But why use unobtanium as the supposed name of said resource? I could see characters using that name as a joke, but from what I understand, that is the name they use not joking.
I'll have to gird my loins to go see it. One of the biggest reasons is unobtanium!? Really, though, the story sounds terrible, and I am not entirely convinced the eye candy is worth $10.
Not sure what is worse, the dealer, or Blizzard. I'd hazard a guess that Blizzard has ruined more lives than this dealer has. Though the cops will word a request to sound like a subpoena to the uninitiated.
They still haven't sold me on needing one. I have a work phone, and if I lost use of it tomorrow, I doubt I would replace it. Possibly with the cheapest prepaid phone service I could find if it was guaranteed to work.
Actually, no, I like Amazon. I just think they are being disingenuous with their statistics.
I'm sure, eventually, I'll come up with something to buy. Just right now there is nothing I need or want. Unfortunately, that is why I ended up with a gift certificate. I was asked what I wanted for Christmas, and I genuinely could not come up with anything to tell them.
The quote from Amazon on their best sellers was just a poke at what is popular. Those same books probably sell in the same proportions at other stores like Walmart or Barnes and Noble.
I got an Amazon voucher for Christmas, but I can't think of anything I want or need from there.
BTW, maybe the reason kindle books sold so well, is because the regular books were covered by dreck like this.
Amazon.com's Hot Holiday Bestsellers (Nov. 15 through Dec. 19, based on units ordered):
* Books: "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin; "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown; and "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
FIRST ISRAELI:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto. SECOND ISRAELI:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah? THIRD ISRAELI:
You're right there, Obadiah. FOURTH ISRAELI:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh? FIRST ISRAELI:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea. SECOND ISRAELI:
A cup o' cold tea. FOURTH ISRAELI:
Without milk or sugar. THIRD ISRAELI:
Or tea. FIRST ISRAELI:
In a cracked cup, an' all. FOURTH ISRAELI:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. SECOND ISRAELI:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. THIRD ISRAELI:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor. FIRST ISRAELI:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son". FOURTH ISRAELI:
Aye, 'e was right. FIRST ISRAELI:
Aye, 'e was. FOURTH ISRAELI:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof. SECOND ISRAELI:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling. THIRD ISRAELI:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor! FIRST ISRAELI:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh. FOURTH ISRAELI:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us. SECOND ISRAELI:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake. THIRD ISRAELI:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road. FIRST ISRAELI:
Cardboard box? THIRD ISRAELI:
Aye. FIRST ISRAELI:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. SECOND ISRAELI:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky! THIRD ISRAELI:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife. FOURTH ISRAELI:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, wor
I have noticed from personal experience that time spent on facebook is inversely proportional to how involved one is in a relationship with a human of the opposite sex.
There may be something to that. I don't have any facebook presence, and have been married for almost 30 years.
Not having a Facebook profile also has some privacy concerns. Someone can tag you in an image even if you aren't on Facebook. The only differences are that it's obviously not linked to your profile, and you cannot untag yourself from it.
Wouldn't that be a moot point? Couldn't you tag a picture of someone on facebook and use a bogus tag,like notizomiac or something like that? They couldn't delete that could they? I have no idea as I am one of the paranoid without facebook,twitter,etc.
From what I understand, TV Pack only applies to certain OEMs(HP and Dell from what I understand). I haven't been able to find a version I could install.
Windows Media Center, specifically Vista media center, has worked out well for me. I got a cheap ($250), refurbed gateway that came with a dual tuner card and Vista home premium. The listings are occasionally flakey, and the scheduled recordings won't automatically adjust if shows are pre-empted by football games running long. I control everything through the xbox360 using a $10 remote I bought on ebay. Very user friendly and cheaper than heck.
That may be the case of someone buying a used/refurb console from a place like Gamespot. Gamespot plugs it in and tests it and it works fine. They then sell it. Caustomer take box home and hooks it up to the network. Seems to work fine for several months. Then one day they get banned. Turns out used Xbox had a mod in it, but was not caught in earlier sweeps. Customer is left with degraded functionality through no fault of their own.
Normally, I would be horrified. But in this case I'd like to congratulate them on taking Darwinism to a new level. They not only took those saps for a wad for an over priced computer that they would rarely have had to deliver, they also got they keys to the kingdom in the form of ssan and mothers maiden name!
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Only if Alfred Hitchcock did the movie. ;)
But why use unobtanium as the supposed name of said resource? I could see characters using that name as a joke, but from what I understand, that is the name they use not joking.
And yes, I am aware of what unobtanium isn't.
I'll have to gird my loins to go see it. One of the biggest reasons is unobtanium!?
Really, though, the story sounds terrible, and I am not entirely convinced the eye candy is worth $10.
Read again. They "requested", not legally subpoenaed.
Not sure what is worse, the dealer, or Blizzard. I'd hazard a guess that Blizzard has ruined more lives than this dealer has. Though the cops will word a request to sound like a subpoena to the uninitiated.
Beware what? Seeing in the new year with Rick Astley seems like a pretty good thing to me. Then again, I am easily amused!
They still haven't sold me on needing one. I have a work phone, and if I lost use of it tomorrow, I doubt I would replace it. Possibly with the cheapest prepaid phone service I could find if it was guaranteed to work.
Actually, no, I like Amazon. I just think they are being disingenuous with their statistics.
I'm sure, eventually, I'll come up with something to buy. Just right now there is nothing I need or want. Unfortunately, that is why I ended up with a gift certificate. I was asked what I wanted for Christmas, and I genuinely could not come up with anything to tell them.
The quote from Amazon on their best sellers was just a poke at what is popular. Those same books probably sell in the same proportions at other stores like Walmart or Barnes and Noble.
I got an Amazon voucher for Christmas, but I can't think of anything I want or need from there.
BTW, maybe the reason kindle books sold so well, is because the regular books were covered by dreck like this.
Amazon.com's Hot Holiday Bestsellers (Nov. 15 through Dec. 19, based on units ordered):
* Books: "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin; "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown; and "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
That's kind of funny. My local phone co-op only offers 1 meg download speed, and I'll be dipped in snot if it doesn't stream hulu (non HD) just fine.
FIRST ISRAELI:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND ISRAELI:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD ISRAELI:
You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH ISRAELI:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST ISRAELI:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND ISRAELI:
A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH ISRAELI:
Without milk or sugar.
THIRD ISRAELI:
Or tea.
FIRST ISRAELI:
In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH ISRAELI:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND ISRAELI:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
THIRD ISRAELI:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST ISRAELI:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH ISRAELI:
Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST ISRAELI:
Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH ISRAELI:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND ISRAELI:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD ISRAELI:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST ISRAELI:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH ISRAELI:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND ISRAELI:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD ISRAELI:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST ISRAELI:
Cardboard box?
THIRD ISRAELI:
Aye.
FIRST ISRAELI:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND ISRAELI:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD ISRAELI:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH ISRAELI:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, wor
I have noticed from personal experience that time spent on facebook is inversely proportional to how involved one is in a relationship with a human of the opposite sex.
There may be something to that. I don't have any facebook presence, and have been married for almost 30 years.
Not having a Facebook profile also has some privacy concerns. Someone can tag you in an image even if you aren't on Facebook. The only differences are that it's obviously not linked to your profile, and you cannot untag yourself from it.
Wouldn't that be a moot point? Couldn't you tag a picture of someone on facebook and use a bogus tag,like notizomiac or something like that? They couldn't delete that could they? I have no idea as I am one of the paranoid without facebook,twitter,etc.
Nena..
The more net-savvy people around don't use twitter or facebook, etc.
From what I understand, TV Pack only applies to certain OEMs(HP and Dell from what I understand). I haven't been able to find a version I could install.
Who are these people who are willing to give up 100% reliability for flakiness
The people who got rid of their land lines and went solely to cellular?
Can't get much flakier than that!
Windows Media Center, specifically Vista media center, has worked out well for me. I got a cheap ($250), refurbed gateway that came with a dual tuner card and Vista home premium. The listings are occasionally flakey, and the scheduled recordings won't automatically adjust if shows are pre-empted by football games running long. I control everything through the xbox360 using a $10 remote I bought on ebay. Very user friendly and cheaper than heck.
Since it is grown from samples, why not long-pig variety?
If there is one thing I am sure of, it's that the Japanese will pervert that into porn.
I think the retard quotient is much higher on the iphone. Much more buy because of "ooh shiny!".
That may be the case of someone buying a used/refurb console from a place like Gamespot. Gamespot plugs it in and tests it and it works fine. They then sell it. Caustomer take box home and hooks it up to the network. Seems to work fine for several months. Then one day they get banned. Turns out used Xbox had a mod in it, but was not caught in earlier sweeps. Customer is left with degraded functionality through no fault of their own.
No, I just thought it was a relevant question to ask since the article said it was to replace Gimp and was not part of the currently listed packages.
BTW, it sure wants to install a lot of stuff.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cli-common dcraw f-spot gamin gnome-mime-data gvfs-bin libart-2.0-2 libart2.0-cil libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libflickrnet2.2-cil
libgail-common libgamin0 libgconf2.0-cil libgdiplus libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libglitz-glx1 libglitz1 libgnome-keyring1.0-cil libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libgnome2-0
libgnome2-common libgnome2.24-cil libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgtk2.0-cil
libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo2.0-cil libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-posix2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil
libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono2.0-cil libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil
I looked in the repository for kubuntu 9.10 and didn't find anything with that name. What is it and where is it?
Normally, I would be horrified. But in this case I'd like to congratulate them on taking Darwinism to a new level. They not only took those saps for a wad for an over priced computer that they would rarely have had to deliver, they also got they keys to the kingdom in the form of ssan and mothers maiden name!