Great, so instead of that outdated concept of reading the menu in one go, you get to run the cursor up and down reading each item in turn, as if you were using ed?
All this talk of sky-high wages makes me wish I'd gone into computer programming. I currently make £17k:-(
You'd think with all the money they get paid they'd be able to come up with programs that don't crash constantly and have all sorts of problems and incompatabilities.
I don't know much about the situation, but to me it seems that it's easier to reject legal foreign workers than it is to keep out illegal immigration over such a large, unguarded border? I don't think there are too many ulterior motives in this.
You know, I haven't watched Firefly, and I didn't even read that comment, I read the first few lines and it looked like it was going to be really boring, so I'm sorry if you wasted much time writing it.
I don't know what's more satisfying to read, that post, or its moderation.
Although seriously, userfriendly must be the largest collection of forced, obvious, unfunny jokes on the Internet. It's as if it was made by a 12-year old nerd who's just discovered Linux and declared himself the 'ultimate l33t h4x0r', and thinks that he's the first person ever to make fun out of anything computer related.
The idea of Lucas being the anti-Kevin Smith got me to wondering what you would get if they were to collaborate. Smith would provide the story, dialog and characters while Lucas would make the movie visually and aurally interesting.
Not me. I'm not a star wars zealot, I haven't seen any of the original films, nor the second one. The only one I've seen is the Phantom Whatever, and I can't say I'm too impressed. Not much of a plot, cartoonish-looking CGI, no tension, crap dialogue, no interesting characters, unsatisfying ending, I was left wondering what all the fuss was about.
I think it would have been better with a better script and a different director.
You know, if you're trying to get people to like (and watch) Firefly, you're going the wrong way about it, this whole thread makes it seem REALLY fucking lame. I mean, how often have we seen the cliche of the young cowardly girl who's good at fighting?
Well, the trailer's not aimed at Firefly fans who'll go and see it anyway, it's aimed at people who've never heard of it. You don't advertise at existing customers you advertise at new ones, this trailer is to get Americans with short attention-spans to be excited by the action. If you showed characters and plot they'd all be like: "Hey bubba, this moooovie's lame, let's go and drink some watery beer and lynch some niggers, and invade some third world country."
That clearing was BEFORE they got all this bad publicity and charges and possibility of lawsuits. Even if the school doesn't discipline them, they'd better start finding lawyers before their victims start dragging them through the courts.
Actually, what made Google successful was its simplicity and the recognisability of its name and website. Its results are as crap as anywhere else. Remember, quantity != quality.
Google makes money by prioritising quality.
Google seem to make a lot of money from click-fraud and advertising, hardly noble ways to make money. At least Microsoft are honest about their profit-seeking, you don't get any of that sanctimonious "we're not evil" crap.
Not from being a fat bastard, but from the eating. Food is great, it makes me momentarily happy, for a few seconds at least. I think it's a worthwhile tradeoff. Not like there's any benefit to having a healthy body, unless you use it for something.
You _could_ get a job that does not screw with your endrocrine system and cause you to be depressed and whiny...
Yeah, all I need is qualifications, skills and experience needed to get a proper job. Oh wait, I don't have those. Some people have good jobs, some people have shit jobs, I have a shit job. Someone has to do the crap shift work, people like me, on the bottom rung of society.
I'm sure there isn't a job available to someone with my lack of ability with proper hours that doesn't pay significantly less than I get now.
That is not a funny picture in the least. It is terribly misogynist. It is not a wonder that most geeks do not get laid. At least I learned how to treat women and have had several long term relationships and friendships with women over the years. Odd that I just cannot relate to most men at all. Sports are stupid. I do not drink alcohol. Yes, I like porn, but only if it is uplifting to women and focuses on them experiencing sexual pleasure. I guess I am the model of the man of the future. Anyone who disagrees with me is obviously a dinosaur from a different time. Let us face facts, women are superior in many ways and therefore can demand respect from men. Images like the above only serve to prove that women have a point when they say most men are immature. If you thik about it, the picture is nothing more than toilet humor. How sophmoric.
I think you mods are being a bit harsh, that's quite a funny troll and deserves to be seen by a wider audience.
How the fuck is that redundant? And how can it be overrated at 0? I'm the first person to fucking mention that. If you disagree then post something to argue with it, don't just select an option from a drop-down fucking menu, any fucking 12 year old geek can do that.
Anyone else think ther should be a holocaust of moderators?
Oh great, now the cunt uses his second account or his gay lover to mod me down rather than accept criticism. How fucking mature, I'm sure your shitty little program is just as awful as your attitude.
Simple. If you live 100 years today, there's a good chance that you may live a lot longer
So? Who needs to live that long? By the time you get to 40, your life's pretty much over anyway, no-one does anything interesting after that. All you've got to look forward to is 60 years of wearing cardigans watching TV, or going to the garden centre. Also by then all the women are ugly and saggy.
Just imagine all the cool stuff that will be available 80 years from now.
Why? The world just seems to be getting worse and worse. This 'cool stuff' will probably just be more useless shit like TV and Internet which mean we can spend even more time sat inside rotting away. Why don't you geeks invent something that actually IMPROVES peoples' lives rather than being a substitute for them? And while you're there, try making computers that are actually reliable and simple to use and inexpensive. I swear, whatever geek thought up the idea of needing drivers to use hardware, or needing to have the right operating system, should be executed for crimes against humanity.
That's because you're not healthy right now. I've been on both sides of that (and I'm currently in a lazy, unexercising state again). You have more energy, sleep better, and feel less depressed when you have a good workout regimen. It sounds like you're not in a healthy mental state right now if food is all you have to look forward to. Trust me, if you keep up a regular exercise schedule for a month (and not just a few half-hearted attempts), you will enjoy life more.
Don't patronise me or tell me how healthy I am. I am healthy enough. I eat healthily, I exercise, and it hasn't improved my life at all. I'm no better off than when I was fat and unhealthy. I've been exercising pretty regularly for over a year, and it's all been a waste of time, I could have been drinking instead, at least I'd get some pleasure from that. I don't sleep better, I sleep worse. Maybe if I was some rich bastard working 9-5 I could get a proper sleeping pattern, rather than have to completely reverse my body-clock every week for a different shift.
Do it for your brain. If the rest of your body isn't in top shape, neither is your brain.
So what? I don't use my brain, I've no need for it at all. Haven't used it for years since I went to school. Thinking doesn't seem to be of much use in the real world, you don't need intelligence to work on a production line or to watch TV.
If that's not something you care to fix, that's fine, but you better not have any regrets 10-20 years from now when it's going to be a lot harder to deal with.
I couldn't care less what happens to me 20 years. I'll probably be living under a bridge by then, if I'm still alive. May as well at least try to enjoy myself whilst I'm still here.
But seriously, this begs the question, is it really worth it to leave a miserable healthy life just for the sake of making it last longer?
I for one don't want to live till I'm 100, that's another 80 years. What's the point in living that long? My life's shit enough as it is, I don't want it to last longer, I want it to be shorter!
Also, is it worth cutting out all the delicious food? At the moment, food is all I have to look forward to, it's all I enjoy. I hate exercise, it makes me feel like shit, and I never have the energy, thanks to my shift-working job I haven't had a proper night's sleep in months.
Even if I did eat more healthily and exercise, what would be the point? No-one sees my body except me, and I don't give a shit whether I have a six-pack or not, it's completely superficial and irrelevent. With my lifestyle I never have to run anywhere, or life anything heavy, so what do I need health for?
after the film my friend and i discussed how it was that he could put on so much weight so fast and came to the conclusion it was not the high fat content of the food, but more likely the growth hormones in the meat and fat and the general overprocessing of the food in general.
Are you sure it's nothing to do with him eating 5000 calories a day?
Her take was that she could probably eat the same amount of pure fat by eating organicly reared, delicious smoked spec and fresh whipped cream and there is no way she'd put on that sort of weight.
What a load of shit. The body doesn't care where the food comes from, all it cares about is the calories. If you eat an excess of calories, your body stores it as fat, and it doesn't care whether it's processed, hormone-reared or fucking organic.
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Great, so instead of that outdated concept of reading the menu in one go, you get to run the cursor up and down reading each item in turn, as if you were using ed?
"Windows Longhorn: It's Almost Like Being Blind!"
All this talk of sky-high wages makes me wish I'd gone into computer programming. I currently make £17k :-(
You'd think with all the money they get paid they'd be able to come up with programs that don't crash constantly and have all sorts of problems and incompatabilities.
I don't know much about the situation, but to me it seems that it's easier to reject legal foreign workers than it is to keep out illegal immigration over such a large, unguarded border? I don't think there are too many ulterior motives in this.
You know, I haven't watched Firefly, and I didn't even read that comment, I read the first few lines and it looked like it was going to be really boring, so I'm sorry if you wasted much time writing it.
I don't know what's more satisfying to read, that post, or its moderation.
Although seriously, userfriendly must be the largest collection of forced, obvious, unfunny jokes on the Internet. It's as if it was made by a 12-year old nerd who's just discovered Linux and declared himself the 'ultimate l33t h4x0r', and thinks that he's the first person ever to make fun out of anything computer related.
The idea of Lucas being the anti-Kevin Smith got me to wondering what you would get if they were to collaborate. Smith would provide the story, dialog and characters while Lucas would make the movie visually and aurally interesting.
You mean, like Tarantino?
but millions of people enjoyed the movies anyway.
Not me. I'm not a star wars zealot, I haven't seen any of the original films, nor the second one. The only one I've seen is the Phantom Whatever, and I can't say I'm too impressed. Not much of a plot, cartoonish-looking CGI, no tension, crap dialogue, no interesting characters, unsatisfying ending, I was left wondering what all the fuss was about.
I think it would have been better with a better script and a different director.
You know, if you're trying to get people to like (and watch) Firefly, you're going the wrong way about it, this whole thread makes it seem REALLY fucking lame. I mean, how often have we seen the cliche of the young cowardly girl who's good at fighting?
Well, the trailer's not aimed at Firefly fans who'll go and see it anyway, it's aimed at people who've never heard of it. You don't advertise at existing customers you advertise at new ones, this trailer is to get Americans with short attention-spans to be excited by the action. If you showed characters and plot they'd all be like: "Hey bubba, this moooovie's lame, let's go and drink some watery beer and lynch some niggers, and invade some third world country."
That clearing was BEFORE they got all this bad publicity and charges and possibility of lawsuits. Even if the school doesn't discipline them, they'd better start finding lawyers before their victims start dragging them through the courts.
Fact: Tea without milk is for savages. Without milk it's just bitter hot water.
Fact: 'Quew' isn't a word.
s/insular/stable and valuable/
Oh fuck it happened again, I meant the bit with the 'and' sign followed by 'pound;' that you can't actually type without it turning into £.
Ah but wait, how did you write "£" without it turning into £?
I would love to see a 747 parallel park in Manhattan.
Didn't they try that back in 2001?
Actually, what made Google successful was its simplicity and the recognisability of its name and website. Its results are as crap as anywhere else. Remember, quantity != quality.
Google makes money by prioritising quality.
Google seem to make a lot of money from click-fraud and advertising, hardly noble ways to make money. At least Microsoft are honest about their profit-seeking, you don't get any of that sanctimonious "we're not evil" crap.
Tell that to the many movie stars over 40 who still have careers. Tell that to all the national politicians you ever hear about.
Yeah, famous rich people. Not ordinary people.
After all, it doesn't seem like you're doing anything interesting right now.
Yeah, and life gets LESS interesting with age, not more, so imagine how boring it's going to be in 20 years.
Get help. Seriously.
What sort of help?
However, if it's really your job that's screwing with you, QUIT!
And how exactly do I pay for board or food or internet or anything? With imaginary money?
there are plenty of jobs that don't require a lot of skills that operate on a regular schedule.
Like what?
(Oh, and whoever modded you Troll is a serious jerk.)
What else do you expect from slashdot moderators?
Not from being a fat bastard, but from the eating. Food is great, it makes me momentarily happy, for a few seconds at least. I think it's a worthwhile tradeoff. Not like there's any benefit to having a healthy body, unless you use it for something.
You _could_ get a job that does not screw with your endrocrine system and cause you to be depressed and whiny...
Yeah, all I need is qualifications, skills and experience needed to get a proper job. Oh wait, I don't have those. Some people have good jobs, some people have shit jobs, I have a shit job. Someone has to do the crap shift work, people like me, on the bottom rung of society.
I'm sure there isn't a job available to someone with my lack of ability with proper hours that doesn't pay significantly less than I get now.
That is not a funny picture in the least. It is terribly misogynist. It is not a wonder that most geeks do not get laid. At least I learned how to treat women and have had several long term relationships and friendships with women over the years. Odd that I just cannot relate to most men at all. Sports are stupid. I do not drink alcohol. Yes, I like porn, but only if it is uplifting to women and focuses on them experiencing sexual pleasure. I guess I am the model of the man of the future. Anyone who disagrees with me is obviously a dinosaur from a different time. Let us face facts, women are superior in many ways and therefore can demand respect from men. Images like the above only serve to prove that women have a point when they say most men are immature. If you thik about it, the picture is nothing more than toilet humor. How sophmoric.
I think you mods are being a bit harsh, that's quite a funny troll and deserves to be seen by a wider audience.
How the fuck is that redundant? And how can it be overrated at 0? I'm the first person to fucking mention that. If you disagree then post something to argue with it, don't just select an option from a drop-down fucking menu, any fucking 12 year old geek can do that.
Anyone else think ther should be a holocaust of moderators?
Oh great, now the cunt uses his second account or his gay lover to mod me down rather than accept criticism. How fucking mature, I'm sure your shitty little program is just as awful as your attitude.
Simple. If you live 100 years today, there's a good chance that you may live a lot longer
So? Who needs to live that long? By the time you get to 40, your life's pretty much over anyway, no-one does anything interesting after that. All you've got to look forward to is 60 years of wearing cardigans watching TV, or going to the garden centre. Also by then all the women are ugly and saggy.
Just imagine all the cool stuff that will be available 80 years from now.
Why? The world just seems to be getting worse and worse. This 'cool stuff' will probably just be more useless shit like TV and Internet which mean we can spend even more time sat inside rotting away. Why don't you geeks invent something that actually IMPROVES peoples' lives rather than being a substitute for them? And while you're there, try making computers that are actually reliable and simple to use and inexpensive. I swear, whatever geek thought up the idea of needing drivers to use hardware, or needing to have the right operating system, should be executed for crimes against humanity.
That's because you're not healthy right now. I've been on both sides of that (and I'm currently in a lazy, unexercising state again). You have more energy, sleep better, and feel less depressed when you have a good workout regimen. It sounds like you're not in a healthy mental state right now if food is all you have to look forward to. Trust me, if you keep up a regular exercise schedule for a month (and not just a few half-hearted attempts), you will enjoy life more.
Don't patronise me or tell me how healthy I am. I am healthy enough. I eat healthily, I exercise, and it hasn't improved my life at all. I'm no better off than when I was fat and unhealthy. I've been exercising pretty regularly for over a year, and it's all been a waste of time, I could have been drinking instead, at least I'd get some pleasure from that. I don't sleep better, I sleep worse. Maybe if I was some rich bastard working 9-5 I could get a proper sleeping pattern, rather than have to completely reverse my body-clock every week for a different shift.
Do it for your brain. If the rest of your body isn't in top shape, neither is your brain.
So what? I don't use my brain, I've no need for it at all. Haven't used it for years since I went to school. Thinking doesn't seem to be of much use in the real world, you don't need intelligence to work on a production line or to watch TV.
If that's not something you care to fix, that's fine, but you better not have any regrets 10-20 years from now when it's going to be a lot harder to deal with.
I couldn't care less what happens to me 20 years. I'll probably be living under a bridge by then, if I'm still alive. May as well at least try to enjoy myself whilst I'm still here.
But seriously, this begs the question, is it really worth it to leave a miserable healthy life just for the sake of making it last longer?
I for one don't want to live till I'm 100, that's another 80 years. What's the point in living that long? My life's shit enough as it is, I don't want it to last longer, I want it to be shorter!
Also, is it worth cutting out all the delicious food? At the moment, food is all I have to look forward to, it's all I enjoy. I hate exercise, it makes me feel like shit, and I never have the energy, thanks to my shift-working job I haven't had a proper night's sleep in months.
Even if I did eat more healthily and exercise, what would be the point? No-one sees my body except me, and I don't give a shit whether I have a six-pack or not, it's completely superficial and irrelevent. With my lifestyle I never have to run anywhere, or life anything heavy, so what do I need health for?
after the film my friend and i discussed how it was that he could put on so much weight so fast and came to the conclusion it was not the high fat content of the food, but more likely the growth hormones in the meat and fat and the general overprocessing of the food in general.
Are you sure it's nothing to do with him eating 5000 calories a day?
Her take was that she could probably eat the same amount of pure fat by eating organicly reared, delicious smoked spec and fresh whipped cream and there is no way she'd put on that sort of weight.
What a load of shit. The body doesn't care where the food comes from, all it cares about is the calories. If you eat an excess of calories, your body stores it as fat, and it doesn't care whether it's processed, hormone-reared or fucking organic.