I for one am very suprised that the porno industry didn't sieze this technology first!! I mean, just think of it, robotic sex slaves! Why are we still living in the dark ages with blow up dolls?
Linux is made by intelligent people for intelligent people and idiots simply get lost.
I'd prefer that my computer was a useful tool, not an IQ test.
Linux is a lot of things, but easy to use is not one of them. Until the user experience is improved linux will not advance on the desktop. And that has everthing to do with the design of linux as opposed to the IQ of the user.
I don't know, that paper clip was pretty damn innovative. I mean, who else would think to make something like that?
That paperclip is a true masterstroke of psychological torture. I doubt any of the great dictators or their secret police could have done better.
If innovation is the art of discovering the most irritating application behaviours (ie. Internet explorer grabbing focus on the navigate complete event.) Microsoft have got it nailed.
I kept waiting for clippy to say "do you want fries with that?"
homeless woman tapped my shoulder and asked for money to buy food. Thinking "hey, we're in a restaraunt, she'll actually use the money to buy food!" I gave her $5. She turned right around, wandered outside, and headed in the direction of a nearby shopping center complete with liquor store.
I hate to sound cruel (well, I don't really but) but never give money to beggars. If they want food, buy them food. If you give them money, they'll spent it on booze or crack.
Give money to the agencies that help homeless people, they need the money and will ensure that the greatest amount of people will benefit from it.
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Sounds like a certain Cyberdyne-developed distributed neural-net supercomputer that could integrate all of the USs strategic arsenal under a single command structure, and would survive a nuclear armagedden... gulp... lets just make sure there is a deadman backdoor switch.
Well arnie's in government now, and you thought terminator was a work of fiction - the t800 realised the only way to deal with the problem was via the democratic process. Skynet funding bill - denied!
We could easily, permanently end the situation in Iraq. Sweep 500,000 troops through the country, shooting everyone they encounter. Or simply nuke it. We can't do these things for obvious political reasons.
You don't need to invade, just engineer the right conditions for Israel to attack, they have one of the best armies on the planet and they are ruthless to boot.
You have Afghanistan, and now Iraq as staging platforms should you decide to attack yourselves, or if Israel requires assistance.
Are they not going to have backward compatibility? That seems like a big mistake in the game console market to me.
Well, since Microsoft owns Connectix (who make virtual PC), they can just run x86 via emulation. And according to the apple crowd, it runs faster on a G4/G5 than the real x86 hardware anyway.
I look forward to Windows 2005 running on a G5 emulating x86.
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I don't watch much TV, I never watch news. I have the internet - so instead of watching an hour of news (of which 20-30 mins is sport), I read 6 RSS feeds in 5-10 mins, and know more than I would have by looking at the TV.
Also, the stations here have a nasty habit of starting programs 15 mins outside their advertised times (a new fad, it's suppposed to increase viewer retention), if I see a program I like, and the station fucks me about - I'll just download it from the internet and watch it ad free.
Because I'm not in America, we are always 5 seasons behind (the only exception I can think of was 'Buffy'), if you want to get up to date you just download all the eps you've missed.
Well, you can hardly tell them the reason it doesn't work is because the user is a dumbass.
At work the other day, the token blonde in management was standing in front of the colour copier looking confused (not unusual). The machine was doing it's best impersonation of any-star-trek-episode-where-the-warp-core-is-about -to-breach, ie. lights flashing, lots of meaningless warning sounds. She says: "Is this machine not working?". I said: "What do you think? Not to be trite, but you have eyes don't you?".
There is a reason that Compaq included the 'any' key in it's FAQ.
I'd rather have my kid not take anything at all, but would you rather find your kid shooting up smack that has been cut with drano with a rusty syringe that 5 people had used, or clean drugs with a clean needle?
If you have ever tried to use a tablet, you will probably come to the same conclusion we have. They suck as a form-factor. They are undoubtedly cool, but in the long run, they really don't let you do any serious work.
Fuck 'serious work', where's the fun?
If I can't get a tablet pc that is lighter than a book, better resolution than paper and with a battery that never runs out, then I don't want one. Would you?
2). Don't forget that we need a source for PLASTIC. Right now our enormous chemical industries guzzle down oil like you wouldn't believe, and we still need to find an alternative for that.
Just what we need, more environment killing crap that takes centuries to decompose.
What we need to find is alternatives to plastic. There are plenty of promising candidates.
As a side point, much research is being done to modify organisms to manufacture plastic precursors. Not that I think that that is necessarily the best idea, but you've got to start somewhere.
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Well how much are you prepared to pay? You cheap bastard!
Will it tell you who to avoid? I've always found this to be far more useful than who to associate with (I can work that out for myself thanks)
Isn't that what the Aibo is for?
I'd prefer that my computer was a useful tool, not an IQ test.
Linux is a lot of things, but easy to use is not one of them. Until the user experience is improved linux will not advance on the desktop. And that has everthing to do with the design of linux as opposed to the IQ of the user.
This is excellent, I've been looking for a code editor that helps me write sphagetti code faster. Thanks Microsoft.
That paperclip is a true masterstroke of psychological torture. I doubt any of the great dictators or their secret police could have done better.
If innovation is the art of discovering the most irritating application behaviours (ie. Internet explorer grabbing focus on the navigate complete event.) Microsoft have got it nailed.
I kept waiting for clippy to say "do you want fries with that?"
I hate to sound cruel (well, I don't really but) but never give money to beggars. If they want food, buy them food. If you give them money, they'll spent it on booze or crack.
Give money to the agencies that help homeless people, they need the money and will ensure that the greatest amount of people will benefit from it.
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Also, it's tax-deductable.
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Well arnie's in government now, and you thought terminator was a work of fiction - the t800 realised the only way to deal with the problem was via the democratic process. Skynet funding bill - denied!
First it was 'e' everything, now it's 'i' everything. Bloody marketing department, what's wrong with using a consonant now and again?
You don't need to invade, just engineer the right conditions for Israel to attack, they have one of the best armies on the planet and they are ruthless to boot.
You have Afghanistan, and now Iraq as staging platforms should you decide to attack yourselves, or if Israel requires assistance.
Ahhh .... I see, so that explains why the japanese man next door is 10 metres tall and occasionally transforms into a jet fighter!
Well, since Microsoft owns Connectix (who make virtual PC), they can just run x86 via emulation. And according to the apple crowd, it runs faster on a G4/G5 than the real x86 hardware anyway.
I look forward to Windows 2005 running on a G5 emulating x86.
Was it something he ate?
How about a national 'how to say no' class?
I don't watch much TV, I never watch news. I have the internet - so instead of watching an hour of news (of which 20-30 mins is sport), I read 6 RSS feeds in 5-10 mins, and know more than I would have by looking at the TV.
Also, the stations here have a nasty habit of starting programs 15 mins outside their advertised times (a new fad, it's suppposed to increase viewer retention), if I see a program I like, and the station fucks me about - I'll just download it from the internet and watch it ad free.
Because I'm not in America, we are always 5 seasons behind (the only exception I can think of was 'Buffy'), if you want to get up to date you just download all the eps you've missed.
There's a reason it's called the idiot box.
Quake, Doom, RTCW, et al.
Well, you can hardly tell them the reason it doesn't work is because the user is a dumbass.
At work the other day, the token blonde in management was standing in front of the colour copier looking confused (not unusual). The machine was doing it's best impersonation of any-star-trek-episode-where-the-warp-core-is-about -to-breach, ie. lights flashing, lots of meaningless warning sounds. She says: "Is this machine not working?". I said: "What do you think? Not to be trite, but you have eyes don't you?".
There is a reason that Compaq included the 'any' key in it's FAQ.
As any farmer can tell you, it's difficult to rouse sheep.
I'd rather have my kid not take anything at all, but would you rather find your kid shooting up smack that has been cut with drano with a rusty syringe that 5 people had used, or clean drugs with a clean needle?
No, no. You need to take the red pill - the program will end and you will wake up naked and hairless in vat of snot.
No, you've been a bad boy and Santa is bringing DRM enabled toys. No soup for you!
Fuck 'serious work', where's the fun?
If I can't get a tablet pc that is lighter than a book, better resolution than paper and with a battery that never runs out, then I don't want one. Would you?
Wow, those guys are so irrational! It makes you wonder why the french went to all the effort of blowing up their ship?
Face facts, the French have a long history of shitting in other peoples yards. They need monitoring.
Oh, and where exactly is all the waste radioactive crap from these reactors going? Bet it ain't gonna be on french soil.
Just what we need, more environment killing crap that takes centuries to decompose.
What we need to find is alternatives to plastic. There are plenty of promising candidates.
As a side point, much research is being done to modify organisms to manufacture plastic precursors. Not that I think that that is necessarily the best idea, but you've got to start somewhere.
Here in Australia, we have a longstanding tradition of bending over to be bumfucked by the US.
We've even got little Bush here at the moment, giving our prime minister his pat on the head.