6) Go back to school. Go directly to school. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
7) Learn about strange new concepts like Galilean Relativity, Newton's Laws of Motion and Inertial Frames of Reference.
7a) And no, I'm not going to link you to Wikipedia's articles on those. You're going to have to go with step six for that.
8) Now that you understand why step five is no different from step one, you can figure out what step six was supposed to be.
9) For extra credit, write "I will not talk out of my ass about Physics" 6x10^24 times on the chalkboard.
I think the problem is that the survey refered to Vista as an 'Upgrade'. Had they asked "What are your firm's plans to make your users' and IT staff's lives miserable by forcing a completely unneeded operating system change onto them?" then they might have gotten a better response.
I guess "SCO Blames Sucking for Bankruptcy" would have been too easy.
Why isn't this front page news everywhere?
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What's this? Someone with a blog pulled a half-baked idea out of his butt, and then posted it where the entire Internet could see it? And some other people don't agree with him?
That's amazing! An event of this magnitude only happens once in a billion femtoseconds! Why aren't we all paying more attention to this incredible discovery?
In my experience Asian gaming culture is more focused around going out to Internet Cafés and consuming mass quantities of whatever the owner is selling while gaming. North American gamers tend to stay at home in their parents' basements and smell of cat-ass instead.
The chances of a western gamer's mom spiking his Pepsi with speed so that he will keep gaming (and paying) for a few more hours is pretty low, all things considered. For a more fair comparison look at how many North Americans go out to bars, get messed up and then don't make it home the next morning.
It's not so much gaming that is the problem as it is the excuse to go out and abuse your body for a while.
I know that James Rigney is a successful author whose books have been read by millions and enjoyed by many. I know that "jesdynf" is someone who would really like some quality time alone with the straw man, so I think I'll just give you some privacy now.
...then I remembered that there was _no chance at all_ of this _ever_ affecting legit users. After all, Microsoft has a perfect track record of identifying pirated copies of their products without any false positives.
So yeah, and the Romans went Christian and then we had Christianity for about 1500 years. You know, Catholicism, we believed in the teachings of Cathol, and everything it stood for... Then Henry VIII came along. Henry VIII, a big, hairy king, and he said to the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church:
"Mr. Pope! I'm going to marry my first wife, and then I'm going to divorce her. Now, I know what you're going to say but stick with me, my story gets better. I'm going to marry my second wife and then I'm gong to kill her, cut her head off! Ah, not expecting that, are ya? Third wife, gonna shoot her. Fourth wife, put her into a bag. Fifth wife, into outer space. Sixth wife, on a Rotissimat. Seventh wife, made out of jam. Eighth wife..." ( makes sound similar to putting babies on spikes )
And the Pope's going,
( Italian accent ) "You crazy bugger! You can't do all this! What are you, a Mormon? You can't marry all these people! It's illegal! You can't do all this! I am the Pope, I am the head of the Church, I have to keep up... ciao! I have to keep up standards. What have you been reading, the gospel according to St. Bastard?"
So Henry VIII, who was Sean Connery for this film, said:
( imitating Sean Connery ) "Well then, I will set up a new religion in this country. I will set up the Psychotic Bastard religion."
And an advisor said,
"Why not call it Church of England, Sire?"
"Church of England, actually. Much better... Even though I'm Scottish myself."
So they did! That's the birth of Church of England, the birth of the Anglican Church! Disgusting, eh? That's no basis to start a religion on! Nothing to do with the Protestant church, I mean, Henry just shagged and killed a lot of women and then stole all the money off the monasteries. You know, rape and pillage, that is!
The Protestant faith was different. That started probably around a similar time, but that was about Martin Luther, this German guy who pinned a note on a church door saying, " 'ang on a minute!" But in German, so, "Ein Minuten, bitte. Ich habe einen kleinen Problemo avec diese Religione." He was from everywhere. So yeah and so the Protestant faith was sort of tacked on by Queen Elizabeth I a bit later. "Oh, principles! Thank God! We've got some principles." Nowadays, Church of England is much more, "Hello, how are you?" Much more a hobby-type... "Hello!" A lot of people in Church of England have no muscles in their arms. "Hello, yes... ( chuckles ) Yes, that's what I thought. ( chuckles ) Do come in, you're the only one today! Now the sermon today is taken from a magazine that I found in a hedge. Now lipstick colors this season are in the frosted pink area and nail colors to match... And this reminds me rather of our Lord Jesus! Because surely, when Jesus went into Nazareth on a donkey, he must have got tarted up a bit..."
Of course, here in the real world it's having people _pay money_ that supports a product.
"Good news, everybody! Interest in "Bizarro Manhunt 2" is really really high!"
"Great! How many copies have we sold?"
"None at all! Everyone who is interested just downloaded it for free. As a company we haven't seen a single penny of income to counter the millions of dollars that we borrowed to finance it. The last round of paycheques to our developers just bounced, our office space is being reposessed, and that nice little man from the village just broke both me knees with a lead pipe. But, hey, interest is still really high!"
"Wonderful! Let's try to borrow another couple million to make another one! This is great!"
It has to be fixed where the failure is, i.e. the equipment that will fail.
That would be the human heart. When you come up with a workable redesign that addresses the problems you have discovered, please let the rest of us know.
And when they aren't fighting they are ethically and humanely forced into tiny windowless cages not much bigger than your hand and left suffocating in the dark until their next fight.
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I hear what you say. I smell proactively leveraged synergies empowering differential paradigms going forward.
Actually, saying that things are illegal when they aren't is illegal.
That's an awfully big device just for playing Zork.
6) Go back to school. Go directly to school. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
7) Learn about strange new concepts like Galilean Relativity, Newton's Laws of Motion and Inertial Frames of Reference.
7a) And no, I'm not going to link you to Wikipedia's articles on those. You're going to have to go with step six for that.
8) Now that you understand why step five is no different from step one, you can figure out what step six was supposed to be.
9) For extra credit, write "I will not talk out of my ass about Physics" 6x10^24 times on the chalkboard.
I think the problem is that the survey refered to Vista as an 'Upgrade'. Had they asked "What are your firm's plans to make your users' and IT staff's lives miserable by forcing a completely unneeded operating system change onto them?" then they might have gotten a better response.
I have told you before, I do not care about names.
I guess "SCO Blames Sucking for Bankruptcy" would have been too easy.
What's this? Someone with a blog pulled a half-baked idea out of his butt, and then posted it where the entire Internet could see it? And some other people don't agree with him?
That's amazing! An event of this magnitude only happens once in a billion femtoseconds! Why aren't we all paying more attention to this incredible discovery?
The residual value in transplantable organs is pretty high these days.
In my experience Asian gaming culture is more focused around going out to Internet Cafés and consuming mass quantities of whatever the owner is selling while gaming. North American gamers tend to stay at home in their parents' basements and smell of cat-ass instead.
The chances of a western gamer's mom spiking his Pepsi with speed so that he will keep gaming (and paying) for a few more hours is pretty low, all things considered. For a more fair comparison look at how many North Americans go out to bars, get messed up and then don't make it home the next morning.
It's not so much gaming that is the problem as it is the excuse to go out and abuse your body for a while.
I know that James Rigney is a successful author whose books have been read by millions and enjoyed by many. I know that "jesdynf" is someone who would really like some quality time alone with the straw man, so I think I'll just give you some privacy now.
And yet, like millions of other people around the world, I know who he is.
Who are you?
I still read that as "A Composting Window Manager".
I guess it depends on what kind of windows you have open.
And Beryl? It's just another name for Compiz.
Any more questions?
So how are things in Narnia these days? Is the white witch still in charge?
And speed holes. Those make the computer go faster.
Some day, somebody is going to have to explain to me just what being gay has to do with not supporting software.
Is this some flavour of "pride" that I just hadn't heard of before?
To be fair, she would have the option of simply returning the drink.
The only people getting rich would be your lawyer and your dry cleaner.
...then I remembered that there was _no chance at all_ of this _ever_ affecting legit users. After all, Microsoft has a perfect track record of identifying pirated copies of their products without any false positives.
Really.
"Mr. Pope! I'm going to marry my first wife, and then I'm going to divorce her. Now, I know what you're going to say but stick with me, my story gets better. I'm going to marry my second wife and then I'm gong to kill her, cut her head off! Ah, not expecting that, are ya? Third wife, gonna shoot her. Fourth wife, put her into a bag. Fifth wife, into outer space. Sixth wife, on a Rotissimat. Seventh wife, made out of jam. Eighth wife..." ( makes sound similar to putting babies on spikes )
And the Pope's going,
( Italian accent ) "You crazy bugger! You can't do all this! What are you, a Mormon? You can't marry all these people! It's illegal! You can't do all this! I am the Pope, I am the head of the Church, I have to keep up... ciao! I have to keep up standards. What have you been reading, the gospel according to St. Bastard?"
So Henry VIII, who was Sean Connery for this film, said:
( imitating Sean Connery ) "Well then, I will set up a new religion in this country. I will set up the Psychotic Bastard religion."
And an advisor said,
"Why not call it Church of England, Sire?"
"Church of England, actually. Much better... Even though I'm Scottish myself."
So they did! That's the birth of Church of England, the birth of the Anglican Church! Disgusting, eh? That's no basis to start a religion on! Nothing to do with the Protestant church, I mean, Henry just shagged and killed a lot of women and then stole all the money off the monasteries. You know, rape and pillage, that is!
The Protestant faith was different. That started probably around a similar time, but that was about Martin Luther, this German guy who pinned a note on a church door saying, " 'ang on a minute!" But in German, so, "Ein Minuten, bitte. Ich habe einen kleinen Problemo avec diese Religione." He was from everywhere. So yeah and so the Protestant faith was sort of tacked on by Queen Elizabeth I a bit later. "Oh, principles! Thank God! We've got some principles." Nowadays, Church of England is much more, "Hello, how are you?" Much more a hobby-type... "Hello!" A lot of people in Church of England have no muscles in their arms. "Hello, yes... ( chuckles ) Yes, that's what I thought. ( chuckles ) Do come in, you're the only one today! Now the sermon today is taken from a magazine that I found in a hedge. Now lipstick colors this season are in the frosted pink area and nail colors to match... And this reminds me rather of our Lord Jesus! Because surely, when Jesus went into Nazareth on a donkey, he must have got tarted up a bit..."
(To learn more about the Church of England and the Protestant Reformation, why not consult The Gospel According To Eddie Izzard?)
Of course, here in the real world it's having people _pay money_ that supports a product.
How's the weather in Bizarro world, anyway?
Ah, the, uh, Psychotic Bastard Religion.
That would be the human heart. When you come up with a workable redesign that addresses the problems you have discovered, please let the rest of us know.
If you're just going to keep bringing facts into this argument then nobody is going to have any fun.
And when they aren't fighting they are ethically and humanely forced into tiny windowless cages not much bigger than your hand and left suffocating in the dark until their next fight.
I don't see what they're whining about either.