Car themes aren't so bad and if they have to change the name again, I hope they change it to Pinto to stay with the original Firebird/Phoenix motif. (bursts into flames)
...upgrading your display hardware so you can do a POWER POINT presentation of all things. Especially true if you're the one stuck with the duty of making them look good.
I always make powerpoint presentations look great on my 3GHz machine with 512MB of ram. I make sure to use the highest resolution possible for video and 24 bit bmp files and useless wav files that play at each transition. Then when my boss gives the presentation on his two year old laptop he looks like an idiot. It doesn't get any better than that!
Maybe they are just feeling left out since most of the events are skewed toward the rich, industrialized, western world. How many suicide bombers do you think play tennis or do triple gainers from 10 meter diving boards? And the only floor exercises their women know is rolling on them while being beaten with a stick for trying to learn to read. I tell you, if the Olympic committee would just add a few token events that Arab muslims could excel in then I am sure they would step forward, hold hands, and sing "Feed The World" with the rest of the athletes. Come on, what would be the harm in handing out a few medals for playing Polo with camels, rifle butts, and an infidels head? Or a "muslim wedding party" freestyle event where teams fire machine guns into the air while playing random notes on a trumpet? And forget about Syncronized Swimming. Palestine will have a lock on the all new Synchronized Exploding. Everyone knows that hurting others is a sign of low self esteem and just think how good Muhamed will feel about himself after taking home the gold in the Decapitathalon. World peace is right around the corner. IOC members, are you listening?
Taylor records quarterly "drive-time CDs," a quasi-inspiration tape for Microsoft resellers to listen to while driving to visit customers.
He has Microsoft's salesfolk taking exams to qualify for certification as Linux experts.
I for one, think it is very responsable of Microsoft to train its current employees for their future careers. If a bunch of spoiled eggheads were suddenly cut loose when the company's fiscal viability collapses in on itself like a black hole, well, that could be bad. Just think of all those poor microsoftites who worked for peanuts for the last six years under the false pretense that their stock options would grow. If they suddenly all had to take menial jobs to make payments on their two bedroom ranch houses, you might hear a new mantra at the Seattle-area fast food joints. Instead of 'Would you like to supersize that?' you may be asked 'What would you like to eat today?'
No it isn't. Everyone used to say jiff. But about 15 years ago some person started a campaign to change it to giff. I saw his open letter uploaded on many BBS systems. His argument was the the gee in graphics has a hard gee so gif should too. About 1 in 4 people still say jiff which is the correct way according to the creator.
What you said is obviously wrong. If language just changes at a moment's notice and at the whim of any village idiot then there would not be such a thing as dictionaries, English classes, or even meaningful verbal communication because it would be so radically different in the next town or from year to year that no one could understand each other.
Who would claim that there is not a proper way to spell and pronounce words except a egotistical child who thinks he is smarter than his elders? You just need to grow up and admit that you don't know more than your teachers and you deserved that failing grade in Spelling or Grammar or whatever is was that caused you to take up that pretentious attitude of yours.
For the record: GIF was invented by Compuserve and in the documentation for Compushow they specifically stated that GIF is pronounced jif as in jiffy. It's their format, it's their name; they get to choose. If you insist on pronouncing it as L-O-P then you are mispronouncing it.
When I built my wearable computer to impress people at the StarTrek convention I thought I would do the easy part first too, but oh what a mistake that was. I started out with the mobo sewn into the back of a nylon unitard. Have you ever thought what it would be like to have hundreds of solder joints scratching your back with every step you take? Imagine a gentle backrub from Freddie Krueger. Blood was running down my tailbone like sweat into the asscrack of a refridgerator repairman. Of course it had to go somewhere and soaked through the nylon material mixing with the stains caused by my friends feeding me chocolate exlax the night before under the guise that it was a Hershey's bar for diabetics.
Input devices are important of course and what I ended up doing was to split a keyboard in two and sew each half into the front of my unitard just below nipple level and extending downwards toward my waist. The mouse had to be a trackball since it needed to be stationary, so I put it in the only place easily accessible to both hands but still out of the way of the keyboard which happened to make it appear much like a codpiece. The numeric keypad was situated just below my navel which worked well for Quake III because of the easy accessability between the keypad and the trackball/codpiece. An LCD screen is a must for the display due to the weight factor of regular CRT tubes. I used an NTSC output from my video card to go to a 5" LCD from an SUV's backseat television. Then I painted it to look like a Beijoran pleasure crystal.
Now power wasn't as much of a problem as you might think. All I needed was a 5 and 12 volt DC source. No inverter, none of that AC bullhockey. Of course, using Kirchoff's laws I was able to use a single 12 volt car battery to cover both bases. The battery didn't work to well mounted on my back. It kept sliding down and really stretching out the material of my betazoid uniform, so I had to mount it in a sling hanging between my legs. While it was the best place for it, it was rather uncomfortable walking because it tended to swing wildly and bash me in either knee.
I soon replaced the single 12 volt car battery with two 6 volt lantern batteries wired in series. They didn't last as long but were much lighter and didn't stretch out the crotch of my purple unitard nearly as much. They also didn't look quite so out of place, although unnaturally large. However, an auditorium full of Star Trekkers can become quite warm and perspiration generally contains electrolytes in the form of salt which then conducts electricity very well, as you know if you've ever put your tongue on the terminals of a 9 volt battery. Needless to say, I was unable to sit during the keynote speech and sometimes would jump around a bit for no apparent reason which would have looked very strange to the other convention goers if I had dressed as a vulcan like I originally planned.
The hard drive was very loud until I dampened the vibrations by duct taping it against my left butt cheek. One improvement I would like to make just for the sake of balance is to add a second drive on the right side and mirror the two. And I should add some sort of heat sink to them because they get hot! Speaking of heat sinks, I had the one for the CPU sticking out of my back almost like a shark fin. I think it got extremely hot because while waiting for Capt. Kirk's autograph I backed up a little and heard a sizzle and a scream. When I turned around there was a klingon warrior in tears on the floor licking and blowing on his forearm.
Anyway, it really is important to build your hardware first because a lot of people mistook me for a borg who used to be a betazoid.
If I were still brainwashing myself by listening to over-hyped, over-produced crap then I might actually care. I, however, listen to Free music or music from publishers
who are not evil.
If they were Americans they could be in Camp Xray already playing naked pile up with a hood over their head. Our 'Patriot' act would see to that. Did anyone else see that the Bush administration admitted the other day that the Patriot Act is being used for routine police investigations such as porn and kidnapping?
For years there had been idle speculation about how much stolen code (GPL or otherwise) was in Windows. Yet when the portions of Windows 2000 source code were leaked, MS was found to be squeaky clean. But don't let me stand between you and inevitable tin foil hats.
Actually, Microsoft has been proven in court to have stolen code more than once. My guess is that since it is so difficult to prove such a thing when MS keeps the code hidden (and still hides much of it to this day even though they've had years to camoflage the hot parts) and then so difficult to win when you are fighting multi million dollar lawyers, that the number of times they stole code must be much much greater than the number of times they were proven in court to have stolen code.
Yah, and not 1/40th of them actually use it. Over the years I've known plenty of people who had illegal copies of software and most of them load it on their system and then ignore it, telling themselves they will learn how to use it... someday.
Monkey1: Dude, I've got Autocad 2005. Monkey2: Cool! What do you do with it? Monkey1: You draw pictures and stuff, like of the space shuttle. Monkey2: Cool! Can I make a copy?
Okay. I'm not sure what features there could be to add in the future though. The plurality vote system is pretty simple. I suppose some districts might begin to experiment with
alternative voting systems which could eventually lead states to switch but voter verification is the only extra feature that seems essential.
I agree completely about the open source bit. How can anyone object to the states requiring open source voting software? It would be like claiming that opening up corporate accounting books to the public would encourage fraud. We all know how books can be cooked when there is no chance of an audit.
So anyway, i think that the number one *NEW* missing tool for windows users has got to be the WU website (Microsoft Windows Update.) Now stick with me for a moment.
If you can't run IE cause activeX exploits, how can you get to the WU website (Microsoft Windows Update) when it *REQUIRES* IE?
Time to go back to ftp. or something. Cause that crap is Fsckd
True enough. But ftp could get hosed too. A few viruses do infect the winsock library directly. What about a CD that boots to MS Windows and then lets you detect and disinfect and patch whatever is on your hard disk?
Those lazy days during the Viet Nam war when I dodged the draft by going to College (since my father was not a senator.) And I spent much of my spare time in the computer lab playing Pac-Man on a PDP-8.
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The games today are hyper-realistic, photo-realistic and take a long time to complete, an average of 20 hours of gameplay,' he said. 'But with Pac-Man you just jump in and play and you get a quick fix.
Pac-Man could be played for a very long time on one quarter if you memorized the patterns. And once you got to the key levels the pattern never changed. At least that's how it was with the Pacman ROM at our local grocery store. Of course, after most of the kids learned how to do this they changed the game out. And every time someone lost a pacman they'd hit the machine and blame it on the joystick. 'This f***in joystick sucks, man!' I guess it's the guys like me making retro games big business.
That's why they would have a guy standing at the top keep pushing the elevator button over and over. Because we all know that makes it get there faster.
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Ganesha being the only eight limbed super(natural) being in India who squashes green guys.
Well, you're still wrong. It happened like this:...
The reason you offer requires that all incompatibilities were between an MS OS and third party apps. However I was not thinking of that at all but instead, of problems I experienced between MS apps and third party apps, for example between Exchange and Lotus Notes. Not only that, but the portion of the article I quoted spoke of an incompatibility between an MS app and the Linux OS. A 'Great Cleanup' in Windows could have absolutely no effect in either of these situations.
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I always make powerpoint presentations look great on my 3GHz machine with 512MB of ram. I make sure to use the highest resolution possible for video and 24 bit bmp files and useless wav files that play at each transition. Then when my boss gives the presentation on his two year old laptop he looks like an idiot. It doesn't get any better than that!
Maybe they are just feeling left out since most of the events are skewed toward the rich, industrialized, western world. How many suicide bombers do you think play tennis or do triple gainers from 10 meter diving boards? And the only floor exercises their women know is rolling on them while being beaten with a stick for trying to learn to read. I tell you, if the Olympic committee would just add a few token events that Arab muslims could excel in then I am sure they would step forward, hold hands, and sing "Feed The World" with the rest of the athletes. Come on, what would be the harm in handing out a few medals for playing Polo with camels, rifle butts, and an infidels head? Or a "muslim wedding party" freestyle event where teams fire machine guns into the air while playing random notes on a trumpet? And forget about Syncronized Swimming. Palestine will have a lock on the all new Synchronized Exploding. Everyone knows that hurting others is a sign of low self esteem and just think how good Muhamed will feel about himself after taking home the gold in the Decapitathalon. World peace is right around the corner. IOC members, are you listening?
Read chaucer sometime.
As if you've ever read Chaucer. :)
What you said is obviously wrong. If language just changes at a moment's notice and at the whim of any village idiot then there would not be such a thing as dictionaries, English classes, or even meaningful verbal communication because it would be so radically different in the next town or from year to year that no one could understand each other.
Who would claim that there is not a proper way to spell and pronounce words except a egotistical child who thinks he is smarter than his elders? You just need to grow up and admit that you don't know more than your teachers and you deserved that failing grade in Spelling or Grammar or whatever is was that caused you to take up that pretentious attitude of yours.
For the record: GIF was invented by Compuserve and in the documentation for Compushow they specifically stated that GIF is pronounced jif as in jiffy. It's their format, it's their name; they get to choose. If you insist on pronouncing it as L-O-P then you are mispronouncing it.
When I built my wearable computer to impress people at the StarTrek convention I thought I would do the easy part first too, but oh what a mistake that was. I started out with the mobo sewn into the back of a nylon unitard. Have you ever thought what it would be like to have hundreds of solder joints scratching your back with every step you take? Imagine a gentle backrub from Freddie Krueger. Blood was running down my tailbone like sweat into the asscrack of a refridgerator repairman. Of course it had to go somewhere and soaked through the nylon material mixing with the stains caused by my friends feeding me chocolate exlax the night before under the guise that it was a Hershey's bar for diabetics.
Input devices are important of course and what I ended up doing was to split a keyboard in two and sew each half into the front of my unitard just below nipple level and extending downwards toward my waist. The mouse had to be a trackball since it needed to be stationary, so I put it in the only place easily accessible to both hands but still out of the way of the keyboard which happened to make it appear much like a codpiece. The numeric keypad was situated just below my navel which worked well for Quake III because of the easy accessability between the keypad and the trackball/codpiece. An LCD screen is a must for the display due to the weight factor of regular CRT tubes. I used an NTSC output from my video card to go to a 5" LCD from an SUV's backseat television. Then I painted it to look like a Beijoran pleasure crystal.
Now power wasn't as much of a problem as you might think. All I needed was a 5 and 12 volt DC source. No inverter, none of that AC bullhockey. Of course, using Kirchoff's laws I was able to use a single 12 volt car battery to cover both bases. The battery didn't work to well mounted on my back. It kept sliding down and really stretching out the material of my betazoid uniform, so I had to mount it in a sling hanging between my legs. While it was the best place for it, it was rather uncomfortable walking because it tended to swing wildly and bash me in either knee.
I soon replaced the single 12 volt car battery with two 6 volt lantern batteries wired in series. They didn't last as long but were much lighter and didn't stretch out the crotch of my purple unitard nearly as much. They also didn't look quite so out of place, although unnaturally large. However, an auditorium full of Star Trekkers can become quite warm and perspiration generally contains electrolytes in the form of salt which then conducts electricity very well, as you know if you've ever put your tongue on the terminals of a 9 volt battery. Needless to say, I was unable to sit during the keynote speech and sometimes would jump around a bit for no apparent reason which would have looked very strange to the other convention goers if I had dressed as a vulcan like I originally planned.
The hard drive was very loud until I dampened the vibrations by duct taping it against my left butt cheek. One improvement I would like to make just for the sake of balance is to add a second drive on the right side and mirror the two. And I should add some sort of heat sink to them because they get hot! Speaking of heat sinks, I had the one for the CPU sticking out of my back almost like a shark fin. I think it got extremely hot because while waiting for Capt. Kirk's autograph I backed up a little and heard a sizzle and a scream. When I turned around there was a klingon warrior in tears on the floor licking and blowing on his forearm.
Anyway, it really is important to build your hardware first because a lot of people mistook me for a borg who used to be a betazoid.
If I were still brainwashing myself by listening to over-hyped, over-produced crap then I might actually care. I, however, listen to Free music or music from publishers who are not evil.
If they were Americans they could be in Camp Xray already playing naked pile up with a hood over their head. Our 'Patriot' act would see to that. Did anyone else see that the Bush administration admitted the other day that the Patriot Act is being used for routine police investigations such as porn and kidnapping?
Actually, Microsoft has been proven in court to have stolen code more than once. My guess is that since it is so difficult to prove such a thing when MS keeps the code hidden (and still hides much of it to this day even though they've had years to camoflage the hot parts) and then so difficult to win when you are fighting multi million dollar lawyers, that the number of times they stole code must be much much greater than the number of times they were proven in court to have stolen code.
Bull Shit Artists
Yah, and not 1/40th of them actually use it. Over the years I've known plenty of people who had illegal copies of software and most of them load it on their system and then ignore it, telling themselves they will learn how to use it... someday.
Monkey1: Dude, I've got Autocad 2005.
Monkey2: Cool! What do you do with it?
Monkey1: You draw pictures and stuff, like of the space shuttle.
Monkey2: Cool! Can I make a copy?
I agree completely about the open source bit. How can anyone object to the states requiring open source voting software? It would be like claiming that opening up corporate accounting books to the public would encourage fraud. We all know how books can be cooked when there is no chance of an audit.
Was this US Navy ship by any chance named the USS Eldridge?
I couldn't read the article because it was slashdotted, but I think he must have been talking about our form of government: the feudal system.
If you can't run IE cause activeX exploits, how can you get to the WU website (Microsoft Windows Update) when it *REQUIRES* IE?
Time to go back to ftp. or something. Cause that crap is Fsckd
True enough. But ftp could get hosed too. A few viruses do infect the winsock library directly. What about a CD that boots to MS Windows and then lets you detect and disinfect and patch whatever is on your hard disk?
It would solve 99.9% of security problems: The MS-Windows-to-Linux-Upgrade-Wizard
Microsoft Now Backing Chinese
Traitors!
Those lazy days during the Viet Nam war when I dodged the draft by going to College (since my father was not a senator.) And I spent much of my spare time in the computer lab playing Pac-Man on a PDP-8.
Pac-Man could be played for a very long time on one quarter if you memorized the patterns. And once you got to the key levels the pattern never changed. At least that's how it was with the Pacman ROM at our local grocery store. Of course, after most of the kids learned how to do this they changed the game out. And every time someone lost a pacman they'd hit the machine and blame it on the joystick. 'This f***in joystick sucks, man!' I guess it's the guys like me making retro games big business.
Or one Part Time Equivalent, a couple of co-op students, and the mess of junk left over from building that emergency air filter on the Apollo 13.
That's why they would have a guy standing at the top keep pushing the elevator button over and over. Because we all know that makes it get there faster.
Ganesha being the only eight limbed super(natural) being in India who squashes green guys.
You may be right but that argument can be used to talk yourself out of voting too. I hope you see the danger in that.
I vote in every election, and I also vote every day in the marketplace with my pocketbook.
The reason you offer requires that all incompatibilities were between an MS OS and third party apps. However I was not thinking of that at all but instead, of problems I experienced between MS apps and third party apps, for example between Exchange and Lotus Notes. Not only that, but the portion of the article I quoted spoke of an incompatibility between an MS app and the Linux OS. A 'Great Cleanup' in Windows could have absolutely no effect in either of these situations.