Otherwise we would not know that submarines have been equipped with Sonar (well, ASDIC at least) since the 1940s. Of course, they might have mentioned that boomers try to sneak around quietly without having Sonar disco parties. Still, no dolphins were murdered in the making of this accident!
Hmm, cricket bat or baseball bat? In the face of a zombie horde, who would do better, Brits or our American cousins?
While I like the idea of the extra surface area of the cricket bat (more stopping power - assuming you hit them with the face), I think the baseball bat would have better melee appeal (better swinging power) as you could continue to swing more easily through the stroke after contact and you don't have to realign the bat for the next swing.
Well, that's my Monday sorted - off to Umbrella Labs high-security quarantine zone with a range of implements... hey what's that alarm?
Here's how I imagine the shopping experience (with added Friday feeling) to go:
A vast marble edifice, slate grey with flecks of blue looms in the high street. You enter through blue screen doors.
You bag is checked for suspicious packages by a security guard, he is blind.
There are ten aisles stretching into the distance:
Operating systems
Office software
Games
Office hardware/software
Home hardware/software
Home/Office hardware
Security software
Family software
Media operating systems/hardware/software
Books and magazines (this aisle is empty)
Finally, a long row of checkouts awaits shoppers with one single booth for help/returns and support. Unlike most stores, you must go to each till in turn, paying many times for your product. The support booth is unmanned.
above the operating systems aisle, is a timeline of all Microsoft operating systems, MS-DOS 2.0 and Windows Vista are absent from this line. Instead of being able to buy Windows Vista, you can take an IOU on Windows 7.
In the Office software aisle, a long ribbon runs above the racks, at the far end it has fallen down, enveloped and is strangling a store assistant.
You cannot get into the games aisle for Xbox fanboys having an orgy. In one corner a former Flight-Sim developer is crying by the rack of FS titles.
...is going straight to jail(the new Morcambe Bay maximum security anti-terror gulag!)Look at all those dodgy Twitter posts - America, Australia, America, Luxembourg - the chap is a one-man axis of evil!
To me, at least, Windows has just become a front end. Windows - The welcome mat to the Internet, endless web services and a few essential applications. Frankly Windows deserves to be about 100Mb big and start in 0.33 seconds. I note this because I've also read that there will be a few versions of Windows 7, perhaps not as many as the silly number of Vistas available, but enough to cause concern.
See, I'd be happy with the Windows 7 (insert real name here) Ultra-skinny-super-deluxe-lite version please.
Price it around £30 ($42 - at this precise moment), please add your own browser, security and web apps. Think of it as going to Subways, choose the boring brown roll of an OS, then add all your own funky, juicy, meats, salads, peppers and sauces.
Reading magazines is coming back, at least in the UK, there are a couple of new short story mags launching, http://www.firsteditionpublishing.co.uk/ and another couple that escape me - cheap disposable reads may well work in this CEC
...to the pork barrel highboard, his company has been making billons for decades, but thinks it can screw some more in 'this time of need'.
He steps over the bodies of the fallen, leaps into the air and does a perfect belly flop into the barrel, with a belly laugh for effect - he'll get good style marks for that.
Sixes from five of the judges,only a 5.7 from China and billions for a wealthy corporation! Sam's gotta be pleased with that result.
still want a superlite version with no browser, 'security' or other 'features' that I will not want or will choose a superior product myself - just make it a desktop and welcome mat to the internet.
Have one version with all the usual guff cut out (no "security", no browser, no apps, utilities or themes.) Make this the "Basic version" and let the user choose what browser to use, what security to install, what apps to run. Effectively this "lite" version is the gateway to the net and our chosen apps, where most PC time is spent.
Think of it as going to Subways - choose the boring brown roll of an OS, then add all your own yummy meats, juicy salads, hot peppers and sauces.
To me, at least, Windows has just become a front end. Windows - The welcome mat to the Internet, endless web services and a few essential applications. Frankly Windows deserves to be about 100Mb big and start in 0.33 seconds. If there are a few versions of Windows 7, perhaps not as many as the silly number of Vistas available, but enough to cause concern, at least make a good one.
See, I'd be happy with the Windows 7 (insert real name here) Ultra-skinny-super-deluxe-lite version please.
Price it around £30 ($42 - at this precise moment), please add your own browser, security and web apps. Think of it as going to Subways, choose the boring brown roll of an OS, then add all your own funky, juicy, meats, salads, peppers and sauces.
Full rant here
Yeah, all our past conquests, empire slavery and doping up China to the eyeballs, we're all really proud of that - but that doesn't get banned.
Whereas is Russia, the history books rewrite you!
Slashdot Mirror
How will I get all those denim-clad, teen-spirited, Bewitched classics now?
to Mars, sponsored by Perrier or Evian. Now that'll be an expensive drink when its shipped back!
The Howard Wolowitz school of dating is way ahead of you!
Yep, but
whitter.com
twerple.com
and drivel.com
got a hell of traffic during those hours
...is rapidly building Beagles 3 thru 255 in his garden shed, to launch and splat into these new planets. Fly you puppies, fly!
But can you prove that was my arse????????
Maybe they were opening a new Ikea nearby, that fills up parking lots pretty quick
Otherwise we would not know that submarines have been equipped with Sonar (well, ASDIC at least) since the 1940s. Of course, they might have mentioned that boomers try to sneak around quietly without having Sonar disco parties. Still, no dolphins were murdered in the making of this accident!
Hmm, cricket bat or baseball bat? In the face of a zombie horde, who would do better, Brits or our American cousins?
While I like the idea of the extra surface area of the cricket bat (more stopping power - assuming you hit them with the face), I think the baseball bat would have better melee appeal (better swinging power) as you could continue to swing more easily through the stroke after contact and you don't have to realign the bat for the next swing.
Well, that's my Monday sorted - off to Umbrella Labs high-security quarantine zone with a range of implements... hey what's that alarm?
Is there no fake Microsoft blog? If so, I'm guessing no one believes what they write anyway.
Here's how I imagine the shopping experience (with added Friday feeling) to go:
A vast marble edifice, slate grey with flecks of blue looms in the high street. You enter through blue screen doors.
You bag is checked for suspicious packages by a security guard, he is blind.
There are ten aisles stretching into the distance:
Operating systems Office software Games Office hardware/software Home hardware/software Home/Office hardware Security software Family software Media operating systems/hardware/software Books and magazines (this aisle is empty)
Finally, a long row of checkouts awaits shoppers with one single booth for help/returns and support. Unlike most stores, you must go to each till in turn, paying many times for your product. The support booth is unmanned.
above the operating systems aisle, is a timeline of all Microsoft operating systems, MS-DOS 2.0 and Windows Vista are absent from this line. Instead of being able to buy Windows Vista, you can take an IOU on Windows 7.
In the Office software aisle, a long ribbon runs above the racks, at the far end it has fallen down, enveloped and is strangling a store assistant.
You cannot get into the games aisle for Xbox fanboys having an orgy. In one corner a former Flight-Sim developer is crying by the rack of FS titles.
Rest on my blog, goffee-freelance.blogspot.com
...is going straight to jail(the new Morcambe Bay maximum security anti-terror gulag!)Look at all those dodgy Twitter posts - America, Australia, America, Luxembourg - the chap is a one-man axis of evil!
True, but i'd like to be in the MS boardroom the day Apple announces that move - with a mop and waders!
and when the credit crunch really bites, pony sausages and a nice warm coat
To me, at least, Windows has just become a front end. Windows - The welcome mat to the Internet, endless web services and a few essential applications. Frankly Windows deserves to be about 100Mb big and start in 0.33 seconds. I note this because I've also read that there will be a few versions of Windows 7, perhaps not as many as the silly number of Vistas available, but enough to cause concern. See, I'd be happy with the Windows 7 (insert real name here) Ultra-skinny-super-deluxe-lite version please. Price it around £30 ($42 - at this precise moment), please add your own browser, security and web apps. Think of it as going to Subways, choose the boring brown roll of an OS, then add all your own funky, juicy, meats, salads, peppers and sauces.
well, they've got the flight testing box ticked, even if its only a little tick.
Is this a new Jazz ensemble tribute to Jefferson Starship? In which case, God-speed my acid-trad-jazz-fusion-combo. May your riffs light up the galaxy
Reading magazines is coming back, at least in the UK, there are a couple of new short story mags launching, http://www.firsteditionpublishing.co.uk/ and another couple that escape me - cheap disposable reads may well work in this CEC
...to the pork barrel highboard, his company has been making billons for decades, but thinks it can screw some more in 'this time of need'.
He steps over the bodies of the fallen, leaps into the air and does a perfect belly flop into the barrel, with a belly laugh for effect - he'll get good style marks for that.
Sixes from five of the judges,only a 5.7 from China and billions for a wealthy corporation! Sam's gotta be pleased with that result.
still want a superlite version with no browser, 'security' or other 'features' that I will not want or will choose a superior product myself - just make it a desktop and welcome mat to the internet.
Come on, the Mirror made it a serious drugs problem to sell papers - more than likely he was no more or less off his head than any other TV actor
It goes back to the good old days of ISP CDs falling out of magazines by the dozen, that'll be fun and help magazine advertising sales
Have one version with all the usual guff cut out (no "security", no browser, no apps, utilities or themes.) Make this the "Basic version" and let the user choose what browser to use, what security to install, what apps to run. Effectively this "lite" version is the gateway to the net and our chosen apps, where most PC time is spent.
Think of it as going to Subways - choose the boring brown roll of an OS, then add all your own yummy meats, juicy salads, hot peppers and sauces.
Sell it cheap and you kill Linux and stop the Mac horde in its tracks, problem solved - longer version - http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/
To me, at least, Windows has just become a front end. Windows - The welcome mat to the Internet, endless web services and a few essential applications. Frankly Windows deserves to be about 100Mb big and start in 0.33 seconds. If there are a few versions of Windows 7, perhaps not as many as the silly number of Vistas available, but enough to cause concern, at least make a good one. See, I'd be happy with the Windows 7 (insert real name here) Ultra-skinny-super-deluxe-lite version please. Price it around £30 ($42 - at this precise moment), please add your own browser, security and web apps. Think of it as going to Subways, choose the boring brown roll of an OS, then add all your own funky, juicy, meats, salads, peppers and sauces. Full rant here
Yeah, all our past conquests, empire slavery and doping up China to the eyeballs, we're all really proud of that - but that doesn't get banned. Whereas is Russia, the history books rewrite you!