My friends and I did something like this in our college chem class. We came up with things like C3Po (or C3PO). Needless to say, acronyms can be a bit easier than actual words.
When my dad discovered he had the Sony DRM on his computer, he asked me to remove it. Knowing that using Sony's tool to do so would simply open more security holes (turning on automatic program installation in IE, for one), I decided to go through and remove it manually.
After uninstalling the services, deleting the hidden $sys$ files, and removing the related registry entries, my parents' computer refuses to boot. I get a very uninforative BSOD. If I go into Safe Mode, the boot process halts after loading mup.sys (thus telling me the problem is with the next driver, whatever that is), then gives me a BSOD. They have an HP Pavilion, which came with an on-disk recovery tool. Unfortunately, all that is is the Windows Recovery Console, like the one on the installation CD. The CD we do not own, because HP did not give us one. Yes, that's right - we paid for a Windows license, and received no form of installation utility whatsoever.
Before I could even GET to the Recovery Console, I had another problem to figure out. When I tried to boot it, I got the good ol' "NTLDR is compressed" error. I checked - it was not compressed.
To boot into the Recovery Console, I had to boot BartPE, copy the NTLDR file from the Windows partition to the recovery partition, and reboot.
I've done everything I can think of to fix this. I've reset the BIOS and CMOS, cleared the ESCD, disconnected every piece of hardware other than hard drive, processor, and memory, changed various settings in the BIOS... to no avail.
Now we had to pay $24 for HP to ship us a recovery CD so we can get the damn machine working again. Not only that, but everything I've read on the Web says that reinstalling XP does not fix this issue, and that it's hardware-related.
Before this problem showed up, I couldn't burn CDs at all. Before the DRM was installed, I had no trouble doing this. I'm beginning to wonder if the DRM altered my burner's firmware.
Here's a big fuck you to Sony, and a slightly smaller one to HP. You are completely inept.
I'm currently up to 159.86 MB used, with five tabs open. Not only that, but clicking "Clear Private Data" puts Firefox's CPU usage upwards of 65% if I haven't done it in a while. I've also occasionally had Firefox randomly close itself on me, without any user interaction or errors/warnings.
"Why Do Computer Games Claim Lives?" It's not the games; it's the environment. People who are addicted to crack will die in a crackhouse if it's poorly-ventilated. It's the addiction and where it's being fed that causes the deaths.
Your point? Many people write Perl as PERL. Perl is an acronym. So is PERL. The difference between LUA and Lua is not one most people would think significant.
"Destabilize the nation by capturing/killing its leaders, then wing it" does not count as a plan in my book. Nor does immediate withdrawal. What bothers me beyond reason is that Bush and most Republicans refuse to believe that it's possible to withdraw in stages, and that every single Democrat just wants to pull the troops all out at once. Nobody actually wants that to happen, because they know it's ridiculous to expect anything good to come out of a strategy like that. But simply saying that we're going to "stay the course" isn't realistic either, since we haven't plotted the course to begin with.
Funny... before we were there, there was no threat of civil war... Not that I'm saying we shouldn't have gone in, but we really should have had some sort of realistic plan before we did.
Well, there IS that whole "over 2100 American troops and tens of thousands of Iraqi combatants and civilians killed because of supposedly faulty intelligence" thing. But who's counting?
That's a bullshit comparison.
Why was Clinton being examined in the first place?
Because he had CONSENSUAL SEX with an ADULT.
Why did he lie?
To try to salvage his marriage.
Who died?
NOBODY.
Why is Bush being examined in the first place?
Because he lied about WMDs. Because his vice president used to head the company that the government hands all its war-on-terror-related oil/rebuilding contracts to. Because he has given executive approval for the transfer of foreign POWs into prisons where we know torture takes place.
Why did he lie?
To protect his own ass, and cover up the crimes of people in his administration.
Who died?
Over 2100 American troops, tens of thousands of Iraqis (military and civilian), and several dozen tortured detainees.
How so? The Dragon Ball Z style is highly distinctive. Distinct and distinctive are not the same thing. Distinctive means "distinguishing" or "identifying", so "highly distinctive" just means "easily identifiable."
If you RTFA, you'd see that "Dragon Ball Z designer Akira Toriyama helmed the look of this title, and the result is a naturalistic landscape and highly distinctive characters."
I bought DQVIII the day it came out, and have never regretted doing so. The graphics are beautiful, the plotline is engrossing, the characters are lovable, and the environment is believable. The only complaint I have is that some of the songs sound like they were recorded in an echo chamber. Apart from that, I love it.
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They're sitting by the edge of the gene pool.
Intelligent Design. Sorry, I had to.
My friends and I did something like this in our college chem class. We came up with things like C3Po (or C3PO). Needless to say, acronyms can be a bit easier than actual words.
Straight from IMDB.
King Kong (1933)
Writing credits: Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace
Not Peter Jackson! Give credit where credit is due.
I think it's clever, myself. It's short for both [w]ho[re] and ho[oker].
Hoes is plural for 'ho', smartypants. Otherwise it'd be 'hos', which is just... stupid.
If I buy stock in Happy Fun Ball, will I be provoking Happy Fun Ball?
When my dad discovered he had the Sony DRM on his computer, he asked me to remove it. Knowing that using Sony's tool to do so would simply open more security holes (turning on automatic program installation in IE, for one), I decided to go through and remove it manually.
After uninstalling the services, deleting the hidden $sys$ files, and removing the related registry entries, my parents' computer refuses to boot. I get a very uninforative BSOD. If I go into Safe Mode, the boot process halts after loading mup.sys (thus telling me the problem is with the next driver, whatever that is), then gives me a BSOD. They have an HP Pavilion, which came with an on-disk recovery tool. Unfortunately, all that is is the Windows Recovery Console, like the one on the installation CD. The CD we do not own, because HP did not give us one. Yes, that's right - we paid for a Windows license, and received no form of installation utility whatsoever.
Before I could even GET to the Recovery Console, I had another problem to figure out. When I tried to boot it, I got the good ol' "NTLDR is compressed" error. I checked - it was not compressed.
To boot into the Recovery Console, I had to boot BartPE, copy the NTLDR file from the Windows partition to the recovery partition, and reboot.
I've done everything I can think of to fix this. I've reset the BIOS and CMOS, cleared the ESCD, disconnected every piece of hardware other than hard drive, processor, and memory, changed various settings in the BIOS... to no avail.
Now we had to pay $24 for HP to ship us a recovery CD so we can get the damn machine working again. Not only that, but everything I've read on the Web says that reinstalling XP does not fix this issue, and that it's hardware-related.
Before this problem showed up, I couldn't burn CDs at all. Before the DRM was installed, I had no trouble doing this. I'm beginning to wonder if the DRM altered my burner's firmware.
Here's a big fuck you to Sony, and a slightly smaller one to HP. You are completely inept.
Or give you a reach-around.
I'm currently up to 159.86 MB used, with five tabs open. Not only that, but clicking "Clear Private Data" puts Firefox's CPU usage upwards of 65% if I haven't done it in a while. I've also occasionally had Firefox randomly close itself on me, without any user interaction or errors/warnings.
No, I never said that. I said that they can die in a crackhouse if it's poorly-ventilated. Anyone can. Deadly fumes and all that.
"Why Do Computer Games Claim Lives?" It's not the games; it's the environment. People who are addicted to crack will die in a crackhouse if it's poorly-ventilated. It's the addiction and where it's being fed that causes the deaths.
Your point? Many people write Perl as PERL. Perl is an acronym. So is PERL. The difference between LUA and Lua is not one most people would think significant.
This is unbelievable! Awesome-o has thought up 1193 different film ideas. 906 of which star Adam Sandler!
"Destabilize the nation by capturing/killing its leaders, then wing it" does not count as a plan in my book. Nor does immediate withdrawal. What bothers me beyond reason is that Bush and most Republicans refuse to believe that it's possible to withdraw in stages, and that every single Democrat just wants to pull the troops all out at once. Nobody actually wants that to happen, because they know it's ridiculous to expect anything good to come out of a strategy like that. But simply saying that we're going to "stay the course" isn't realistic either, since we haven't plotted the course to begin with.
Funny... before we were there, there was no threat of civil war... Not that I'm saying we shouldn't have gone in, but we really should have had some sort of realistic plan before we did.
"They care less about informing the public, then in protecting their pathetic 'access' to the powerful."
Would you prefer that the powerful are inaccessible?
Well, there IS that whole "over 2100 American troops and tens of thousands of Iraqi combatants and civilians killed because of supposedly faulty intelligence" thing. But who's counting?
That's a bullshit comparison. Why was Clinton being examined in the first place? Because he had CONSENSUAL SEX with an ADULT. Why did he lie? To try to salvage his marriage. Who died? NOBODY. Why is Bush being examined in the first place? Because he lied about WMDs. Because his vice president used to head the company that the government hands all its war-on-terror-related oil/rebuilding contracts to. Because he has given executive approval for the transfer of foreign POWs into prisons where we know torture takes place. Why did he lie? To protect his own ass, and cover up the crimes of people in his administration. Who died? Over 2100 American troops, tens of thousands of Iraqis (military and civilian), and several dozen tortured detainees.
How so? The Dragon Ball Z style is highly distinctive. Distinct and distinctive are not the same thing. Distinctive means "distinguishing" or "identifying", so "highly distinctive" just means "easily identifiable."
In fact, it is available now as an add-on. I've been testing it in Windows XP for quite a while. It takes some getting-used-to.
If you RTFA, you'd see that "Dragon Ball Z designer Akira Toriyama helmed the look of this title, and the result is a naturalistic landscape and highly distinctive characters."
Monad will apparently not be in Vista, however.
I bought DQVIII the day it came out, and have never regretted doing so. The graphics are beautiful, the plotline is engrossing, the characters are lovable, and the environment is believable. The only complaint I have is that some of the songs sound like they were recorded in an echo chamber. Apart from that, I love it.
Actually, I just found it again. It was "Song IDentity."