I agree. Boooooriinnng. Most black and white movies suck actually. And if they are silent, you might as well shoot yourself if some pompous "friend" has condemned you to an evening of watching it.
Ah yes, those that deprive themselves of great enjoyment because they don't like black and white films....
Most B+W films require more restoring to look as good as they did about 60 years ago. Too many have grainy images and washed-out contrast. I can see why the young'uns avoid them.
Get copyright extended to such ridiculous lenghts, that once a movie is out of copyright, the only way to see it again is a restored version, which is then covered by copyright again?
Whenever the bank, phone company or any other large corporation sends me a form letter that begins along the lines of "In order to provide a better service to you, our valued customer...", immediately I recoil, 'cause I know I'm just about to be hit with some sort of diminished service. [../] Of course that is followed by another recoil as you realize that it is now going to cost more to keep the level of service you had before.
Firefox 3 needs GTK 2.10+. Too bad for those of use with Enterprise distros such as SLED10 which has GTK 2.8 Anyone who uses an enterprise (long term) version of Linux isn't going to want to run the latest version of Firefox anyhow. Let them use 1.5 or 2.0.
[...] System Shock 2 was awesome largely because you didn't know it was SHODAN until halfway through. Don't worry 'bout spoilers 'cause no one is going to be playing SS2 anytime soon. It doesn't run under NT, XP, Wine--nothing but Windows 95/98 thanks to a crappy 32-bit library that doesn't work with 32-bit systems (NT and above).
... So, I spent 3 months or so picking my nose with little tiny things to do here or there. I was going nuts. I personally don't know how anyone can be at work for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and just "browse the web". I set up a proxy server at home and use FoxyProxy so I could get to any site that was blocked (youtube, fark, but not/.). Still, it was not good enough.... Wasn't there a weekly progress meeting where you have to summarize what you accomplished during the previous week? I would think that "set a new high score for Desktop Tower Defense" might raise a few eyebrows.
...There was nothing the GP could have done to affect the situation, and no blame can reasonably adhere to him.... He could have told someone that the task should be killed.
Also, don't forget to get those TPS Reports to Lumbergh by the time you leave. Or you could throw them all in the garbage and cover them with fish guts. Your choice.
...Mix cat food in with Chex Mix and leave a bowl of it in the break room - see how much is gone at the end of the day... Friends, that one only works for dry cat food. Use the wet cat food with pate. Mmmm!
All the drop tests in the video showed the units being dropped onto a soft mat. Where's the drop onto the tile floor? Where's the drop onto parking lot asphalt? From a moving rental car? Landing under the wheels?
I'm a sucker for the one-meter drop onto a cold washroom floor with ceramic tile on concrete.
"Since I've also got the power supply inside one of the unit's drawers, it should have more than adequate airflow to dissipate heat. I wonder what other airflow-improving ideas Slashdotters have come up with for their consoles?"
I've submersed mine in an old aquarium filled with 15 l of EVOO. Since this is a nonconducting liquid which can diffuse all heat, I feel quite safe with this setup. Not to mention the soothing effect of home-cooked Belgian fries after an intense Halo session. Mmmmm!
The damn thing doesn't even move around. It just pivots in place, etc... There's absolutely no way you can mount a megawatt laser to this thing, and get the respect of your enemies. You could attach a mini cattle-prod to one of those flapping wings. Ouch!
Here in the USA at least, it's only possible to check good references. Nobody dares give bad references anymore, for fear of being sued. Nonsense! A small pact between professionals is all that's needed, "You can give me the dirt and I will promise not to tell where I heard it." Then dismiss the candidate with a simple and vague, "I'm sorry, we have other candidates who are better qualified for the position."
1. Find out there's a new emerging standard 2. Get involved using overwhelming marketshare 3. Introduce proprietary fucked-up implementation 4. Profit... Sometimes, 2) and 3) are reversed. For example: the MS JVM, HTML in IE and the MS version of Kerberos.
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Ah yes, those that deprive themselves of great enjoyment because they don't like black and white films....
Most B+W films require more restoring to look as good as they did about 60 years ago. Too many have grainy images and washed-out contrast. I can see why the young'uns avoid them.
Get copyright extended to such ridiculous lenghts, that once a movie is out of copyright, the only way to see it again is a restored version, which is then covered by copyright again?
It is for Disney.
C64 porn? Sigh. Back to tits that look like they're made out of Legos.
Legos, eh? And I thought they all had shingles. Silly me.
Buy a laptop if you want low power usage. Don't plug in a laser printer to that 20A line, either.
[../] Of course that is followed by another recoil as you realize that it is now going to cost more to keep the level of service you had before.
System Shock 2 was awesome largely because you didn't know it was SHODAN until halfway through. Don't worry 'bout spoilers 'cause no one is going to be playing SS2 anytime soon. It doesn't run under NT, XP, Wine--nothing but Windows 95/98 thanks to a crappy 32-bit library that doesn't work with 32-bit systems (NT and above).
...So, I spent 3 months or so picking my nose with little tiny things to do here or there. I was going nuts. I personally don't know how anyone can be at work for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and just "browse the web". I set up a proxy server at home and use FoxyProxy so I could get to any site that was blocked (youtube, fark, but not
...There was nothing the GP could have done to affect the situation, and no blame can reasonably adhere to him.... He could have told someone that the task should be killed.
...Mix cat food in with Chex Mix and leave a bowl of it in the break room - see how much is gone at the end of the day... Friends, that one only works for dry cat food. Use the wet cat food with pate. Mmmm!
...But those three sentences are the whole post. If you missed them, what exactly are you responding to? You must be new here.
My sign said "Cult" but I sometimes confuse 'l' with 'n'. Sorry! Where's the exit?
All the drop tests in the video showed the units being dropped onto a soft mat. Where's the drop onto the tile floor? Where's the drop onto parking lot asphalt? From a moving rental car? Landing under the wheels?
I'm a sucker for the one-meter drop onto a cold washroom floor with ceramic tile on concrete.I've submersed mine in an old aquarium filled with 15 l of EVOO. Since this is a nonconducting liquid which can diffuse all heat, I feel quite safe with this setup. Not to mention the soothing effect of home-cooked Belgian fries after an intense Halo session. Mmmmm!
This has to be a lost Monty Python sketch, right? Yes! Except that it isn't lost and is about philosophers and not scientists:
Bruce's Philosophers Song
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And René Descartes was a drunken fart
I drink, therefore I am
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed
...He's just making empty arguments for the sake of conflict. No! He isn't.
Nobody dares give bad references anymore, for fear of being sued. Nonsense! A small pact between professionals is all that's needed, "You can give me the dirt and I will promise not to tell where I heard it." Then dismiss the candidate with a simple and vague, "I'm sorry, we have other candidates who are better qualified for the position."
2. Get involved using overwhelming marketshare
3. Introduce proprietary fucked-up implementation
4. Profit