God forbid some actual paranoid schizophrenic stumbles upon this thread, because with all the advice from the crack-smoking Slashdot barmy army, the poor bastard will have enough 'professional advice' to last him three fear-filles lives. Then again, who cares.
Mate. Can we PLEASE stop with the conspiracy theories??? If you can bring yourself to even suspect that the avian flu might have been manufactured by big pharma, what's next? We never went to the moon? Aliens built the pyramids? As for the Iraq seed bank - get real for a second. It's WAR. The Yanks don't give two flying fucks what they are bombing as long as it looks good on Fox News. Stop seeing a conspiracy in everything - it's war (and worse, a war based on a monumental set of lies which they can no longer cover up, so it's bound to get even more senseless). Not that this matters, but I am from Romania and would rather people talk about scientific facts and give sensible ideas on how to deal with the flu, rather than go on about evil conglomerates. Come ON.
you all got it wrong - it's INTELLIGENT RISING, silly. such a majestic event could not just happen by itself. tsk tsk tsk. when will you people see the light?/ducks for cover
Quoth the wise man in his treatise Monadology (1714): "There is also no way of explaining how a monad can be altered or changed in its inner being by any other created thing, since there is no possibility of transposition within it, nor can we conceive of any internal movement which can be produced, directed, increased or diminished within it, such as can take place in the case of compounds where a change can occur among the parts. The monads have no windows through which anything may come in or go out. The Attributes cannot detach themselves or go forth from the substances, as could sensible species of the Schoolmen. In the same way neither substance nor attribute can enter from without into a monad."
And they they've managed to attack them??? Oh, the humanity...
To make the irony richer, your post saying mine should be modded up gets modded up while mine gets down. As I was saying, never trust geeks...but I digress.
Bash has a better interface than The Gimp....and Microsoft Bob is a better name than The Gimp. I mean, seriously, the gimp??? What is this, Tarantino appreciation hour? I swear, every time I hear that name I think of this immortal scene below, and I cringe:
ZED: Bring out The Gimp. MAYNARD: I think The Gimp's asleep. ZED: Well, I guess you'll just wake 'im up then, won't you? Maynard opens a trap door in the floor. MAYNARD (yelling in the hole): Wake up! Maynard reaches into the hole and comes back holding onto a leash. He gives it a rough yank and, from below the floor, rises THE GIMP. The Gimp is a man they keep dressed from head to toe in black leather bondage gear. There are zippers, buckles and studs here and there on the body. On his head is a black leather mask with two eye holes and a zipper (closed) for a mouth. They keep him in a hole in the floor big enough for a large dog. Zed takes the chair, sits it in front of the two prisoners, then lowers into it. Maynard hands The Gimp's leash to Zed, then backs away. MAYNARD (to The Gimp): Down! The Gimp gets on its knees. [...]
See what happens when you trust geeks with app names?
I'm so glad someone mentioned Maxell - I used to buy CD-R spindles made by those guys (because they were cheap, and I was a student), burnt about 200 CD's worth of MP3's, then after a year I noticed with growing horror the aluminium film was beginning to peel off of the discs. I lost about twenty CD's before I could copy my music onto Tayo Yuden media. Maxell discs - one shudders to think of them, bad craziness.
The MS Inquisition (with apologies to Monty Python)
Kai-Fu Lee: Trouble at Google Labs. Kai-Fu Lee' wife: Oh no - what kind of trouble? Lee: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treddle. Lee' wife: Pardon? Lee: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treddle. Lee' wife: I don't understand what you're saying. Lee: (slightly irritatedly and with exaggeratedly clear accent) One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treddle. Lee' wife: Well what on earth does that mean? Lee: I don't know - Mr Brin just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the Google Labs, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Microsoft Inquisition. (JARRING CHORD) (The door flies open and Cardinal Ballmer of Redmond enters, flanked by two junior cardinals. Cardinal Biggles has goggles pushed over his forehead. Cardinal Fang is just Cardinal Fang) Ballmer: NOBODY expects the Microsoft Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to Bill.... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again. (Exit and exeunt) Lee: I didn't expect a kind of Microsoft Inquisition. (JARRING CHORD) (The cardinals burst in) Ballmer: NOBODY expects the Microsoft Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to Bill, and nice blue uniforms - Oh damn! (To Cardinal Biggles) I can't say it - you'll have to say it. Biggles: What? Ballmer: You'll have to say the bit about 'Our chief weapons are...' Biggles: (rather horrified): I couldn't do that... (Ballmer bundles the cardinals outside again) Lee: I didn't expect a kind of Microsoft Inquisition. (JARRING CHORD) (The cardinals enter) Biggles: Er... Nobody... um... Ballmer: Expects... Biggles: Expects... Nobody expects the... um...the Microsoft... um... Ballmer: Inquisition. Biggles: I know, I know! Nobody expects the Microsoft Inquisition. In fact, those who do expect - Ballmer: Our chief weapons are... Biggles: Our chief weapons are... um... er... Ballmer: Surprise... Biggles: Surprise and... Ballmer: Okay, stop. Stop. Stop there - stop there. Stop. Phew! Ah!... our chief weapons are surprise... blah blah blah. Cardinal, read the charges. Fang: You are hereby charged that you did on diverse dates commit heresy against the Holy Church of Microsoft. 'My old man said follow the...' Biggles: That's enough. (To Lee's wife) Now, how do you plead? Lee's wife: We're innocent. Ballmer: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Superimposed caption: DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER Biggles: We'll soon change your mind about that! Superimposed caption: DIABOLICAL ACTING
Oh, man. Of course he's written a book but he's never been published. All bloody English teachers in Japan have to do that to justify their existence. Thank you for making me waste half an hour of my life trying to read that story. It was dull, and nothing else. Why is it that some people find living in Japan such an alien experience? I've been here for 12 years and feel right at home. Have a Japanese wife and a son, a job with a Japanese company (NOT teaching English, thank you very much), speak the language, pay the taxes, read the papers, go out with my mates, go back to Europe every couple of years to see my family, etc. What is the big bloody deal? And don't get me started on that Damacy review. Whatever kind of gear this guy has got, I need some too.
Mate, now you are being silly. Nice metaphors and puns will get you modded up to double plus good, but if you want to see some proper Canon designs, come over to Japan for a spell. You will see some wicked things which also manage to, er...let you put things on top of the printer/scanner/copier. I submit to you the glorious Pixus MP900 Tried to look for an English link but alas, it looks like you'll have to do a Bill Murray on this one, he he.
It's just damn easier than dealing with all the shit from stealing.
You've obviously never tried this 'stealing' business yourself. It merely involves clicking on a torrent link, then xx minutes later playing the song(s). Or so I've heard.
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Best bloody comment of the day, thank you.
God forbid some actual paranoid schizophrenic stumbles upon this thread, because with all the advice from the crack-smoking Slashdot barmy army, the poor bastard will have enough 'professional advice' to last him three fear-filles lives.
Then again, who cares.
Mate. Can we PLEASE stop with the conspiracy theories??? If you can bring yourself to even suspect that the avian flu might have been manufactured by big pharma, what's next? We never went to the moon? Aliens built the pyramids?
As for the Iraq seed bank - get real for a second. It's WAR. The Yanks don't give two flying fucks what they are bombing as long as it looks good on Fox News. Stop seeing a conspiracy in everything - it's war (and worse, a war based on a monumental set of lies which they can no longer cover up, so it's bound to get even more senseless).
Not that this matters, but I am from Romania and would rather people talk about scientific facts and give sensible ideas on how to deal with the flu, rather than go on about evil conglomerates.
Come ON.
Mate, if you only need 300 GB for your collection, you're in serious need of some proper musical education.
Dude. I just know you didn't quote MOnty Python in a comment about a story concerning the internet. It would be too rich.
Dude, you have a sick mind.
I think I like you.
oh dear, Bill is having a fit right now...but he'll recover...ain't software war grand.
you all got it wrong - it's INTELLIGENT RISING, silly. such a majestic event could not just happen by itself. tsk tsk tsk. when will you people see the light? /ducks for cover
Quoth the wise man in his treatise Monadology (1714):
"There is also no way of explaining how a monad can be altered or changed in its inner being by any other created thing, since there is no possibility of transposition within it, nor can we conceive of any internal movement which can be produced, directed, increased or diminished within it, such as can take place in the case of compounds where a change can occur among the parts. The monads have no windows through which anything may come in or go out. The Attributes cannot detach themselves or go forth from the substances, as could sensible species of the Schoolmen. In the same way neither substance nor attribute can enter from without into a monad."
And they they've managed to attack them??? Oh, the humanity...
(I think I saw this on /., actually, so apologies to the original poster for using it) :
Cult: (n) A small, unpopular religion.
Religion: (n) A large, popular cult.
Take your pick.
To make the irony richer, your post saying mine should be modded up gets modded up while mine gets down. As I was saying, never trust geeks...but I digress.
Bash has a better interface than The Gimp. ...and Microsoft Bob is a better name than The Gimp. I mean, seriously, the gimp ??? What is this, Tarantino appreciation hour? I swear, every time I hear that name I think of this immortal scene below, and I cringe:
ZED: Bring out The Gimp.
MAYNARD: I think The Gimp's asleep.
ZED: Well, I guess you'll just wake 'im up then, won't you?
Maynard opens a trap door in the floor.
MAYNARD (yelling in the hole): Wake up!
Maynard reaches into the hole and comes back holding onto a leash. He gives it a rough yank and, from below the floor, rises THE GIMP.
The Gimp is a man they keep dressed from head to toe in black leather bondage gear. There are zippers, buckles and studs here and there on the body. On his head is a black leather mask with two eye holes and a zipper (closed) for a mouth. They keep him in a hole in the floor big enough for a large dog.
Zed takes the chair, sits it in front of the two prisoners, then lowers into it. Maynard hands The Gimp's leash to Zed, then backs away.
MAYNARD (to The Gimp): Down! The Gimp gets on its knees. [...]
See what happens when you trust geeks with app names?
I'm so glad someone mentioned Maxell - I used to buy CD-R spindles made by those guys (because they were cheap, and I was a student), burnt about 200 CD's worth of MP3's, then after a year I noticed with growing horror the aluminium film was beginning to peel off of the discs. I lost about twenty CD's before I could copy my music onto Tayo Yuden media. Maxell discs - one shudders to think of them, bad craziness.
We have enough storage. I don't need 500GB
You're obviously not into pr0n then.
The MS Inquisition (with apologies to Monty Python)
Kai-Fu Lee: Trouble at Google Labs.
Kai-Fu Lee' wife: Oh no - what kind of trouble?
Lee: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treddle.
Lee' wife: Pardon?
Lee: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treddle.
Lee' wife: I don't understand what you're saying.
Lee: (slightly irritatedly and with exaggeratedly clear accent) One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treddle.
Lee' wife: Well what on earth does that mean?
Lee: I don't know - Mr Brin just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the Google Labs, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Microsoft Inquisition.
(JARRING CHORD)
(The door flies open and Cardinal Ballmer of Redmond enters, flanked by two junior cardinals. Cardinal Biggles has goggles pushed over his forehead. Cardinal Fang is just Cardinal Fang)
Ballmer: NOBODY expects the Microsoft Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to Bill....
Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise...
I'll come in again.
(Exit and exeunt)
Lee: I didn't expect a kind of Microsoft Inquisition.
(JARRING CHORD)
(The cardinals burst in)
Ballmer: NOBODY expects the Microsoft Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to Bill, and nice blue uniforms - Oh damn! (To Cardinal Biggles) I can't say it - you'll have to say it.
Biggles: What?
Ballmer: You'll have to say the bit about 'Our chief weapons are...'
Biggles: (rather horrified): I couldn't do that...
(Ballmer bundles the cardinals outside again)
Lee: I didn't expect a kind of Microsoft Inquisition.
(JARRING CHORD)
(The cardinals enter)
Biggles: Er... Nobody... um...
Ballmer: Expects...
Biggles: Expects... Nobody expects the... um...the Microsoft... um...
Ballmer: Inquisition.
Biggles: I know, I know! Nobody expects the Microsoft Inquisition. In fact, those who do expect -
Ballmer: Our chief weapons are...
Biggles: Our chief weapons are... um... er...
Ballmer: Surprise...
Biggles: Surprise and...
Ballmer: Okay, stop. Stop. Stop there - stop there. Stop. Phew! Ah!... our chief weapons are surprise... blah blah blah. Cardinal, read the charges.
Fang: You are hereby charged that you did on diverse dates commit heresy against the Holy Church of Microsoft. 'My old man said follow the...'
Biggles: That's enough. (To Lee's wife) Now, how do you plead?
Lee's wife: We're innocent.
Ballmer: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Superimposed caption: DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER
Biggles: We'll soon change your mind about that!
Superimposed caption: DIABOLICAL ACTING
Wow. You mean people actually PAY MONEY for /.????
Oh my.
Dude. If you can afford that kind of box I should think you could afford a decent cooling system as well. Come on now - buy the ticket, take the ride.
Oh, man. Of course he's written a book but he's never been published. All bloody English teachers in Japan have to do that to justify their existence.
Thank you for making me waste half an hour of my life trying to read that story. It was dull, and nothing else.
Why is it that some people find living in Japan such an alien experience? I've been here for 12 years and feel right at home. Have a Japanese wife and a son, a job with a Japanese company (NOT teaching English, thank you very much), speak the language, pay the taxes, read the papers, go out with my mates, go back to Europe every couple of years to see my family, etc. What is the big bloody deal?
And don't get me started on that Damacy review. Whatever kind of gear this guy has got, I need some too.
Canon is at least as bad.
Mate, now you are being silly. Nice metaphors and puns will get you modded up to double plus good, but if you want to see some proper Canon designs, come over to Japan for a spell. You will see some wicked things which also manage to, er...let you put things on top of the printer/scanner/copier.
I submit to you the glorious Pixus MP900
Tried to look for an English link but alas, it looks like you'll have to do a Bill Murray on this one, he he.
Oh, like it isn't already?
I know I sure didn't tune in to the Daily Show on TV when ShunTV was around...but now, without a consistently reliable source[...]
Ah, you just stopped looking hard enough.
Try this
It's just damn easier than dealing with all the shit from stealing.
You've obviously never tried this 'stealing' business yourself. It merely involves clicking on a torrent link, then xx minutes later playing the song(s).
Or so I've heard.
Some people like to ask questions before they shoot.
Well Han Solo doesn't.
Oh, wait...
Not that anybody on slashdot cares about things like this, but the correct spelling is Guatemalan