Seriously, some putz at the local pub insisted the Pint glasses there were only 14 fluid ounces. Having a few of same at home I whipped out my trusty graduated cylinder and measured the volume with great precision. The result was close to 16.5 fluid ounces.
Either way, a pint's 20 ounces, so you're both being ripped off.
In any event I'll be keeping it safe and sane this New Year's Eve by only drinking very expensive champagne.
Unless you're a millionaire, that's going to be one miserable New Year's Eve. You're going to have to drink it through a straw to get a buzz off that.
You're supposed to use a measuring thing, or optics, not measure it out by hand. That's just asking for arguments.
This is what's taught in most bartending schools,
Bartending school? If you need to go to school to work out how to pull a lever, operate a till and get packets of pork scratchings from a box on the floor, then you've got problems. What next, burger flipping school?
The American one is an abomination. The acting couldn't be any worse, it's so forced it's painful. And the script just isn't up to the same level as the original.
Perhaps he saw through the shallow attempt to string people along watching thousands of empty episodes with nothing happening, with each minor plot point stretched out for an hour, and the obligatory bit of 'scary' music at the end of every scene to try and make the viewer think it's exciting. Not to mention endless unjustified hype and a new 'mystery' introduced every episode just to keep people from switching over.
Lost is what happens when the marketing suits are in charge of writing the script. Cynical TV at its worst.
Have you been watching TV recently? Tell me a show that's better than Battlestar Galactica
Life in the Undergrowth Doctor Who Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere Extras House Absolute Power Have I Got News For You Match of the Day Family Guy Arrested Development Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares Top Gear Room 101 Shameless Lost Desperate Housewives etc.
Russia is a home of "piracy", that is one of the last areas in the world offering resistance against the evil *AA organizations that are buying laws and corrupting democracy all over the world.
Of course, Russia is the last bastion of democracy and corruption is unheard of over there.
Our only chance for survival of a civilisation is that this criminal industry is sucked empty
Yes, selling CDs is criminal. I don't see how civilians are 'betrayed' or how it will cause the downfall of civilisation if people have to buy CDs legally rather than pirating them. Sounds like the whining of 12 year olds with no sense of responsibility to me.
Dark years is not being able to buy pirated CDs from Russia? You can't really argue with the RIAA here, Russia is the home of piracy. You can't even cry 'fair use' as that doesn't even come into it.
when you work in a factory you presumablly see a tiny part of it day in day out. with a video they can lead you through the (often reasonablly interesting) process spending only enough time looking at each section to see whats going on
It's still incredibly boring. Seeing bits of machinery moving round and round loses its novelty after about 7 seconds.
discovery (at least here in the uk) have been doing shows like this under the name (how its made) for ages.
That's the one I'm talking about. It's a perfect cure for insomnia.
There was a programme on TV like this, showing how different things are made. It was an hour long, and believe me you can only watch factory production lines for so long before it gets extremely tedious. Even six minutes of toothpaste going into tubes would have me reaching for the remote.
Factories are dull to work in, why would they be any less dull to watch?
International holiday? What does that mean? I would venture (without any numbers to support it, but nonetheless) that Christmas is not celebrated by the majority of people in the world, nor is it an official holiday in the majority of nations in the world.
Yeah, it's only really celebrated in the whole of the Americas, Europe, Oceania and large parts of Africa. Practically a global non-event.
The BBC news website is very dumbed down and shallow. You generally get a few paragraphs and that's it. No real in depth coverage. The guardian is more left wing than Stalin.
We game mostly in "HD" anyway unless we play on consoles or handhelds.
Who is 'we'? Most people who play games either play them with consoles on the TV, or something like the Sims or minesweeper taking up a small part of a 800x600 PC monitor.
How many pc gamers with a half decent rig play at 720x576 (or local equivalent??), which is the maximum resolution of PAL... no, we play at 1280x1024 on our LCD monitors or 1600x1200 on our massive CRTs with SLI 7800GTX's.
This 'we' rears his ugly head again. I presume it's some small subset of hardcore geek who continuously spouts technobabble like 'SLI7800GTX' whatever the fuck that is. The rest of us don't give a shit about resolution or progressive or anything of those buzzwords.
Why are we even having this discussion?? even in Australia entry level 1280x1024 27" HD LCD TV's are now below $1000.00 (AUD); most nations will switch of analogue transmissions in the not to distant future...
$1000 for 'entry level'? How much is an equivalent non-HD TV? Probably a lot less. I don't know anyone who'd spend a grand on a TV. Analogue transmissions have nothing to do with HDTV anyway. How ironic that the comic book guy technogeek got something wrong about technology.
Abominable? It's a bloody name. This is the SECOND time you've commented on this in this thread, almost exactly the same post repeated a few pages down. Did you get fired from Oracle or something?
Yeah, Microsoft should spend $400 million on a browser because it runs on a platform they don't want to support anymore? Only a genius like Dvorak could have come up with that.
No it's not. 2k5 means 2.5k. The k is put between the number and the letter because full stops aren't as clear when you're writing them down (could be mistaken for dirt or something).
Also if by your system, 2k50 is 2050, then what is 2m50? 50.002?
PC games have gotten by amazingly well without a centralized system, better than they would have with one. XBox Live is nothing but a fad.
Yeah, and we've gotten by fine for centuries with candles. Electric lights are nothing but a fad.
A centralised system has obvious benefits, I don't see why you don't like it. You're probably one of those hardcore comic book guy PC gamers who spends 12 hours a day playing counterstrike and another 8 hours a day tweaking graphics and keyboard shortcuts, and the remaining 4 hours whining on messageboards thinking that your loudmouthed opinions actually represent anyone other than a minority of zealots.
All they would have to do is start quietly moving bits and pieces out of the EU, then have the remaining employees destroy any code in the EU offices. Eactly how are you going to get their IP then?
He's got a point. Outside of Microsoft offices, there isn't a single copy of Windows in the EU. If they pulled out and took all their install CDs, everyone would have to install Linux instead.
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JD isn't whisky, and any barman who pours double the amount should be fired, or taught how to use a measuring cup.
Seriously, some putz at the local pub insisted the Pint glasses there were only 14 fluid ounces. Having a few of same at home I whipped out my trusty graduated cylinder and measured the volume with great precision. The result was close to 16.5 fluid ounces.
Either way, a pint's 20 ounces, so you're both being ripped off.
In any event I'll be keeping it safe and sane this New Year's Eve by only drinking very expensive champagne.
Unless you're a millionaire, that's going to be one miserable New Year's Eve. You're going to have to drink it through a straw to get a buzz off that.
You're supposed to use a measuring thing, or optics, not measure it out by hand. That's just asking for arguments.
This is what's taught in most bartending schools,
Bartending school? If you need to go to school to work out how to pull a lever, operate a till and get packets of pork scratchings from a box on the floor, then you've got problems. What next, burger flipping school?
The American one is an abomination. The acting couldn't be any worse, it's so forced it's painful. And the script just isn't up to the same level as the original.
Perhaps he saw through the shallow attempt to string people along watching thousands of empty episodes with nothing happening, with each minor plot point stretched out for an hour, and the obligatory bit of 'scary' music at the end of every scene to try and make the viewer think it's exciting. Not to mention endless unjustified hype and a new 'mystery' introduced every episode just to keep people from switching over.
Lost is what happens when the marketing suits are in charge of writing the script. Cynical TV at its worst.
Have you been watching TV recently? Tell me a show that's better than Battlestar Galactica
Life in the Undergrowth
Doctor Who
Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere
Extras
House
Absolute Power
Have I Got News For You
Match of the Day
Family Guy
Arrested Development
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
Top Gear
Room 101
Shameless
Lost
Desperate Housewives
etc.
And in Linux you have to login with a password even if you're the only one who uses the computer. No OS is perfect.
Russia is a home of "piracy", that is one of the last areas in the world offering resistance against the evil *AA organizations that are buying laws and corrupting democracy all over the world.
Of course, Russia is the last bastion of democracy and corruption is unheard of over there.
Our only chance for survival of a civilisation is that this criminal industry is sucked empty
Yes, selling CDs is criminal. I don't see how civilians are 'betrayed' or how it will cause the downfall of civilisation if people have to buy CDs legally rather than pirating them. Sounds like the whining of 12 year olds with no sense of responsibility to me.
Dark years is not being able to buy pirated CDs from Russia? You can't really argue with the RIAA here, Russia is the home of piracy. You can't even cry 'fair use' as that doesn't even come into it.
when you work in a factory you presumablly see a tiny part of it day in day out. with a video they can lead you through the (often reasonablly interesting) process spending only enough time looking at each section to see whats going on
It's still incredibly boring. Seeing bits of machinery moving round and round loses its novelty after about 7 seconds.
discovery (at least here in the uk) have been doing shows like this under the name (how its made) for ages.
That's the one I'm talking about. It's a perfect cure for insomnia.
There was a programme on TV like this, showing how different things are made. It was an hour long, and believe me you can only watch factory production lines for so long before it gets extremely tedious. Even six minutes of toothpaste going into tubes would have me reaching for the remote.
Factories are dull to work in, why would they be any less dull to watch?
International holiday? What does that mean? I would venture (without any numbers to support it, but nonetheless) that Christmas is not celebrated by the majority of people in the world, nor is it an official holiday in the majority of nations in the world.
Yeah, it's only really celebrated in the whole of the Americas, Europe, Oceania and large parts of Africa. Practically a global non-event.
The BBC news website is very dumbed down and shallow. You generally get a few paragraphs and that's it. No real in depth coverage. The guardian is more left wing than Stalin.
Respectable publications seperate the editorials from the news. Anti-intellectual tabloids mix the two together.
That would be the worst advert in the world.
$80 of RAM just to move squares around a grid? What a piss-take.
We game mostly in "HD" anyway unless we play on consoles or handhelds.
Who is 'we'? Most people who play games either play them with consoles on the TV, or something like the Sims or minesweeper taking up a small part of a 800x600 PC monitor.
How many pc gamers with a half decent rig play at 720x576 (or local equivalent??), which is the maximum resolution of PAL... no, we play at 1280x1024 on our LCD monitors or 1600x1200 on our massive CRTs with SLI 7800GTX's.
This 'we' rears his ugly head again. I presume it's some small subset of hardcore geek who continuously spouts technobabble like 'SLI7800GTX' whatever the fuck that is. The rest of us don't give a shit about resolution or progressive or anything of those buzzwords.
Why are we even having this discussion?? even in Australia entry level 1280x1024 27" HD LCD TV's are now below $1000.00 (AUD); most nations will switch of analogue transmissions in the not to distant future...
$1000 for 'entry level'? How much is an equivalent non-HD TV? Probably a lot less. I don't know anyone who'd spend a grand on a TV. Analogue transmissions have nothing to do with HDTV anyway. How ironic that the comic book guy technogeek got something wrong about technology.
Abominable? It's a bloody name. This is the SECOND time you've commented on this in this thread, almost exactly the same post repeated a few pages down. Did you get fired from Oracle or something?
What if he wants to know more than the Spanish for 'suck on this bitch'?
Note: That didn't actually happen to Havokmon. It's a common joke/urban legend off the Internet, he's just reworded it to include himself.
If you want to reward plagiarism then go ahead and mod the parent up.
The BEST way? Easy:
Yeah, what could be easier than quitting your job, selling your house, abandoning your family and going to live abroad in a Spanish-speaking country?
Yeah, Microsoft should spend $400 million on a browser because it runs on a platform they don't want to support anymore? Only a genius like Dvorak could have come up with that.
No it's not. 2k5 means 2.5k. The k is put between the number and the letter because full stops aren't as clear when you're writing them down (could be mistaken for dirt or something).
Also if by your system, 2k50 is 2050, then what is 2m50? 50.002?
PC games have gotten by amazingly well without a centralized system, better than they would have with one. XBox Live is nothing but a fad.
Yeah, and we've gotten by fine for centuries with candles. Electric lights are nothing but a fad.
A centralised system has obvious benefits, I don't see why you don't like it. You're probably one of those hardcore comic book guy PC gamers who spends 12 hours a day playing counterstrike and another 8 hours a day tweaking graphics and keyboard shortcuts, and the remaining 4 hours whining on messageboards thinking that your loudmouthed opinions actually represent anyone other than a minority of zealots.
All they would have to do is start quietly moving bits and pieces out of the EU, then have the remaining employees destroy any code in the EU offices. Eactly how are you going to get their IP then?
He's got a point. Outside of Microsoft offices, there isn't a single copy of Windows in the EU. If they pulled out and took all their install CDs, everyone would have to install Linux instead.