I don't understand. It's not possible for anything anyone does now to make their earlier stuff any less amusing. The Life Of Brian's satire of the pure, brain dead horse-shit that is religion will never age, regardless of your opinion of Terry Gilliam circa 2012 - which is pretty high in my book; his Imaginarium film was way better than most of the - let's be honest - disposable shit which bookended the good stuff in the Monty Python TV series.
How long until insurants in Iraq, Afghanistan etc use Raspberry Pi devices to power their IEDs? Add some USB semtex, a camera (for manual booby-trapping), 3g/wifi connectivity, solar power (or a small battery). The poor man's drone!
But look at the health benefits if it stops people smoking weed. A car containing 10 kilos of weed contains nearly 8 kilos of weed, meaning that not only will someone go to jail for possessing 5 kilos of weed, but also the people the dealer would have supplied will be unable to obtain this dangerous drug and will perhaps instead turn to safe, legal drugs such as alcohol or tobacco.
On the way out, so it's being replaced by....what? Don't pretty much all best selling PC/Xbox games use DirectX?
Never mind efficiency; MS is efficient, and would provide missing functionality if there's a market demand for it.
Also, DirectX targets the GPU, as I understand it. Games say `needs DirectX 10` or whatever and you get a graphics card with a GPU which also supports it, so I'm not sure what you mean.
Graphics card manufacturers design their shit around DirectX - they have for years.
DirectX rules the gaming world, and doesn't need to add `vital features` as it already has them.
Multi-platform releases have always been important.
iOS, like Android, is a fine platform for beginner game developers and budget games, but I feel we're some way off it being comparable with PC/PS3/Xbox type games.
That submarine? Pipelines? The military planes which crash and burn at every air show in the world?
Russia still can't get over the fact that, in terms of being some sort of global player they're about as important as Spain. They didn't have any problems when they were sealing dogs in rockets and bunging them into orbit - that's about their level.
I thought it was really boring. Then I saw the films. They were boring too. I can't separate them in my mind now - it just seemed like 10 hours of walking through fields..hills...ooh, there's a bad guy - run away/fight...go into the woods..speak to fairies...walk for a few more days...another fights..more woods...more fairies....another fight. Read bullshit good vs evil crap too, a little light star wars.
Not awarding the author one of the most prestigious awards in literature seems pretty justified to me.
> For me at least, it offers a number of advantages over FB:
Yeah, but getting back on topic - no-one uses Flickr so when studying why a company is failing, using a website no-one uses to support an argument is sort of a dead end.
> Did you even read the headline of the stupid article? >1. TheOLPC device is a tablet, not another laptop.
The "One Laptop Per Child" device is not a laptop. Perhaps they need to rethink the name, huh?
I read the headline, but that was all. A few years ago, when I first head about all this, I was quite interested. Never seen one, though. The cheap netbooks/tablets I HAVE seen are pieces of shit. I can imagine that that $35 Indian tablet is an absolute joke and if these things are the same price then they'll suck too so I've lost interest completely.
You can't really compare a laptop with those piece of shit Indian Android tablets. Sure, if you're an absolute dead-end fucking goat herding peasant it might suffice but regular Slashdot readers are going to spew coke out of their noses when they check the spec and wait for something else. Or get a Raspberry PI and build your own Linux kit. Or just save up a little and get a netbook.
> Deep down, most people,now that the germiest thing they touch all day is the thing > they're touching all day: their keyboard.
Does no-one proof-read this stuff? They `now` it, right? "Germiest"? Spaces BEFORE a comma? Incorrect use of commas etc. It's as if this forms part of an 'English as a foreign language` test - question 1 maybe?
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I don't understand. It's not possible for anything anyone does now to make their earlier stuff any less amusing. The Life Of Brian's satire of the pure, brain dead horse-shit that is religion will never age, regardless of your opinion of Terry Gilliam circa 2012 - which is pretty high in my book; his Imaginarium film was way better than most of the - let's be honest - disposable shit which bookended the good stuff in the Monty Python TV series.
How long until insurants in Iraq, Afghanistan etc use Raspberry Pi devices to power their IEDs? Add some USB semtex, a camera (for manual booby-trapping), 3g/wifi connectivity, solar power (or a small battery). The poor man's drone!
> It's a wedding. Those are supposed to be big, formal events.
It's written, that's why.
Heyters gonna heyt.
Eh? You opt-in when you use their service and agree to the terms and conditions.
Surely you mean .71 dollars, not cents. Things aren't quite that bad.
You could try posting this to http://whitewhine.com/. Not sure if you're supposed to enter your own whines but it's worth a shot.
"Justice, though, is at best one of those words that make us look away or turn up our coat collars" - JD Salinger.
Yes, and "The division employs 157 people" ! Bigtime!
If they're still suing Google over Java they can fuck right off.
No you haven't. User ID #67215298's username is Boris1322 but how would the attacker know this?
But look at the health benefits if it stops people smoking weed. A car containing 10 kilos of weed contains nearly 8 kilos of weed, meaning that not only will someone go to jail for possessing 5 kilos of weed, but also the people the dealer would have supplied will be unable to obtain this dangerous drug and will perhaps instead turn to safe, legal drugs such as alcohol or tobacco.
On the way out, so it's being replaced by....what? Don't pretty much all best selling PC/Xbox games use DirectX?
Never mind efficiency; MS is efficient, and would provide missing functionality if there's a market demand for it.
Also, DirectX targets the GPU, as I understand it. Games say `needs DirectX 10` or whatever and you get a graphics card with a GPU which also supports it, so I'm not sure what you mean.
Graphics card manufacturers design their shit around DirectX - they have for years.
Hilarious post!
DirectX rules the gaming world, and doesn't need to add `vital features` as it already has them.
Multi-platform releases have always been important.
iOS, like Android, is a fine platform for beginner game developers and budget games, but I feel we're some way off it being comparable with PC/PS3/Xbox type games.
Your answer has been wrong since 1988.
That submarine? Pipelines? The military planes which crash and burn at every air show in the world?
Russia still can't get over the fact that, in terms of being some sort of global player they're about as important as Spain. They didn't have any problems when they were sealing dogs in rockets and bunging them into orbit - that's about their level.
Exactly. I'm surprised Twitter was up long enough for the message to be posted.
Here's a 'story' about it - funny stuff:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-%26-entertainment/tolkien-denied-nobel-prize-'because-he-wrote-about-hobbits'-201201094741/
I thought it was really boring. Then I saw the films. They were boring too. I can't separate them in my mind now - it just seemed like 10 hours of walking through fields..hills...ooh, there's a bad guy - run away/fight...go into the woods..speak to fairies...walk for a few more days...another fights..more woods...more fairies....another fight. Read bullshit good vs evil crap too, a little light star wars.
Not awarding the author one of the most prestigious awards in literature seems pretty justified to me.
> For me at least, it offers a number of advantages over FB:
Yeah, but getting back on topic - no-one uses Flickr so when studying why a company is failing, using a website no-one uses to support an argument is sort of a dead end.
> Did you even read the headline of the stupid article?
>1. TheOLPC device is a tablet, not another laptop.
The "One Laptop Per Child" device is not a laptop. Perhaps they need to rethink the name, huh?
I read the headline, but that was all. A few years ago, when I first head about all this, I was quite interested. Never seen one, though. The cheap netbooks/tablets I HAVE seen are pieces of shit. I can imagine that that $35 Indian tablet is an absolute joke and if these things are the same price then they'll suck too so I've lost interest completely.
You can't really compare a laptop with those piece of shit Indian Android tablets. Sure, if you're an absolute dead-end fucking goat herding peasant it might suffice but regular Slashdot readers are going to spew coke out of their noses when they check the spec and wait for something else. Or get a Raspberry PI and build your own Linux kit. Or just save up a little and get a netbook.
He asked what was wrong with it, not for an example of a morally neutral use for the information.
> how he micromanaged everything to death (no pun intended).
Perhaps Apple will use "magical thinking" to win the lawsuit. After all, that was how Steve managed his death!
> Deep down, most people ,now that the germiest thing they touch all day is the thing
> they're touching all day: their keyboard.
Does no-one proof-read this stuff? They `now` it, right? "Germiest"? Spaces BEFORE a comma? Incorrect use of commas etc. It's as if this forms part of an 'English as a foreign language` test - question 1 maybe?