Bender: What better way to celebrate our success than by me showing Bubblegum this globetrotters uniform I made myself.
BubbleGum: Let me see.
Bender shows him his uniform. BubbleGum: Hello lawsuit *rubs palms*.
So, you're a small African republic in the midst of a revolution with a megalomaniac leader, an expatriate Russian scientist in your employ, and 6 billion in heroin profits in your bank account, and you need to buy some weapons-grade plutonium. Who does it for you? Google Personal Agent Now there's innovation and balls in one sentence! I take it the War on terror is won in 2009 or these sorts of semweb transaction become the norm. How *could* Amazon and Ebay compete when it comes to selling nuclear weapons?
My dad dropped his camera in the lake while fishing. The camera was fubar, the XD memory cards still worked and I retreived the photos off them. I use them even today in my own digital camera, he hasn't got one now!
Excuse me i'm not trying to be flamebait, this is what i have heard and i am genuinly confused as to why they seem to innovate and yet are lousy on the support side.
They seem to be the innovator on the PC side of laptops yet from all accounts their machines are rubbish. Considering you pay for quality hardware (which is Sony) and you add this to the old saying "you get what you pay for" i'm surprised Sony has a bad rep.
I'm a mac user but have been tempted to pull out the old AMD 1600 out of the attic and play with it. My fav distro is SuSE and then Lycoris...I fancy Gentoo however. If you fancy keeping in touch then my email addy is crackedbutter2000 @ yahoo . co . uk (sorry for the spacing). And no to your question about my bro, i have a step bro who went to collegiate High. Btw i work near where you live, a hotel on the prom while i'm away from college.
Arrrghh!;) The urban legends are true, there IS a slashdot stalker!
You can never be to careful, you had broke into my personal space with the last question and its akin to a complete stranger stopping me in the street and asking the same thing.
Anyway, I do live on Palatine Road, the second name is Morris, now you know, you wanna meet, strike up a conversation. What about you, where abouts in Blackpool do you live?
If he meant in the 80's then i have to add that rap wasn't even on the scene in the 80's. It was all rock until Run DMC collaberated with AeroSmith in 1986, after that, rap began its climb into mainstream which took until the 90's.
Bender: What better way to celebrate our success than by me showing Bubblegum this globetrotters uniform I made myself.
BubbleGum: Let me see.
Bender shows him his uniform. BubbleGum: Hello lawsuit *rubs palms*.
Yeah i know, I live in Lancashire in the UK. Imagine crossing the county border and it now states on the sign "You are now entering Lancashire (TM), we welcome all, Warner Brothers, bringing the Fylde coast together"
Shiremail won't be offering anything if Warner Brothers manage to claim proof of ownership to the word "shire". The Register had an article where they are now taking the owner of shiremail to court because if might confuse their customers who might think that it is related to LoTR.
Yes both of those words were excepted, my english teacher accepted "Sociality" and its meaning, so a group of people can have a state of mind. The other one is an actual word after i created it and did some research and my art lecturer accepted it in the end, he only disagreed at first because it wasn't in the dictionary he had and because he hadn't heard it before. But he disagreed because my work was going to get marked by somebody else and he was just being cautious incase I lost marks. But yes thankyou for your words, i've learnt something and you have touched a simple art student from the UK
Okay, i can understand some more with what you are saying, but i was applying this to more than 1 hemisphere. For example, in the US, the word "fanny" means your bum. But in the UK, it means vagina. Explain how that should be treated. But then people already do, they accept that differing countries have different usage of the word.
What worries me more is the way people text each other and abbreviate everything to fit in a small message AND then write like that as well in real life.
If people use words the way they want then won't they hit a wall if applying for a job or filling in important documents as they travel through life?
Can it change to fast for a dictionary to catch up? "Bling" is now a word and "Bling Bling" is now a phrase in the dictionary.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_765279.html?m enu=news.quirkies/ Also, I'd like to add that once I created 2 words for myself to help in my course work at college, one was the word "sociality", meaning that state of mind of a group of people, akin to a persons personality. The second word was "nymphomation", but then i did a google search and found somebody else had beaten me to it and was partially common usage. Its simply means an overload or an overdose of information for a person.
Irony however, is just one of those words which is hard to explain to some, but then you say, (i think) that i shouldn't explain it to them?
I lost something in your post, but are you saying we should just let words evolve and have people play catch to the new definition of a word? I thought a dictionary allowed us to all spell words properly and inform us at the same time what the word meant. Wouldn't a meaning for a word fragment if we just let people use it how they wish wherever they are? I'm confused.
I roll that name off my tongue, the girlfriend agrees, its a clever name, its sounds great except you forgot "BMG" at the end and an "S" at the front for "SCocaWarner McMicroSonySoftBMG".
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The success of porting itunes to linux, im sure a license agreement is being violated somewhere.
Bender: What better way to celebrate our success than by me showing Bubblegum this globetrotters uniform I made myself.
BubbleGum: Let me see.
Bender shows him his uniform.
BubbleGum: Hello lawsuit *rubs palms*.
Hari Seldon?
So, you're a small African republic in the midst of a revolution with a megalomaniac leader, an expatriate Russian scientist in your employ, and 6 billion in heroin profits in your bank account, and you need to buy some weapons-grade plutonium.
Who does it for you?
Google Personal Agent
Now there's innovation and balls in one sentence! I take it the War on terror is won in 2009 or these sorts of semweb transaction become the norm. How *could* Amazon and Ebay compete when it comes to selling nuclear weapons?
My dad dropped his camera in the lake while fishing. The camera was fubar, the XD memory cards still worked and I retreived the photos off them. I use them even today in my own digital camera, he hasn't got one now!
A slashdotter *not* buying an iPod is an oxymoron. :)
Just like IBM is to HAL.
Well its better than flamebait
Excuse me i'm not trying to be flamebait, this is what i have heard and i am genuinly confused as to why they seem to innovate and yet are lousy on the support side.
They seem to be the innovator on the PC side of laptops yet from all accounts their machines are rubbish. Considering you pay for quality hardware (which is Sony) and you add this to the old saying "you get what you pay for" i'm surprised Sony has a bad rep.
I'm a mac user but have been tempted to pull out the old AMD 1600 out of the attic and play with it. My fav distro is SuSE and then Lycoris...I fancy Gentoo however. If you fancy keeping in touch then my email addy is crackedbutter2000 @ yahoo . co . uk (sorry for the spacing). And no to your question about my bro, i have a step bro who went to collegiate High. Btw i work near where you live, a hotel on the prom while i'm away from college.
Arrrghh!
You can never be to careful, you had broke into my personal space with the last question and its akin to a complete stranger stopping me in the street and asking the same thing.
Anyway, I do live on Palatine Road, the second name is Morris, now you know, you wanna meet, strike up a conversation. What about you, where abouts in Blackpool do you live?
Then add firewire 800 to that as well, which btw can carry an electrical charge of 45volts.
I live on the same street as the College in town, the name is Johnathan.
If he meant in the 80's then i have to add that rap wasn't even on the scene in the 80's. It was all rock until Run DMC collaberated with AeroSmith in 1986, after that, rap began its climb into mainstream which took until the 90's.
I live in Blackpool! Yay another Slashdotter from my world.
Bender: What better way to celebrate our success than by me showing Bubblegum this globetrotters uniform I made myself.
BubbleGum: Let me see.
Bender shows him his uniform.
BubbleGum: Hello lawsuit *rubs palms*.
It will be even cheaper if they buy in bulk as well. The dollar/user ratio will look even better.
Yeah i know, I live in Lancashire in the UK. Imagine crossing the county border and it now states on the sign "You are now entering Lancashire (TM), we welcome all, Warner Brothers, bringing the Fylde coast together"
Shiremail won't be offering anything if Warner Brothers manage to claim proof of ownership to the word "shire". The Register had an article where they are now taking the owner of shiremail to court because if might confuse their customers who might think that it is related to LoTR.
Yes both of those words were excepted, my english teacher accepted "Sociality" and its meaning, so a group of people can have a state of mind. The other one is an actual word after i created it and did some research and my art lecturer accepted it in the end, he only disagreed at first because it wasn't in the dictionary he had and because he hadn't heard it before. But he disagreed because my work was going to get marked by somebody else and he was just being cautious incase I lost marks. But yes thankyou for your words, i've learnt something and you have touched a simple art student from the UK
Okay, i can understand some more with what you are saying, but i was applying this to more than 1 hemisphere. For example, in the US, the word "fanny" means your bum. But in the UK, it means vagina. Explain how that should be treated. But then people already do, they accept that differing countries have different usage of the word.
What worries me more is the way people text each other and abbreviate everything to fit in a small message AND then write like that as well in real life.
If people use words the way they want then won't they hit a wall if applying for a job or filling in important documents as they travel through life?
Can it change to fast for a dictionary to catch up? "Bling" is now a word and "Bling Bling" is now a phrase in the dictionary.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_765279.html?
Also, I'd like to add that once I created 2 words for myself to help in my course work at college, one was the word "sociality", meaning that state of mind of a group of people, akin to a persons personality. The second word was "nymphomation", but then i did a google search and found somebody else had beaten me to it and was partially common usage. Its simply means an overload or an overdose of information for a person.
Irony however, is just one of those words which is hard to explain to some, but then you say, (i think) that i shouldn't explain it to them?
I lost something in your post, but are you saying we should just let words evolve and have people play catch to the new definition of a word? I thought a dictionary allowed us to all spell words properly and inform us at the same time what the word meant. Wouldn't a meaning for a word fragment if we just let people use it how they wish wherever they are? I'm confused.
Do some illegal things, get sued and then decide how much they should pay off the opposing force. Try and settle for as little as possible!
I roll that name off my tongue, the girlfriend agrees, its a clever name, its sounds great except you forgot "BMG" at the end and an "S" at the front for "SCocaWarner McMicroSonySoftBMG".