Which of the following sentences sounds cooler?
"This state-of-the-art temperature-controlled switch utilizes a chemical compound which turns solid when heated, seemingly in violation of the very laws that define our universe." ...or...
"This state-of-the-art temperature controlled switch utilizes a strip of metal."
If true, this chemical will possibly force the scientific community to reevaluate chemical laws and make new, more general (and therefore better) ones.
Why? This stuff doesn't break any laws. It just doesn't match our expectations of a liqiud becoming solid if - and only if - cooled down.
If the stuff was an element instead of an organic compound, this would be ground-breaking. As it is, it's unusual, but not enough to invalidate our current views on matter.
Half Afghanistan, half Iraq. After Sep. 11, 2001, the USA were our (the Germans') best friends ever and we'd do anything to help them.
Then good ol' George decided to go to Afghanistan and shoot some people and the USA were a bit too enthusiastic about taking their revenge, but what the heck. It was still tolerable, kind of.
Then George and his buddy Tony decided that Iraq was not only hiding WMDs but also helping al Qaeda, all contrary evidence be damned. And everyone had to help them invade Iraq. And everyone who didn't think that Iraq should be attacked is evil. Right.
And now suddenly everyone is surprised why no one likes the USA anymore...
Gaim didn't use that system. Gaim had a system of 0.$RELEASENO, so the 32nd Release would be version 0.32 and the 256th release would have been 0.256. However, since that system has been broken for a while (due to x.y.z releases) they have agreed to just call the next release 1.0.0. and switch to a more traditional numbering style.
When XP came out I saw plenty of them - Creative had rather flaky drivers at the time and XP crashed about as often as 98 did...
BTW, I have somewhat recently switched to Linux/KDE after using Microsoft OSes since MS-DOS 6.22... And I actually find it easier to use than Windows. Especially when changing some obscure settings I find it easier to edit/etc/somefine than to run regedit and change an undocumented parameter in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MS-DOS\Current Version\Microsoft Windows NT\5.1\This space intentionally left blank\MSNBC\CMD\{42789254:56789ABC:DEADBEEF:0900MS FT}.
And crash the universe. Great idea. We have no idea of what OS our universe is running on, but we go and provoke an overflow.
When the great BSOD happens and mankind just disappears because God made his last restore point in 500,000 BC you'll all be sorry!
No, they'll have to reconfigure it to emit a concentrated tetrion pulse. If I've learnt anything from [i]Voyager[/i], they it's the fact that reconfugirung something to emit random pulses is the best solution to any problam.
But you always have to make sure that the dog comes from a decent place - the way a dog is treated when it is young shapes it's personality and even usually well-behaving dogs can suddenly attack if the breeder treated them bad enough.
With every animal strong enough to seriously hurt someone you should always check if the animal's background looks good.
I use HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS 2. Both validated. Both looking exectly how they should on my Firefox.
IE has big problems because it doesn't really understand CSS 2. Which is pretty annoying.
Not to mention stability... I don't know why, but with every Linux I have ever used, even if I hadn't touched the system after installing - except for upgrades - Konqueror just kept segfaulting. It happens more often with file management than with browsing, but still Konqueror is one of the the most unstable applications I have ever seen. It probably shouldn't.
I just avoid it and only use it for the few sites that refuse to render with Gecko. Which is wha I would appreciate a Qt'ed Firefox.
True. I use Firefox and the Gtk/Qt theme engine (you know, that thing that makes GTK apps use Qt themes). It works, but some buttons just look like ass. It becomes even worse when you try to use stuff like Mosfet's Liquid.
Maybe native Qt support might fix that. Of course I would still have other GTK apps that look ugly, but at least the Fox would look nice.
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Which of the following sentences sounds cooler?
...or...
"This state-of-the-art temperature-controlled switch utilizes a chemical compound which turns solid when heated, seemingly in violation of the very laws that define our universe."
"This state-of-the-art temperature controlled switch utilizes a strip of metal."
If true, this chemical will possibly force the scientific community to reevaluate chemical laws and make new, more general (and therefore better) ones.
Why? This stuff doesn't break any laws. It just doesn't match our expectations of a liqiud becoming solid if - and only if - cooled down.
If the stuff was an element instead of an organic compound, this would be ground-breaking. As it is, it's unusual, but not enough to invalidate our current views on matter.
I know that the attack on Afghanistan was justified. That doesn't stop me from describing it in a cynical way.
Who's going to spend the time to photograph the Atlantic at 1M resolution?
People who want to count the Starbucks, duh!
Half Afghanistan, half Iraq. After Sep. 11, 2001, the USA were our (the Germans') best friends ever and we'd do anything to help them.
Then good ol' George decided to go to Afghanistan and shoot some people and the USA were a bit too enthusiastic about taking their revenge, but what the heck. It was still tolerable, kind of.
Then George and his buddy Tony decided that Iraq was not only hiding WMDs but also helping al Qaeda, all contrary evidence be damned. And everyone had to help them invade Iraq. And everyone who didn't think that Iraq should be attacked is evil. Right.
And now suddenly everyone is surprised why no one likes the USA anymore...
Gaim didn't use that system. Gaim had a system of 0.$RELEASENO, so the 32nd Release would be version 0.32 and the 256th release would have been 0.256. However, since that system has been broken for a while (due to x.y.z releases) they have agreed to just call the next release 1.0.0. and switch to a more traditional numbering style.
When XP came out I saw plenty of them - Creative had rather flaky drivers at the time and XP crashed about as often as 98 did...
/etc/somefine than to run regedit and change an undocumented parameter in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MS-DOS\Current Version\Microsoft Windows NT\5.1\This space intentionally left blank\MSNBC\CMD\{42789254:56789ABC:DEADBEEF:0900MS FT}.
BTW, I have somewhat recently switched to Linux/KDE after using Microsoft OSes since MS-DOS 6.22... And I actually find it easier to use than Windows. Especially when changing some obscure settings I find it easier to edit
In what sense is that useful, other than to the people marketing the product in question?
Let me call my friends at AdTI, they'll know.
Except, of course, for the fact that Slackware ships pre-broken and you have to dig through half of your config files to get it running.
It will probably be bug-compatible with the earlier releases - just as the current IE is.
So, XP to me is nothing more than a thin client.
I don't think that, by any definition, Windows XP can be called thin.
Well yeah, but I think Kazaa is faster.
And crash the universe. Great idea. We have no idea of what OS our universe is running on, but we go and provoke an overflow.
When the great BSOD happens and mankind just disappears because God made his last restore point in 500,000 BC you'll all be sorry!
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No, they'll have to reconfigure it to emit a concentrated tetrion pulse. If I've learnt anything from [i]Voyager[/i], they it's the fact that reconfugirung something to emit random pulses is the best solution to any problam.
But you always have to make sure that the dog comes from a decent place - the way a dog is treated when it is young shapes it's personality and even usually well-behaving dogs can suddenly attack if the breeder treated them bad enough.
With every animal strong enough to seriously hurt someone you should always check if the animal's background looks good.
Well, you could just put in some windows.
No, wait...
I use HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS 2. Both validated. Both looking exectly how they should on my Firefox.
IE has big problems because it doesn't really understand CSS 2. Which is pretty annoying.
I should stop feeding trolls.
Not to mention stability... I don't know why, but with every Linux I have ever used, even if I hadn't touched the system after installing - except for upgrades - Konqueror just kept segfaulting. It happens more often with file management than with browsing, but still Konqueror is one of the the most unstable applications I have ever seen. It probably shouldn't.
I just avoid it and only use it for the few sites that refuse to render with Gecko. Which is wha I would appreciate a Qt'ed Firefox.
True. I use Firefox and the Gtk/Qt theme engine (you know, that thing that makes GTK apps use Qt themes). It works, but some buttons just look like ass. It becomes even worse when you try to use stuff like Mosfet's Liquid.
Maybe native Qt support might fix that. Of course I would still have other GTK apps that look ugly, but at least the Fox would look nice.
I suggest as a minimum reading a bool called the Curve of Binding Energy...
So, is it true or false?
Yeah, that's what they want you to think. I tell you, it's a conspiracy! *puts on tinfoil hat*
It would be like adding canned laughter to every Star Trek episode.
Although it might be funny to take a few of the worse ones and do exactly that.
BTW, what we really need is to run The Phantom Menace through Mystery Science Theater 3000. I'd pay to see that.
Although there are plenty of actual 3D printers.
Yup. My inkjet here seems pretty three-dimensional, too.
Nah, the DRM they're going to put on candy bars soon will prevent you from owning more than one at a time.