It refers to newbies students clogging usenet, flaming and otherwise needing to learn netiquette as the academic year started and universities handed out e-mail addresses.
Back in, say, the mid 90s, people began complaining that it felt like September all year 'round.
Personally, I never found Septembers the problem. It was more like October 'cause it took time for people to learn what an e-mail account was.
The first film I saw drunk and was still able to shoot holes in the "plot".
Why use humans at all? If all you need is a powersource, stick in sheep? Less troublesome by half.
The caloric efficiency of using bodies as massive networked energy sources is a concept I don't buy. Cripes. Burning wood has to be more efficient.
Of course, if you choose that route then you don't have a story, my point exactly.
Moreover, who cares what people in the matrix think? If they revolt, so what? If I want a how do you perceive reality story, I'll take "Rosencratnz and Gildenstern are Dead" any day.
Lastly, this is a nitpick I know, but bullets travel at well over the speed of sound. I don't care how fast you pull the trigger, with the action of a semi-automatic, the bullets will likely be 100 feet apart between shots.
There was a short story about a pedestrian, who, one evening, decided to forgoe his television. He went out for a walk and took in the air of suburbian night, listened to the wind in the trees, the insects, and noticed the omnipresent blue glow of the televisions in everyone's windows.
The police came and arrested him because he couldn't explain what he was doing.
What people do that is "strange" is relative. The people acting sane are often the stand-outs.
Most jurisdictions have laws against aiding criminals, but I think this may be a strange extension of the concept. I mean, I am anti-tobacco, so I might sue RJR, but farm equipment companies like John Deere strikes me as an unworthy extension of responsibility.
Now that Carrie Fisher looks like one of my math teachers, my childhood memories of her in that aluminum bikini are ruined.
Well, there's always Veronica Hamel from Hill Street Blues.
People who cut cheques are afraid of making stories that will not be understood by people who watch wrestling, so the language is simplified, the plots simplified and so forth.
This leads to clot-headed morons stumbling around, with cloudy motivations, doing heroic stuff in slow motion with no resemblance to the laws of physics.
Want to see a good action flick? See "The Train" with Burt Lancaster.
I worked as a business plan writer and competitive intelligence-type guy. It is amazing how many higher ups ask for idiot things like a pie chart for something that only has one category. Or, having asked you to research a complex subject for six months, ask you to summarize the summary of the executive summary.
What happens next is that they realize you know the material better than they, so they get rid of you.
This leaves them free to mis-manage without looking over their shoulders.
Get a nice, big, fat US government contract estimating how many weapons of mass destruction there are in Iraq.
(PS MP3s are for convenience, not quality. I have no trouble paying for a CD because I get to hear a good quality recording as opposed to an Mp3 with half the information missing.)
The Su-37.
The Mpegs may not load in Safari.
Granted it's no passenger liner, but wow can this plane manoeuvre
http://www.rusarms.com/?linkid=1607&catid=255
A good quest adventure optimized for home compters, rather than a game console will always be a delight.
Hard to do, yes. Essentially a D&D for one will always require a good plot, good graphics. Amazing. This is exactly where films screw up.
There's a reason why "The Man Who Would Be King" will be watched 100 years from now and "Attack of the Clowns" won't. It's worth watching.
All latest transparancies and doo-dads are great, but Quest for Glory V is still worth repeat play because the plot changes. Will you win and still not get the girl? It depends? Better and more complex than the simplified crap one gets on game consoles.
Of course, I wouldn't know.
I don't play consoles. Mind you, I haven't even owned a TV in years. Gimmie print. Gimmie plot.
Slashdot Mirror
You can't fire them if they're in marketing and they insist on saying things like "This HTTP sounds interesting. Can it be put in the web?"
Oh yeah, the same applies to human resources.
What's "sex"?
Man, it's like September all year around.
Anyone remember that phrase?
It refers to newbies students clogging usenet, flaming and otherwise needing to learn netiquette as the academic year started and universities handed out e-mail addresses.
Back in, say, the mid 90s, people began complaining that it felt like September all year 'round.
Personally, I never found Septembers the problem. It was more like October 'cause it took time for people to learn what an e-mail account was.
Those were the days.
First I've heard of it.
Anyone else think 'Star Motion Trek Picture' when reading SMTP?
Publish on a web site that you are voiding their warranty by cracking their product open.
Thanks, though.
The first film I saw drunk and was still able to shoot holes in the "plot".
Why use humans at all? If all you need is a powersource, stick in sheep? Less troublesome by half.
The caloric efficiency of using bodies as massive networked energy sources is a concept I don't buy. Cripes. Burning wood has to be more efficient.
Of course, if you choose that route then you don't have a story, my point exactly.
Moreover, who cares what people in the matrix think? If they revolt, so what? If I want a how do you perceive reality story, I'll take "Rosencratnz and Gildenstern are Dead" any day.
Lastly, this is a nitpick I know, but bullets travel at well over the speed of sound. I don't care how fast you pull the trigger, with the action of a semi-automatic, the bullets will likely be 100 feet apart between shots.
Only terrorists will want to opt out.
There was a short story about a pedestrian, who, one evening, decided to forgoe his television. He went out for a walk and took in the air of suburbian night, listened to the wind in the trees, the insects, and noticed the omnipresent blue glow of the televisions in everyone's windows.
The police came and arrested him because he couldn't explain what he was doing.
What people do that is "strange" is relative. The people acting sane are often the stand-outs.
Most jurisdictions have laws against aiding criminals, but I think this may be a strange extension of the concept. I mean, I am anti-tobacco, so I might sue RJR, but farm equipment companies like John Deere strikes me as an unworthy extension of responsibility.
There's porn on usenet?
Now that Carrie Fisher looks like one of my math teachers, my childhood memories of her in that aluminum bikini are ruined. Well, there's always Veronica Hamel from Hill Street Blues.
The other limitation is fear.
People who cut cheques are afraid of making stories that will not be understood by people who watch wrestling, so the language is simplified, the plots simplified and so forth.
This leads to clot-headed morons stumbling around, with cloudy motivations, doing heroic stuff in slow motion with no resemblance to the laws of physics.
Want to see a good action flick? See "The Train" with Burt Lancaster.
Sell it on line to oversexed Japanese salarymen.
Because that facilitates sharing.
I worked as a business plan writer and competitive intelligence-type guy. It is amazing how many higher ups ask for idiot things like a pie chart for something that only has one category. Or, having asked you to research a complex subject for six months, ask you to summarize the summary of the executive summary.
What happens next is that they realize you know the material better than they, so they get rid of you.
This leaves them free to mis-manage without looking over their shoulders.
Here's a link with a few details about corona. http://www.nro.gov/corona/sysinfo2.htm
Get a nice, big, fat US government contract estimating how many weapons of mass destruction there are in Iraq.
(PS MP3s are for convenience, not quality. I have no trouble paying for a CD because I get to hear a good quality recording as opposed to an Mp3 with half the information missing.)
The Su-37. The Mpegs may not load in Safari. Granted it's no passenger liner, but wow can this plane manoeuvre http://www.rusarms.com/?linkid=1607&catid=255
Re: www with archive.
That is about THE niftiest tip I've read in a while. Thanks much.
A geek's best friend is a computer.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Computers are made from diamonds....
Ergo:
Girls start hanging with computers.
Waaaah! We still lose.
I hope they keep some of us alive as pets. :/
God, I love this picture. Kurt Russell as a John Wayne-wannabe bluffs his way through a hysterical 1982 adventure. See it. A definite pick-me-up.
Thirty-two bits should be enough for everybody.
A good quest adventure optimized for home compters, rather than a game console will always be a delight. Hard to do, yes. Essentially a D&D for one will always require a good plot, good graphics. Amazing. This is exactly where films screw up. There's a reason why "The Man Who Would Be King" will be watched 100 years from now and "Attack of the Clowns" won't. It's worth watching. All latest transparancies and doo-dads are great, but Quest for Glory V is still worth repeat play because the plot changes. Will you win and still not get the girl? It depends? Better and more complex than the simplified crap one gets on game consoles. Of course, I wouldn't know. I don't play consoles. Mind you, I haven't even owned a TV in years. Gimmie print. Gimmie plot.