And Linux is the house built out of Asbestos. Sure you think you're safe, but you're dangerously unhealthy and can't climb 10 stairs without gasping for breath.
Speaking of asbestos, my grandma died of asbestosis, it took 'em two weeks to cremate her!
Also, don't forget that they are in water. Water that is moving about fairly violently, waves bouncing off of the pool walls, other waves and the swimmers. Two swimmers might finish at the same time but one might have had to work ten percent harder due to extra resistance, all because of chance.
Luckily, any important competitions don't hinge on one race only (qualifiers, heats, etc.) so those that are genuinely great at the sport will win most, if not all, of the time despite these miniscule uncertainties.
Does anyone else think that a text-to-speech program would be useful and straightforward extension for a mail notifier, in the context of reading out mail subjects?
I know that existing notifiers can just print the subject text and sender in a little box in the corner of the screen but I'm thinking it would be more suited to when you're not at the computer - you don't want to be dragged back to the desk after hearing the little ding just to read some spam or FW!FW!FW! crap.
It'd be like having Stephen Hawking as your secretary.
"You have a new message. Subject: Your gas bill payment is now due"
I saw a television program about a year back about 'clever animals' and the creature deemed the cleverest (and thus saved till the end of the program) was the crow.
What the crow did was similar to what you describe but what I think is even more amazing:
A miniature basket of food with a handle was placed at the bottom of a test-tube, purposefully so that the handle was out of reach of a crows beak although the crow did initially try using his beak to fish it out. The crow then picked up a straight metal wire and bent it into a rudimentary hook shape with the aid of a little crack in the wall. The feathered fella then proceeded to hook its treasure from the test-tube and chow down.
Of course, this experiment is slightly dubious in that you don't know how much preparation or training was given to the crow beforehand (e.g. showing the crow how to bend the wire and fish out the basket etc.) but it's still quite amazing.
Does anyone else actually go out of their way to watch awful movies? My housemate and I ordered Battlefield Earth when we were with Screen Select (A UK based Netflix alternative). Neither of us had watched it before and we wanted to see why it was so spectacularly panned that we actually paid to watch it. Madness you say? Well, I have to state right now that watching Battlefield Earth was more enjoyable than many middle of the road summer flicks I have seen because it was so terrible that it became really hilarious.
It's as though when you reach the extreme opposite end of the scale you loop back to the other end of 'Unforgettable, widely known classics'. Also, while watching a stinker can be amusing, it can also make you appreciate truly great movies that much more.
I am planning to watch Gigli as soon as I can based on this principle.
Just because it's an AC post you don't have to automatically assume it's a GNAA recruitment drive.
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a movie, funnily enough. It is also ranked at number 68 in IMDB's bottom 100 films poll, so it is therefore deemed the worst movie ever seen by many people (Not including myself as I quite liked it, although I was about 12 when I first saw it so the thought of an old lady buying an Uzi was rather amusing. Come to think of it, I'm not sure whether I'd like it more or less if I watched it again)
So you're telling me you have a girlfriend who enjoyed the Predator and Aliens movies and you hold it against her? Or are you just pretending to cast aspersions on her movie taste to further increase the 'HA-HA' factor?
I don't know why but I love Hackers. I think we all know that it doesn't have anything remotely resembling real hacking in it, but that's not the point. To me it's a film that piles on the extra cheese and makes fun of itself at the same time.
The cast isn't bad at all - Johnny Lee Miller pulls off an American accent quite competently and Jolie makes for good eye candy. Matthew Lilard, Jesse Bradford and Renoly Santiago all put in adequate performances too.
Hackers is a mindless nineties throwback with some great lines thrown in. It has one of the best soundtracks I've heard to date: two great tracks from Prodigy (One Love and Voodoo People), the beautiful Halcyon & On & On from Orbital, that nineties classic Connected from Stereo MCs and some Urban Dance Squad thrown in too.
Your analogy is way off. Let's see what happens when I replace the word car with PS2 (the objects that are being modded):
'The PS2 itself was modified in it's original use to do something malicious; therefore, the PS2 itself should be banned accrouding to the rulling.
See? A correct analogy would be along the lines of 'according to the ruling, the mod being used (nitrous booster) should be banned'
To extend this analogy further, in 99 percent of purchases of nitrous boosters there is illegal intent (speeding, getaways) and the remaining want the nitrous booster for personal legal use (too look at?).
As to whether or not this ruling is right is another matter.
In the earlier game, Doom 2, the subtitle was Hell On Earth. Being on Earth and thus susceptible to its changing climate one could assume that it is feasible for Hell to freeze over. As for teaching pigs to fly I dunno, BFG maybe?
But then again, it is Hell - an evil place where sanity and rationality are unknown - so maybe there you are taught to fly and there are frozen pigs running around.
Yeah gravity is so boring! Let's not forget about the laws of thermo dynamics, what a snoozer! How boring it is to shoot an arrow into a upturned char's leg in Thief:DS and watch it spin and tumble off the table onto the ground. And rolling a barell down a flight of stairs? Come on, how dull is that? Rag doll physics? Nah, I'd rather dead bodies just levitate horizontally with only their toes touching a step and half disappear into walls. How boring it is in all these games that are so life like. Seeing bodies collapse and bones break and crumble just really breaks my suspension of disbelief. I remember the good old days of mario when a projectile would defy the laws of physics and carry on a straight path indefinitely. I think they should bring this back for the first person shooter genre.
I always have my mobile phone on vibrate because with vibrate on I have no need for a ringtone. Take these scenarios:
a) I am somewhere loud - my phone vibrates and I can answer it.
b) I am somewhere quiet - my phone vibrates and I can answer it.
Being a male and thus keeping the phone in my pocket, ringtones are virtually obsolete. It should be the same for most males out there.
Women are tricky (as usual) because most keep their phone in a handbag (that's a purse, USAians) and the phone is kept further from the body. However, I suspect that they'd be the same regardless as most of the obnoxious 'I have a cool ringtone' offenders I come across are female. A phone (and ringtone accessory) is just another necklace/pair of shoes/diamond ring for them to show off....
Well, for a lot of people, it only takes 1 second to announce the fact that your phone is ringing and the other 29 seconds to show everybody that you have a mobile phone, that you have the latest pop ringtone and that someone is calling you...
Hardly any American slashdotters will have heard of the band Hear'Say, formed through reality TV show 'Popstars' (pretty much the same drill as Pop Idol). The band split up quite soon after being chosen as the winners of the show (surprise surprise).
In the UK, many of us have seen a likeness between the Hear'Say member Danny and Shrek. Although calling him a celebrity is using the term very loosely indeed.
Some pics (couldn't find much, there are much better ones that show more of a likeness, but oh well):
IANAP (Physicist) but does anyone know what the latency on such a keyboard would be and if it would be feasible? By latency I am talking the time between hitting the key and the sound moving through the air to the detector, and the detector translating this into a signal that can be fed into the PC.
The parent has come up with a clever idea, and I'm sure that 100 percent accuracy could be achieved by adding a distinct sound signature to each key (think of a piano).
The only trouble with this is holding down keys (shift, backspace, WASD for gaming etc.)
News just in from the Department Of Redundancy Department - the security risk of keyboard clicks has been one of the biggest scares since the HIV virus. Crooks have been using the technology to scam people typing in their PIN numbers.
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And Linux is the house built out of Asbestos. Sure you think you're safe, but you're dangerously unhealthy and can't climb 10 stairs without gasping for breath.
Speaking of asbestos, my grandma died of asbestosis, it took 'em two weeks to cremate her!
Also, don't forget that they are in water. Water that is moving about fairly violently, waves bouncing off of the pool walls, other waves and the swimmers. Two swimmers might finish at the same time but one might have had to work ten percent harder due to extra resistance, all because of chance.
Luckily, any important competitions don't hinge on one race only (qualifiers, heats, etc.) so those that are genuinely great at the sport will win most, if not all, of the time despite these miniscule uncertainties.
Secret Government Agent 1: This guy's well groomed, wears nice trousers and is sexually responsible.
Secret Government Agent 2: That's terrorist activity. Intercept, INTERCEPT!
So I guess the fairly common phrase 'Puppet Strings' is a bit of a misnomer then?
Does anyone else think that a text-to-speech program would be useful and straightforward extension for a mail notifier, in the context of reading out mail subjects?
I know that existing notifiers can just print the subject text and sender in a little box in the corner of the screen but I'm thinking it would be more suited to when you're not at the computer - you don't want to be dragged back to the desk after hearing the little ding just to read some spam or FW!FW!FW! crap.
It'd be like having Stephen Hawking as your secretary.
"You have a new message. Subject: Your gas bill payment is now due"
I saw a television program about a year back about 'clever animals' and the creature deemed the cleverest (and thus saved till the end of the program) was the crow.
What the crow did was similar to what you describe but what I think is even more amazing:
A miniature basket of food with a handle was placed at the bottom of a test-tube, purposefully so that the handle was out of reach of a crows beak although the crow did initially try using his beak to fish it out. The crow then picked up a straight metal wire and bent it into a rudimentary hook shape with the aid of a little crack in the wall. The feathered fella then proceeded to hook its treasure from the test-tube and chow down.
Of course, this experiment is slightly dubious in that you don't know how much preparation or training was given to the crow beforehand (e.g. showing the crow how to bend the wire and fish out the basket etc.) but it's still quite amazing.
Does anyone else actually go out of their way to watch awful movies? My housemate and I ordered Battlefield Earth when we were with Screen Select (A UK based Netflix alternative). Neither of us had watched it before and we wanted to see why it was so spectacularly panned that we actually paid to watch it. Madness you say? Well, I have to state right now that watching Battlefield Earth was more enjoyable than many middle of the road summer flicks I have seen because it was so terrible that it became really hilarious.
It's as though when you reach the extreme opposite end of the scale you loop back to the other end of 'Unforgettable, widely known classics'. Also, while watching a stinker can be amusing, it can also make you appreciate truly great movies that much more.
I am planning to watch Gigli as soon as I can based on this principle.
Just because it's an AC post you don't have to automatically assume it's a GNAA recruitment drive.
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is a movie, funnily enough. It is also ranked at number 68 in IMDB's bottom 100 films poll, so it is therefore deemed the worst movie ever seen by many people (Not including myself as I quite liked it, although I was about 12 when I first saw it so the thought of an old lady buying an Uzi was rather amusing. Come to think of it, I'm not sure whether I'd like it more or less if I watched it again)
So you're telling me you have a girlfriend who enjoyed the Predator and Aliens movies and you hold it against her? Or are you just pretending to cast aspersions on her movie taste to further increase the 'HA-HA' factor?
That movie was a crime against man-animal kind.
I don't know why but I love Hackers. I think we all know that it doesn't have anything remotely resembling real hacking in it, but that's not the point. To me it's a film that piles on the extra cheese and makes fun of itself at the same time.
The cast isn't bad at all - Johnny Lee Miller pulls off an American accent quite competently and Jolie makes for good eye candy. Matthew Lilard, Jesse Bradford and Renoly Santiago all put in adequate performances too.
Hackers is a mindless nineties throwback with some great lines thrown in. It has one of the best soundtracks I've heard to date: two great tracks from Prodigy (One Love and Voodoo People), the beautiful Halcyon & On & On from Orbital, that nineties classic Connected from Stereo MCs and some Urban Dance Squad thrown in too.
"Check it out it's got a 28.8 bps modem!"
What's scary is that Beethoven's No. 9 is playing on my Winamp now (it's on shuffle). I shit you not!
What's worse is that the anti-heroin vaccination has to be heated on a grubby tea spoon before being injected.
Mmmm yeah cause showing the original show is the same as taking a format and making your own version of it.
But don't kill your tv. Just cut your cable
I think the moral of the story here is 'Don't lose your TV, loose it!'
Yes, this is a dig at people who can't tell the difference between the two (worryingly many).
So you have Wife Swap now?
:-P
Can't you guys come up with your own programme ideas instead of constantly using ours?
NO NO NO
Your analogy is way off. Let's see what happens when I replace the word car with PS2 (the objects that are being modded):
'The PS2 itself was modified in it's original use to do something malicious; therefore, the PS2 itself should be banned accrouding to the rulling.
See? A correct analogy would be along the lines of 'according to the ruling, the mod being used (nitrous booster) should be banned'
To extend this analogy further, in 99 percent of purchases of nitrous boosters there is illegal intent (speeding, getaways) and the remaining want the nitrous booster for personal legal use (too look at?).
As to whether or not this ruling is right is another matter.
Yep, but from the opposite holes.
Well,
In the earlier game, Doom 2, the subtitle was Hell On Earth. Being on Earth and thus susceptible to its changing climate one could assume that it is feasible for Hell to freeze over. As for teaching pigs to fly I dunno, BFG maybe?
But then again, it is Hell - an evil place where sanity and rationality are unknown - so maybe there you are taught to fly and there are frozen pigs running around.
Or maybe I'm just talking bullshit.
Yeah gravity is so boring! Let's not forget about the laws of thermo dynamics, what a snoozer! How boring it is to shoot an arrow into a upturned char's leg in Thief:DS and watch it spin and tumble off the table onto the ground. And rolling a barell down a flight of stairs? Come on, how dull is that? Rag doll physics? Nah, I'd rather dead bodies just levitate horizontally with only their toes touching a step and half disappear into walls. How boring it is in all these games that are so life like. Seeing bodies collapse and bones break and crumble just really breaks my suspension of disbelief. I remember the good old days of mario when a projectile would defy the laws of physics and carry on a straight path indefinitely. I think they should bring this back for the first person shooter genre.
I always have my mobile phone on vibrate because with vibrate on I have no need for a ringtone. Take these scenarios:
a) I am somewhere loud - my phone vibrates and I can answer it.
b) I am somewhere quiet - my phone vibrates and I can answer it.
Being a male and thus keeping the phone in my pocket, ringtones are virtually obsolete. It should be the same for most males out there.
Women are tricky (as usual) because most keep their phone in a handbag (that's a purse, USAians) and the phone is kept further from the body. However, I suspect that they'd be the same regardless as most of the obnoxious 'I have a cool ringtone' offenders I come across are female. A phone (and ringtone accessory) is just another necklace/pair of shoes/diamond ring for them to show off....
Well, for a lot of people, it only takes 1 second to announce the fact that your phone is ringing and the other 29 seconds to show everybody that you have a mobile phone, that you have the latest pop ringtone and that someone is calling you...
Hardly any American slashdotters will have heard of the band Hear'Say, formed through reality TV show 'Popstars' (pretty much the same drill as Pop Idol). The band split up quite soon after being chosen as the winners of the show (surprise surprise).
In the UK, many of us have seen a likeness between the Hear'Say member Danny and Shrek. Although calling him a celebrity is using the term very loosely indeed.
Some pics (couldn't find much, there are much better ones that show more of a likeness, but oh well):
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
IANAP (Physicist) but does anyone know what the latency on such a keyboard would be and if it would be feasible? By latency I am talking the time between hitting the key and the sound moving through the air to the detector, and the detector translating this into a signal that can be fed into the PC.
The parent has come up with a clever idea, and I'm sure that 100 percent accuracy could be achieved by adding a distinct sound signature to each key (think of a piano).
The only trouble with this is holding down keys (shift, backspace, WASD for gaming etc.)
...ATM machines,...
News just in from the Department Of Redundancy Department - the security risk of keyboard clicks has been one of the biggest scares since the HIV virus. Crooks have been using the technology to scam people typing in their PIN numbers.