As in I'd Buy You A Beer post. Feel free to use this acronym when you come across a post that you totally agree with or sympathise with and you can't think of anything else to say except 'Man, if you were in my area I'd buy you a beer'.
1) Find a subject in a well lit location 2) As far as subjects go, the shorter the skirt the better 3) Without acting too suspsicously, get as close as you can to your subject. 4) Discreetly aim the lens perpendicular to the floor level and directly between the legs 5) Snap!
Escalators can be a very handy tool.
Oh wait, you mean people take normal pictures with these things?
You move to a new town and there are only two dentists - one with really good teeth and one with really bad teeth. Which one do you choose to be your dentist?
Brownie points (and probably Karma too) to whoever gives the explanation along with their answer.
I wonder if he meant to type Dear and got phonetically confused with Dir, or meant to type Die Corporate Whores - after all the E and R keys are right next to eachother!
I'm not directing this at the parent, but I'm fed up of this whole Graphics vs Gameplay debacle. The two are not mutually exclusive people! For most people graphics would be a subset of gameplay. In most cases graphics are part of the gameplay. You see, with more realistic graphics, one can believe that they are actually there, driving that Goliath tank or commanding a massive army, hence the gameplay is improved. Graphics and Gameplay is not oranges and apples, more like clementines and tangerines.
Disclaimer: Good graphics does not a good game make. However, most of the great games have good graphics (compared to what is/was technologically viable at the time - Pong had good graphics, Mario, etc.)
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Well, personally I've never played a game where I've thought 'Hmm, it would seem more realistic if the sound of the rocket changed according to the surface that I've shot it at'. However, I have thought many a time, 'This would look so cool if there was better lighting and a higher polycount'.
Ask people if they'd rather be blind or deaf and 99 percent would choose deaf. The visuals are the most noticeable element of any computer game, because you damn well see them!
I'd rather they mastered photo realistic graphics first before putting any energy into 'sound generaion'. That's not to say I wouldn't want both the graphics and sound to be perfect, I just belive that sound should take second priority:)
I applaud the creative way in which you tell us what we already know, but I am skeptical of your post being much more than an elaborate "linebreak and bold fest" for karma.:P
Not so much the language that bothers me, it's the fact that he's trying to be funny and/or insightful and failing worse than all the second posters combined. Those two sentences absolutely reek of someone trying to use 'amazing literary skills' to sound clever. I can picture the smug bastard typing that line and sitting there smiling to himself, 'Hur hur man I'm on fire, that's such a clever use of words, they're gonna love that'. Add to that the fact that he's trying to sound travelled in the field of female anatomy and you have a double whammy of lameness.
However, maybe he isn't a complete retard for doing that. Perhaps he is only a permanent grin and a couple of crossed eyes. Haw haw...
Yeah, I'm glad I'm doing a Computer Science degree. I know that when I graduate I'm gonna be earning about 40 pounds/hour freelance programming for some up-and-coming dotcoms. No, wait...:)
But camcorders (along with men) will be banned under the Lesbian World Order due to being used in many years of female exploitation! We men will be forever doomed to live in the sewers, surfacing only to steal food from our Lesbian Overlords.
But when he travels back in time surely be his old self will still be asking out the girl (with rejection inevitable)? So he's gonna be competing for the love of a woman with himself?
Unless, he travels back in time to 5 minutes after the initial rejection. No wait, that would mean the girl would say 'But you just asked me out 5 minutes ago, can't you take no for an answer?'
So I guess he'd have to travel back to a point in time before the previous attempt to ask out the girl. The only trouble with that plan is, he'd have a finite number of attempts before she becomes a 'lolita'.
I saw a job advert in the newspaper the other day for a Planetary Protection Officer. You had to be willing to empty trash cans into the back of a big truck, though.
On a serious note, (and for the insightful mod), does this not sound like one of those dressed up job descriptions that are oh-so popular in today's job market?
"Would you like fries with that?" - Uniformed Solids and Liquids Nutritional Engineer Officer. Thing.
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... but a firstpost on slashdot sounds differently.
Now I see why this technology is only 80 percent effective...
Custom software taxes YOU!
Parent is a IBYAB post.
As in I'd Buy You A Beer post. Feel free to use this acronym when you come across a post that you totally agree with or sympathise with and you can't think of anything else to say except 'Man, if you were in my area I'd buy you a beer'.
Remember folks, IBYAB!
Here's my guide for taking good quality pictures:
1) Find a subject in a well lit location
2) As far as subjects go, the shorter the skirt the better
3) Without acting too suspsicously, get as close as you can to your subject.
4) Discreetly aim the lens perpendicular to the floor level and directly between the legs
5) Snap!
Escalators can be a very handy tool.
Oh wait, you mean people take normal pictures with these things?
You forgot the cops from The Fifth Element ;)
Your post reminds me of the riddle:
You move to a new town and there are only two dentists - one with really good teeth and one with really bad teeth. Which one do you choose to be your dentist?
Brownie points (and probably Karma too) to whoever gives the explanation along with their answer.
I wonder if he meant to type Dear and got phonetically confused with Dir, or meant to type Die Corporate Whores - after all the E and R keys are right next to eachother!
Are you feeling lucky, Mr Proposer?
I'm not directing this at the parent, but I'm fed up of this whole Graphics vs Gameplay debacle. The two are not mutually exclusive people! For most people graphics would be a subset of gameplay. In most cases graphics are part of the gameplay. You see, with more realistic graphics, one can believe that they are actually there, driving that Goliath tank or commanding a massive army, hence the gameplay is improved. Graphics and Gameplay is not oranges and apples, more like clementines and tangerines.
Disclaimer: Good graphics does not a good game make. However, most of the great games have good graphics (compared to what is/was technologically viable at the time - Pong had good graphics, Mario, etc.)
Well, personally I've never played a game where I've thought 'Hmm, it would seem more realistic if the sound of the rocket changed according to the surface that I've shot it at'. However, I have thought many a time, 'This would look so cool if there was better lighting and a higher polycount'.
:)
Ask people if they'd rather be blind or deaf and 99 percent would choose deaf. The visuals are the most noticeable element of any computer game, because you damn well see them!
I'd rather they mastered photo realistic graphics first before putting any energy into 'sound generaion'. That's not to say I wouldn't want both the graphics and sound to be perfect, I just belive that sound should take second priority
I applaud the creative way in which you tell us what we already know, but I am skeptical of your post being much more than an elaborate "linebreak and bold fest" for karma. :P
And how do you teleport from one side of the map to the other?
Whoosh!
Do all of the New York women talk in unison or is that scene you just described from Pacmanhattan: The Musical? :P
Dodging taxis eh? Sure, go ahead and do it, just don't get nailed for taxi evasion.
Not so much the language that bothers me, it's the fact that he's trying to be funny and/or insightful and failing worse than all the second posters combined. Those two sentences absolutely reek of someone trying to use 'amazing literary skills' to sound clever. I can picture the smug bastard typing that line and sitting there smiling to himself, 'Hur hur man I'm on fire, that's such a clever use of words, they're gonna love that'. Add to that the fact that he's trying to sound travelled in the field of female anatomy and you have a double whammy of lameness.
However, maybe he isn't a complete retard for doing that. Perhaps he is only a permanent grin and a couple of crossed eyes. Haw haw...
Yeah, I'm glad I'm doing a Computer Science degree. I know that when I graduate I'm gonna be earning about 40 pounds/hour freelance programming for some up-and-coming dotcoms. No, wait... :)
But camcorders (along with men) will be banned under the Lesbian World Order due to being used in many years of female exploitation! We men will be forever doomed to live in the sewers, surfacing only to steal food from our Lesbian Overlords.
This has always puzzled me - if women are always right, then do lesbian couples have arguments? If they did, would the universe explode?
But when he travels back in time surely be his old self will still be asking out the girl (with rejection inevitable)? So he's gonna be competing for the love of a woman with himself?
Unless, he travels back in time to 5 minutes after the initial rejection. No wait, that would mean the girl would say 'But you just asked me out 5 minutes ago, can't you take no for an answer?'
So I guess he'd have to travel back to a point in time before the previous attempt to ask out the girl. The only trouble with that plan is, he'd have a finite number of attempts before she becomes a 'lolita'.
Maybe I just read into jokes too much...
or the Lee(way) of Jones, Tommy?
Fuck it, this play on words thing is harder than I thought!
I saw a job advert in the newspaper the other day for a Planetary Protection Officer. You had to be willing to empty trash cans into the back of a big truck, though.
On a serious note, (and for the insightful mod), does this not sound like one of those dressed up job descriptions that are oh-so popular in today's job market?
"Would you like fries with that?" - Uniformed Solids and Liquids Nutritional Engineer Officer. Thing.
Don't the Men In Black remove their fingerprints? But what if this guy makes a bomb that will kill us all?
The logical thing to do with an egg is cook it and eat it, but throwing it at someone is much more fun :D
What are all the other New Zealanders doing while he's using the internet connection?
Working on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit