Digital zoom is the greatest thing since sliced bread
D'you know what I've never understood? What's so great about sliced bread? People always say stuff like 'She thinks she's the greatest thing since sliced bread...' You can't seriously tell me that when sliced bread first came out, everyone gasped, stopped what they were doing and exclaimed "Bread you don't have to slice for yourself?! This'll save so much time, minutes even!!"
Because the porn jokes, as made by 10 people already and will be made by 50 more by the time I reach the bottom of the page, are really boring. Having said that, bullettime orgasms would be cool.
Ms patent 8,000,000: the colour blue
"The colour blue, specifically the Blue Screen of smack your keyboard up the wall for the fifth time today is our latest patent. We thought as we'd pissed enough people off already by causing systems to hit it, we'd piss them off more by sueing them to look at the sky"
Ms patent 8,000,001: The moron dept
"We hereby patent the usage of one department to think up the absolute bleedin obvious, then apply to patent it!"
Ms patent 8,000,002: Microsoft patent tracker(tm)
"An application that tracks all the patents we've ever filed allowing you to search through and browse past patents
System requirements: Linux (it er, kinda sorta, er, crashed under Win32), 3GB hard disk space, and a written letter to let you bypass patent 8,000,174 so you're allowed to look at your monitor"
There is a general hatred for RIAA and all the other idiots because CDs are so expensive and because so much goes to the record company and very little to the artist.
Why not download an album, then send $15 directly to the artist, maybe send a couple of bucks to the record company.
OK It's not feasible of course, but if it was possible it might just give the record companies a kick in the pants.
Ok, so this isn't the most useful of posts but an interesting thought.
Good thing about gta games: Shitloads to do, once the missions end you have frenzies, taxi runs etc. to do.
Bad things: Once all the missions are done you do get bored.
I completed gta3 (ok I admit I used invincibility cheats), funny ending.
I've completed the mission part of gta:vc too (and without cheats, they bugger the savegame apparently), and now I can't be bothered to do the rest, although I have to admit flying round in a chopper is still a lot of fun. Lots of hidden things to discover.
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logic = login. Grr I shouldn't watch tv and post at the same time.
Not especially funny, but might be useful
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I know this is drifting off topic but some people might find it useful
I once read a tip about website passwords where you shouldn't have the same password for all sites that need a logic. One of the best suggestions I read was to have a password of say 4 characters, and intersperse the website name into it.
e.g. if your password is 1234 and you're logging into download.com it might be 1d2o3w4l or if it's slashdot.com then 1s2l3a4s or if it's msn.com then 1c2r3a4p etc. It's different for all and harder to guess, and cos it's not a word, anyone watching the keyboard might not pick up on you typing it.
Compared to aids there's no real contest. But spam is a real bastard to everyone on the net, not just because it's seriously annoying, but because some people fall for the scams (419 scam etc) and actually lose money.
Also, it ties up email servers meaning yours can take a little longer. I once got a spam message 2 weeks after it was sent, so what happened to legit email is a mystery.
I think for the damage it does both to servers (slowdown) and to people (moneydown), it could be called a plague
7. A little pointless because you have to read the bar the same as you have to the read the page, and you might have to do both to see what context the link is in.. but not a bad idea.
8. Could be useful
9 + 10. Good ideas
11. You mean like by how often they visit a certain site? Could auto add it into the favs too.
12. Do you remember those apps for 56k where it used to pre-fetch linked pages so they'd appear a lot quicker... Although DSL makes that partway rendundant, it might still be a reasonable addin to load what might be relevant pics on linked pages at least.
Both players feature audio functions not seen in MP3 Player before, like SRS, WOW and TruBass. The Muzio JM-200 uses a two color OLED display.
Well isn't that grand. A play with 2 entire colours on it's LED. Not exactly cutting edge of excitability really, though a reasonable novelty.
Instead of integrating all these relatively old "technologies" (SRS etc), wouldn't it be better to create players that could use custom DSPs, like Winamp does?
Yes. There are certain usb memory card readers that will play mp3/wma (Here's some (UK Site)), and there are some portable usb drives that will play mp3/wma
Well, no. You're leaving a public comment on a public website in the knowledge it may be moderated. It's gonna be logged whether it's summarised on a neat page or not, so no.
The alternative is to not have mod points and although most people don't agree with the odd moderation, they are a great way to filter out the idiots.
Perhaps what we should do is the opposite. Tell them to open every single attachment ever invented, even if it's named ThisIsAVirus.exe.. that way they get virused quicker and might finally learn the hard way.. but at least they'll learn, well, hopefully.
The MS Security update crap has been going around for probably close to a year now. I don't know why the servers don't just put a filter on them as they're a standard size and contain exactly the same text (apart from the year). But nah, the two probably aren't related.
As for the MS one, it's certainly a bugger. At one point I was getting 15 of them an hour.
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Half joke, half serious question. It's all my cursed fault!
The box goes on the tv. So you have to get up, walk across the room and sit half an inch off the tv anyway. Of course things are gonna get bigger!
Digital zoom is the greatest thing since sliced bread D'you know what I've never understood? What's so great about sliced bread? People always say stuff like 'She thinks she's the greatest thing since sliced bread...' You can't seriously tell me that when sliced bread first came out, everyone gasped, stopped what they were doing and exclaimed "Bread you don't have to slice for yourself?! This'll save so much time, minutes even!!"
Because the porn jokes, as made by 10 people already and will be made by 50 more by the time I reach the bottom of the page, are really boring. Having said that, bullettime orgasms would be cool.
Does anyone happen to know how DirectX got it's name?
What if they all miss?
"The colour blue, specifically the Blue Screen of smack your keyboard up the wall for the fifth time today is our latest patent. We thought as we'd pissed enough people off already by causing systems to hit it, we'd piss them off more by sueing them to look at the sky"
Ms patent 8,000,001: The moron dept
"We hereby patent the usage of one department to think up the absolute bleedin obvious, then apply to patent it!"
Ms patent 8,000,002: Microsoft patent tracker(tm)
"An application that tracks all the patents we've ever filed allowing you to search through and browse past patents
System requirements: Linux (it er, kinda sorta, er, crashed under Win32), 3GB hard disk space, and a written letter to let you bypass patent 8,000,174 so you're allowed to look at your monitor"
Not if wiki editors are checking it over.
Why not download an album, then send $15 directly to the artist, maybe send a couple of bucks to the record company.
OK It's not feasible of course, but if it was possible it might just give the record companies a kick in the pants.
Ok, so this isn't the most useful of posts but an interesting thought.
(859 gigabytes) / (17 minutes) = 862.368627 MBps
Site is 1.1mb big (bout 3-4 mins loading time) and on my pc, using Opera, nothing appeared until it had fully loaded.
Good thing about gta games: Shitloads to do, once the missions end you have frenzies, taxi runs etc. to do.
Bad things: Once all the missions are done you do get bored.
I completed gta3 (ok I admit I used invincibility cheats), funny ending.
I've completed the mission part of gta:vc too (and without cheats, they bugger the savegame apparently), and now I can't be bothered to do the rest, although I have to admit flying round in a chopper is still a lot of fun. Lots of hidden things to discover.
logic = login. Grr I shouldn't watch tv and post at the same time.
I once read a tip about website passwords where you shouldn't have the same password for all sites that need a logic. One of the best suggestions I read was to have a password of say 4 characters, and intersperse the website name into it.
e.g. if your password is 1234 and you're logging into download.com it might be 1d2o3w4l or if it's slashdot.com then 1s2l3a4s or if it's msn.com then 1c2r3a4p etc. It's different for all and harder to guess, and cos it's not a word, anyone watching the keyboard might not pick up on you typing it.
I think the location was pretty obvious, and I would suggest the speed was blurry at best
Don't forget the congestion charge
Also, it ties up email servers meaning yours can take a little longer. I once got a spam message 2 weeks after it was sent, so what happened to legit email is a mystery.
I think for the damage it does both to servers (slowdown) and to people (moneydown), it could be called a plague
7. A little pointless because you have to read the bar the same as you have to the read the page, and you might have to do both to see what context the link is in.. but not a bad idea.
8. Could be useful
9 + 10. Good ideas
11. You mean like by how often they visit a certain site? Could auto add it into the favs too.
12. Do you remember those apps for 56k where it used to pre-fetch linked pages so they'd appear a lot quicker... Although DSL makes that partway rendundant, it might still be a reasonable addin to load what might be relevant pics on linked pages at least.
Well isn't that grand. A play with 2 entire colours on it's LED. Not exactly cutting edge of excitability really, though a reasonable novelty.
Instead of integrating all these relatively old "technologies" (SRS etc), wouldn't it be better to create players that could use custom DSPs, like Winamp does?
Yes. There are certain usb memory card readers that will play mp3/wma (Here's some (UK Site)), and there are some portable usb drives that will play mp3/wma
Should hope so. If Microsoft ran it, you'd see the blue sky of death far too often
The alternative is to not have mod points and although most people don't agree with the odd moderation, they are a great way to filter out the idiots.
Tell them to open every single attachment ever invented, even if it's named ThisIsAVirus.exe
(note: this is a joke)
As for the MS one, it's certainly a bugger. At one point I was getting 15 of them an hour.
I suppose you also agree with This story about the 10 year old that wanted a flight simulator GAME