBC radio's streaming audio was shut down by the IOC because the BBC broadcasts Olympic information in the course of it's news reporting.
Luckily, I also have a pretty good shortwave radio, so I could get my BBC fix from across the atlantic anyway, but it still pissed me off. I like the quality of the stream. Shortwave is unpredictable where I am.
A bit offtopic, but you should have seen the really nasty looks I got from coworkers when I said I was glad Toronto lost their recent bid for the 2008 summer games. Now those IOC crooks won't be draining money from more worthy projects in my country.
Will GNOME 2 be as broken with Windowmaker as KDE 2 is?
End users are not the customers. PC manufacturers and server vendors are the customers.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the info.
What do you people have against Clinton? Sure, he was a bought-off slimeball, but no worse than any other politician. Personally, I admire a president who not only got a blowjob, but got it in the oval office. That's more than a lot of other old decrepit presidents ever got.
I often wondered, would you need a TV license if your TV was just a PC tuner card?