Any bill introduced with a cutesy acronym should be grounds for immediate impeachment. For that matter, the same rule should be applied to weapons systems. I give a pass to open source projects since they actually produce something of value for the rest of us.
It can't even render simple fucking HTML properly. Simple little html table, written according to the guidelines. Looks spiff in Firefox, unholy mess in IE. The only way to make things line up properly in IE is to do illegal things that are correctly rendered as incompetent ass in Firefox.
This is an installer stack that will get it working on a windows box no muss, no fuss. It uses files in directories rather than a database so backups are a snap. You can include screenshots, there's an integrated search engine, all the features you could ask for.
The Beastie Boys sampled scandalously from many Zep songs, that's what I was saying. I thought those songs were entirely their own creations but they weren't. It's just as awful as when Puff Dickless sexually violated Kashmir on the Godzilla soundtrack.
"...hated the way that, somehow, games like Halo have come to be seen as groundbreaking."
I love you. I've been saying this for ages. There is absolutely no single aspect of Halo - absolutely none - that hasn't been implemented better in games that have come out years beforehand. Story, graphics, gameplay (both single player and multiplayer). Halo is 100% average in every regard.
It's the Quentin Tarantino effect. Us PC gamers represent a narrow slice of the gamer pie, especially when looking back all those years. Most people who game are doing so on consoles and so most gamers did not see a shooter until Doom was ported to the PSX. They were amazed by Goldeneye on the N64 while I had no idea what the fuss was. I wasn't particularly impressed by Halo but it was a revelation to all the console gamers.
This is no different than a QT film. He scarfs up all the foreign cinema he can lay his hand on, cherry-picks the best ideas and then puts them in his films. To the average American audience that doesn't have the time to keep up with foreign cinema, it's a revelation. To those who do, they're quicker to insult the audience than Tarantino. But really, it's completely understandable. I thought the Beastie Boys were geniuses until my dad sat my ass down and introduced me to Zeppelin, the source they were ripping off.
Now you know why notorious killers and assassins are always referred to by their full names. Lee Michael Oswald can flatly deny having anything to do with assassinating Kennedy. John Wayne can point out his last name isn't Gacy and he never owned a clown costume. I guess when it isn't a matter of national notoriety, middle names get dropped.
I suppose you could always introduce yourself as such: "Hello, I'm John Doe. No, not the pedophile, though I get that a lot." Somehow I imagine you saying that with "Hi, I'm a PC's" voice.
Of course, you could always try making yourself more infamous so that you'll be the one everyone thinks of when they hear your name. Then the other guy will say "No, I'm John Doe the pedophile. Please don't confuse me with the other guy. I have my standards."
Biological tinkering has me concerned because we're talking about self-replicating systems. Realistically, we're not going to see nanite swarms or grey goo eating the whole planet as is feared in science fiction. Nanites have to operate within the same laws of physics as anything else and are unlikely to be spectacularly and magically more robust than organics. Hell, at such a small scale they would be more likely to be custom-designed organics.
That being said, organics ranging from viruses to bacteria to algae can cause quite a bit of trouble in our ecosystem. My only concern is that we might create some sort of blight in the lab that gets out. Now I'm not saying she's deliberately working with stuff that's intentionally meant to be lethal like the biological warfare guys in Russia but even those guys who knew they were messing with absolutely lethal bugs still made mistakes and had accidental releases.
Given that we won't know that something is really bad for us in the environment until after it gets out and starts doing terrible things, I would like to suggest we operate with an abundance of caution here. It wouldn't take an accidental flesh-eating bacteria to ruin everyone's day. The next corn smut or citrus canker could not kill a single person and cost the economy billions.
You mean it's unlawful for any person at a licensed gaming establishment to use, or possess with the intent to use, a brain?
Ah, well, no surprise there.
Exactly. Blackjack is the only game where the odds aren't already heavily stacked in favor of the house and then they make it illegal to use your skills? Yeah, learning how to play the game smart is cheating. That's like deducting points from Jeff Gordon for speeding. Well, I guess if the track itself was sponsoring drivers in the race and they stood to get a large wad of cash if their guys won, there would be some rule against speeding.
Anyone who plays in a rigged game is asking to be taken for everything they have. I think part of our economic crisis is people are realizing the only difference between the stock market and Vegas is there's no showgirls on the trading floor. But wait a sec, the cable news money honeys... no Carrot Top. That's the difference, no Carrot Top.
My Palm has a usb connector that can provide data from the computer and also a charge but it also had a high-power connector with wall wart that could charge it fully in 20 minutes. Makes sense since usb charging can take up to four hours for a fully discharged battery.
I've seen hybrid connectors on some devices where you have your mini-usb to the left and the proprietary crap on the right. Plug in the proprietary connector, you get everything. If you're on the road and just need some juice, any standard mini-usb cable works fine.
If you absolutely cannot possibly put a hybrid connector on the bottom, use the proprietary one there and stick a usb on the side, done and done.
The real reason why nobody has standardized is there's no external force like the government telling them to do so and there's so much money to be made forcing people to buy ridiculously over-priced peripherals and accessories.
Take mp3 players for example. If it cost $100, I bet we could easily drop another $100 getting the accessories. Screen sleeve, car charger, audio adapter for the radio (fm transmitter are the most expensive), etc. A cigarette adapter will set you back $30 easy and the bastards cost less than a buck to make. It's the same bullshit you saw with the big box stores selling you the printer for a reasonable price and charging $20 for the $2 data cable not included in the box.
Visited a friend up in Boston. It was 20 degrees out, damn cold compared to what I'm used to. We're walking through the asiantown area and he's like "You know what we need?" No, I didn't. "Bubble tea!" Not knowing what that was, I was game. Five minutes later I'm drinking a frozen thai beverage with little tapioca balls at the bottom of the mixture, the "bubbles." A freezing cold drink to have while walking around outside in sub-freezing temperatures. I told him this was crazy. "No, this is Russian. We fucking go out and get milkshakes in the winter all the time." I told him I think I figured out how they were able to beat the Nazis in WWII. "Don't forget Napoleon, snail-slurping son of a bitch," he added.
Securing time on the ISS might prove expensive so I have prepared this simulator out of a trampoline and high-speed camera. I'm not sure exactly what we're trying to prove here but rest assured, the undergrads will be inspired.
Boy am I glad that I finally took the plunge. Learning about the mac, messing with ubuntu. It took a long, long time to wean myself off but I've finally kicked the habit. I'm just so grateful there are alternatives. Up to recently I felt like a battered wife, hating Windows but still using it. Such a relief. (not trying to troll, just stating how I feel. For those who want to stay on Windows, my condolences.)
People pirate movies because they want to watch movies without paying for them. If you're one of the unique snowflakes that pirates movies because you bought every DVD on earth and just want a nicer and non-DRM format, that's cute. But you are not the majority. The majority are thieves.
Absolutely. That's the reason why the iTunes store failed all those years back. Same thing happened with Steam.
Just because these comets hang out in the furthest, coldest reaches of the solar system, don't reflect light all that well and listen to cradle of filth, that doesn't make them all dark! Goth, maybe, but not dark. You just don't understand them.
Yeah, this makes absolutely bugger-all sense. The American/Russian collisions during the Cold War were subs deliberately playing cat and mouse. The Russians were typically noisier than the Americans and the skippers on those boats knew they could have a tail and not know it. The "Crazy Ivan" maneuver was a rapid turning of a boat to so they could hear past the prop wash of their boat. Of course, this is like slamming on the brakes when being tailgated.
So it makes sense that attack subs could get in scrapes like this but ballistic missiles subs deliberately seek out the most isolated patches of water imaginable and avoid any contact that comes near. It really does stretch credulity to imagine that there could be a one-in-a-million collision between two such vessels.
Usually there's a good reason for collisions in what one would otherwise imagine to be vast, open stretches. In space, in the air, on the water, there's reasons. It usually comes down to traffic funneled into a confined area for necessary, understandable reasons. Airports by their very nature require large numbers of aircraft to operate in close proximity. I would be surprised to hear of a mid-air collision over the Atlantic but not in the least to hear of one above a major airport. Ocean travel is constrained by geography and economics and there are certain lanes that are the most economical to travel, thus increasing the odds of multiple ships being in the area. But like airports, harbors represent the greatest concentration of ships and thus the greatest danger of collision. In space there may seem to be a whole lot of, well, space, but the useful orbits are actually more constricted than one might imagine. Therefore it becomes less a matter of astronomical impossibility and more a matter of statistical inevitability.
I suppose that this very well could be a case of very, very, very long odds, two boomers bumping into each other in the middle of nowhere but it remains suspiciously odd.
Whenever Pirate Bay goes down, let's everyone agree that bittorrent is dead. Say it very loudly when around RIAA types and look morose, say it looks like we're going to have to pay top dollar for entertainment, pantomime getting out your wallets. And for xod's sake, don't mention any of the other torrent sites. *wink*
I don't think they ever could have sussed it out without the phone. It's not like the giant airplane, motorcades, helicopters, press pool, and army of Secret Service agents are a dead giveaway. The man can't even take a piss without a humorless man in black sunglasses whispering into his wrist.
If there are any vulnerabilities to be found here, no doubt there will be hackers looking into it and making it public knowledge for the notoriety, just like they do with Microsoft. The holes will be plugged, new research paid for, and I think we can all rest assured that wireless security will be all the more advanced from his eight years in office.
No, I see what Google's angle is. Get everybody using computers, move away from paper, and once nobody else is making paper suddenly Google will come out with the latest hot product only available on paper! And you have to have this product; nay, you need this product. You couldn't face your friends and family without it. This plan is so cunning, so clever, so devious, you could stick a tail on it and call it Karl Rove.
People like it but it does not support rss natively. Reviews say it used to be piss poor but is now very good and utorrent is late to the mac table but it's also good.
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Any bill introduced with a cutesy acronym should be grounds for immediate impeachment. For that matter, the same rule should be applied to weapons systems. I give a pass to open source projects since they actually produce something of value for the rest of us.
Dubbed "Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5,"
Apple would've called it "iShare" or something else friendly and inviting. Who does MS hire to come up with those horrid, unwieldy names?
Don't tempt them, I just know they're going to rename it iSoar.
It can't even render simple fucking HTML properly. Simple little html table, written according to the guidelines. Looks spiff in Firefox, unholy mess in IE. The only way to make things line up properly in IE is to do illegal things that are correctly rendered as incompetent ass in Firefox.
Fuck IE and the modem it was downloaded on.
http://bitnami.org/stack/dokuwiki
This is an installer stack that will get it working on a windows box no muss, no fuss. It uses files in directories rather than a database so backups are a snap. You can include screenshots, there's an integrated search engine, all the features you could ask for.
I highly recommend it.
The Beastie Boys sampled scandalously from many Zep songs, that's what I was saying. I thought those songs were entirely their own creations but they weren't. It's just as awful as when Puff Dickless sexually violated Kashmir on the Godzilla soundtrack.
That would be incredibly useful.
"...hated the way that, somehow, games like Halo have come to be seen as groundbreaking."
I love you. I've been saying this for ages. There is absolutely no single aspect of Halo - absolutely none - that hasn't been implemented better in games that have come out years beforehand. Story, graphics, gameplay (both single player and multiplayer). Halo is 100% average in every regard.
It's the Quentin Tarantino effect. Us PC gamers represent a narrow slice of the gamer pie, especially when looking back all those years. Most people who game are doing so on consoles and so most gamers did not see a shooter until Doom was ported to the PSX. They were amazed by Goldeneye on the N64 while I had no idea what the fuss was. I wasn't particularly impressed by Halo but it was a revelation to all the console gamers.
This is no different than a QT film. He scarfs up all the foreign cinema he can lay his hand on, cherry-picks the best ideas and then puts them in his films. To the average American audience that doesn't have the time to keep up with foreign cinema, it's a revelation. To those who do, they're quicker to insult the audience than Tarantino. But really, it's completely understandable. I thought the Beastie Boys were geniuses until my dad sat my ass down and introduced me to Zeppelin, the source they were ripping off.
How badly are we going to get fucked after we pass out?
Now you know why notorious killers and assassins are always referred to by their full names. Lee Michael Oswald can flatly deny having anything to do with assassinating Kennedy. John Wayne can point out his last name isn't Gacy and he never owned a clown costume. I guess when it isn't a matter of national notoriety, middle names get dropped.
I suppose you could always introduce yourself as such: "Hello, I'm John Doe. No, not the pedophile, though I get that a lot." Somehow I imagine you saying that with "Hi, I'm a PC's" voice.
Of course, you could always try making yourself more infamous so that you'll be the one everyone thinks of when they hear your name. Then the other guy will say "No, I'm John Doe the pedophile. Please don't confuse me with the other guy. I have my standards."
Biological tinkering has me concerned because we're talking about self-replicating systems. Realistically, we're not going to see nanite swarms or grey goo eating the whole planet as is feared in science fiction. Nanites have to operate within the same laws of physics as anything else and are unlikely to be spectacularly and magically more robust than organics. Hell, at such a small scale they would be more likely to be custom-designed organics.
That being said, organics ranging from viruses to bacteria to algae can cause quite a bit of trouble in our ecosystem. My only concern is that we might create some sort of blight in the lab that gets out. Now I'm not saying she's deliberately working with stuff that's intentionally meant to be lethal like the biological warfare guys in Russia but even those guys who knew they were messing with absolutely lethal bugs still made mistakes and had accidental releases.
Given that we won't know that something is really bad for us in the environment until after it gets out and starts doing terrible things, I would like to suggest we operate with an abundance of caution here. It wouldn't take an accidental flesh-eating bacteria to ruin everyone's day. The next corn smut or citrus canker could not kill a single person and cost the economy billions.
You mean it's unlawful for any person at a licensed gaming establishment to use, or possess with the intent to use, a brain?
Ah, well, no surprise there.
Exactly. Blackjack is the only game where the odds aren't already heavily stacked in favor of the house and then they make it illegal to use your skills? Yeah, learning how to play the game smart is cheating. That's like deducting points from Jeff Gordon for speeding. Well, I guess if the track itself was sponsoring drivers in the race and they stood to get a large wad of cash if their guys won, there would be some rule against speeding.
Anyone who plays in a rigged game is asking to be taken for everything they have. I think part of our economic crisis is people are realizing the only difference between the stock market and Vegas is there's no showgirls on the trading floor. But wait a sec, the cable news money honeys... no Carrot Top. That's the difference, no Carrot Top.
My Palm has a usb connector that can provide data from the computer and also a charge but it also had a high-power connector with wall wart that could charge it fully in 20 minutes. Makes sense since usb charging can take up to four hours for a fully discharged battery.
I've seen hybrid connectors on some devices where you have your mini-usb to the left and the proprietary crap on the right. Plug in the proprietary connector, you get everything. If you're on the road and just need some juice, any standard mini-usb cable works fine.
If you absolutely cannot possibly put a hybrid connector on the bottom, use the proprietary one there and stick a usb on the side, done and done.
The real reason why nobody has standardized is there's no external force like the government telling them to do so and there's so much money to be made forcing people to buy ridiculously over-priced peripherals and accessories.
Take mp3 players for example. If it cost $100, I bet we could easily drop another $100 getting the accessories. Screen sleeve, car charger, audio adapter for the radio (fm transmitter are the most expensive), etc. A cigarette adapter will set you back $30 easy and the bastards cost less than a buck to make. It's the same bullshit you saw with the big box stores selling you the printer for a reasonable price and charging $20 for the $2 data cable not included in the box.
Visited a friend up in Boston. It was 20 degrees out, damn cold compared to what I'm used to. We're walking through the asiantown area and he's like "You know what we need?" No, I didn't. "Bubble tea!" Not knowing what that was, I was game. Five minutes later I'm drinking a frozen thai beverage with little tapioca balls at the bottom of the mixture, the "bubbles." A freezing cold drink to have while walking around outside in sub-freezing temperatures. I told him this was crazy. "No, this is Russian. We fucking go out and get milkshakes in the winter all the time." I told him I think I figured out how they were able to beat the Nazis in WWII. "Don't forget Napoleon, snail-slurping son of a bitch," he added.
Securing time on the ISS might prove expensive so I have prepared this simulator out of a trampoline and high-speed camera. I'm not sure exactly what we're trying to prove here but rest assured, the undergrads will be inspired.
Boy am I glad that I finally took the plunge. Learning about the mac, messing with ubuntu. It took a long, long time to wean myself off but I've finally kicked the habit. I'm just so grateful there are alternatives. Up to recently I felt like a battered wife, hating Windows but still using it. Such a relief. (not trying to troll, just stating how I feel. For those who want to stay on Windows, my condolences.)
People pirate movies because they want to watch movies without paying for them. If you're one of the unique snowflakes that pirates movies because you bought every DVD on earth and just want a nicer and non-DRM format, that's cute. But you are not the majority. The majority are thieves.
Absolutely. That's the reason why the iTunes store failed all those years back. Same thing happened with Steam.
Just because these comets hang out in the furthest, coldest reaches of the solar system, don't reflect light all that well and listen to cradle of filth, that doesn't make them all dark! Goth, maybe, but not dark. You just don't understand them.
Yeah, this makes absolutely bugger-all sense. The American/Russian collisions during the Cold War were subs deliberately playing cat and mouse. The Russians were typically noisier than the Americans and the skippers on those boats knew they could have a tail and not know it. The "Crazy Ivan" maneuver was a rapid turning of a boat to so they could hear past the prop wash of their boat. Of course, this is like slamming on the brakes when being tailgated.
So it makes sense that attack subs could get in scrapes like this but ballistic missiles subs deliberately seek out the most isolated patches of water imaginable and avoid any contact that comes near. It really does stretch credulity to imagine that there could be a one-in-a-million collision between two such vessels.
Usually there's a good reason for collisions in what one would otherwise imagine to be vast, open stretches. In space, in the air, on the water, there's reasons. It usually comes down to traffic funneled into a confined area for necessary, understandable reasons. Airports by their very nature require large numbers of aircraft to operate in close proximity. I would be surprised to hear of a mid-air collision over the Atlantic but not in the least to hear of one above a major airport. Ocean travel is constrained by geography and economics and there are certain lanes that are the most economical to travel, thus increasing the odds of multiple ships being in the area. But like airports, harbors represent the greatest concentration of ships and thus the greatest danger of collision. In space there may seem to be a whole lot of, well, space, but the useful orbits are actually more constricted than one might imagine. Therefore it becomes less a matter of astronomical impossibility and more a matter of statistical inevitability.
I suppose that this very well could be a case of very, very, very long odds, two boomers bumping into each other in the middle of nowhere but it remains suspiciously odd.
The name might be cool; but the length of some of the commands will really get to you. How many times do you want to type AVADA_KEDAVRA TABLE?
Better than PokemonDB. Then you have to jump on top of your desk and shout "Customer Table, I select you!" every time you run a damn query.
I am a programmer and I rely on copyright laws. I don't have the option to tour the world and make money off live shows of programming.
Allow me to introduce you to techno.
Please, please, a "Get the Facts" bar.
Nope. The Mac store will have the Genius Bar and the Microsoft store will have the "Genius" Bar.
Whenever Pirate Bay goes down, let's everyone agree that bittorrent is dead. Say it very loudly when around RIAA types and look morose, say it looks like we're going to have to pay top dollar for entertainment, pantomime getting out your wallets. And for xod's sake, don't mention any of the other torrent sites. *wink*
I don't think they ever could have sussed it out without the phone. It's not like the giant airplane, motorcades, helicopters, press pool, and army of Secret Service agents are a dead giveaway. The man can't even take a piss without a humorless man in black sunglasses whispering into his wrist.
If there are any vulnerabilities to be found here, no doubt there will be hackers looking into it and making it public knowledge for the notoriety, just like they do with Microsoft. The holes will be plugged, new research paid for, and I think we can all rest assured that wireless security will be all the more advanced from his eight years in office.
No, I see what Google's angle is. Get everybody using computers, move away from paper, and once nobody else is making paper suddenly Google will come out with the latest hot product only available on paper! And you have to have this product; nay, you need this product. You couldn't face your friends and family without it. This plan is so cunning, so clever, so devious, you could stick a tail on it and call it Karl Rove.
People like it but it does not support rss natively. Reviews say it used to be piss poor but is now very good and utorrent is late to the mac table but it's also good.