I've heard that this movie is so bad that the audience is urged to view it from the safe distance of thirty-seven miles from the screen in a well-built lightproof bunker
...whilst the projectionist starts the movie by remote control from a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet -- or, more frequently, around a completely different planet.
The British wit is what made the HHGG books so great-- but it would soar over the heads of the vast majority of Americans,
I don't think, out of any of my friends, there's a single one who wouldn't think it was hilarious.
who are too busy watching reality shows to have ever heard of, much less read, anything Douglas Adams ever put on paper.
Yes, as we all know, British television is the measure of excellence in the world.;-)
So it was a foregone conclusion that much of the essence of the book was going to be dumbed down or removed outright and replaced with poopy jokes or some such.
But what you've done is cool. Rather than search on precisely that term you've submitted your search to the serach engine known as "/. readership". It's not terribly relaible but it is good at fuzzy searches like yours.
What about retroactive corrections? I've seen it before in SOCOM (I and II). "Oh, you mean I got shot five minutes ago? Okay, I'm dead now." (Followed by about three minutes of bitching over the mic (in 10-second increments). Really sucks when that happens. Thou shalt not download pr0n when playing FPSes online.)
Come to think of it, is their PR person that Iraqi Information Minister now?
There are no dead pixels! This is a lie told by the infidel! Our units are flawless. Our competitors are throwing themselves at the ground outside our corporate headquarters and praying to be bought out.
I completely misread that as "you now owe 100% of your income to New York", as opposed to "we will apply income tax to 100% of your earnings in New York".
This kind of reminds me of that HP photo/camera commercial, where that fellow snags frames out of the air, capturing screen shots from live motion in the foreground and background with each one he grabs.
It probably wouldn't be such a problem if hackaday hadn't been promoted here back whenever it was, but anymore it seems like a broken record between two of my home tabs.
Heh...
Evolving Lego Mindstorms (again) from the you-spin-me-right-round-baby dept.
Anonymous Coward writes, "Hackaday is carrying a story on the coverage of Slashdot on their story of the Hackaday story about Slashdot covering their Hackaday story about the Slashdot coverage of the Evolving Mindstorms Project."
Do cell phones really need this much capability? I remember seeing PDA phones a couple years ago. This almost seems like a cosmetic technology-advancement. Something for the sole purpose of wowing people into buying things they don't really need (and odds are, won't use).
I have a Sidekick II; the screen flips open, and underneath is a QWERTY keyboard (as I mentioned, like, three threads up). When I drove, I still never talked on it, I'd just let it go to voice mail. If I got a text message, I'd still wait for a red light to check it.
The problem isn't the phones, it's the dipshits using them.
A virtual keyboard is pretty nifty, but how far has speech recognition progressed?
Until we reach Star Trekkish levels of speech recognition -- well, holodeck levels, anyway[0] -- I'll stick to QWERTY. (Yes, even on my phone. <3 my SKII.)
Btw, maybe I like to do things the hard way (or maybe I'm just lazy), but I'd use split() on "." for that, and just shift the array until it gets to size 2.
Slashdot Mirror
Be interesting if Google used their spare/idle servers for SETI@Home or something.
I believe I'll go dip my eyeballs in bleach now.
They're not that expensive ($97), and they don't take that much effort. Birth certificate, driver's license, a six-page form that you only need to fill out two pages of, SSN, and two photos (that they can take on-site).
I was wondering when they would finally kill AltaVista.
They still need an audio search, though.
And it's a "naked" black hole, too. Yechh.
What about retroactive corrections? I've seen it before in SOCOM (I and II). "Oh, you mean I got shot five minutes ago? Okay, I'm dead now." (Followed by about three minutes of bitching over the mic (in 10-second increments). Really sucks when that happens. Thou shalt not download pr0n when playing FPSes online.)
;-)
Not the cleanest solution, but it'd work, no?
Works for ircd-hybrid, anyway.
From the dead-horses department.
I completely misread that as "you now owe 100% of your income to New York", as opposed to "we will apply income tax to 100% of your earnings in New York".
Man, that was scary^Hier for a second.
Maybe it's worth looking at after all.
That is fucking nifty.
The problem isn't the phones, it's the dipshits using them.
[0] As opposed to "tea, earl grey, hot".
Isn't this covered by CSS?
slash left-paren question-mark colon backslash dot pipe carat right-paren left-paren left-bracket carat backslash dot right-bracket plus-sign backslash dot left-bracket carat backslash dot right-bracket plus-sign right-paren dollar-sign slash.
In your face, lameness filter!
Btw, maybe I like to do things the hard way (or maybe I'm just lazy), but I'd use split() on "." for that, and just shift the array until it gets to size 2.