Yep, I'm with UPC too, and as long as they keep fighting this they have my guaranteed continued custom, as well as my positive word-of-mouth to anyone who asks me for ISP recommendations.
It's true that this is a positive development, but it's only a good first step in America's bid to catch up with the rest of the civilised world. Congratulations, Americans! Here are some more issues you can work on:
Do something about that embarrassing death penalty business.
The metric system. It just makes sense.
Get rid of some of those ridiculously small denomination banknotes. I can't believe you still have, and commonly use, a banknote worth about €0.74.
Stop unnecessarily remaking foreign films, especially ones that are already in English.
Really? You think this bizarre and hugely implausible story might be an April Fools joke? On this day of all days? On this website? At this latitude? Entirely localised within the Hardware topic?
Clearly you haven't read Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. The correct tense is the Present Ultraconditional Subinverted Semi-active Past Subjunctive Deponent Aorist. So he willon on-have scrod it up.
I just used a 'Staedtler' felt tip pen and some 'Evolve' copier paper to create a likeness of Jack Thompson about to be crushed by a giant letter 'P' falling from a cinema sign. Watch out Staedtler and Evolve! You could be liable!
You're right, the meaning of the terms eludes non-techies, but that summary says (or tries to say) that the terms themselves elude them. Overly pedantic? Possibly, but if you're going to play the grammar nazi you might as well go the whole hog.
Despite ever-increasing adoption of high tech gadgets in first-world nations, the terms used to describe what these new toys do often allude the people who buy them.
I don't usually like to complain about grammar and spelling in article summaries, but come on. Even of you'd used the word you meant, it'd still have been the wrong word.
Actually, that makes more sense, from Jack Thompson's (admittedly warped and twisted) point of view. He called the game a 'Columbine simulator', as I recall, and what was the motivation behind the Columbine shootings? Fighting back against bullies.
Nose grease is even more versatile than that; a finger wiped on the outside of your nose then placed in the foam will help to calm the rampaging head of a beer that's been poured too fast.
Note to potential froth vigilantes: it's considered rude to put your nose grease in anyone else's beer.
I'd also love to see a film adaptation of Mort, and there were plans for one at one point. Pratchett commented thusly:
"A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.
Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."
If WFM is a success, we can only hope they might give Mort another go. And Good Omens, too.
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Yep, I'm with UPC too, and as long as they keep fighting this they have my guaranteed continued custom, as well as my positive word-of-mouth to anyone who asks me for ISP recommendations.
I'm fairly sure this was the plot of a Terry Pratchett book.
It's true that this is a positive development, but it's only a good first step in America's bid to catch up with the rest of the civilised world. Congratulations, Americans! Here are some more issues you can work on:
I'll get back to you if I think of anything else.
I am however not so sure that S&M is really game for "kids".
... oh wait, you meant Sam & Max. Never mind.
I should think not!
Really? You think this bizarre and hugely implausible story might be an April Fools joke? On this day of all days? On this website? At this latitude? Entirely localised within the Hardware topic?
Unpossible.
If you can't figure out why a mother of three is ineligible for the Darwin Awards, I think you may need to climb out of the gene pool yourself.
Not sure if they would be able to put polonium into sushi without him realising?
Isn't it obvious? The wasabi! You could hide anything in that stuff, and no-one would ever taste it. It'd even cover up the telltale green glow!
Clearly you haven't read Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. The correct tense is the Present Ultraconditional Subinverted Semi-active Past Subjunctive Deponent Aorist. So he willon on-have scrod it up.
HTH.
I seriously doubt a RAM upgrade constitutes a 'significant' hardware change. This isn't really cause for celebaration, but let's not get carried away.
I just used a 'Staedtler' felt tip pen and some 'Evolve' copier paper to create a likeness of Jack Thompson about to be crushed by a giant letter 'P' falling from a cinema sign. Watch out Staedtler and Evolve! You could be liable!
Maybe we can finally find out how his father managed to impregnate a frog.
You're right, the meaning of the terms eludes non-techies, but that summary says (or tries to say) that the terms themselves elude them. Overly pedantic? Possibly, but if you're going to play the grammar nazi you might as well go the whole hog.
Even of you'd used...
And there's the inevitable typo in a grammar-nazi post. Double-sigh.
Despite ever-increasing adoption of high tech gadgets in first-world nations, the terms used to describe what these new toys do often allude the people who buy them.
I don't usually like to complain about grammar and spelling in article summaries, but come on. Even of you'd used the word you meant, it'd still have been the wrong word.
Actually, that makes more sense, from Jack Thompson's (admittedly warped and twisted) point of view. He called the game a 'Columbine simulator', as I recall, and what was the motivation behind the Columbine shootings? Fighting back against bullies.
Nose grease is even more versatile than that; a finger wiped on the outside of your nose then placed in the foam will help to calm the rampaging head of a beer that's been poured too fast.
Note to potential froth vigilantes: it's considered rude to put your nose grease in anyone else's beer.
Well, what is 'handheld' short for, in this context? 'Handheld orgasmotron'? 'Handheld monkey-detector'?
I'd also love to see a film adaptation of Mort, and there were plans for one at one point. Pratchett commented thusly:
"A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.
Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."
If WFM is a success, we can only hope they might give Mort another go. And Good Omens, too.
Hilarious.
...a potato?
There'll be no lacerations,
Just friendly crustaceans
Under the sea.
This saved money will only be spent elsewhere.
Um, yes. Yes it will. Is that a bad thing? Why save it otherwise?
The hardest and most delicate task is to build the main engine.
Not if you use an existing open source engine (or one that will be open source soon).
Troll?
I can play Doom 3 just fine with my GF4ti 4400.
I think the first thing they have to do if they're looking for respect and recognition is to stop calling themselves "mathletes".
Ew.