.. because I sure as hell don't need six hundred gigabytes of random footage spliced with various unrelated songs. Think I'm kidding? Do a search on YouTube and half the results that come up are those crap. Of course, bearing in mind that much of the content on youtube is, despite Google's best efforts to remove it, made up of copyrighted material, that may be a good enough reason to keep it off.
Still, I guess I'd feel safer being thretened by one of these than a normal knife.. 'Give me all your money, or I'll cut the top layer of dead skins cells off your throat!'
Well, not personally, but given that they're just talking about tooling around in space, what's the attraction of that? Now, if they were to actually try and get a man on Mars, you'd have no shortage of applicants.
The Slashdot article may be ambiguous, but the actual article it links to makes clear it was the teacher yelling at a student, not two teachers yelling at each other.
.. are disconnected from reality by at least one level. They come in with their parents looking to buy a computer so they can see and speak to their friends two streets away over the webcam. What's wrong with going round to someone's house and asking if someone can out to play, as I did when I was a kid?
'A series of gaming sites ran by counter strike kiddies who think that half life 2 is going to be better than far cry.'. Not sure I quite get that 100%, but you can't argue with the wisdom of the internet.
.. to do what various tabloid UK rags do and have a 'Wicked Whispers' section where they mention something dodgy happening between a celebrity and someone else, without saying who the celebrity is. Rather thay say 'well known daytime TV presenter' or something. Usually you've got a pretty good idea of who they're referring to, but they never name names. Of course, the other advantages is they can just completely make stuff up.
.. or that's what it feels like. I didn't actually see the Newton's cradle one, just the other ones that were on telly. I hope it's not all faked, but the guy who plays Dr Bunhead on Braniac has admitted the bathtub thing was staged.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0, ,1821144,00.html
Not some of the IT staff working for the telecommunications industry apparently. I was helping my mum get her broadband fixed and it was pretty damn clear that some of the staff she spoke to were just working from a flow chart style script. If it wasn't one of their proscribed answers then they didn't know what to do. It seems like some call centres undercut others by not bothering to train people, just given them scripts. Not all, mind you, after redialling a few times we got though to someone who was actually not only not working from a script but who knew what she was talking about.
This is all the fault of outsourcing - I used to work in a callcentre for a now defunct computer company and while we did have some training, only two weeks mind, we had no incentive to fix problems. Even if we did have the skills, and it would take twenty minutes on the phone to fix, there was no reason to do that. I left when I got a better job, the last straw being my colleague being praised for fobbing people off because he took more calls than I did trying to fix things.
Not the superman villain but UK explosive science show 'Braniac: Science Abuse' - they regularly stick stuff in Microwaves, as well as do other things like demolish safes with tanks etc. It's a great show - here are the Microwave clips on Youtube - http://tinyurl.com/y6oan8
I mean, if you to get to an indoor toilet before you wet yourself, then you shouldn't have drunk so much in the first place. But given how we've now got things like 'do not ram in eye' labels on knives etc, it's not surprising that we're catering to the lowest common denominator.
... that didn't have any buzzwords in it. Let's hope just that it doesn't get Yahoo into a jam - otherwise that VP could be toast.
Vista? No thanks. XP or OSX will do fine.
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I've recently got a Mac Mini and it's kind of handy, though I'm undecided as to whether my PC will get upgraded, or replaced, or if I"ll stick with Macs. What I do know is that I won't be plumping for vista given the high system demands it's got. 1GB memory at least? Er, no. What Leopard has going for it is that it doesn't require a significantly higher spec than a Mac running OSX 10.4.
.. by not emoting 'HAY GUYZ I NEED A HEAL' or 'WANNA JOIN MY GUILD' every five seconds. Actually I guess Blizzard are worried not so much by the DMCA stuff as the fact this takes away human interaction from the game. Which is, after all, the only real reason to play an MMORPG and not an offline RPG.
.. the actual nadir of South Park bandwagon jumping was 'Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants'. I thought for sure the show had jumped the shark then, but it actually kind of came back from that.
.. wasn't so much the sidetalking thing, but that someone at Nokia thought that the way forward with the N-Gage QD was to fix the sidetalking feature but remove two appealing features. So the new N-Gage QD did let you talk into it like a normal phone, but you could no longer play MP3s or even listen to game sounds in stereo. The former is a fixture on virtually every phone that costs more than fifty quid. Now if that same person is still making design decisions at Nokia, that's definitely not a good thing.
.. this is worrying, but it's probably not quite enough to take out finance/credit cards etc. My local store requires, if you're doing finance, proof of ID such as driving licence or passport, and also a recent household bill.
At the store where I work, we regularly have budget laptops, in the $350 range, and still we get people asking if there's nothing cheaper, these laptops being the absolute cheapest we have. I swear next time I get asked this, I'm going to point them to the $50 kiddy Superman speak-and-spell laptops we sell.
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.. you're thinking of Tomb Raider.
.. because I sure as hell don't need six hundred gigabytes of random footage spliced with various unrelated songs. Think I'm kidding? Do a search on YouTube and half the results that come up are those crap. Of course, bearing in mind that much of the content on youtube is, despite Google's best efforts to remove it, made up of copyrighted material, that may be a good enough reason to keep it off.
Still, I guess I'd feel safer being thretened by one of these than a normal knife.. 'Give me all your money, or I'll cut the top layer of dead skins cells off your throat!'
Well, not personally, but given that they're just talking about tooling around in space, what's the attraction of that? Now, if they were to actually try and get a man on Mars, you'd have no shortage of applicants.
Not very well, I suspect..
The Slashdot article may be ambiguous, but the actual article it links to makes clear it was the teacher yelling at a student, not two teachers yelling at each other.
.. ever since I heard 'Barbie Girl' in fact.
.. are disconnected from reality by at least one level. They come in with their parents looking to buy a computer so they can see and speak to their friends two streets away over the webcam. What's wrong with going round to someone's house and asking if someone can out to play, as I did when I was a kid?
'A series of gaming sites ran by counter strike kiddies who think that half life 2 is going to be better than far cry.'. Not sure I quite get that 100%, but you can't argue with the wisdom of the internet.
.. to do what various tabloid UK rags do and have a 'Wicked Whispers' section where they mention something dodgy happening between a celebrity and someone else, without saying who the celebrity is. Rather thay say 'well known daytime TV presenter' or something. Usually you've got a pretty good idea of who they're referring to, but they never name names. Of course, the other advantages is they can just completely make stuff up.
.. that's when we call in Godzilla.
.. or that's what it feels like. I didn't actually see the Newton's cradle one, just the other ones that were on telly. I hope it's not all faked, but the guy who plays Dr Bunhead on Braniac has admitted the bathtub thing was staged.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0, ,1821144,00.html
This is all the fault of outsourcing - I used to work in a callcentre for a now defunct computer company and while we did have some training, only two weeks mind, we had no incentive to fix problems. Even if we did have the skills, and it would take twenty minutes on the phone to fix, there was no reason to do that. I left when I got a better job, the last straw being my colleague being praised for fobbing people off because he took more calls than I did trying to fix things.
Not the superman villain but UK explosive science show 'Braniac: Science Abuse' - they regularly stick stuff in Microwaves, as well as do other things like demolish safes with tanks etc. It's a great show - here are the Microwave clips on Youtube - http://tinyurl.com/y6oan8
.. girls don't pee. They expel all waste products as a pine-smelling vapour emitted through their pores.
I mean, if you to get to an indoor toilet before you wet yourself, then you shouldn't have drunk so much in the first place. But given how we've now got things like 'do not ram in eye' labels on knives etc, it's not surprising that we're catering to the lowest common denominator.
.. is to drag the tree outside and put it by the bin, and then hoover up the needles.
... that didn't have any buzzwords in it. Let's hope just that it doesn't get Yahoo into a jam - otherwise that VP could be toast.
I've recently got a Mac Mini and it's kind of handy, though I'm undecided as to whether my PC will get upgraded, or replaced, or if I"ll stick with Macs. What I do know is that I won't be plumping for vista given the high system demands it's got. 1GB memory at least? Er, no. What Leopard has going for it is that it doesn't require a significantly higher spec than a Mac running OSX 10.4.
.. by not emoting 'HAY GUYZ I NEED A HEAL' or 'WANNA JOIN MY GUILD' every five seconds. Actually I guess Blizzard are worried not so much by the DMCA stuff as the fact this takes away human interaction from the game. Which is, after all, the only real reason to play an MMORPG and not an offline RPG.
.. the actual nadir of South Park bandwagon jumping was 'Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants'. I thought for sure the show had jumped the shark then, but it actually kind of came back from that.
.. wasn't so much the sidetalking thing, but that someone at Nokia thought that the way forward with the N-Gage QD was to fix the sidetalking feature but remove two appealing features. So the new N-Gage QD did let you talk into it like a normal phone, but you could no longer play MP3s or even listen to game sounds in stereo. The former is a fixture on virtually every phone that costs more than fifty quid. Now if that same person is still making design decisions at Nokia, that's definitely not a good thing.
.. this is worrying, but it's probably not quite enough to take out finance/credit cards etc. My local store requires, if you're doing finance, proof of ID such as driving licence or passport, and also a recent household bill.
At the store where I work, we regularly have budget laptops, in the $350 range, and still we get people asking if there's nothing cheaper, these laptops being the absolute cheapest we have. I swear next time I get asked this, I'm going to point them to the $50 kiddy Superman speak-and-spell laptops we sell.
.. are you saying that MySpace and Livejournal aren't reliable sources of information?