I expected to see this scene progress quite differently as I was watching it. Everything was going great... Vader started ripping everything apart with the Force, but then we get to this corny melodramatic "NNOOOOO!!!!" A much more moving scene that wouldn't have torn me away from my suspension of disbelief would have had Vader continuing to destroy the room, finally resorting to physically ripping things apart as well until he became so exhausted that he would just collapse and give up. If I could have seen that I would have stood up and cheered.
nobody's ever stolen one of my passwords or hijacked an account of mine
Correction: To your knowledge, nobody's ever stolen one of my passwords or hijacked an account. Just because you haven't noticed doesn't mean that it hasn't happened.
Wow, thanks for giving me something easy to argue about today. First of all, you only need to connect to the net once before you can play single player as much as your little heart desires offline. Second, you can access your Steam account from any computer that has Steam. With that you can download the games you've registered with them (or even install from your hl2 cd). So, with the one annoying inconvenience of connecting once on your friend's computer, it should all work nicely from there onward.
I'm surprised it's not in their FAQ... well, considering what actually is in their FAQ, maybe I'm not so surprised. My layman's guess is that this qualifies as parody.
I wish I could call and ask my dad a few questions about it right now, but it's kinda late and I don't want to wake him up just for that.
Anyway, my dad used to own a couple restaurants in the Minneapolis area. Doohan often came to visit at one of them and sit at the bar and talk to my dad. He told me about it nearly ten years ago, so there's not much I remember. He said Doohan was a fun, interesting guy though. Definately one of his favorite customers.
OO has done a dandy job opening most of my MS Word and Excel documents. I think I've had one Word document where a single tab was off. Of course I don't do anything too fancy in Excel, so there's a good chance that might not be as compatible as I think.
How about the 95/98 operating systems? Sure they're more unstable than a schizophrenic, but they're unsupported now anyway. Plus, XP isn't even based on them, so they shouldn't be releasing any secrets... well, in theory. I'm sure the fact that IE is in there might be a problem, but maybe they could release some of the other parts.
I've never eaten dog meat before, even though some cultures do. I have no desire to eat dog meat. Sure, I don't *know* if I'd like it, but I have no drive to try it. I consider myself straight, and like dog meat, I have no drive or desire to try gay sex.
It's the venusian sex-goddesses you want. The venutians all take the form of high school lunch ladies in hairnets! The/.'ers are doomed...
Oh wait... riiiight! *wink wink*
Flash ads are the new obnoxious method. Of course they aren't exactly new. I've been seeing them for at least a few years. I think now that IE has the built-in popup blocker, we'll be seeing more and more of them, and unlike normal popup windows, they don't have to have a close button. I for one will not enjoy having to watch a full commerical in flash everytime I view a page.
I never picked up proper touch typing from the classes. They bored me. At first with the dumb phrases with the same words over and over, then with the paragraphs that were "cleverly" educational. At that point I did pecking like a little speed demon (no hunting, just pecking. I knew the keyboard).
After a couple years of speeding along like that I somehow naturally picked up touch typing. The only difference is that my right hand floats in space and picks up most of the keys with the wrong fingers. Oddly enough, I can force that hand to touch type properly without too much thought, but it's a bit slower.
Actually, Turner's idea requires them to all do it at the same time, or else we'd be making the situation worse....and yes, obviously he's willing to do it.
IMO, anti-virus has been one of the things that Microsoft has done right, as far as integration is concerned. We geeks like being able to have a choice in products, and even now with a seperate product, Microsoft is still giving us a choice. Seems a little odd for them, but hey, I'll go with it. Obviously, there's some sanity left there for them to realize that allowing users (or the company said users buy their computer from) to have a choice is a good thing. Now if only they'd let us get rid of IE if we don't want it on our system.
You're telling this to the Slashdot crowd? They aren't getting enough sex in the first place. I hardly think they'd mind if it were lackluster casual sex.
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I expected to see this scene progress quite differently as I was watching it. Everything was going great... Vader started ripping everything apart with the Force, but then we get to this corny melodramatic "NNOOOOO!!!!" A much more moving scene that wouldn't have torn me away from my suspension of disbelief would have had Vader continuing to destroy the room, finally resorting to physically ripping things apart as well until he became so exhausted that he would just collapse and give up. If I could have seen that I would have stood up and cheered.
nobody's ever stolen one of my passwords or hijacked an account of mine
Correction: To your knowledge, nobody's ever stolen one of my passwords or hijacked an account. Just because you haven't noticed doesn't mean that it hasn't happened.
Oh come on now, you know one of those nerds doesn't count because his girlfriend isn't the 15 year old from the chat room he thinks she is.
We're on Slashdot, genius. You're assumed to be a man unless you can prove otherwise.
Whoever modded this Informative is going to be in for a HUGE surprise.
Wow, thanks for giving me something easy to argue about today. First of all, you only need to connect to the net once before you can play single player as much as your little heart desires offline. Second, you can access your Steam account from any computer that has Steam. With that you can download the games you've registered with them (or even install from your hl2 cd). So, with the one annoying inconvenience of connecting once on your friend's computer, it should all work nicely from there onward.
I'm surprised it's not in their FAQ... well, considering what actually is in their FAQ, maybe I'm not so surprised. My layman's guess is that this qualifies as parody.
If the border were 1000km further south Canada's declaring war! Get 'em boys!
I wish I could call and ask my dad a few questions about it right now, but it's kinda late and I don't want to wake him up just for that. Anyway, my dad used to own a couple restaurants in the Minneapolis area. Doohan often came to visit at one of them and sit at the bar and talk to my dad. He told me about it nearly ten years ago, so there's not much I remember. He said Doohan was a fun, interesting guy though. Definately one of his favorite customers.
OO has done a dandy job opening most of my MS Word and Excel documents. I think I've had one Word document where a single tab was off. Of course I don't do anything too fancy in Excel, so there's a good chance that might not be as compatible as I think.
How about the 95/98 operating systems? Sure they're more unstable than a schizophrenic, but they're unsupported now anyway. Plus, XP isn't even based on them, so they shouldn't be releasing any secrets... well, in theory. I'm sure the fact that IE is in there might be a problem, but maybe they could release some of the other parts.
I've never eaten dog meat before, even though some cultures do. I have no desire to eat dog meat. Sure, I don't *know* if I'd like it, but I have no drive to try it. I consider myself straight, and like dog meat, I have no drive or desire to try gay sex.
Well obviously since Duke Nukem Forever is taking... forever, they have to replace everybody from time to time.
It's the venusian sex-goddesses you want. The venutians all take the form of high school lunch ladies in hairnets! The /.'ers are doomed...
Oh wait... riiiight! *wink wink*
Flash ads are the new obnoxious method. Of course they aren't exactly new. I've been seeing them for at least a few years. I think now that IE has the built-in popup blocker, we'll be seeing more and more of them, and unlike normal popup windows, they don't have to have a close button. I for one will not enjoy having to watch a full commerical in flash everytime I view a page.
I never picked up proper touch typing from the classes. They bored me. At first with the dumb phrases with the same words over and over, then with the paragraphs that were "cleverly" educational. At that point I did pecking like a little speed demon (no hunting, just pecking. I knew the keyboard). After a couple years of speeding along like that I somehow naturally picked up touch typing. The only difference is that my right hand floats in space and picks up most of the keys with the wrong fingers. Oddly enough, I can force that hand to touch type properly without too much thought, but it's a bit slower.
Actually, Turner's idea requires them to all do it at the same time, or else we'd be making the situation worse. ...and yes, obviously he's willing to do it.
Hey, that doesn't mean you should go around predicting the future!
A true Slashdotter. Not getting any, and willing to do anything to make it happen!
IMO, anti-virus has been one of the things that Microsoft has done right, as far as integration is concerned. We geeks like being able to have a choice in products, and even now with a seperate product, Microsoft is still giving us a choice. Seems a little odd for them, but hey, I'll go with it. Obviously, there's some sanity left there for them to realize that allowing users (or the company said users buy their computer from) to have a choice is a good thing. Now if only they'd let us get rid of IE if we don't want it on our system.
Hey, stop laughing! A guy can hope right?
You're telling this to the Slashdot crowd? They aren't getting enough sex in the first place. I hardly think they'd mind if it were lackluster casual sex.