Sorry, these are just "pretend" gadgets for gadget-buyers. Just the kind of overprized gadgets you can get for any hobby. Usually, they say things like "for the serious foo lover", or "for the real foo conoisseur". Bullocks.
And gadget-buyer and geek is not the same thing. Even though gadget-buyers are the kind of people who run around telling everyone that they are real geeks.
To be fair, they did have the robot ready already a year ago.
But it took them a year to figure out how it could retain its full mobility while being fitted with a schoolgirl uniform.
These people in the Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front are just delusional idiots. -- At least compared to the International Revolutionary Front of Anarchist Federations who really hate all these imperialist scientists (excluding those concerned with drainage, medicine, roads, housing, education, viniculture).
Your portrayal of the US is extremely one sided. There is much more to American cuisine than corn syrup and hot sauce. What about fat and rendered beef protein?
You could bake same corn syrup and hot sauce and top it with fat and rendered beef protein and have some delicious pizza. Or you cut mix some rendered beef protein with hot sauce, batter it in a corn/ corn syrup mix and deep fry it in fat. The options are endless.
Yes, but there are reasonable limits to that if you're serious about the project.
To develop my own internet-accessible thermostat, irrigation system, house control, etc... I could put a $40 "hobbyist LCD" on an arduino and add another $40 for an ethernet shield. Or, I buy a 6" Linux ebook reader or a 7" under-powered -but already hacked- android tablet ($20 biglots or $50 bens-outlet) and put my arduino on the usb-port.
Not only can I focus on the part I really want to develop, it also makes future repairs or upgrades much easier, because it is just an android tablet with a custom-dongle.
And if I build something that is not just a look-I-could-do-this project, but something that is supposed to stay in place, compatibility with easily sourceable hardware is a big plus.
.. especially considering he's an anthropomorphised turtle.
Why would anyone mark this offtopic?
I remember watching a British mystery where a little kid told the visiting art expert that he liked Leonardo so much better than Michelangelo or Donatello. The guy thought that the kid was a genius.
I hate that fucking show, oh it was fine for a couple seasons but now were seeing dead boyfriends and supernatural experiences blah blah blah bullshit
Agreed, but she was talking about the 19th century editions of Gray's Anatomy.
Which is a new spin-off, taking place in a Victorian steam punk universe : They use morphine for almost any operation, but only if they like the patient, sniff cocaine to get rid of the cold, and discuss female hysteria in the break room. Oh and the dresses, you should see the dresses.
It used to have that connotation. Then the movie Pulp Fiction came out. Now Gimp is associated with leather bound masochistic homosexuals...
and: gimp: ambition.
Surely, that's what the developers had in mind when they named it.
If any fellow-teacher or parent tells you otherwise, shriek out in complete horror, tell them that you're shocked where their mind goes and that that is not the attitude of someone who is around children.
And that also changed. Take computer product X, and google for "X hack" and what you'll find is an "insider" trick to change the background color of X.
synergy points for overlapping circles of idiocy: 3
We got a 10!
That's like scrap-booking while sitting on a Martha Stewart chair cushion and sipping pink Zinfandel.
That's like wearing a beer hat with a chewing tabacco dispenser while noodling for catfish.
Solar cells use only a fraction of the incoming energy. If you replace a light colored surface with a dark solar cell, the "waste" energy of the solar cell could be equal or higher than the amount of energy originally captured.
Yes, but quotable BS: Study finds, wind energy could harm..
If we'd cover the globe in windmills, it would slow down the [surface] wind -just as badly as these evil trees. And covering the entire earth with solar panels would make the whole earth shiny. Building a large hydro dam around the Midwest would cause millions of people to drown.
The only real alternative is coal. Not only does it support local jobs, it also emits pure plant food.
While a Concordia is not much bigger, if you going to book some time on fancy floating palace don't you want to be on the very biggest?
Not necessarily. Some of the fancier cruises (read - no water slides) are on smaller ships. And this should make it even simpler to reconstruct a Titanis-ish looking ship:
Take a smaller size cruise ship and get rid of all the Disney like family entertainment plastic crap.
Cover exposed parts in brass paint and fake marble.
The original article is equally puzzled: "One of the most curious things about the OpenOffice.org brand, is the loyalty that users have to it, despite the 3.3 feature freeze being twenty-two months ago, having lost much of its development community, and having had no new release since January 2011 - users are still downloading this increasingly old and creaky release at top speed."
I don't know whether I would be downloading OpenOffice for a new install. But I'm still running OO. Not out of "loyalty" but simply because it works. And if you rely on it, "things that work" have a very strong argument for not fiddling with it. At least on a computer you really need.
"Upgrading" to LO might go bad and break things, or it might go well and give me new features I don't need or already have through ubuntu't go-OO flavor. Very easy risk assessment. For the same reason I'm still on ubuntu 10.4.
And at some point I will switch to 12.4 and LO -but on a secondary computer first.
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It's fascinating to see this poor reasoning played out on this very forum right now, right before our very eyes.
I don't get it.
Better stay current on further development, the second hand store might soon have cheap khakis and blue polo shirts.
Sorry, these are just "pretend" gadgets for gadget-buyers. Just the kind of overprized gadgets you can get for any hobby. Usually, they say things like "for the serious foo lover", or "for the real foo conoisseur". Bullocks.
And gadget-buyer and geek is not the same thing. Even though gadget-buyers are the kind of people who run around telling everyone that they are real geeks.
This is a geek barbecue
This is a geek barbecue
And so is this
Just visit Niagara Falls during spawning season. The freshwater submarines are a sight to behold.
To be fair, they did have the robot ready already a year ago.
But it took them a year to figure out how it could retain its full mobility while being fitted with a schoolgirl uniform.
These people in the Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front are just delusional idiots.
-- At least compared to the International Revolutionary Front of Anarchist Federations who really hate all these imperialist scientists (excluding those concerned with drainage, medicine, roads, housing, education, viniculture).
Your portrayal of the US is extremely one sided. There is much more to American cuisine than corn syrup and hot sauce. What about fat and rendered beef protein?
You could bake same corn syrup and hot sauce and top it with fat and rendered beef protein and have some delicious pizza. Or you cut mix some rendered beef protein with hot sauce, batter it in a corn/ corn syrup mix and deep fry it in fat. The options are endless.
...what else do you want on a hobby board?
The pleasure of doing something yourself?
Yes, but there are reasonable limits to that if you're serious about the project.
To develop my own internet-accessible thermostat, irrigation system, house control, etc... I could put a $40 "hobbyist LCD" on an arduino and add another $40 for an ethernet shield. Or, I buy a 6" Linux ebook reader or a 7" under-powered -but already hacked- android tablet ($20 biglots or $50 bens-outlet) and put my arduino on the usb-port.
Not only can I focus on the part I really want to develop, it also makes future repairs or upgrades much easier, because it is just an android tablet with a custom-dongle.
And if I build something that is not just a look-I-could-do-this project, but something that is supposed to stay in place, compatibility with easily sourceable hardware is a big plus.
Having in-laws like that is definitely not eating cake in the park.
Too easy. Mod me down.
Which some bozo apparently did..
.. especially considering he's an anthropomorphised turtle.
Why would anyone mark this offtopic?
I remember watching a British mystery where a little kid told the visiting art expert that he liked Leonardo so much better than Michelangelo or Donatello.
The guy thought that the kid was a genius.
I hate that fucking show, oh it was fine for a couple seasons but now were seeing dead boyfriends and supernatural experiences blah blah blah bullshit
Agreed, but she was talking about the 19th century editions of Gray's Anatomy.
Which is a new spin-off, taking place in a Victorian steam punk universe : They use morphine for almost any operation, but only if they like the patient, sniff cocaine to get rid of the cold, and discuss female hysteria in the break room. Oh and the dresses, you should see the dresses.
The thing, as described in the text, violates the first law of thermodynamics.
The first law of thermodynamics is a universal law. Universal laws violate US sovereignty.
It used to have that connotation. Then the movie Pulp Fiction came out. Now Gimp is associated with leather bound masochistic homosexuals...
and:
gimp: ambition.
Surely, that's what the developers had in mind when they named it.
If any fellow-teacher or parent tells you otherwise, shriek out in complete horror, tell them that you're shocked where their mind goes and that that is not the attitude of someone who is around children.
...to describe a clever tweak of something to
And that also changed. Take computer product X, and google for "X hack" and what you'll find is an "insider" trick to change the background color of X.
... It's a simple concept, really, and I don't get why people refuse to understand.
- because they're brain damaged?
Or a hidden cause that results in brain damage also independently causes the urge to play/watch football.
Let's just count the buzz-circles:
We got a 10!
That's like scrap-booking while sitting on a Martha Stewart chair cushion and sipping pink Zinfandel.
That's like wearing a beer hat with a chewing tabacco dispenser while noodling for catfish.
- who knows how far those effects will cascade? Scale counts
That's why I never open the tap all the way. That and fear of shark attacks.
Solar energy capture reduces ground heating.
Not necessarily.
Solar cells use only a fraction of the incoming energy. If you replace a light colored surface with a dark solar cell, the "waste" energy of the solar cell could be equal or higher than the amount of energy originally captured.
Because it's mostly BS.
Yes, but quotable BS: Study finds, wind energy could harm ..
If we'd cover the globe in windmills, it would slow down the [surface] wind -just as badly as these evil trees. And covering the entire earth with solar panels would make the whole earth shiny. Building a large hydro dam around the Midwest would cause millions of people to drown.
The only real alternative is coal. Not only does it support local jobs, it also emits pure plant food.
I hope, passengers and crew were informed beforehand.
While a Concordia is not much bigger, if you going to book some time on fancy floating palace don't you want to be on the very biggest?
Not necessarily. Some of the fancier cruises (read - no water slides) are on smaller ships. And this should make it even simpler to reconstruct a Titanis-ish looking ship:
Don't be evil all the time
The original article is equally puzzled:
"One of the most curious things about the OpenOffice.org brand, is the loyalty that users have to it, despite the 3.3 feature freeze being twenty-two months ago, having lost much of its development community, and having had no new release since January 2011 - users are still downloading this increasingly old and creaky release at top speed."
I don't know whether I would be downloading OpenOffice for a new install. But I'm still running OO. Not out of "loyalty" but simply because it works. And if you rely on it, "things that work" have a very strong argument for not fiddling with it. At least on a computer you really need.
"Upgrading" to LO might go bad and break things, or it might go well and give me new features I don't need or already have through ubuntu't go-OO flavor. Very easy risk assessment. For the same reason I'm still on ubuntu 10.4.
And at some point I will switch to 12.4 and LO -but on a secondary computer first.