Of course, being a mountain biker, if I see any of these on the bike paths, I will be throwing magnets at you.. let's see your fancy gyromajig work then. AHAR!
Of course, being a hiker, if I see you on a hiking path I will be throwing large rocks at you.. let's see your fancy bike work then. AHAR!
Of course, being an animal, if I see you in my woods, I'll get my larger friends to eat you. AHAR!
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While "it looks gay" might not be the best way of phrasing it, this may very well be what Mr. and Mrs. Joe Consumer say. Here in style concious New York, where this thing *should* have a decent chance of acceptance, nobody's going to want one, because it's looks like a combination push mower/razor scooter. Frankly, if I saw someone one one, my reaction would be "what a tool," same as if i saw someone on a motorized razor. They just look kind of awkward. Maybe it's just because of society, but it looks way less natural than a bicycle, which is about the most awkward means of transportation that most adults will allow for. Appearance is everything. But hey, maybe I'm wrong.
Family guy is a decent attempt at combining the best aspects of all of the Simpsons eras. It is very story based, every episode sets up a conflict, lets it get complicated, and then resolves it. Yet it also has the Simpsons late-seasons insane breaks from reality. And it hasn't gotten repetitive yet. Now it doesn't have the pure genius of Simpsons circa 1994, but, what does? Also Stewie is hilarious.
Futurama is really nothing like the Simpsons (other than being an animated show based on Groening's bizarre imagination). It's a parody of the office sit com, rather than the family sit com, and so has never really had "touchy feely" episodes. (Michael Jackson anyone?) The humor is a good deal denser than an average episode of the Simpsons (much more going on in the background) and it is much more geek-oriented. Come on, they had Gary Gigax on there!
King of the Hill needs to die a swift and painful death. It was funny for about 1.5 seasons, and now is just repetitive schlock. Southpark is truely the Simpsons of this time, it outlasted the initail hype and T-Shirt binge (which I'll admit turned me off to the show for years), and has continued to put out fantastic original content (did anyone else catch the Radiohead episode this summer, sweet Jesus)
yeah, even though the simpsons is in the shitter, i don't know of a single student organization that schedules meetings for 8:00 on sundays here. but then again, this is an excessively nerdy college.
actually i'd like to see a big book of all the different drafts and revisions. i don't think there's enough of that. the only good example i can think of is Stephen Hero, which is a collection of draft segments from Joyce's _A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_ a really interesting read if you're familiar with the book and interested in the creative process behind one of the 20th centuries greatest literary minds.
I don't know how I feel about this. While I'll be glad to have another book from such a great author, I worry that this will in some way corrupt the memory by putting an unfinished work-in-progress up against his polished final drafts. I hope at least they'll leave it unfinished, and not have some hack come in and tie things up for him.
If ET had found the 100th or the 1000th or even the 1000000th Mersenne prime, I wouldn't be too impressed. It would only mean they've been around longer than us.
If they had, on the other hand, found a way of calculating the nth mersenne prime, THEN I'd be pretty damn impressed.
Yes but forcing upgrades on Linux is different from forcing upgrades on Win. On Windows a complete system upgrade, purchasing new versions of all major applications, could cost thousands of dollars per box, on Linux, it just costs the hassle.
I actually think a lot of problems with computer technology - the 640k limit, a lot of bloat, etc. etc. could be solved by breaking backwards compatibility every once in a while.
true when KDE is a major consumer product;-) they would probably go about this differently, but for now breaking backwards compatibility isn't THAT much of an issue.
OK, guy, just because you operate one way, doesn't mean that we all have to. Niche artists, even good ones, can't tour heavily enough to really turn a profit: Good Speed you Black Emperor (Canadian, noise / instrumental act) are very good, but because of the limited audience for their genre, they make most of their (modest) income off of those who hear them on independant radio, or word-of-mouth. They simply couldn't tour well enough to cover such sparse (but enthusiastic) support.
Or what about the *Beatles* from 1966 on they basically only sold records. Their popularity became a hindrance to their artistic expression on stage, and so they redirected their efforts to the studio and made some of the best god damn music of the twentieth century.
There's nothing wrong with being a primarily live act, of course, but I'm just seeing a lot of "real artists do it MY way" in this thread that is bothering me a lot.
So wait, fan support and positive interaction with an audience are evil motives??? While I understand the necessity of money in art, how can you say that someone who forgoes money just so they can reach more people and impact a more receptive audience not a "musician" in the true sense? Maybe being a musician is about *music* as opposed to what business model you do or don't chose to accept.
Miss, if you'd like to post a link to where we can hear your music, that would be great, I'm always up for hearing new things.
Have you looked into Merge Records? There are still independant labels out there with fair contracts, who don't screw with their artists/customers and wouldn't pull this kind of crap... Music doesn't need to be a billion dollar industry, but some artist compensation is definitely healthy for creative output.
Or take up drug dealing, which is about the only way for a student to afford a private bathroom in Caimbridge, Mass these days anyway. Hey kids, try to get apartment style. Sure having five roommates sucks, but you get a semi-private bathroom and kitchen.
No joke, looking back on those sets, I think to myself, "I could do that when I was *four* ???"
Whatever success I have had in this world has been thanks to my math abilities, and I think a lot of those are directly due to the serious hurdles that leggos imposed on my little brain.
My biggest achievement as a child: months before my 8th birthday, completing the biggest Technic set that Toys R Us carried: the truely wonderful 80s hotrod set, complete with shifting gears, adjustible seats, and working stearing and suspension. Great stuff.
And frankly I thaught the space kits were fine for imagination. I never got that excited building houses and farms, but I would make giant space fighters and robots of my own design. The original Blacktron sets were especially dope.
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Of course, being a mountain biker, if I see any of these on the bike paths, I will be throwing magnets at you .. let's see your fancy gyromajig work then. AHAR!
.. let's see your fancy bike work then. AHAR!
Of course, being a hiker, if I see you on a hiking path I will be throwing large rocks at you
Of course, being an animal, if I see you in my woods, I'll get my larger friends to eat you. AHAR!
While "it looks gay" might not be the best way of phrasing it, this may very well be what Mr. and Mrs. Joe Consumer say. Here in style concious New York, where this thing *should* have a decent chance of acceptance, nobody's going to want one, because it's looks like a combination push mower/razor scooter. Frankly, if I saw someone one one, my reaction would be "what a tool," same as if i saw someone on a motorized razor. They just look kind of awkward. Maybe it's just because of society, but it looks way less natural than a bicycle, which is about the most awkward means of transportation that most adults will allow for. Appearance is everything. But hey, maybe I'm wrong.
Festivus?
Family guy is a decent attempt at combining the best aspects of all of the Simpsons eras. It is very story based, every episode sets up a conflict, lets it get complicated, and then resolves it. Yet it also has the Simpsons late-seasons insane breaks from reality. And it hasn't gotten repetitive yet. Now it doesn't have the pure genius of Simpsons circa 1994, but, what does? Also Stewie is hilarious.
Futurama is really nothing like the Simpsons (other than being an animated show based on Groening's bizarre imagination). It's a parody of the office sit com, rather than the family sit com, and so has never really had "touchy feely" episodes. (Michael Jackson anyone?) The humor is a good deal denser than an average episode of the Simpsons (much more going on in the background) and it is much more geek-oriented. Come on, they had Gary Gigax on there!
King of the Hill needs to die a swift and painful death. It was funny for about 1.5 seasons, and now is just repetitive schlock. Southpark is truely the Simpsons of this time, it outlasted the initail hype and T-Shirt binge (which I'll admit turned me off to the show for years), and has continued to put out fantastic original content (did anyone else catch the Radiohead episode this summer, sweet Jesus)
yeah, even though the simpsons is in the shitter, i don't know of a single student organization that schedules meetings for 8:00 on sundays here. but then again, this is an excessively nerdy college.
actually i'd like to see a big book of all the different drafts and revisions. i don't think there's enough of that. the only good example i can think of is Stephen Hero, which is a collection of draft segments from Joyce's _A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_ a really interesting read if you're familiar with the book and interested in the creative process behind one of the 20th centuries greatest literary minds.
I don't know how I feel about this. While I'll be glad to have another book from such a great author, I worry that this will in some way corrupt the memory by putting an unfinished work-in-progress up against his polished final drafts. I hope at least they'll leave it unfinished, and not have some hack come in and tie things up for him.
Abstract algebra is the coolest. This settles it, bye bye Comp Sci. Austere mathematics, with her 4000 year history is calling me.
If ET had found the 100th or the 1000th or even the 1000000th Mersenne prime, I wouldn't be too impressed. It would only mean they've been around longer than us.
If they had, on the other hand, found a way of calculating the nth mersenne prime, THEN I'd be pretty damn impressed.
hahahahahahahahahah
god that was good, i totally missed it too.
and even if we gave them our stations, they still wouldn't have any good ones! hah!
no, i think of all the technology we have that someone in the 14th century might want, refrigeration probably tops the list. that or an assault rifle.
well passports began with the modest goal of keeping tabs on legal vs. illegal immigration and emmigration.
they're used for more now, but it isn't the same as the all in one national id card.
that's funny, mine says "666"
yeah! i want to use their code for my profit without giving them anything!
it's not like they sank countless R+D $$$ into making the quality product that they're handing out for free.
jackass
Yes but forcing upgrades on Linux is different from forcing upgrades on Win. On Windows a complete system upgrade, purchasing new versions of all major applications, could cost thousands of dollars per box, on Linux, it just costs the hassle.
;-) they would probably go about this differently, but for now breaking backwards compatibility isn't THAT much of an issue.
I actually think a lot of problems with computer technology - the 640k limit, a lot of bloat, etc. etc. could be solved by breaking backwards compatibility every once in a while.
true when KDE is a major consumer product
yeah i'm real sad to hear the biggot death-metal market isn't being fairly represented.
"Here in Antarctica"
Maybe this comment is eight years too late, but sometimes the internet still amazes me.
3 Words : You sick fuck.
you have an analog moog? gimme gimme!
OK, guy, just because you operate one way, doesn't mean that we all have to. Niche artists, even good ones, can't tour heavily enough to really turn a profit: Good Speed you Black Emperor (Canadian, noise / instrumental act) are very good, but because of the limited audience for their genre, they make most of their (modest) income off of those who hear them on independant radio, or word-of-mouth. They simply couldn't tour well enough to cover such sparse (but enthusiastic) support.
Or what about the *Beatles* from 1966 on they basically only sold records. Their popularity became a hindrance to their artistic expression on stage, and so they redirected their efforts to the studio and made some of the best god damn music of the twentieth century.
There's nothing wrong with being a primarily live act, of course, but I'm just seeing a lot of "real artists do it MY way" in this thread that is bothering me a lot.
So wait, fan support and positive interaction with an audience are evil motives??? While I understand the necessity of money in art, how can you say that someone who forgoes money just so they can reach more people and impact a more receptive audience not a "musician" in the true sense? Maybe being a musician is about *music* as opposed to what business model you do or don't chose to accept.
Miss, if you'd like to post a link to where we can hear your music, that would be great, I'm always up for hearing new things.
Have you looked into Merge Records? There are still independant labels out there with fair contracts, who don't screw with their artists/customers and wouldn't pull this kind of crap... Music doesn't need to be a billion dollar industry, but some artist compensation is definitely healthy for creative output.
Or take up drug dealing, which is about the only way for a student to afford a private bathroom in Caimbridge, Mass these days anyway. Hey kids, try to get apartment style. Sure having five roommates sucks, but you get a semi-private bathroom and kitchen.
No joke, looking back on those sets, I think to myself, "I could do that when I was *four* ???"
Whatever success I have had in this world has been thanks to my math abilities, and I think a lot of those are directly due to the serious hurdles that leggos imposed on my little brain.
My biggest achievement as a child: months before my 8th birthday, completing the biggest Technic set that Toys R Us carried: the truely wonderful 80s hotrod set, complete with shifting gears, adjustible seats, and working stearing and suspension. Great stuff.
And frankly I thaught the space kits were fine for imagination. I never got that excited building houses and farms, but I would make giant space fighters and robots of my own design. The original Blacktron sets were especially dope.
Your suggestion that we ignore people preconcieved notions about UI is unreasonable© I doubt there are many GNOME users that didn't first learn the ins and outs of using a mouse on Windows or Mac©
We can make a better UI than Win or Mac, but it must still conform to the precidents set by other OSes if people are going to use it©
Parallel case: it might be "better" to set Linux to Dvorak keyboard layout by default© But people have been pre-exposed to Qwerty, so that's what we're going to use©