Clearly my statement was misunderstood. I mentioned something about something, went on to make an unfunny joke satirizing the logic of Nintendo fanboys (and, less, fanboys in general, then stated the logic I had made (in my fanboyesque reasoning) was flawed.
"Don't try it because it could do very bad things like [insert one single event here] and then soon it'll be everywhere and ahmygod" is the same attitude toward robots, cloning and pretty much every other potentially revolutionary thing that has a very small potential to go wrong when done incorrectly.
Keep doing new stuff, important tech people with money, just don't screw it up and test it enough. People will support you then.
I use a program called Rainlender that, while perhaps not being as fully supported or fully featured as Sunbird or whatever, it's nice, small and does what I need it to do.
This argument has been done again and again and again and again.
However, I wish to reiterate the following: Nintendo's Focus!=Graphics Focus on Graphics!=Good therefore Nintendo=Good (i.e. bettar than M$ capitalist faggs omg)
Hurrah for flawed logic. It's what's keeping most business afloat these days.
I was just thinking, light waves might not cause much of a fuss at the speed of light, but what would happen if, say, an elephant moved at the speed of light? I kinda imagine the videos of buildings and such being toppled near atomic bombs, except exponentially stronger.
[obligatory "Big Brother" reference]
[obligatory out of place Microsoft flame]
[obligatory Soviet Russia Joke]
[more 1984 references]
[link to funny picture]
[link to Goatse]
[gung-ho "revolutionary" idea]
[flaming MPAA/RIAA]
[more Microsoft flaming]
So? If you're a nerd, and you ask a really hot girl out, would you rather she say "no" or "maybe" with a wink and a blush? The latter is clearly the better option, to which all nerds will attest.
Sure!
Space pies, though! They could spend $50,000 trying to develop a pie for eating in space, then abandon the project but sell the result on the retail market, then make millions! Just like the space pen!
Disclaimers and such that make any claims to install software other than the software listed at the beginning of the install should be required to have a Find tool, and the names of any extra softwares should be bolded, highlighted and underlined.
Or something.
Well, wait a second.
When you buy a computer with Windows on it, you are buying {a computer with Windows on it}, not just {a computer}. And you don't own the computer before you buy it, and Windows has been put on the computer before you buy it, so technically you wouldn't need to give any consent because the computer isn't yours until you buy it.
That didn't make any sense.
What if, on the fromt of the packet, in large, bold, friendly looking letters, instructions were printed? And the whole installation was automatic?
1. Insert CD. 2. Watch with speculation and confusion as your computer doohickey does things on the box with colors in it. 3. ??? 4. Your computer is now in working order. Don't call us if it's not.
I just spent three minutes trying to think of something that can be abbreviated as AOL, is funny, and has something to do with British people. I couldn't do it, and I get the feeling humor isn't the only thing I'll have bad fortune with in life.
Because AOL has popup, virus and spam blocking! Sure, you can get it all for free, but it's AOL and AOL is a big company so they must be better. Besides, they protect our children with their haphazard automatic filtering! If you don't get a webservice that includes a machine to protect your kids so you don't have to, what kind of irresponsible parent are you?
It'd be interesting to see some form of bbcode for email. It'd do what most people would need it to do and I don't really think one can do a lot of damage with bbcode. Except emotional damage with the [img] tag, but nobody cares about that.
Am I the only one who doesn't get any spam? I've been using GMail for maybe six months and I've gotten one spam email. This figure is excluding church "newsletters" that I get every two days and don't care about, but those go into my spam folder anyway so I don't see them. How did they get my email address anyway?
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Deltic (adjective) [...] shaped like a triangle.
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Clearly my statement was misunderstood. I mentioned something about something, went on to make an unfunny joke satirizing the logic of Nintendo fanboys (and, less, fanboys in general, then stated the logic I had made (in my fanboyesque reasoning) was flawed.
Red? From the blood, right?
Oh, that was the joke. Sorry.
(this was my train of thought)
"Don't try it because it could do very bad things like [insert one single event here] and then soon it'll be everywhere and ahmygod" is the same attitude toward robots, cloning and pretty much every other potentially revolutionary thing that has a very small potential to go wrong when done incorrectly. Keep doing new stuff, important tech people with money, just don't screw it up and test it enough. People will support you then.
I use a program called Rainlender that, while perhaps not being as fully supported or fully featured as Sunbird or whatever, it's nice, small and does what I need it to do.
This argument has been done again and again and again and again.
However, I wish to reiterate the following:
Nintendo's Focus!=Graphics
Focus on Graphics!=Good
therefore
Nintendo=Good (i.e. bettar than M$ capitalist faggs omg)
Hurrah for flawed logic. It's what's keeping most business afloat these days.
I was just thinking, light waves might not cause much of a fuss at the speed of light, but what would happen if, say, an elephant moved at the speed of light? I kinda imagine the videos of buildings and such being toppled near atomic bombs, except exponentially stronger.
[obligatory "Big Brother" reference] [obligatory out of place Microsoft flame] [obligatory Soviet Russia Joke] [more 1984 references] [link to funny picture] [link to Goatse] [gung-ho "revolutionary" idea] [flaming MPAA/RIAA] [more Microsoft flaming]
In other news, Steve Jobs buys Apple. Also, Jesus is executed.
So? If you're a nerd, and you ask a really hot girl out, would you rather she say "no" or "maybe" with a wink and a blush? The latter is clearly the better option, to which all nerds will attest.
Sure! Space pies, though! They could spend $50,000 trying to develop a pie for eating in space, then abandon the project but sell the result on the retail market, then make millions! Just like the space pen!
But the children! Think about the children!
Disclaimers and such that make any claims to install software other than the software listed at the beginning of the install should be required to have a Find tool, and the names of any extra softwares should be bolded, highlighted and underlined. Or something.
Well, wait a second. When you buy a computer with Windows on it, you are buying {a computer with Windows on it}, not just {a computer}. And you don't own the computer before you buy it, and Windows has been put on the computer before you buy it, so technically you wouldn't need to give any consent because the computer isn't yours until you buy it. That didn't make any sense.
I'm sure if this was put into law, Microsoft would get your legal consent for everything when you sign up for XBox Live. [Obligatory M$ Joke]
What if, on the fromt of the packet, in large, bold, friendly looking letters, instructions were printed?
And the whole installation was automatic?
1. Insert CD.
2. Watch with speculation and confusion as your computer doohickey does things on the box with colors in it.
3. ???
4. Your computer is now in working order. Don't call us if it's not.
I just spent three minutes trying to think of something that can be abbreviated as AOL, is funny, and has something to do with British people. I couldn't do it, and I get the feeling humor isn't the only thing I'll have bad fortune with in life.
Because AOL has popup, virus and spam blocking! Sure, you can get it all for free, but it's AOL and AOL is a big company so they must be better. Besides, they protect our children with their haphazard automatic filtering! If you don't get a webservice that includes a machine to protect your kids so you don't have to, what kind of irresponsible parent are you?
Goldman? Dogs of the AMS... time they made a move.
It'd be interesting to see some form of bbcode for email. It'd do what most people would need it to do and I don't really think one can do a lot of damage with bbcode. Except emotional damage with the [img] tag, but nobody cares about that.
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The easiest way to take down an airplane is to land a nuke on it. Easy. It's all science.
Am I the only one who doesn't get any spam? I've been using GMail for maybe six months and I've gotten one spam email. This figure is excluding church "newsletters" that I get every two days and don't care about, but those go into my spam folder anyway so I don't see them. How did they get my email address anyway?
What about a proxy that automatically corrects spelling! It would be brilliant!