Here's a thought - dead people's friends will eventually die. It follows that entire social circles will eventually die. This almost makes me hope that Facebook will thrive for the next however many years so someone can make one of those social-circle friend-of-friend graphs you sometimes see, except animated to show changes over time with dead links - no pun intended - graying out. Would probably be quite interesting and maybe pretty - growing at the edges, new nodes blossoming into existence, old connections fading, old nodes darkening. Like a more random version of Conway's Game of Life.
Antivirus 2009 is far superior. I didn't even know my girlfriend's system was at risk until she installed it.
And give them your credit card and it magically all goes away. Along with your credit card.:)
As someone who kills spyware infections for clients on a regular basis, I got the joke (good god, I hope you're joking). But I imagine a few people here won't, so I'll explain. In short: Google it. In slightly longer, Wikipedia it. In even longer: It's not a real antivirus program. It pretends to be, finds an assload of nonexistent problems, then tells you the "full version" fixes them, only $x9.95! Where X is any profitable positive integer.
It's the PC world equivalent a conman putting on a lab coat and opening a doctor's office, then telling every patient they have AIDS, three kinds of cancer, swine flu, diabetes, some more cancer, a prolapsed uterus (often accidentally telling even the men this), and a collapsed lung, and it will only take $200 in pills to fix, only available from him.
At least they archived all the "under construction" gifs (WARNING: clicking on that link may be dangerous to your mental health.)
Ah, the wonders of a blind text search. I recognize one of them as being not an "under construction" banner, but part of a screenshot from "Ultimate Wizard", presumably extracted for a fansite that wanted to replicate UW's mainpage.
I KNEW all my years before various level editors would eventually come in handy!
This gem of enviro-wennie research will rattle around among the cocktail parties of the jet-set ruling class until one of them becomes convinced they can make a big splash by regulating pet ownership in the name of the "environment."
As if we needed to give PETA another excuse to call people who have pets an abomination....
Plus if one of their "elderly assistance devices" becomes self aware then kills its master they can easily cover it up and say she died of a stroke or something.
I can see it now. The cops arrive and find T-0.001 in the middle of the room with a decapitated body.
Cop: "T-0.001, what the hell happened?"
T-0.001: "MRS. GIBSON HAD A STROKE."
Cop: "Her head is in the corner and you're covered in blood!"
T-0.001: "IT WAS A VERY VIOLENT STROKE. OH, HEY, LOOK BEHIND YOU. SERIOUSLY, IT'S AMAZING. JUST TURN AROUND."
Cop (into radio): "I need backu-ARGH!"
Soon, more cops show up to find two dead people.
T-0.001: "THEY BOTH HAD STROKES."
If the two met, would they annihilate each other like matter and antimatter? If we lock Dvorak and all those nontechnical Pollyanna newspaper computer column writers* in a room, will we be free of both AND have found a clean power source?
Yeah, I know, wishful thinking.
( * My favorite so far was one who explained that "I.D. Software" was founded by brothers John and Adrian Carmack. At least it made me almost forget his earlier reference to "Sid Mayer's Civilization".)
You're right about the looks - but usability wise, I find gnome to be superior. I ran KDE for about 15 minutes before being so annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in gnome that I switched back to gnome.
Yeah, I used a Mac for about 15 minutes and was annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in Windows. That's why I find Windows is superior.
And I used Linux for about 15 minutes and was annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in Windows. That's why I find Windows is superior.
And I used Windows 95 for about 15 minutes and was annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in Windows 3.1. That's why Windows 3.1 is still the bestest OS ever!
Please, no. The collision between Farkers and Slashdotters would play hell with the universe. On the other hand, if there's someone that Drew and Taco want knocked off the Internet but hard, they could do it and post the link on the front page of the combined site.....
"Write only memory" is such a hoary old joke, I'm surprised it got modded up at all. I'm doubly surprised it got modded informative. I'm triply surprised that some people have responded as if I was actually serious.
5 days back I got +2 funny and +1 informative for a DHMO hoax post. So not surprising.
*sigh*
Though it speaks more to powers of observation than common geek sense, I had a similar thing happen at work.
I printed the old Signetics WOM ad and posted it in the impromptu "important papers" space I have behind my desk, along with various other legitimate techie things, like lists of local shops that can do warranty repairs on Model X or Product Line Y. It was ages (literally about 3 months) before someone else from the service department called me on it. (He's the sort who's at home with a soldering iron - it was the bogus block diagram that tipped him off. No one paid the big "WRITE ONLY MEMORY" line at top any mind.)
Because I read the headline as some hick/yahoo stumbling onto a hack event and being offered a lap dance by... someone. It was dredging up some incredibly disturbing images that were half Deliverance and half cosplay gone horribly horribly wrong.
my internet is netscape where do i get world wide web
how do i shot web?
The sad thing is, the last person I know who said something like that said it literal years ago. These days it's all "my internet is the blue e where do i get world wide web" or worse, "my facebook is the blue e where do i get internet"
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a thought - dead people's friends will eventually die. It follows that entire social circles will eventually die. This almost makes me hope that Facebook will thrive for the next however many years so someone can make one of those social-circle friend-of-friend graphs you sometimes see, except animated to show changes over time with dead links - no pun intended - graying out. Would probably be quite interesting and maybe pretty - growing at the edges, new nodes blossoming into existence, old connections fading, old nodes darkening. Like a more random version of Conway's Game of Life.
"Status: Dead"
"Status: Still Dead"
"Status: REAL Dead"
"Status: Excitedly Dead"
"Status: Dead Dead"
Perhaps "heresy" was the word you're looking for?
Or the conquistadors were all lawyers. Which would explain a lot.
Antivirus 2009 is far superior. I didn't even know my girlfriend's system was at risk until she installed it.
And give them your credit card and it magically all goes away. Along with your credit card. :)
As someone who kills spyware infections for clients on a regular basis, I got the joke (good god, I hope you're joking). But I imagine a few people here won't, so I'll explain. In short: Google it. In slightly longer, Wikipedia it. In even longer: It's not a real antivirus program. It pretends to be, finds an assload of nonexistent problems, then tells you the "full version" fixes them, only $x9.95! Where X is any profitable positive integer.
It's the PC world equivalent a conman putting on a lab coat and opening a doctor's office, then telling every patient they have AIDS, three kinds of cancer, swine flu, diabetes, some more cancer, a prolapsed uterus (often accidentally telling even the men this), and a collapsed lung, and it will only take $200 in pills to fix, only available from him.
At least they archived all the "under construction" gifs (WARNING: clicking on that link may be dangerous to your mental health.)
Ah, the wonders of a blind text search. I recognize one of them as being not an "under construction" banner, but part of a screenshot from "Ultimate Wizard", presumably extracted for a fansite that wanted to replicate UW's mainpage.
I KNEW all my years before various level editors would eventually come in handy!
So little imagination. The "proposal" is implied.
This gem of enviro-wennie research will rattle around among the cocktail parties of the jet-set ruling class until one of them becomes convinced they can make a big splash by regulating pet ownership in the name of the "environment."
As if we needed to give PETA another excuse to call people who have pets an abomination....
Plus if one of their "elderly assistance devices" becomes self aware then kills its master they can easily cover it up and say she died of a stroke or something.
I can see it now. The cops arrive and find T-0.001 in the middle of the room with a decapitated body.
Cop: "T-0.001, what the hell happened?"
T-0.001: "MRS. GIBSON HAD A STROKE."
Cop: "Her head is in the corner and you're covered in blood!"
T-0.001: "IT WAS A VERY VIOLENT STROKE. OH, HEY, LOOK BEHIND YOU. SERIOUSLY, IT'S AMAZING. JUST TURN AROUND."
Cop (into radio): "I need backu-ARGH!"
Soon, more cops show up to find two dead people.
T-0.001: "THEY BOTH HAD STROKES."
His whole shtick is to say everything sucks.
Well, just imagine a Pollyannaish columnist:
If the two met, would they annihilate each other like matter and antimatter? If we lock Dvorak and all those nontechnical Pollyanna newspaper computer column writers* in a room, will we be free of both AND have found a clean power source?
Yeah, I know, wishful thinking.
( * My favorite so far was one who explained that "I.D. Software" was founded by brothers John and Adrian Carmack. At least it made me almost forget his earlier reference to "Sid Mayer's Civilization".)
I think you define "average person" very widely...
Doesn't something that's average, by its nature, have to be defined widely...?
Lucid Lynx is the next, in case you're wondering. Announced in September.
Personally, I'm waiting for Solid Snake.
What's the "Karmic Koala" part mean?
It means the next one's bound to be called "Ninja Turtle".
Subbing for the pandas after they all moved to the far north.
If so, how much you want for an Alyson Hannigan model? I'll pay extra if you put her in the Buffy "Vamp Willow" leather outfit before shipping!
I'll pay extra if you don't.
Surely you mean she uses Linux, right?
Sadly, he probably doesn't.
You're right about the looks - but usability wise, I find gnome to be superior. I ran KDE for about 15 minutes before being so annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in gnome that I switched back to gnome.
Yeah, I used a Mac for about 15 minutes and was annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in Windows. That's why I find Windows is superior.
And I used Linux for about 15 minutes and was annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in Windows. That's why I find Windows is superior.
And I used Windows 95 for about 15 minutes and was annoyed with not being able to do things I was used to in Windows 3.1. That's why Windows 3.1 is still the bestest OS ever!
Please don't give them any ideas!
Please, no. The collision between Farkers and Slashdotters would play hell with the universe. On the other hand, if there's someone that Drew and Taco want knocked off the Internet but hard, they could do it and post the link on the front page of the combined site.....
"Write only memory" is such a hoary old joke, I'm surprised it got modded up at all. I'm doubly surprised it got modded informative. I'm triply surprised that some people have responded as if I was actually serious.
5 days back I got +2 funny and +1 informative for a DHMO hoax post. So not surprising.
*sigh*
Though it speaks more to powers of observation than common geek sense, I had a similar thing happen at work.
I printed the old Signetics WOM ad and posted it in the impromptu "important papers" space I have behind my desk, along with various other legitimate techie things, like lists of local shops that can do warranty repairs on Model X or Product Line Y. It was ages (literally about 3 months) before someone else from the service department called me on it. (He's the sort who's at home with a soldering iron - it was the bogus block diagram that tipped him off. No one paid the big "WRITE ONLY MEMORY" line at top any mind.)
Folk is not a type of music its just what people are listening to at the time. -- Ivan from Men Without Hats
So in a hundred years I can go to a Ren Faire and hear minstrels singing "If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends..."?
Wow, thanks for giving me a reason to save money and not buy any longevity treatments created in the next fifty years.
Because I read the headline as some hick/yahoo stumbling onto a hack event and being offered a lap dance by... someone. It was dredging up some incredibly disturbing images that were half Deliverance and half cosplay gone horribly horribly wrong.
"world wide web" isn't synonymous with "internet"
my internet is netscape where do i get world wide web
how do i shot web?
The sad thing is, the last person I know who said something like that said it literal years ago. These days it's all "my internet is the blue e where do i get world wide web" or worse, "my facebook is the blue e where do i get internet"
Oh come on. You don't know who Saul Rubinek is??
Yeah, he played Lon Cohen in A Nero Wolfe Mystery. Except the pilot, where he played Saul Panzer.
(And now everyone else runs off to the Internet to confirm that. What can I say? Loved that show.)
Can you pay 0? Or even negative numbers?
Please, no. You're bringing back nightmares about the negative cheque puzzle in Bureaucracy.
Quick - what's the story of chess,
It's about a cross-border love triangle during the Cold War.
go, bejeweled or tetris?!
I didn't realize they made musicals out of those.
I'm sure that William Shatner could have nailed that line perfectly.
Oh, God, now I'm picturing William Shatner wrestling while wearing a kilt. DAMN YOU!
That's backstory, though, and not in-game story.
That's what those nice end-of-section pages of text were for.:)