On the other hand, people will laugh at you for using myspace for distributing your work, because myspace sucks royally. Half the time I don't even bother to click GYBO threads that link to myspace, because there's a good chance I'll end up with broken crap on the other side.
P.S. If you make mashups, and you haven't ever seen GYBO - fix that. You'll be glad you did.
Uh... livejournal does that...?
I'm generally too lazy to do anything more specific than occasionally locking, but I did once make a filter entitled "everyone except one person", just because there was something that one person wasn't supposed to see. I know people, though, who basically keep like 5 different blogs running on the same lj.
We never called it "Smear the Queer", though I can see where the name comes from, given that "queer" once just meant "different in some way", like for instance, he has a ball.
I've always just heard it called "Kill the Carrier", though. Which, it should be noted, makes me think of Starcraft.
Hey, guys! Might I mention that causation does not imply causation? I'm sure it hasn't already been said before, and certainly not several dozen times!
I mean, yeah, it's a good point, and I wish it were obvious to more people, but it doesn't really need to be stated a bajillion times in the same thread... especially since it's obviously already obvious to all of us, given the number of people who have pointed it out.
You say that like I watch tv on tv, rather than on my computer.
Then again, you also don't generally pay money to the people who made your tv, unless you bought the (ad-free) dvd. Your money generally goes to the company providing you with access to other peoples' content. Arguing against tv ads because you pay your local cable company is more like arguing against website ads because you pay an ISP.
Do you really want to see a 7-9 written and directed by the person who gave us episodes 1-3? Cause I sure don't.
Get a good scriptwriter in, have them adapt the Thrawn trilogy, and be done with it already! I, for one, am quite happy to see Lucas sticking to the budget his recent movies actually deserve (i.e. not very much of one).
Heh. Garden of Earthly Delights... is it sad that I have absolutely no idea what the art piece looks like, but I thought immediately of a little-known song by a little-known 60s psychadelic band called United States of America (one of the first meant-to-be-popular-rather-than-experimental music groups to use electronic sounds in their music!). Not one of their better songs, though.
Now I have to go google Garden of Earthly Delights, just to increase the hit rate.
Now I'm sad, USA wasn't mentioned anywhere on the first 20 pages.
Hey, I'll keep buying from iTunes as long as they allow me to burn my music to a "cd", where of course, I mean a virtual cd burner so I don't have to waste any cd-making materials, not to mention money. I like the convenience of iTunes, and if they want to dupe themselves into thinking that they've hooked me with their drm, they can just keep thinking that.
Yeah, and Xerox sells fax machines, paper, software... Coca-Cola produces juices, teas and water... we still use the names to refer pretty much exclusively to copiers and soda, respectively, because that's what they're known for.
I'm going to keep referring to VMware Workstation as simply "VMware", and there's nothing you can do about it.
Not that I disagree with you on your actual point, but quoth wikipedia, "The internal anatomy of anemones is very simple. There is a gastrovascular cavity (which functions as a stomach) with a single opening to the outside which fuctions as both a mouth and an anus: waste and undigested matter is excreted through the mouth/anus."
I think a "speaking out your ass" joke would be appropriate here.;)
More like, he charges $2.50 for a copy of the lecture, then a student buys it and distributes it for free to the whole school. Heck, that's what I'd do.
I actually did something similar once as a joke, on my own computer: I took a screencap of the "enter password" screen (this was back in the days of 98), and stuck it up as my background, just to see peoples' reactions.
Better than the new series Doctor Who episode... those people who watch Doctor Who know which one I'm talking about - wasn't it a good one? Those people who are planning to watch it but haven't yet, ignore I said anything.:D
Ok, so I'm exaggerating slightly; obviously I know such a thing exists, and that it's on the right hand side. But I never actually use it for anything - all my scrolling needs use, in the case of a traditional mouse, the scroll button in the middle, or in the case of my laptop, the right hand side of my trackpad.
Incidentally, I'm a lefty, but I've never, ever had any complaints about the handedness of mouses or any other similar ui interface. I keep complaints about handedness for things that really matter, like scissors.
Might it then, possibly, go whiffling through a tulgey wood, burbling as it went? Might a hero need to be dispatched to cut off its head (vorpally, of course)?
P.S. "bibblys" of disk space doesn't sound any sillier than "gibibytes" does...
I never paid for it... I thought I was going to have to resort to using a friend's install, but no: I just downloaded the trial client, and used my account info, and everything worked fine.
This only works if you have a connection that lets you reasonably download a couple gigs, but still. The client was entirely free, as far as I was concerned.
I really don't know what I would do with a flashdrive that big. Then again, I don't really do much with my 512 meg flashdrive, either - anything I need to move around, either I stick it up on my own server, or one of the couple other webservers I have access to, or if it's really big, stick it on my 400gig usb hard drive. Or if it's somewhere in the middle, stick it on my 100gig mp3 player that acts like an mp3 player in terms of having a battery, and playing mp3s, but like a hard drie in terms of plugging it into a usb port on a computer and being able to use it without any proprietary software or drivers. So I guess I'm unusual, in terms of how easy I have it, portable-storage-wise.
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Presumably wouldn't detect anything of the sort.
On the other hand, people will laugh at you for using myspace for distributing your work, because myspace sucks royally. Half the time I don't even bother to click GYBO threads that link to myspace, because there's a good chance I'll end up with broken crap on the other side.
P.S. If you make mashups, and you haven't ever seen GYBO - fix that. You'll be glad you did.
Uh... livejournal does that...? I'm generally too lazy to do anything more specific than occasionally locking, but I did once make a filter entitled "everyone except one person", just because there was something that one person wasn't supposed to see. I know people, though, who basically keep like 5 different blogs running on the same lj.
You forgot Shael Riley's Toybox. :P
I tend to use nobody@nothing.com - I have a feeling that one would get even more spam than this one. You do, however, have a point.
And yeah. I can't imagine anything at hell.com other than a joke - and who would pay several million dollars for a joke?
Stop writing down a sentence and then halfway through thinking you wrote something else doesn't parse very well.
In unrelated news, I agree fully with what you intended to say.
Hey, they didn't specify advantage for who... it is, after all, a Genuine Advantage for Microsoft.
We never called it "Smear the Queer", though I can see where the name comes from, given that "queer" once just meant "different in some way", like for instance, he has a ball.
I've always just heard it called "Kill the Carrier", though. Which, it should be noted, makes me think of Starcraft.
Hey, guys! Might I mention that causation does not imply causation? I'm sure it hasn't already been said before, and certainly not several dozen times!
I mean, yeah, it's a good point, and I wish it were obvious to more people, but it doesn't really need to be stated a bajillion times in the same thread... especially since it's obviously already obvious to all of us, given the number of people who have pointed it out.
You say that like I watch tv on tv, rather than on my computer.
Then again, you also don't generally pay money to the people who made your tv, unless you bought the (ad-free) dvd. Your money generally goes to the company providing you with access to other peoples' content. Arguing against tv ads because you pay your local cable company is more like arguing against website ads because you pay an ISP.
Do you really want to see a 7-9 written and directed by the person who gave us episodes 1-3? Cause I sure don't. Get a good scriptwriter in, have them adapt the Thrawn trilogy, and be done with it already! I, for one, am quite happy to see Lucas sticking to the budget his recent movies actually deserve (i.e. not very much of one).
Or it's by Lena Hades. Or it's by Monolith Soft. Really, who wouldn't think of the Strauss piece?
Cause sometimes you want to talk about [[WikiWord]]s.
Heh. Garden of Earthly Delights... is it sad that I have absolutely no idea what the art piece looks like, but I thought immediately of a little-known song by a little-known 60s psychadelic band called United States of America (one of the first meant-to-be-popular-rather-than-experimental music groups to use electronic sounds in their music!). Not one of their better songs, though. Now I have to go google Garden of Earthly Delights, just to increase the hit rate. Now I'm sad, USA wasn't mentioned anywhere on the first 20 pages.
Hey, I'll keep buying from iTunes as long as they allow me to burn my music to a "cd", where of course, I mean a virtual cd burner so I don't have to waste any cd-making materials, not to mention money. I like the convenience of iTunes, and if they want to dupe themselves into thinking that they've hooked me with their drm, they can just keep thinking that.
Yeah, and Xerox sells fax machines, paper, software... Coca-Cola produces juices, teas and water... we still use the names to refer pretty much exclusively to copiers and soda, respectively, because that's what they're known for. I'm going to keep referring to VMware Workstation as simply "VMware", and there's nothing you can do about it.
Really? I'm stuck in a maze of twisty little passages, all different.
;)
By which I mean Nethack. They're all different because they're randomly generated.
Not that I disagree with you on your actual point, but quoth wikipedia, "The internal anatomy of anemones is very simple. There is a gastrovascular cavity (which functions as a stomach) with a single opening to the outside which fuctions as both a mouth and an anus: waste and undigested matter is excreted through the mouth/anus."
;)
I think a "speaking out your ass" joke would be appropriate here.
More like, he charges $2.50 for a copy of the lecture, then a student buys it and distributes it for free to the whole school. Heck, that's what I'd do.
I just have to note how much I'm reminded, here, of an xkcd: http://xkcd.com/c125.html
I actually did something similar once as a joke, on my own computer: I took a screencap of the "enter password" screen (this was back in the days of 98), and stuck it up as my background, just to see peoples' reactions.
Better than the new series Doctor Who episode... those people who watch Doctor Who know which one I'm talking about - wasn't it a good one? Those people who are planning to watch it but haven't yet, ignore I said anything. :D
Ok, so I'm exaggerating slightly; obviously I know such a thing exists, and that it's on the right hand side. But I never actually use it for anything - all my scrolling needs use, in the case of a traditional mouse, the scroll button in the middle, or in the case of my laptop, the right hand side of my trackpad.
Incidentally, I'm a lefty, but I've never, ever had any complaints about the handedness of mouses or any other similar ui interface. I keep complaints about handedness for things that really matter, like scissors.
Might it then, possibly, go whiffling through a tulgey wood, burbling as it went? Might a hero need to be dispatched to cut off its head (vorpally, of course)? P.S. "bibblys" of disk space doesn't sound any sillier than "gibibytes" does...
I never paid for it... I thought I was going to have to resort to using a friend's install, but no: I just downloaded the trial client, and used my account info, and everything worked fine. This only works if you have a connection that lets you reasonably download a couple gigs, but still. The client was entirely free, as far as I was concerned.
I really don't know what I would do with a flashdrive that big. Then again, I don't really do much with my 512 meg flashdrive, either - anything I need to move around, either I stick it up on my own server, or one of the couple other webservers I have access to, or if it's really big, stick it on my 400gig usb hard drive. Or if it's somewhere in the middle, stick it on my 100gig mp3 player that acts like an mp3 player in terms of having a battery, and playing mp3s, but like a hard drie in terms of plugging it into a usb port on a computer and being able to use it without any proprietary software or drivers. So I guess I'm unusual, in terms of how easy I have it, portable-storage-wise.