I've seen a picture of the fossil (alongside the painted picture) and, assuming the fossill itself hasn't been faked, the cartoon is quite true to the fossil.
Always makes me laugh when I hear about Torvalds the ultimate self-publicist and credit-stealer (I mean, who else would name something after himself of which he only produced a fraction?) gets all self-righteous. He needs to get over himself: he ain't that important.
Loved Firefly but Serenity sucked big time. I was so embarassed after taking my wife to see it "This is great" I told her "intelligent sci-fi, you'll love it". It stank! It was like he tried to fit three series into a single film and boy did it show. Everything rushed, nothing made sense. Just goes to show that tv making skills don't necessarily transfer to the big screen.
So no more Serenity; WOOHOO! Now, how about some more Firefly?
Saying "Kill Physicsphairy" is different from saying "Kill all niggers" or "Send Jews to the concentration camps". The first is covered by laws against threatening behaviour, the latter aren't so they need the incitement to hate laws.
On Argent Dawn (Euro) this is certainly true, but it's down the fact the Horde are organised. They form groups before going into BGs. They make plans and people listen to the leader.
On the alliance side they almost always join singly, often fail to join the group/raid even in the BG and never listen.
The difference (I play both sides) is shocking and the result is that the horde regularly kick the alliance all around the BGs.
Have you been sleeping? Did you miss the whole loans-for-honours scandal where Tony Blair's government accepted large "loans" (which don't "count" towards your limit on donations, but are, strangely, never re-paid) in exchange for honours (knighthoods, peerages etc)?
The innovation is in making things easy to use and simply look good. Sure the idea of an MP3 player isn't innovative but compare how easy an iPod is to use (load-up with music etc) and compare it to other Mp3 players. Even today, years after the iPod was introduced players like Creatives still suck.
Apply the same standard to programmers. Why should a programmer spend time doing the extra work (and it is extra work) to make the software play nice when lacking admin priviledges?
Because it's their job? They're paid to do it? They're, supposedly, professionals?
Yours has got to be the most fucking stupid post I have EVER seen on/. and no I am not new here.
Here, if you are arrested (i.e. commit an arrestable offence and are caught) they can take your fingerprints and DNA and photo: permanetly. It is *not* deleted if they don't charge you or you are found not guilty.
Here's the really neat bit. Since January this year every criminal offence is arrestable. This is includes littering and speeding...
So there is at least one area in which the UK with it's New Labour government leads the US with it's rabid Reuplican one: destroying it's citizen;s civil liberties.
What a bizzare statement and affirmation. And I suspect completely untrue: most PC users probably don't even think about Apple (or Linux) they just use "the computer" whether it's at work or at home.
Pfft what rubbish. PC is short for "IBM Compatible PC running Windows". Sure "PC" used to stand for the much broader "Personal Computer", but that's soooo 20th Century;-) It hasn't meant that since Commodore Vics were objects of geekly lust.
I think you're making a, possibly false assumption, and that is that the reason the UK population is less sick than the US population is becaue the NHS makes them better quicker: possibly so as there is no disincentive to get early treatment from your GP rather than waiting for it to get more serious before seeking treatment.
It's also possible that we (in the UK) simply don't get sick as often and some of the protections we have (including the NHS) but also employment protection (most people can't be kicked out of their job on a whim, unlike the US) and greater holidays makes us less stressed and thus less prone to sickness.
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I've seen a picture of the fossil (alongside the painted picture) and, assuming the fossill itself hasn't been faked, the cartoon is quite true to the fossil.
Ooh, ooh I have another one: taking credit for other people's work (i.e. insisting on Linux rather than GNU/Linux).
Always makes me laugh when I hear about Torvalds the ultimate self-publicist and credit-stealer (I mean, who else would name something after himself of which he only produced a fraction?) gets all self-righteous. He needs to get over himself: he ain't that important.
does it work with iTunes? Or, failing that (and it is a big failing) does it have something better?
/. are trying to keep up with Digg I guess but lacked the UI design skills to do it properly .
Completely agree. Firefly had charm, Serenity didn't.
Loved Firefly but Serenity sucked big time. I was so embarassed after taking my wife to see it "This is great" I told her "intelligent sci-fi, you'll love it". It stank! It was like he tried to fit three series into a single film and boy did it show. Everything rushed, nothing made sense. Just goes to show that tv making skills don't necessarily transfer to the big screen. So no more Serenity; WOOHOO! Now, how about some more Firefly?
Oh and to follow on. The criminal in this case deserved to be punished but I can't help thinking 3 years is excesive.
Saying "Kill Physicsphairy" is different from saying "Kill all niggers" or "Send Jews to the concentration camps". The first is covered by laws against threatening behaviour, the latter aren't so they need the incitement to hate laws.
On Argent Dawn (Euro) this is certainly true, but it's down the fact the Horde are organised. They form groups before going into BGs. They make plans and people listen to the leader. On the alliance side they almost always join singly, often fail to join the group/raid even in the BG and never listen. The difference (I play both sides) is shocking and the result is that the horde regularly kick the alliance all around the BGs.
Yes but we were talking about Weird Al.
You might want to invest in a spell checker...
For some bizarre reason we don't get the new DS for another 2 weeks here in the UK: but they are advertising black as well as white versions.
If you can't reliably reproduce the tests you can't reliably reproduce the bugs. If you can't do that then you can't know you've fixed them.
Professional testers have automated, repeatable tests. Incompetents pretend that "playing around" is testing.
Have you been sleeping? Did you miss the whole loans-for-honours scandal where Tony Blair's government accepted large "loans" (which don't "count" towards your limit on donations, but are, strangely, never re-paid) in exchange for honours (knighthoods, peerages etc)?
The only effective no-button lifts I am aware of are Paternosters.
How can they possibly know if a bug has been fixed? That it hasn't introduced or uncovered any existing bugs?
Professional testers use automated tests, which they can re-run reliably and test its coverage.
IAmateurs play around a bit until they find something wrong.
The innovation is in making things easy to use and simply look good. Sure the idea of an MP3 player isn't innovative but compare how easy an iPod is to use (load-up with music etc) and compare it to other Mp3 players. Even today, years after the iPod was introduced players like Creatives still suck.
Because it's their job? They're paid to do it? They're, supposedly, professionals?
Yours has got to be the most fucking stupid post I have EVER seen on /. and no I am not new here.
I call bullshit. No genuine Mac user would call it a MAC (which is something completely different).
Here's the really neat bit. Since January this year every criminal offence is arrestable. This is includes littering and speeding...
So there is at least one area in which the UK with it's New Labour government leads the US with it's rabid Reuplican one: destroying it's citizen;s civil liberties.
What a shame I don't have any mod points today. Both informative and insightful, thank you.
What a bizzare statement and affirmation. And I suspect completely untrue: most PC users probably don't even think about Apple (or Linux) they just use "the computer" whether it's at work or at home.
Pfft what rubbish. PC is short for "IBM Compatible PC running Windows". Sure "PC" used to stand for the much broader "Personal Computer", but that's soooo 20th Century ;-) It hasn't meant that since Commodore Vics were objects of geekly lust.
It's also possible that we (in the UK) simply don't get sick as often and some of the protections we have (including the NHS) but also employment protection (most people can't be kicked out of their job on a whim, unlike the US) and greater holidays makes us less stressed and thus less prone to sickness.