. . . that is the smarmiest ad copy they ever wrote.
Especially since they owe us a better mouse after that hockey puck one gave everybody carpal tunnel.
As a production manager, I would dread having to troubleshoot something like that. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind it if the author had to troubleshoot it himself . . .
I look at open-source typesetting programs a lot, and while I like the idea, I'm bewildered by how I could keep a book on schedule the way I can with Quark or InDesign in a coding language.
The Troff website is a little obtuse at the moment, but I wouldn't mind learning more.
My first impression of the Dungeon Masters Guide II is the sound of a Dungeon Master's sex life shriveling into a withered husk and crumbling into so many insignificant particles:
SCHCCHHCHCHCHCHCHHRRRCKCKCKCKKCCRCK.
The Omni Group put out a stand-alone spreadsheet program, but it's buggier than NeoOffice J. It is faster and has a cleaner interface, though. I agree that NeoOffice feels wrong (probably because it looks sort of ugly and is heavily modeled after Microsoft Word).
I'm new to spreadsheets (designer bumped up to manager = profound confusion) but I like them whenever I can get them to do something. Omni was very close, I'd be willing to bet that Apple can do one better.
I really hope they do that, because NeoOffice J and Open Office are not cutting it on the Os X platform.
*Hastily runs for the exit, ducking head down*
Really? Let me summarize the sound:
Yeaaaah
(Fake record scratch)
Yeaaaah
(Fake guitar solo)
Yeaaaaah
(Fake bass)
Then, you hear the strangled cries of Firefox being throttled by the merciless Mattel website.
. . . are great. "Supermodified" is very catchy, but nowhere near as polished as "From Out of Nowhere." I have the soundtrack to Chaos Theory and I like it a lot, but it doesn't really show off how insanely detailed his compositions can get.
Hi,
I was really impressed with how the Guide looks in the movie. Was this a team effort, somebody's vision, or did it just kind of come out that way?
And also, would you be surprised if books ended up looking like that one day?
So we can't move to more efficient energy than fuel, but we're going to have to [metaphorically] GO BACK IN TIME to preserve what we have?
This is just sad.
In college, I used to keep tally of people who attacked their phones when receiving bad news. It's fascinatingly sad to watch: "The phone gave me bad news! I must destroy the phone!"
By the end of the year, I swear I had a total of 35 confirmed phone attacks--but it was probably way above that.
As an occasional web designer, I try to make everything PDA friendly but you know . . . it's nearly impossible to do that in text without seeming extremely pedantic on a page with images. And when I think of the size of your average PDA, I begin to wonder if it's really worth it.
Most companies and users just want to have something on the web that confirms they exist and are every bit as good as other sites. They don't care about PDA compatibility, they care about having flashy graphics.
Zeldman & co. talk about how everyone can have things their way on their browser, but I don't think it's always a good idea. What is a good idea is trying to figure out who will use your site, and under what conditions, before you try to accomodate everybody at once and drive yourself crazy in the process.
. . . or am I the only one who feels this way?
Seriously, if there wasn't a baseball/steroid scandal, would this book even have come out? Who the hell would care?
. . . Gave us the UZI! A fabulously ineffective weapon crucial to the Shadowrun RPG and various bad action movies. Who's to say who's in touch with reality?
"All Mozilla Products are great for me but when Netscape touches it, it turns to crap. This kept opening IE over and over. I had 30 windows open for IE. Firefox still rules!"
Wonder how long they'll keep that on the front page?
I didn't see ANYTHING about it a few hours ago. At least for Mac Os X. I find that really weird.
It's nice that there's a new Open Office, but the old one has successfully driven me insane with the long waits. NeoOfficeJ seems to be only slightly better, but that's good enough for me. I don't know that I'd try the new one unless I hear rave reviews. And I mean *rave*.
Ready to be modded troll in 3, 2 . . .
I think everyone agrees that the XBox is technically superior to Playstation. Well, most people. But are the games more fun? Not really. All XBox has is a lot of first person shooters, the most irritating Sonic game ever coded, and gorey fighting games that are a lot less fun than say, Katamari Damacy.
Although, Dance Dance Revolution is kinda fun . . .
Because, right now there are a bunch of numbskulls in my office babbling in a panicked, nearly Shakespearean earnestness about how SPAM has affected the motherboard and the person who bought the computers is *directly responsible.*
I'd hate for them to be able to put office managers to death.
I can look forward to even more spam from these folks!
Seriously, they were still heaping mounds and mounds of promotional crap when they weren't of any real use to anyone, crossing that fine line between chutzpah and bullshit many, many times.
. . . that horrible graphics will immediately discredit any political website?
Matt Drudge's site has consistently looked worse than horrible since it first went up. This horrible Steve-Madden OMG girl atop "Wonkette's" site isn't much better. What's with this people?
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Isn't predicting the death of technology just a really easy thing to do?
Errr . . . I mean . . .
THIS JUST IN! Pixels, cell phones, and wheelbarrows will be replaced by a newer, more better-er thing.
First denim jackets, legwarmers, cock rock, and synthesizers, and now we reconsider the famed STAR WARS program.
Hell, we should be so lucky as to be able to fight a war in space.
I just can't stand it anymore. Freeze me for the next couple of years and then thaw me when we get all bleary-eyed for the 90s, where I will be all too glad to pretend to be all excited about body piercing and rock festivals, and oh yeah, the internet . . .
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. . . that is the smarmiest ad copy they ever wrote. Especially since they owe us a better mouse after that hockey puck one gave everybody carpal tunnel.
As a production manager, I would dread having to troubleshoot something like that. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind it if the author had to troubleshoot it himself . . . I look at open-source typesetting programs a lot, and while I like the idea, I'm bewildered by how I could keep a book on schedule the way I can with Quark or InDesign in a coding language. The Troff website is a little obtuse at the moment, but I wouldn't mind learning more.
My first impression of the Dungeon Masters Guide II is the sound of a Dungeon Master's sex life shriveling into a withered husk and crumbling into so many insignificant particles: SCHCCHHCHCHCHCHCHHRRRCKCKCKCKKCCRCK.
The Omni Group put out a stand-alone spreadsheet program, but it's buggier than NeoOffice J. It is faster and has a cleaner interface, though. I agree that NeoOffice feels wrong (probably because it looks sort of ugly and is heavily modeled after Microsoft Word). I'm new to spreadsheets (designer bumped up to manager = profound confusion) but I like them whenever I can get them to do something. Omni was very close, I'd be willing to bet that Apple can do one better.
I really hope they do that, because NeoOffice J and Open Office are not cutting it on the Os X platform. *Hastily runs for the exit, ducking head down*
Really? Let me summarize the sound: Yeaaaah (Fake record scratch) Yeaaaah (Fake guitar solo) Yeaaaaah (Fake bass) Then, you hear the strangled cries of Firefox being throttled by the merciless Mattel website.
. . . are great. "Supermodified" is very catchy, but nowhere near as polished as "From Out of Nowhere." I have the soundtrack to Chaos Theory and I like it a lot, but it doesn't really show off how insanely detailed his compositions can get.
Was a very interesting move. Was it his work in "Along came a spider" that impressed you? Or perhaps, "Driving Ms. Daisy"?
Hi, I was really impressed with how the Guide looks in the movie. Was this a team effort, somebody's vision, or did it just kind of come out that way? And also, would you be surprised if books ended up looking like that one day?
So we can't move to more efficient energy than fuel, but we're going to have to [metaphorically] GO BACK IN TIME to preserve what we have? This is just sad.
You've pushed us too far, Britannica! Make ready the weaponry!
In college, I used to keep tally of people who attacked their phones when receiving bad news. It's fascinatingly sad to watch: "The phone gave me bad news! I must destroy the phone!" By the end of the year, I swear I had a total of 35 confirmed phone attacks--but it was probably way above that.
As an occasional web designer, I try to make everything PDA friendly but you know . . . it's nearly impossible to do that in text without seeming extremely pedantic on a page with images. And when I think of the size of your average PDA, I begin to wonder if it's really worth it. Most companies and users just want to have something on the web that confirms they exist and are every bit as good as other sites. They don't care about PDA compatibility, they care about having flashy graphics. Zeldman & co. talk about how everyone can have things their way on their browser, but I don't think it's always a good idea. What is a good idea is trying to figure out who will use your site, and under what conditions, before you try to accomodate everybody at once and drive yourself crazy in the process.
. . . or am I the only one who feels this way? Seriously, if there wasn't a baseball/steroid scandal, would this book even have come out? Who the hell would care?
. . . Gave us the UZI! A fabulously ineffective weapon crucial to the Shadowrun RPG and various bad action movies. Who's to say who's in touch with reality?
"All Mozilla Products are great for me but when Netscape touches it, it turns to crap. This kept opening IE over and over. I had 30 windows open for IE. Firefox still rules!" Wonder how long they'll keep that on the front page?
I didn't see ANYTHING about it a few hours ago. At least for Mac Os X. I find that really weird. It's nice that there's a new Open Office, but the old one has successfully driven me insane with the long waits. NeoOfficeJ seems to be only slightly better, but that's good enough for me. I don't know that I'd try the new one unless I hear rave reviews. And I mean *rave*. Ready to be modded troll in 3, 2 . . .
I think everyone agrees that the XBox is technically superior to Playstation. Well, most people. But are the games more fun? Not really. All XBox has is a lot of first person shooters, the most irritating Sonic game ever coded, and gorey fighting games that are a lot less fun than say, Katamari Damacy. Although, Dance Dance Revolution is kinda fun . . .
Because, right now there are a bunch of numbskulls in my office babbling in a panicked, nearly Shakespearean earnestness about how SPAM has affected the motherboard and the person who bought the computers is *directly responsible.* I'd hate for them to be able to put office managers to death.
I can look forward to even more spam from these folks! Seriously, they were still heaping mounds and mounds of promotional crap when they weren't of any real use to anyone, crossing that fine line between chutzpah and bullshit many, many times.
. . . It is that these lasers *never* hit their intended target. We would be better off trying to perfect the first Transformer. Now you know.
. . . that horrible graphics will immediately discredit any political website? Matt Drudge's site has consistently looked worse than horrible since it first went up. This horrible Steve-Madden OMG girl atop "Wonkette's" site isn't much better. What's with this people?
It's damned good for you, too.
Isn't predicting the death of technology just a really easy thing to do? Errr . . . I mean . . . THIS JUST IN! Pixels, cell phones, and wheelbarrows will be replaced by a newer, more better-er thing.
First denim jackets, legwarmers, cock rock, and synthesizers, and now we reconsider the famed STAR WARS program. Hell, we should be so lucky as to be able to fight a war in space. I just can't stand it anymore. Freeze me for the next couple of years and then thaw me when we get all bleary-eyed for the 90s, where I will be all too glad to pretend to be all excited about body piercing and rock festivals, and oh yeah, the internet . . .