Actually no, I have never dunk coffee. Medications, yes. But those are hardly what most people would think of as "mind altering drugs".
No, not Amish, I just have no interest in distorting reality.
Reality is relative, mind altering drugs only distort your reality, which, to the rest of us, is quite likely already distorted by your own experiences:) Who ever heard of someone not drinking coffee. Some people these days.
Bletchley park was, in all senses of the the word, awesome. I truly and fully recommend going to see it. Being a computer scientist, I would have to say it was akin to visiting a holy place - very cool. The bombe machine was very photogenic and the collossus reproduction was fantastic.
DS9 only got good when they hired 1/2 the creative people off of B5
Which creative people would that be? There were 110 B5 episodes. Of those 92 were written by JMS. All 44 episodes of seasons 3 and 4 were scripted by him.
because fox said (You guessed it) B5 is cancelled.
That would be a peculiar thing for Fox to say, as B5 was produced by Warner Brothers and aired in syndication.
Amazingly they recanted
not quite... what happened is that TNT agreed to pick up the show.
which is why the last season of B5 was crap they had lost 1/2 their talent and squeezed the last 2 years of story arc into season 4 to finish the series.
The only person I recall leaving was Claudia Christian who played Cmdr Ivanova.
Damn you FOX!!
Fox had nothing to do with anything.
Good post. Next time try some facts.
I wonder if people just post things randomly making shit up hoping no-one calls them on it? It seems like GP post was all lies...?
The MPAA/RIAA/etc gets their draconian copyright laws but with two modifications:
1) When the copyright on a work expires, they are required to publish a high quality public domain version of the work in a well-documented format. (e.g. a high bitrate MP3 or lossless FLAC for audio. MPEG-2 for video.)
2) Copyright terms will be shortened to 5 years.
I would gladly support this. I would wear a tiara and a ballerina outfit on main street if it meant we got this.
Listen, can't we all just recognize that all parties are completely inept? I mean the NDP would be happy taxing us to death for the poor, the downtrodden, whatever, I can't vote for the Bloc out here in BC (even though I would -- just to see what happened) and the green party is nothing but conservatives dressed in green - I like none of their policies. The liberals are a bunch of wankers who can't seem to get any sort of cohesion, and the conservatives are fucking nuts.
So, move to LA, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, etc. and the terrible worry about peacefully minded citizens taking legal means to protect themselves from assault, rape, robbery, etc. will never again burden you.
Is... is this a joke??... Move to LA/San Fran/New York/etc to forget about armed people? LA?!?! New York?!!?
NASA discovers light from the sun, and no atmosphere on the moon.
Could the summary be any more vacuous? It could have been a bit more explanatory about the nature of the satellite. (i.e. to find water on the moon - source: http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/mission.htm)
Creating thousands of splinter civilizations with no emotional investment in the species homeworld is a recipe for galactic war if I've ever heard one.
Big deal, if it means we get to colonize space and become the dominant species, isn't that what our genes want? It's better to have multiple colonies of humans destroy the earth from the outside than just have one on the home planet and destroy ourselves from the inside out.
How many of you have actually used Vista on decent hardware (post-2004) and had problems with it? That doesn't include: I don't like the search features, I don't like the fact that 512 megs of my 2 gigs of ram that I don't use anyhow are taken up, I want my 5 extra frames of Counter-strike back that were way above my monitor's response time and refresh rate back.
*raises hand*
Wireless on a laptop for a fellow at work here interferes with networking when I try to install various network printers - turning off wireless allows it to work fine. (Basically, I can't specify to use a wired connection instead of wireless, and even when I turn off wireless, it still gets networking information from the wrong DNS. - don't even try to tell me why or how to fix it, I don't have the authority nor the wherewithal to do so.)
Networking is full of hate, their new system of irritating users with every request of the computer is annoying as hell, it's still not secure... do I need to go on?
I'll gladly embrace a system from Microsoft that makes sense but Vista seems like a cash grab in between the big fish, ala Windows ME
I certainly didn't read that as unintelligent people are more prone to advertising. Low hanging fruit is just easy to pick - that doesn't imply anything else to me. Perhaps you have a certain bias yourself? I know quite a number of people who are prone to advertising but I wouldn't call them dumb or imply they are less intelligent.
picture this scene; an auditorium full of crazed Apple fanatics, all hailing the speaker - Steve Jobs, up at a podium, and simu-cast on a huge screen.
Suddenly, a pudgy guy in a a rumpled business suit comes running thru the back door, swinging an ugly beige 1980's era PC chassis by its powercord. He runs up the center aisle, and flings it into the big screen, shattering it.
The tag line; I'm free, and I'm a PC.
If you're wearing a business suit you are most definitely not free.
Yes, I realise it was a reference to Jon Hodgeman.
No, don't. Then we'll have to listen to the "THEY JUST USED BUILT-IN DIRECTX FUNCTIONS FOR THIS THEY TOTALLY SUCK" crowd all over again. There's no lack of people around here who don't have a single clue what it takes to do something like that, but will yak on and on about how it is nothing impressive.
This is surprising to me, frankly. I thought this is something that is, at the very least, worthy of praise and interest, especially from a supposedly technologically familiar crowd. How many posers have comments on here claiming they can do better? I mean wtf? Give some credit where credit is most definitely due, or shut up and do better.
Make little moving junkbots, examples: Mark Tilden's.
Most equipment can be scrounged from old parts that a University would gladly donate to get rid of (for instance, Capacitors, resistors, etc.etc.) There are also parts in old electronics just thrown out at the dump, and the kids get to learn how to read information on the electrical components. Oblig. Wikipedia Article
Do you think Bell and Rogers should invest some of the money into increasing bandwidth that they oversold thousand times over, instead of giving hundreds of millions in executive bonuses and lobbing politicians?
I would love to lob some politicians. I think a trebuchet would be quite satisfactory.
Slashdot Mirror
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But my post would have been funnier with the Solaris syntax. For my oversight I should be spanked by Jen from The IT Crowd.
I think she's still getting over the fact that the internet is broken.
The women in Antarctica all have beards. Also, most of them are men. You may be thinking of penguins.
This went from funny to odd to bizarre. I applaud your work sir!!!
Actually no, I have never dunk coffee. Medications, yes. But those are hardly what most people would think of as "mind altering drugs".
No, not Amish, I just have no interest in distorting reality.
Reality is relative, mind altering drugs only distort your reality, which, to the rest of us, is quite likely already distorted by your own experiences :) Who ever heard of someone not drinking coffee. Some people these days.
Bletchley park was, in all senses of the the word, awesome. I truly and fully recommend going to see it. Being a computer scientist, I would have to say it was akin to visiting a holy place - very cool. The bombe machine was very photogenic and the collossus reproduction was fantastic.
Denmark does have a similar class action lawsuit type civil case. It's called Gruppesogsmal (sic)
Gesundheit.
DS9 only got good when they hired 1/2 the creative people off of B5
Which creative people would that be? There were 110 B5 episodes. Of those 92 were written by JMS. All 44 episodes of seasons 3 and 4 were scripted by him.
because fox said (You guessed it) B5 is cancelled.
That would be a peculiar thing for Fox to say, as B5 was produced by Warner Brothers and aired in syndication.
Amazingly they recanted
not quite... what happened is that TNT agreed to pick up the show.
which is why the last season of B5 was crap they had lost 1/2 their talent and squeezed the last 2 years of story arc into season 4 to finish the series.
The only person I recall leaving was Claudia Christian who played Cmdr Ivanova.
Damn you FOX!!
Fox had nothing to do with anything.
Good post. Next time try some facts.
I wonder if people just post things randomly making shit up hoping no-one calls them on it? It seems like GP post was all lies...?
The MPAA/RIAA/etc gets their draconian copyright laws but with two modifications:
1) When the copyright on a work expires, they are required to publish a high quality public domain version of the work in a well-documented format. (e.g. a high bitrate MP3 or lossless FLAC for audio. MPEG-2 for video.)
2) Copyright terms will be shortened to 5 years.
I would gladly support this. I would wear a tiara and a ballerina outfit on main street if it meant we got this.
hundreds of Canadians have spoken out
Who does that leave?
Mike, from Canmore.
Listen, can't we all just recognize that all parties are completely inept? I mean the NDP would be happy taxing us to death for the poor, the downtrodden, whatever, I can't vote for the Bloc out here in BC (even though I would -- just to see what happened) and the green party is nothing but conservatives dressed in green - I like none of their policies. The liberals are a bunch of wankers who can't seem to get any sort of cohesion, and the conservatives are fucking nuts.
I blame Microsoft.
I wish I didn't have to say that sentence so often.
So, move to LA, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, etc. and the terrible worry about peacefully minded citizens taking legal means to protect themselves from assault, rape, robbery, etc. will never again burden you.
Is... is this a joke??... Move to LA/San Fran/New York/etc to forget about armed people? LA?!?! New York?!!?
NASA discovers light from the sun, and no atmosphere on the moon.
Could the summary be any more vacuous? It could have been a bit more explanatory about the nature of the satellite. (i.e. to find water on the moon - source: http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/mission.htm)
Personally, I'm still waiting for evidence there is *one* civilisation in this galaxy.
OH SNAP! You certainly told humanity! On a post on Slashdot no less!
Creating thousands of splinter civilizations with no emotional investment in the species homeworld is a recipe for galactic war if I've ever heard one.
Big deal, if it means we get to colonize space and become the dominant species, isn't that what our genes want? It's better to have multiple colonies of humans destroy the earth from the outside than just have one on the home planet and destroy ourselves from the inside out.
"In 1979, Microsoft had 13 employees [...] By the end of the year we'd doubled in size to 28 employees."
With arithmetic like that no wonder Windows is the sleek model of perfection it is...
It's a floating point error.
How many of you have actually used Vista on decent hardware (post-2004) and had problems with it? That doesn't include: I don't like the search features, I don't like the fact that 512 megs of my 2 gigs of ram that I don't use anyhow are taken up, I want my 5 extra frames of Counter-strike back that were way above my monitor's response time and refresh rate back.
*raises hand*
Wireless on a laptop for a fellow at work here interferes with networking when I try to install various network printers - turning off wireless allows it to work fine. (Basically, I can't specify to use a wired connection instead of wireless, and even when I turn off wireless, it still gets networking information from the wrong DNS. - don't even try to tell me why or how to fix it, I don't have the authority nor the wherewithal to do so.)
Networking is full of hate, their new system of irritating users with every request of the computer is annoying as hell, it's still not secure... do I need to go on?
I'll gladly embrace a system from Microsoft that makes sense but Vista seems like a cash grab in between the big fish, ala Windows ME
"Gee, more women appear to conform to modern standards of beauty, than at any time in the past!"
Mid 19th century beauty can be deduced by portraiture. The pre-raphaelite stuff from Rosetti does a pretty good job of this: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/img/s356.repro.jpg http://www.rossettiarchive.org/img/s536.repro.jpg
They'd have seen Jessica Simpson as a freakishly stretched elf - on the verge of starvation.
Ok, now that first picture looked like a man, but the second one I would still call beautiful.
The killer app for SVG would be if someone developed an artist-centric development tool like Flash.
Inkscape? Adobe Illustrator? Do you mean something that would include animations too?
I certainly didn't read that as unintelligent people are more prone to advertising. Low hanging fruit is just easy to pick - that doesn't imply anything else to me. Perhaps you have a certain bias yourself? I know quite a number of people who are prone to advertising but I wouldn't call them dumb or imply they are less intelligent.
picture this scene; an auditorium full of crazed Apple fanatics, all hailing the speaker - Steve Jobs, up at a podium, and simu-cast on a huge screen.
Suddenly, a pudgy guy in a a rumpled business suit comes running thru the back door, swinging an ugly beige 1980's era PC chassis by its powercord. He runs up the center aisle, and flings it into the big screen, shattering it.
The tag line; I'm free, and I'm a PC.
If you're wearing a business suit you are most definitely not free.
Yes, I realise it was a reference to Jon Hodgeman.
No, don't. Then we'll have to listen to the "THEY JUST USED BUILT-IN DIRECTX FUNCTIONS FOR THIS THEY TOTALLY SUCK" crowd all over again. There's no lack of people around here who don't have a single clue what it takes to do something like that, but will yak on and on about how it is nothing impressive.
This is surprising to me, frankly. I thought this is something that is, at the very least, worthy of praise and interest, especially from a supposedly technologically familiar crowd. How many posers have comments on here claiming they can do better? I mean wtf? Give some credit where credit is most definitely due, or shut up and do better.
Make little moving junkbots, examples: Mark Tilden's.
Most equipment can be scrounged from old parts that a University would gladly donate to get rid of (for instance, Capacitors, resistors, etc.etc.) There are also parts in old electronics just thrown out at the dump, and the kids get to learn how to read information on the electrical components.
Oblig. Wikipedia Article
Dang! I didn't realize someone beat me to the pun!
Do you think Bell and Rogers should invest some of the money into increasing bandwidth that they oversold thousand times over, instead of giving hundreds of millions in executive bonuses and lobbing politicians?
I would love to lob some politicians. I think a trebuchet would be quite satisfactory.
Ah, that's to say, I'm angry at Bell et al., not Blymie for pointing out the truth.