You know, you look at the occasional post from a European that comments that "not everyone lives in America" and you assume that they're just complaining too much.
I was going to get this, but it's missing the one feature I was really waiting for:
Playing an MP3 as a ringtone.
From the details on the website, this appears to play mp3s, but still has the lame ringtone thing. Perhaps this is an issue with the memory not being on board. But it sucks - I'd like to create an MP3 of a buddy of mine saying "PICK UP THE PHONE!" and set it as the ringtone for his number.
I'm not so sure you can draw the same parallel here...
AS is supposed to have more features than ES, aside from the appropriateness of it being able to run on "More than 2 processors". But if you bought AS, it would cost you the same no matter how many processors you ran it on (1, 2, 4,...).
Admittedly ES is supposed to only scale up to 2 processors. Anyone out there try to run ES on something that has more than two processors? Results?
You know, I'm writing this book that takes place in France. Now, when everyone in a conversation understands a language, I just write it all in English and put in an "in French" note somewhere. But I was thinking, since there's at least one convo so far where a majority of the folk there *don't* speak French, it would have been cool to know enough French to type out the convo. Until I read your message.
Because, with the accents I'm trying to impart to the reader, phonetics are a PITA sometimes. And if French isn't mostly phonetic, that would suck.
Our governmental system isn't retarded. The people that are in office are. There's a difference.;)
Oh, and the people that either:
Voted them into office,
or failed to vote.
When it comes to Americans complaining about our elected officials, if you were old enough to vote and didn't, shut the fuck up. You failed to do your duty as a citizen.
Well, there are a few things wrong with your post.
You're assuming the average American is smart enough to vote for someone other than Bush. I'm willing to bet that at this rate, we'll have much the same situation as we had last election; I can only pray that it's not Florida that causes the problem again (since I live there).
You're also assuming that Kerry "is all that." I must say, I have trouble trusting either one of them. It's unfortunate that I have to fall back on "I don't want to give Bush another four years to perfect his screwing the country up, so I'll go with someone who will try to screw it up differently."
Last I heard opinion was split on last night's debate (I didn't watch). Until I see more, I'm assuming it was a draw.
It doesn't matter how much he gets paid, as long as he's made ineffective. And is taxed (well, we can hope, anyway).
Remember, you're talking about a man who lost an election to a dead man. That in and of itself should cause some concern, considering how well he's done for himself since then.
Readers of slashdot aside, most folks want to see (usually pretty) pictures and be told what's going on rather than have to do actual reading... because thinking usually follows reading!
And we can't have that now, can we?
Crap, there goes my opportunity to mod this discussion.
Partially, as long as they can provide some mechanism for ensuring that Jane Doe got on the plane and rode in her seat, instead of Jane Doe buying a ticket in her name, giving it to John Smith, and he gets on the plane...
.. although whether from behind the sofa or not remains to be seen.
I think it's common geek issue that they can see all the threads of thought so quickly that, to non-geeks, often their comments seem as non-sequitrs, until the comment is explained.
That being said, is it just me or did anyone else suddenly get the image of the article poster running around with a baseball bat, smashing aluminum trash cans and anything else that looked remotely like a Dalek?
Has always been my *biggest* beef with later Treks.
The writers/producers of Trek shows seem to use time travel as nothing more than a convenient plot device, either to resolve or induce plot. In a show that's supposed to elevate science, the least they could do is write such that a given theory of time travel is canon. But no, every other friggin episode seems to change the time line, with no explanation. I'd have to think that if time travel were anything like the way Trek portrays it, some day soon at random the universe (well, the planet, anyway) is going to blink out of existence because some phuqnut screwed something major up.
I'm no expert on time theories but I know for a fact that Trek doesn't have one that's recognized.
Hell, at least JMS got it right in B5. Time is time, don't phuq with it. If something happens due to time travel, that's the way it always was, you use your story to resolve the wierdness - not introduce it and then drop all pretense of strangeness.
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You know, you look at the occasional post from a European that comments that "not everyone lives in America" and you assume that they're just complaining too much.
Then you see the above quoted line.
I'm beginning to they might have a point.
They still talk funny though. ;)
Playing an MP3 as a ringtone.
From the details on the website, this appears to play mp3s, but still has the lame ringtone thing. Perhaps this is an issue with the memory not being on board. But it sucks - I'd like to create an MP3 of a buddy of mine saying "PICK UP THE PHONE!" and set it as the ringtone for his number.
I'm not so sure you can draw the same parallel here ...
AS is supposed to have more features than ES, aside from the appropriateness of it being able to run on "More than 2 processors". But if you bought AS, it would cost you the same no matter how many processors you ran it on (1, 2, 4, ...).
Admittedly ES is supposed to only scale up to 2 processors. Anyone out there try to run ES on something that has more than two processors? Results?
Oh, sorry, I'm repeating myself.
Because, with the accents I'm trying to impart to the reader, phonetics are a PITA sometimes. And if French isn't mostly phonetic, that would suck.
Our governmental system isn't retarded. The people that are in office are. There's a difference. ;)
Oh, and the people that either:
- Voted them into office,
- or failed to vote.
When it comes to Americans complaining about our elected officials, if you were old enough to vote and didn't, shut the fuck up. You failed to do your duty as a citizen.- You're assuming the average American is smart enough to vote for someone other than Bush. I'm willing to bet that at this rate, we'll have much the same situation as we had last election; I can only pray that it's not Florida that causes the problem again (since I live there).
- You're also assuming that Kerry "is all that." I must say, I have trouble trusting either one of them. It's unfortunate that I have to fall back on "I don't want to give Bush another four years to perfect his screwing the country up, so I'll go with someone who will try to screw it up differently."
- Last I heard opinion was split on last night's debate (I didn't watch). Until I see more, I'm assuming it was a draw.
- It doesn't matter how much he gets paid, as long as he's made ineffective. And is taxed (well, we can hope, anyway).
Remember, you're talking about a man who lost an election to a dead man. That in and of itself should cause some concern, considering how well he's done for himself since then.Unfortunately, having extremely bad taste isn't illegal.
Don't lie. Admit that you're just waiting for someone to tell you what it is.
Hm. God forbid you have to click on the F.A.Q. link in the menu on the left of "TFM" (though I think you meant "TFA").
No, you're just unable to appreciate the work that went into producing a very funny series of web shorts.
To put it more succinctly: You're just lame. :)
Rusty: They say tope is very soothing.
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Readers of slashdot aside, most folks want to see (usually pretty) pictures and be told what's going on rather than have to do actual reading ... because thinking usually follows reading!
And we can't have that now, can we?
Crap, there goes my opportunity to mod this discussion.
Right now all he has to hope is that she's not reading these articles on Slashdot.
> I thought it was a Bush behind every conspiracy?
I thought it was [John Ashcroft|Dick Cheney] that was behind Bush.
Though the opinion might be that John Ashcroft is behind every conspiracy.
Wouldn't *that* be "Post Hummusly?"
I think it's common geek issue that they can see all the threads of thought so quickly that, to non-geeks, often their comments seem as non-sequitrs, until the comment is explained.
That being said, is it just me or did anyone else suddenly get the image of the article poster running around with a baseball bat, smashing aluminum trash cans and anything else that looked remotely like a Dalek?
But it has to be said:
Doesn't this premise kind of parallel Voyager?
The writers/producers of Trek shows seem to use time travel as nothing more than a convenient plot device, either to resolve or induce plot. In a show that's supposed to elevate science, the least they could do is write such that a given theory of time travel is canon. But no, every other friggin episode seems to change the time line, with no explanation. I'd have to think that if time travel were anything like the way Trek portrays it, some day soon at random the universe (well, the planet, anyway) is going to blink out of existence because some phuqnut screwed something major up.
I'm no expert on time theories but I know for a fact that Trek doesn't have one that's recognized.
Hell, at least JMS got it right in B5. Time is time, don't phuq with it. If something happens due to time travel, that's the way it always was, you use your story to resolve the wierdness - not introduce it and then drop all pretense of strangeness.