Don't use this particular sequence of characters!
I remember one particular mission where I had to fly an A-Wing and protect a couple of freighters. There were missiles I had to take out. It was next to impossible and took me two evenings to somehow muddle through. It got changed in the re-releases but the original floppy version had some absolutely spirit destroying missions.
There are not many sales figures like that. Actually I would say, there is none. Since this is a new record.
Much more interesting would be to find out who buys that stuff and why? You run around with a gun and shoot and thats all that's to it. The popularity of semi-realistic manshooters, soap operas, X-Factor, reality TV shows and teenie bopper music has always eluded me. But they always have a huge audience.
I proved your point. I got modded +5 funny for one of my few serious moments and get labeled as insightful when I am less than reasonable.
And people wonder why Diogenes walked about in broad daylight with a lamp. Thankfully SETI isn't pointed at earth since there is no chance whatsoever to get an intelligent answer from that place:(
I often criticise religion for being too purple. I mean, what's going on with all that purple?
Also why do conservatives pause so long between breaths? They CONSISTENTLY deviate from the mean by AT LEAST two milliseconds! Those breathless bastards!
And capitalism is far too capital! I mean, does it have to be that large? You can hardly move it through the staircase when moving out. You just might as well call it aunt Edna.
Children deserve special protection. While proper and appropriate sanctions are in order dragging them into the court of public opinion is not.
The internet has become a gormless lynchmob.
Children behaving like idiots is news? Hardly. It is the norm and that's why we protect them and punish in a way that does no lasting harm. "Real consequences" are community service, being grounded for months, being cut off the internet for month(including their parents deleting their internet personas permanently) being lectured by a judge in a closed session. All done in private. Not a public punishment under the eyes of a jeerying crowds and most certainly not a visit by the Secret Service lest it be for proper educational purposes. And least of all being pointlessly thrown into jail.
The much more interesting question is why they post this particular type of hateful tripe.
If you want to answer that with "friends and family" then you are propably partly correct but also shortsighted.
Of course there are better way to fight piracy. Germany has a frigate patrolling the Horn of Africa. Captured a couple of pirates, too. Sentenced them to a couple of years in prison. Most of it already served. You can't let those continue marauding the coasts of all seven seas. No, siree.
You need at least 3 persons for an 8 hour shift. Also you will have to plan for sickness, weekends and vacation time. I'd say you need 6 people to watch a kid around the clock.
And since we are talking about teenagers those propably should be armed with more than just harsh language.
So for proper parenting you will need to hire 6 Blackwater mercs just to make sure.
Also: what does a Bearshare logo look like? Hadn't heard of that before. I would have understood Beavershare. He is an adolescent after all...
Yep, found it just yesterday. The 4.1.2 port thread skyrocketed to 1200 pages over the course of a few months. So I'm not alone with my love of this thing.
The interesting thing is that the availability of up-to-date Android releases is being pushed by the community. That should be a way out of the fragmentation issue. At least on the OS side of things. Android hardware still is highly diverse. Which IMHO is a good thing. But Google Play seems to limit software compatibility checks to screen size and OS version. Should propably be a litte bit more thorough. The world seems to be split along the lines of outdated OS, screen too small and not Tegra2/3.
Speaking of Tegra3, I don't know if its gaming capabilities are that much better than every other SoC. I only ever had Tegra tablets. But it must be aggravating to see that a lot of games seem to be Tegra2/3 exclusive. Also Tegra 3 has no 3g/4g capabilities whatsoever. Which in turn makes me not trust the TF700KL. Sometimes I don't see how Joe Shmoe is supposed to navigate the pitfalls of buying the right VERY EXPENSIVE tablet.
I am Motorola-ambivalent. I also have a Xoom which I am preparing for my mother. It was the first Honyecomb tablet. And the first Tegra2 tablet. And yet Moto ports Jelly Bean for this thing. OTOH they had taken their own sweet time with other updates and I had a feeling they abandon their hardware after one year. Nice tablet, tho. A bit on the chunky side but apart from that it is quite nice.
I was oogling a Razr Max HD. But then reason set in. Every phone I looked at had something wrong with it.
My phone needs to be a no-fuss affair, lint tolerant, not have problems with pointy stuff and serve as a wirless hotspot for my tablet. Since LTE still is a bit of a non-event at this time I will wait until next year.
Spent some time on xa-developers and the 4.1 port to Defy thread is already 1200 pages long. With 4.2 in the works. So I'm not alone with my love of this thing.
I love my Motorola Defy. But it still ist stuck with 2.something stuck behind the refusal of T-Mobile to update it which in turn is stuck behind Moto's lack of eagerness to update it.
I am not exaggerating when I say this is one of the best phones I ever had(before that I had a Nokia E61...it ran DoTT!) and nobdy seems to want to build something similar. I keep it in my trouser pocket together with a menacing set of keys and all the lint I can find. It as shielded my valuable, precious testicles from team lint and team keys for 2 years by now and still goes on. March on, brave soldier march on.
Today I spent 2 hours searching for something to replace it. Something with more power and a bit more up to date. Oh sure, their were lots of trollops waving their OLEDs and HDs and other D-cups my way. And I have to admit for a moment I was tempted. BUT THERE IS NOTHING COMPARES TO MY DEFY!
Update it!
{insert picture of sadface testicles here}
On related news: Slashdot needs emeddable pictures. I'll even shave and call the Sinéad.
I went into middle management.And I'm staying the fuck away from project that need more than 5 techies and don't have exactly one owner. There's no better incentive to be reasonable when you can point out that that particular feature will add a digit to the project price. Can't do that with ERP projects where when you do that your shareholders would rip your head off if you were honest.
Consulting is the worst part of a consulting gig. If we had the cojones to tell them what they have to do or we are out our jobs would be much easier. And riskier. Instead they "take our suggestions under advisement". Meaning they'll return to internal politicking and do jack-diddly-doo.
The Air Force propably has a lot more red tape than that. Red, white and blue tape tangled up in a fine mess.
I remember when my country(Germany) wanted to introduce a unified system for our state police(we've got 16 states) and that fell flat. Everybody was astonished. I simply yawned. The federal government should've stepped in and told them what to do and how to do it. Which of course would have been an attack on federalism. Which of course would have been torch&pitchfork time.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I sometimes feel sick for my personal gain from this jolly mess. I'm crying all the way to the bank. So sad:(
When I was a wee wippersnapper I participated in a project for an insurer. 200 IT consultants, 5 contracting companies. It failed miserably after the prototype. And yet it was considered a success because the 3 attempts before that never got out of the planning stages. The mind boggled in a way a mind had never boggled before.
Therefore I move that we put all MBAs on the B-Arc and let the optimizing be done by IT folks armed with machine guns.
Bang on. but what we will be seeing is a convergence of tablet and ultrabook. With a proper docking station solution perhaps even tablet/ultrabook/desktop. And that's why I think that Windows 8(not RT...that's a solution to a problem that has already been solved a quadrillion times) and the touch centric approach is quite clever in the long run.
MS is quite painfully aware that Windows 8 is a non-event in the corporate world. Those have just upgraded to Win7 or are planning to do so in the near future. So they need to peddle Win8 to private users. People will get used to the new stuff when it is bundled with new computers.
In the meantime folks like Asus/Lenovo show the world the real potential of Ultrabook/Tablet hybrids with a touch screen. I guess MS is aware that the introduction of Win8 is a long-term effort. And they know, why they do it. And I think it is less of a gamble than people might think.
Also I don't see the need for more computing power for private users in the near future. So Intel/AMD will propably spend more time to scale down their CPUs to a level where they don't need so much active cooling.
By the time Win8 is fully established we will hopefully also have something similar for Desktop Linux. I have to admit I haven't followed Linux news for a long time but I know not of an effort to use touch screens with multitouch on stock desktop Linux. If somebody would care to enlighten me? I'm flirting with the thought of buying on of those i7 ultrabook/tablet mongrels that will be offered by Asus and Lenovo by the end of next year.
All organizations should streamline their operation before even considering to introduce ERP. They all end up with a massive disaster because their procedures are inconsistent and there are a lot of differences how departments handle the same processes.
Once you have modelled the 5th separate way to order stionary and the umpteenth vacation policy for a department of 5 you know that you are screwed. I wouldn't speak of a system as such but rather a set of specific exceptions.
It is always the same pattern. And since you never start small and you never start flexible you will end up with a bloated, slow hairball that approximately does was the customer wants. Not what he needs.
Not to be nitpicky but proper Mozzarella is made from (European) buffalo milk. Not that cheap cow stuff.
Not every lactation of any bovine will do for proper Mozzarella.
But anything is better than that horrid cheese analogue they stir together from second rate fat, rotting skunks and paint.
Trademarks are fsckd. They need to be registered in every country separately and the need to defend them(usually with lawyers) makes them just as unpleasant to deal with as copyrights and patents. But at least they are easy to look up. For every fschking country under the sun.
Ravensburger has to act like this if they want to keep their trademark. Wich obviously is quite valuable.
The solution to this problem is to intensify our SETI search since there is evidently no intelligent life on earth. Bomb it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Also this trademark is at least 30 years old. And it propably only applies to borad games. Propably only card games. If it has been registered abroad(as in not in Germany) is not known to me.
If we want to compile a list of trademarks for common words we could start with:
A is for Apple
and work our way across the alphabet until we reach
M is for Monopoly
make our way up to
W is for Windows
I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to fill in the gaps. But I guess you get my meaning.
So while Apple(not the round fruit thing but the rounded corners for fruits) is propably well in their rights not to carry them they also deserve every bit of stink they get.
Yes, but they do not give you rotating GIF green skulls and fancy "Under Construction" signs. Too young for retro, too old for hip. It's like Justin Bieber in a zoot suit.
This is true. I've worked in advertising and $3000 ain't bad. Sounds like a temper-tantrum to me.
"The Mavs are considering moving to Tumblr or to new MySpace as primary site."
That's like going from primetime TV to midnight re-runs.
Hasn't baseball moved to midnight reruns by now? Also there is a new MySpace? What happened to the old one? I suddenly feel really out of touch with stuff that really doesn't interest me. I shall put an appointment in my next weeks calendar and agonize a full second over his woe, grief and doom.That poor, poor man who's relevance had eluded me at the moment I hit the submit button. Also: Rich guy billed by FB. News at 11.
It makes you think twice about sending that "lulz! hug U! luv Marky" message you feel the urge to share with the world. A million of interested leads(they actually opted in with the semi-soundness of mind that's required for Facebook) has got to be worth something.
Remind me: I've heard the name before but what is he supposed to be selling? I'm too lazy to look him up on Wikipedia. I've lost track of dotcom millionaires.
What happens after 6 is already canonized in all the books. So there is very little wiggle room if they want to follow that.
Which doesn't actually mean they will follow that. I expect Disney to comission a Star Wars for kids. You know, rewind the monomyth.
Heh, an old teacher of mine used to tell me there has been nothing really new since the Gilgamesh epos. He was of course wrong since there is always Batman.
I tired to watch the new Spiderman reboot and gave up after 30 minutes. Another origin story. Expect something similar for 7.
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Don't use this particular sequence of characters!
I remember one particular mission where I had to fly an A-Wing and protect a couple of freighters. There were missiles I had to take out. It was next to impossible and took me two evenings to somehow muddle through. It got changed in the re-releases but the original floppy version had some absolutely spirit destroying missions.
The OPL2 soundtrack still haunts me.
There are not many sales figures like that. Actually I would say, there is none. Since this is a new record.
Much more interesting would be to find out who buys that stuff and why? You run around with a gun and shoot and thats all that's to it. The popularity of semi-realistic manshooters, soap operas, X-Factor, reality TV shows and teenie bopper music has always eluded me. But they always have a huge audience.
I proved your point. I got modded +5 funny for one of my few serious moments and get labeled as insightful when I am less than reasonable.
:(
And people wonder why Diogenes walked about in broad daylight with a lamp. Thankfully SETI isn't pointed at earth since there is no chance whatsoever to get an intelligent answer from that place
I often criticise religion for being too purple. I mean, what's going on with all that purple?
Also why do conservatives pause so long between breaths? They CONSISTENTLY deviate from the mean by AT LEAST two milliseconds! Those breathless bastards!
And capitalism is far too capital! I mean, does it have to be that large? You can hardly move it through the staircase when moving out. You just might as well call it aunt Edna.
Children deserve special protection. While proper and appropriate sanctions are in order dragging them into the court of public opinion is not.
The internet has become a gormless lynchmob.
Children behaving like idiots is news? Hardly. It is the norm and that's why we protect them and punish in a way that does no lasting harm. "Real consequences" are community service, being grounded for months, being cut off the internet for month(including their parents deleting their internet personas permanently) being lectured by a judge in a closed session. All done in private. Not a public punishment under the eyes of a jeerying crowds and most certainly not a visit by the Secret Service lest it be for proper educational purposes. And least of all being pointlessly thrown into jail.
The much more interesting question is why they post this particular type of hateful tripe.
If you want to answer that with "friends and family" then you are propably partly correct but also shortsighted.
Of course there are better way to fight piracy. Germany has a frigate patrolling the Horn of Africa. Captured a couple of pirates, too. Sentenced them to a couple of years in prison. Most of it already served. You can't let those continue marauding the coasts of all seven seas. No, siree.
You need at least 3 persons for an 8 hour shift. Also you will have to plan for sickness, weekends and vacation time. I'd say you need 6 people to watch a kid around the clock.
And since we are talking about teenagers those propably should be armed with more than just harsh language.
So for proper parenting you will need to hire 6 Blackwater mercs just to make sure.
Also: what does a Bearshare logo look like? Hadn't heard of that before. I would have understood Beavershare. He is an adolescent after all...
Yep, found it just yesterday. The 4.1.2 port thread skyrocketed to 1200 pages over the course of a few months. So I'm not alone with my love of this thing.
The interesting thing is that the availability of up-to-date Android releases is being pushed by the community. That should be a way out of the fragmentation issue. At least on the OS side of things.
Android hardware still is highly diverse. Which IMHO is a good thing.
But Google Play seems to limit software compatibility checks to screen size and OS version. Should propably be a litte bit more thorough. The world seems to be split along the lines of outdated OS, screen too small and not Tegra2/3.
Speaking of Tegra3, I don't know if its gaming capabilities are that much better than every other SoC. I only ever had Tegra tablets. But it must be aggravating to see that a lot of games seem to be Tegra2/3 exclusive. Also Tegra 3 has no 3g/4g capabilities whatsoever. Which in turn makes me not trust the TF700KL. Sometimes I don't see how Joe Shmoe is supposed to navigate the pitfalls of buying the right VERY EXPENSIVE tablet.
I am Motorola-ambivalent. I also have a Xoom which I am preparing for my mother. It was the first Honyecomb tablet. And the first Tegra2 tablet. And yet Moto ports Jelly Bean for this thing. OTOH they had taken their own sweet time with other updates and I had a feeling they abandon their hardware after one year. Nice tablet, tho. A bit on the chunky side but apart from that it is quite nice.
I was oogling a Razr Max HD. But then reason set in. Every phone I looked at had something wrong with it.
My phone needs to be a no-fuss affair, lint tolerant, not have problems with pointy stuff and serve as a wirless hotspot for my tablet. Since LTE still is a bit of a non-event at this time I will wait until next year.
Spent some time on xa-developers and the 4.1 port to Defy thread is already 1200 pages long. With 4.2 in the works. So I'm not alone with my love of this thing.
I'm a neat little geekoid and I see no reason why I should run outdated software.
Cyanogen mod it is. Never liked MotoBlur anyway. Over 2 years I couldn't really see the benefits of it.
I love my Motorola Defy. But it still ist stuck with 2.something stuck behind the refusal of T-Mobile to update it which in turn is stuck behind Moto's lack of eagerness to update it.
I am not exaggerating when I say this is one of the best phones I ever had(before that I had a Nokia E61...it ran DoTT!) and nobdy seems to want to build something similar. I keep it in my trouser pocket together with a menacing set of keys and all the lint I can find. It as shielded my valuable, precious testicles from team lint and team keys for 2 years by now and still goes on. March on, brave soldier march on.
Today I spent 2 hours searching for something to replace it. Something with more power and a bit more up to date. Oh sure, their were lots of trollops waving their OLEDs and HDs and other D-cups my way. And I have to admit for a moment I was tempted. BUT THERE IS NOTHING COMPARES TO MY DEFY!
Update it!
{insert picture of sadface testicles here}
On related news: Slashdot needs emeddable pictures. I'll even shave and call the Sinéad.
Bullshit is power.
I went into middle management.And I'm staying the fuck away from project that need more than 5 techies and don't have exactly one owner. There's no better incentive to be reasonable when you can point out that that particular feature will add a digit to the project price. Can't do that with ERP projects where when you do that your shareholders would rip your head off if you were honest.
Consulting is the worst part of a consulting gig. If we had the cojones to tell them what they have to do or we are out our jobs would be much easier. And riskier. Instead they "take our suggestions under advisement". Meaning they'll return to internal politicking and do jack-diddly-doo.
:(
The Air Force propably has a lot more red tape than that. Red, white and blue tape tangled up in a fine mess.
I remember when my country(Germany) wanted to introduce a unified system for our state police(we've got 16 states) and that fell flat. Everybody was astonished. I simply yawned. The federal government should've stepped in and told them what to do and how to do it. Which of course would have been an attack on federalism. Which of course would have been torch&pitchfork time.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I sometimes feel sick for my personal gain from this jolly mess. I'm crying all the way to the bank. So sad
When I was a wee wippersnapper I participated in a project for an insurer. 200 IT consultants, 5 contracting companies. It failed miserably after the prototype. And yet it was considered a success because the 3 attempts before that never got out of the planning stages. The mind boggled in a way a mind had never boggled before.
Therefore I move that we put all MBAs on the B-Arc and let the optimizing be done by IT folks armed with machine guns.
Bang on. but what we will be seeing is a convergence of tablet and ultrabook. With a proper docking station solution perhaps even tablet/ultrabook/desktop. And that's why I think that Windows 8(not RT...that's a solution to a problem that has already been solved a quadrillion times) and the touch centric approach is quite clever in the long run.
MS is quite painfully aware that Windows 8 is a non-event in the corporate world. Those have just upgraded to Win7 or are planning to do so in the near future. So they need to peddle Win8 to private users. People will get used to the new stuff when it is bundled with new computers.
In the meantime folks like Asus/Lenovo show the world the real potential of Ultrabook/Tablet hybrids with a touch screen. I guess MS is aware that the introduction of Win8 is a long-term effort. And they know, why they do it. And I think it is less of a gamble than people might think.
Also I don't see the need for more computing power for private users in the near future. So Intel/AMD will propably spend more time to scale down their CPUs to a level where they don't need so much active cooling.
By the time Win8 is fully established we will hopefully also have something similar for Desktop Linux. I have to admit I haven't followed Linux news for a long time but I know not of an effort to use touch screens with multitouch on stock desktop Linux. If somebody would care to enlighten me? I'm flirting with the thought of buying on of those i7 ultrabook/tablet mongrels that will be offered by Asus and Lenovo by the end of next year.
All organizations should streamline their operation before even considering to introduce ERP. They all end up with a massive disaster because their procedures are inconsistent and there are a lot of differences how departments handle the same processes.
Once you have modelled the 5th separate way to order stionary and the umpteenth vacation policy for a department of 5 you know that you are screwed. I wouldn't speak of a system as such but rather a set of specific exceptions.
It is always the same pattern. And since you never start small and you never start flexible you will end up with a bloated, slow hairball that approximately does was the customer wants. Not what he needs.
Not to be nitpicky but proper Mozzarella is made from (European) buffalo milk. Not that cheap cow stuff.
Not every lactation of any bovine will do for proper Mozzarella.
But anything is better than that horrid cheese analogue they stir together from second rate fat, rotting skunks and paint.
Trademarks are fsckd. They need to be registered in every country separately and the need to defend them(usually with lawyers) makes them just as unpleasant to deal with as copyrights and patents. But at least they are easy to look up. For every fschking country under the sun.
Ravensburger has to act like this if they want to keep their trademark. Wich obviously is quite valuable.
The solution to this problem is to intensify our SETI search since there is evidently no intelligent life on earth. Bomb it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Also this trademark is at least 30 years old. And it propably only applies to borad games. Propably only card games. If it has been registered abroad(as in not in Germany) is not known to me.
If we want to compile a list of trademarks for common words we could start with:
A is for Apple
and work our way across the alphabet until we reach
M is for Monopoly
make our way up to
W is for Windows
I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to fill in the gaps. But I guess you get my meaning.
So while Apple(not the round fruit thing but the rounded corners for fruits) is propably well in their rights not to carry them they also deserve every bit of stink they get.
Yes, but they do not give you rotating GIF green skulls and fancy "Under Construction" signs.
Too young for retro, too old for hip. It's like Justin Bieber in a zoot suit.
This is true. I've worked in advertising and $3000 ain't bad. Sounds like a temper-tantrum to me.
"The Mavs are considering moving to Tumblr or to new MySpace as primary site."
That's like going from primetime TV to midnight re-runs.
Hasn't baseball moved to midnight reruns by now? Also there is a new MySpace? What happened to the old one? I suddenly feel really out of touch with stuff that really doesn't interest me. I shall put an appointment in my next weeks calendar and agonize a full second over his woe, grief and doom.That poor, poor man who's relevance had eluded me at the moment I hit the submit button. Also: Rich guy billed by FB. News at 11.
It also is a good BS filter.
It makes you think twice about sending that "lulz! hug U! luv Marky" message you feel the urge to share with the world. A million of interested leads(they actually opted in with the semi-soundness of mind that's required for Facebook) has got to be worth something.
Remind me: I've heard the name before but what is he supposed to be selling? I'm too lazy to look him up on Wikipedia. I've lost track of dotcom millionaires.
Me! And I use a stock DualShock. No need for specialized hardware, rooting and other electronic gymnastics.
But I don't always bring it with me. Only for lenghty away missions.
What happens after 6 is already canonized in all the books. So there is very little wiggle room if they want to follow that.
Which doesn't actually mean they will follow that. I expect Disney to comission a Star Wars for kids. You know, rewind the monomyth.
Heh, an old teacher of mine used to tell me there has been nothing really new since the Gilgamesh epos. He was of course wrong since there is always Batman.
I tired to watch the new Spiderman reboot and gave up after 30 minutes. Another origin story. Expect something similar for 7.
So the trick is not to move your head. Squint a bit. And only use microwave-vision. Those are a lot of constraints.
I have a solution that's quite a bit simpler: Look entirely the other way. Total invisibility!
Nevertheless their achievement is actually very cool.