And Gigli is going to suck even in a $50K home theater.
Sweet Jesus, that's an image I didn't need. You just know that somewhere there's someone listening to Jennifer Lopez say 'gobble gobble' in Surround Sound.
How about motion sickness? I'd imagine a bigger screen would make problems that some people have playing games - noticable ones where the gun bobs - more pronounced.
Instead of blowing wads of cash on a home theater system, why not give $100 to your local food bank this holiday season?
Or even better, do that, then invite six of the local needy kids around for Christmas dinner. With the proviso that after dinner they stand around your armchair, shouting 'Boom!', 'Bang!' and 'Woosh!' whenever a particularly loud explosion comes on screen - you won't even miss your surround sound speakers.
.. which is why using the 'hide name' feature on AIM or whatever your using solves the problem rather neatly. Anyone who you want to IM with can still IM as long as they know your name, but casual browsers can't see you.
Surely all they need to do is hire Steve Guttenberg to find the helicopter.
Find it? He's already got it and is using it on the set of his soon to be smash hit comeback film 'Cyborg Academy'. After all, you can't go wrong with chopper jokes.
That may not be the case in the battery market, but in other arenas, the situation is disturbingly similar. When games were available on CDs and floppy together, the CD version was always more expensive, despite it costing less to produce. And there's the magazine that tested CDRs to find that older ones retained data better than newer ones, suggesting that the makers were trying to ensure the continuation of their market by reducing the CDs life.
Perhaps 'inflicted' would be a better word. Might be good to wipe your ass with though...
Why? The article says the vouchers can be used for any software or hardware, as long as it's PC related, not just MS Software. I'm sure there are charities that would be grateful of the chance to get some better PCs or perhaps even just a new scanner.
Kudos have to go for the plan to give unused vouchers to the state's schools. I wonder how many will go on computers that come preloaded with Windows though? Will we see a story on Slashdot about a school tech trying to use the vouchers to buy a computer that *isn't* preloaded with a Microsoft OS?
'In a dawn raid on McDonaldstown by the RIAA, fictional corporate character Hamburgler was placed under arrest for downloading a number of copyrighted songs. Currently languishing in federal 'pound me in the ass' psison, Hamburglar was reported to have said in response to the allegations 'Robble robble. Robble robble robble robble robble. Robble!' No court date has yet been set.'
..welcome our new impossibly-large breasted digital male-fantasy object dominatrix overloards, but am also filled with a vague sense of despair for the human race.
... is if Trinity or Persephone get NEKKID in this one?
Not in the movie, but it'll be in the 'Trinity and Persphone get it on' deleted scene, also known as 'Two girls, a PVC outfit and a shoehorn'.
Hey, if the movie's as abysmal as people are saying, you've got to give *some* incentive to buy it.
Voyager will find the long lost Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Rumsfeld will use this as an excuse to overhaul the space program! We all know the Iraqis have had a secret space program since 1950.
Damn straight. We should bomb those filthy terrorist-hiding moon-rock loving Clangers back the stone age!
There's worse - The Haunting. Imagine giving a horror film remake to an action director. It'd be like having Steve 'Kung Pow' Odenderk direct The Matrix Revolutions. Which might actually not be such a bad idea.
Chosen Neo: 'Die, Evil Smith!' *tonguey shoots out and clobbers agent*
I used to work at a computer helpdesk dealing with customers (I'm thankfully working at a better one now), and we had no incentive to fix problems. We were pressured to get a certain number of calls dealt with - so if we fobbed off a customer with crap, we'd look good. If on the other hand we genuinely tried to fix a problem, seeing it through to the end, we'd get a happier customer, but moaned at by management. The problem is not just cluelesness - I often had the tech knowhow to fix problems - but that it's volume of calls not fix rates that count.
Master System compatibility required you to plug in an adapter into the MD get play Master System cards. It wasn't backwards compatible from the word go.
a bunch of Nano-bots will destroy us all from our inside
Or from the outside. To go into 100% tin foil hat mode if indeed nanobots started replicating like nobody's business, surely it'd be more
efficent for them to exit someone's lungs and let the wind carry them about?
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Sweet Jesus, that's an image I didn't need. You just know that somewhere there's someone listening to Jennifer Lopez say 'gobble gobble' in Surround Sound.
How about motion sickness? I'd imagine a bigger screen would make problems that some people have playing games - noticable ones where the gun bobs - more pronounced.
Or even better, do that, then invite six of the local needy kids around for Christmas dinner. With the proviso that after dinner they stand around your armchair, shouting 'Boom!', 'Bang!' and 'Woosh!' whenever a particularly loud explosion comes on screen - you won't even miss your surround sound speakers.
.. if you need a home theatre system to make a particular film worth watching, then it's not worth watching.
.. which is why using the 'hide name' feature on AIM or whatever your using solves the problem rather neatly. Anyone who you want to IM with can still IM as long as they know your name, but casual browsers can't see you.
And if they do, the worst they'll do is try to sell us penis enlargement pills, which is still preferable to a Terminator style apocalypse.
Hasn't that already been done, as detailed in the Bose speaker/radio adverts?
I never thought we'd see a race of galactic overlords that were less capable of handling stairs than the Daleks.
Find it? He's already got it and is using it on the set of his soon to be smash hit comeback film 'Cyborg Academy'. After all, you can't go wrong with chopper jokes.
That may not be the case in the battery market, but in other arenas, the situation is disturbingly similar. When games were available on CDs and floppy together, the CD version was always more expensive, despite it costing less to produce. And there's the magazine that tested CDRs to find that older ones retained data better than newer ones, suggesting that the makers were trying to ensure the continuation of their market by reducing the CDs life.
Why? The article says the vouchers can be used for any software or hardware, as long as it's PC related, not just MS Software. I'm sure there are charities that would be grateful of the chance to get some better PCs or perhaps even just a new scanner.
Kudos have to go for the plan to give unused vouchers to the state's schools. I wonder how many will go on computers that come preloaded with Windows though? Will we see a story on Slashdot about a school tech trying to use the vouchers to buy a computer that *isn't* preloaded with a Microsoft OS?
'In a dawn raid on McDonaldstown by the RIAA, fictional corporate character Hamburgler was placed under arrest for downloading a number of copyrighted songs. Currently languishing in federal 'pound me in the ass' psison, Hamburglar was reported to have said in response to the allegations 'Robble robble. Robble robble robble robble robble. Robble!' No court date has yet been set.'
..welcome our new impossibly-large breasted digital male-fantasy object dominatrix overloards, but am also filled with a vague sense of despair for the human race.
.. you can tell them to pull your finger?
Not in the movie, but it'll be in the 'Trinity and Persphone get it on' deleted scene, also known as 'Two girls, a PVC outfit and a shoehorn'. Hey, if the movie's as abysmal as people are saying, you've got to give *some* incentive to buy it.
Damn straight. We should bomb those filthy terrorist-hiding moon-rock loving Clangers back the stone age!
There's worse - The Haunting. Imagine giving a horror film remake to an action director. It'd be like having Steve 'Kung Pow' Odenderk direct The Matrix Revolutions. Which might actually not be such a bad idea.
Chosen Neo: 'Die, Evil Smith!' *tonguey shoots out and clobbers agent*
All: Badly Dubbed Cheers
Or as one reviewer suggested, at least protect the Mech's pilot with some sort of shield.
I used to work at a computer helpdesk dealing with customers (I'm thankfully working at a better one now), and we had no incentive to fix problems. We were pressured to get a certain number of calls dealt with - so if we fobbed off a customer with crap, we'd look good. If on the other hand we genuinely tried to fix a problem, seeing it through to the end, we'd get a happier customer, but moaned at by management. The problem is not just cluelesness - I often had the tech knowhow to fix problems - but that it's volume of calls not fix rates that count.
Master System compatibility required you to plug in an adapter into the MD get play Master System cards. It wasn't backwards compatible from the word go.
Or from the outside. To go into 100% tin foil hat mode if indeed nanobots started replicating like nobody's business, surely it'd be more efficent for them to exit someone's lungs and let the wind carry them about?
.. when the nation is mourning the loss of the craft's five hamster pilots, you insensitive clod!
.. when they're explaining to their three hundred pound cellmate 'Bubba' just why they're in jail.
Perhaps he got an advert for special pills in his mail box.