My mom still uses a 20 years old Nokia TV that simply refuses to die. SCART is a blight upon men!
Just this weekend she asked me how to connect her tablet to that... thing.
Don't underestimate how few people have old TV sets. Especially when high resolutions are wasted due to bad vision.
The French arm certainly is an undead version of Infogrames.
But what about Atari Inc? IIRC Infogrames only bought the name. So Atari Inc must be even further removed from Atari(proper).
Last I heard Atari cooperated with Zynga to create Pong. If that is true then both companies are truly frkd. Imagine: Your last ditch effort is to recreate a "game" of yesteryear that nowadays is farted out by first semester students armed with Notepad and and dodgy nutrition.
Atari in name only and not even that since Atari née Inforgrames is the French bit. Pity. I have fond memories of both.
Umm. That was last year. IIRC two people died and it was traced to some dodgy shipment from Egypt. Before or after that there was an issue with cucumber.
The threat is very real. Tens of people die from veggie related contamination every year. Contrasted by the hundreds of thousands who's deaths could have been prevented by proper nutrition. By that measure water is much more lethal than a cucumber somebody took a dump on.
Also Switzerland != EU. While no one in the EU would mind that mistake, a Swiss person would. And a bar full of Swiss, well be prepared to be beaten with Alphorns and have hot molten cheese thrown at you. Also don't brandish any Apple logos, they use Apples for target practice. Did I miss any important stereotypes/cliches?
Yes. The fact that I never claimed that Switzerland isn't a member of the EU. If I did I would be lynched on a daily basis. Or lauded. There are lots of opinions on that. After doing their groceries they wonder if joining the EU wouldn't bring the prices down. Migros is Swiss for highway robbery.
The Swiss stereotypes amaze me. Good luck getting the Swiss to agree one one. The only thing they agree on is that they are Swiss and that they are special. And that Zürich sucks.
There's one thing that isn't a stereotype: If an SBB train is more than a minute late it will be anounced by PA in the train station. In Germany it would be more useful to announce that the train is actually on time and you'd better hurry with your cigarette. In the UK it would be noteworthy that the train will eventually arrive. Maybe not now or today, but it will come.
I know a lot of people in Hamburg who'd object against being ground up. But they might volunteer a football team.
The horse thing is pretty harsh but the hamburger thing is out of line!
I dunno. There are recipies for cat. And I've heard legends of dogs being eaten, too. Which of course is crazy talk.
If you breed animals for food then you pay attention to what they eat.
But if you only have chestnuts then you propably breed pigs. Cats get pretty distracted by small round objects and might starve to death.
All flippancy aside you are right. This is a huge problem with fish. The big fish that ate all the other fishes also got all the mercury. Yummy.
I have a cat that knocked over a spice rack and rolled itsself in salt.
A bold move for a potentially edible animal.
If it had been rosemary and laurel leaves too he'd be on toast.
"Both products cost just £1 a box, as do similar frozen burgers sold by Iceland. The Oakhurst 100% Beef Quarter Pounders, sold by Aldi and implicated in the scandal, cost £1.39 for a box of eight."
That is pretty cheap for eight pattys though. How can an American get these in the U.S.?
Oi! You keep your cheap petrol. So kindly leave us to our ground coagulated offal, hooves and rat nose burgers! For Christmas they even grind some horse's willies into it.
Could be worse. Could be beef.
Interesting how the Brits feel funny eating Horsemeat. Sister-in-law in Vancouver, Canada has served Steak & Kidney pie to local Canucks, who aren't too keen on the ingredients once they hear what they are (well, one of them).
Maybe we need a slashdot poll on "What sorts of meat are deemed inappropriate to eat in your country?"
Pork... "sweetbreads"... Prairie oysters... etc etc
Squirrel.
I live in Germany and squirrels are our nemesis.
Imagine somebody ordering a scw...scph...sqrl...hamster burger. That'd be silly. We might be laughed at.
I read it.
And I still call BS.
You don't get any cultural information this way. A seance may be much more useful than that.
And last time I slept through any classes on that subject - many, many moons ago - problem solving skills are also a matter of upbringing. I daresay being constantly exposed to solving puzzles of some kind as opposed to wandering through the forrests of the Swabian Jura long, long time ago will yield different results.
The answers we can get on how they lived and why they went extinct will be quite limited. In this case I'm rooting for the archaeologists.
Curiosity is a very good reason to do some things. But sometimes dreaming is all we should do.
Thankfully this is for the time being only a thought experiment. And when it becomes a liittle bit more substantial than that I won't be involved in the decision making. There is a reason why SPON put this one next to reports of giant catfish and a big agrarian fair. Truly headline stuff.
Actually, Wikipedia says that they survived until somewhere around 2000-2500 BCE, about 4000-4500 years ago. Still, cloning a mammoth does sound interesting. What could possibly go wrong?
For one we might have to deal with a mammoth infestation obscuring the view to the screen.
But then we could always clone sabre-tooth cats to deal with the mammoths. Problem solved.
We've driven them to exctinction once already, I'm sure it wouldn't be too tricky to do it again.
I think they died out before we actually learned to influence our world at such a large scale as we ar now capable of.
Propably something aweful happened to the temperature. Possibly an ice age. Since we are now headed into the opposite direction we'd need to blow up a couple of volcanos to freeze the sabre-tooths to death.
I've been told the French still have one. Or is it the Russians? The last weeks were a bit confusing in that respect.
We should quickly preserve it of posterity before it is too late. Although some inept preservation attempts have been already made. Perhaps a taxidermist could iron out the quirks.
Possibly. I won't argue against that.
But in my defense you never gave me much to work with but an idiotic blanket statement.
Let's make a deal: I'll leave you to your trolling(or being the genuine article which is hard to tell) and you refrain from pointing out my obvious ad hominem attack. Either way, I'm done with this.
Well? Which one is it?
Self-indulging in a thought experiment like that only works when you are a philosopher. It's attention-whoring in any other field.
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Oh well, it was good as long as it lasted.
Back to replicating the Shark Repellent Bat-Spray!
We can already confuse goldfish. We're getting there!
My mom still uses a 20 years old Nokia TV that simply refuses to die. SCART is a blight upon men! ... thing.
Just this weekend she asked me how to connect her tablet to that
Don't underestimate how few people have old TV sets. Especially when high resolutions are wasted due to bad vision.
My grandma used big, huge magnifying glasses.
Are we hitting some kind of magnifying barrier or why the Rube-Goldberg solution?
It's propably easier on the ants, tho.
Don't quote the daily fail. A reputable news source it is not.
What a cool thing! And a very, very good analysis.
I really feel for Warshaw. A couple more weeks. A little playtesting.
I also love how now code archaeology has become a thing. This is a highly interesting read. Grab a pot of coffee and waste an hour.
The French arm certainly is an undead version of Infogrames.
But what about Atari Inc? IIRC Infogrames only bought the name. So Atari Inc must be even further removed from Atari(proper).
Last I heard Atari cooperated with Zynga to create Pong. If that is true then both companies are truly frkd. Imagine: Your last ditch effort is to recreate a "game" of yesteryear that nowadays is farted out by first semester students armed with Notepad and and dodgy nutrition.
Atari in name only and not even that since Atari née Inforgrames is the French bit. Pity. I have fond memories of both.
Dwarf Fortress?
That cat's mum and dad were also brother and sister.
Dumbest cat known to man.
Umm. That was last year. IIRC two people died and it was traced to some dodgy shipment from Egypt. Before or after that there was an issue with cucumber.
The threat is very real. Tens of people die from veggie related contamination every year.
Contrasted by the hundreds of thousands who's deaths could have been prevented by proper nutrition.
By that measure water is much more lethal than a cucumber somebody took a dump on.
So wash your hand and wash your cucumber.
Also Switzerland != EU. While no one in the EU would mind that mistake, a Swiss person would. And a bar full of Swiss, well be prepared to be beaten with Alphorns and have hot molten cheese thrown at you. Also don't brandish any Apple logos, they use Apples for target practice. Did I miss any important stereotypes/cliches?
Yes. The fact that I never claimed that Switzerland isn't a member of the EU. If I did I would be lynched on a daily basis. Or lauded. There are lots of opinions on that. After doing their groceries they wonder if joining the EU wouldn't bring the prices down. Migros is Swiss for highway robbery.
The Swiss stereotypes amaze me. Good luck getting the Swiss to agree one one. The only thing they agree on is that they are Swiss and that they are special. And that Zürich sucks.
There's one thing that isn't a stereotype: If an SBB train is more than a minute late it will be anounced by PA in the train station. In Germany it would be more useful to announce that the train is actually on time and you'd better hurry with your cigarette. In the UK it would be noteworthy that the train will eventually arrive. Maybe not now or today, but it will come.
Royston Vasey Burger
...until the nosebleeds of course...
Local Burger for Local People
No questions will be asked.
What the hell is this doing on Slashdot?
And why is everyone discussing beef in the comments like it's competely normal for a tech website for nerds to post this stuff...
So...what's your beef with that?
I know a lot of people in Hamburg who'd object against being ground up. But they might volunteer a football team.
The horse thing is pretty harsh but the hamburger thing is out of line!
In California, it is actually illegal to eat horse. It was voted on in a proposition a few years back.
Neat! Did they also say why? Or was it a spur of the moment thing?
I dunno. There are recipies for cat. And I've heard legends of dogs being eaten, too. Which of course is crazy talk.
If you breed animals for food then you pay attention to what they eat.
But if you only have chestnuts then you propably breed pigs. Cats get pretty distracted by small round objects and might starve to death.
All flippancy aside you are right. This is a huge problem with fish. The big fish that ate all the other fishes also got all the mercury. Yummy.
Yah, I also had my first horse steak in Switzerland. It was quite good, actually.
Must be some weird EU thing why it's so hard to get over here.
I have a cat that knocked over a spice rack and rolled itsself in salt.
A bold move for a potentially edible animal.
If it had been rosemary and laurel leaves too he'd be on toast.
"Both products cost just £1 a box, as do similar frozen burgers sold by Iceland. The Oakhurst 100% Beef Quarter Pounders, sold by Aldi and implicated in the scandal, cost £1.39 for a box of eight."
That is pretty cheap for eight pattys though. How can an American get these in the U.S.?
Oi! You keep your cheap petrol. So kindly leave us to our ground coagulated offal, hooves and rat nose burgers! For Christmas they even grind some horse's willies into it.
Could be worse. Could be beef.
Interesting how the Brits feel funny eating Horsemeat. Sister-in-law in Vancouver, Canada has served Steak & Kidney pie to local Canucks, who aren't too keen on the ingredients once they hear what they are (well, one of them). Maybe we need a slashdot poll on "What sorts of meat are deemed inappropriate to eat in your country?" Pork ... "sweetbreads" ... Prairie oysters ... etc etc
Squirrel.
I live in Germany and squirrels are our nemesis.
Imagine somebody ordering a scw...scph...sqrl...hamster burger. That'd be silly. We might be laughed at.
I was also wondering when the news broke.
How exactly did they save money when horse meat is that expensive? Did they rob a glue factory or what?
I read it.
And I still call BS.
You don't get any cultural information this way. A seance may be much more useful than that.
And last time I slept through any classes on that subject - many, many moons ago - problem solving skills are also a matter of upbringing. I daresay being constantly exposed to solving puzzles of some kind as opposed to wandering through the forrests of the Swabian Jura long, long time ago will yield different results.
The answers we can get on how they lived and why they went extinct will be quite limited. In this case I'm rooting for the archaeologists.
Curiosity is a very good reason to do some things. But sometimes dreaming is all we should do.
Thankfully this is for the time being only a thought experiment. And when it becomes a liittle bit more substantial than that I won't be involved in the decision making. There is a reason why SPON put this one next to reports of giant catfish and a big agrarian fair. Truly headline stuff.
Actually, Wikipedia says that they survived until somewhere around 2000-2500 BCE, about 4000-4500 years ago. Still, cloning a mammoth does sound interesting. What could possibly go wrong?
For one we might have to deal with a mammoth infestation obscuring the view to the screen.
But then we could always clone sabre-tooth cats to deal with the mammoths. Problem solved.
We've driven them to exctinction once already, I'm sure it wouldn't be too tricky to do it again.
I think they died out before we actually learned to influence our world at such a large scale as we ar now capable of.
Propably something aweful happened to the temperature. Possibly an ice age. Since we are now headed into the opposite direction we'd need to blow up a couple of volcanos to freeze the sabre-tooths to death.
I've been told the French still have one. Or is it the Russians? The last weeks were a bit confusing in that respect.
We should quickly preserve it of posterity before it is too late. Although some inept preservation attempts have been already made. Perhaps a taxidermist could iron out the quirks.
Possibly. I won't argue against that.
But in my defense you never gave me much to work with but an idiotic blanket statement.
Let's make a deal: I'll leave you to your trolling(or being the genuine article which is hard to tell) and you refrain from pointing out my obvious ad hominem attack.
Either way, I'm done with this.
But before that there were neanderthals which were a bit crap so fuck 'em.
C:\Text\Izzard.txt
Some liberties WERE taken with the source material, mind you.
Well? Which one is it?
Self-indulging in a thought experiment like that only works when you are a philosopher. It's attention-whoring in any other field.