the competitors there get press more like sports players do in the US
Oh yeah, seriously. And the riotous fanbase much like UK football teams. When Google was about to announce the winners, we had 1000% increase in police presence in every major city to suppress their devastating, hopped-on-php, caffeine-enhanced rage. We're talking tear-gas, flying cobblestones and burning cars here.
(...) The old Martian names were names of water and air and hills. And the names of sealed and buried sorcerers and towers and obelisks. And the rockets struck at the names like hammers, breaking away the marble into shale, shattering the crockery milestones that named the old towns, in the rubble of which great pylons were plunged with new names: Iron Town, Steel Town, Aluminum City, Electric Village, Corn Town, Grain Villa, Detroit II, all the mechanical names and the metal names from Earth. (...)
- Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles
Pwah! I don't need to RTFA to know it's a hoax. If there really was a new Spectrum coming, and especially if it was going to run from 3650-3700 Mhz, these guys would be the first to tell us.
I don't think non-compliance with Moore's Law is a felony.
Oh yeah? Tell that to those thugs from Moore's Police. Last year, I forgot to double my transistors and they came over to my house, kicked down the door, took my geek license, threw me in the street in my pajamas and said "That's what you get, when you mess with the Law, son!".
Jesus Fricking Christ, what is wrong with (some of) you people? It is not like you have to get humped by a bullsquid every time you want to play HL2. You get it through Steam (giving Vivendi the proverbial finger), you activate it (once), then you put Steam Client into Offline Mode and then you play the goddamned game without ever having to log on to Steam again. Sheesh.
Plus, when your HL2-playing OS of choice dies on you or something, you can just copy the Steam directory from previous installation to the next one and you're good to go. No backup, reinstall, redownload (*shudder*) required.
"City 17, a ramshackle series of buildings raised from the remains of a now mostly destroyed civilization."
Hey, maybe I'am picking serious nits here, but C17 ain't no Fallout's Hub. The buildings are not 'ramshackle' (not at the beginning anyway) and they certainly were not 'raised from the remains' of anything - not since WW2, probably. Some eastern-european cities do look like this - believe me, I live in one.
'Ramshackle' begins outside of town, where everything was laid to waste and where human remnants fight off both Combine raids and that nasty Outworld fauna.
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'Pluton' is also Polish for Pluto and plutonium... oh, and platoon.
Yeah - that DID sound mildly interesting until I hit SUBMIT.
...a chevaline prototype!
Also, dude, 'spic' is not the preferred nomenclature. A person of Latin-American or Spanish descent, please.
...a play-not-even-once DVD for such masterpieces as Stealth or The Island.
the competitors there get press more like sports players do in the US
Oh yeah, seriously. And the riotous fanbase much like UK football teams. When Google was about to announce the winners, we had 1000% increase in police presence in every major city to suppress their devastating, hopped-on-php, caffeine-enhanced rage. We're talking tear-gas, flying cobblestones and burning cars here.
(...) The old Martian names were names of water and air and hills. And the names of sealed and buried sorcerers and towers and obelisks. And the rockets struck at the names like hammers, breaking away the marble into shale, shattering the crockery milestones that named the old towns, in the rubble of which great pylons were plunged with new names: Iron Town, Steel Town, Aluminum City, Electric Village, Corn Town, Grain Villa, Detroit II, all the mechanical names and the metal names from Earth. (...)
- Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles
It seems we have put a jammer in space that will allow us to disrupt enemy communication systems at will.
Who's we?
Sans-serif is still used by 90 percent of online teens, but the survey found greater enthusiasm for World of Warcraft.
Next survey: Which one's better - neodymium magnets or XML?
Unlike ordinary, computer-illiterate hackers, these are true Men of Rennaissance AND polymaths to boot.
We use the computer, certainly, or is the computer using us?
You mean generally, or in Soviet Russia?
Product placement in frickin' books, eh!?
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Pwah! I don't need to RTFA to know it's a hoax.
If there really was a new Spectrum coming, and especially if it was going to run from 3650-3700 Mhz, these guys would be the first to tell us.
I wish they wouldn't. Think of the crawlers, man! Urrrgh!
I'm far-from-native speaker, so please disambiguate this for me:
Is it
malicious (software removal tool)
or
(malicious software) removal tool
I mean... given the context and all...
...turned into "Buh-bye, Gamers(tm)".
I don't think non-compliance with Moore's Law is a felony.
Oh yeah? Tell that to those thugs from Moore's Police. Last year, I forgot to double my transistors and they came over to my house, kicked down the door, took my geek license, threw me in the street in my pajamas and said "That's what you get, when you mess with the Law, son!".
"One processes the physical features of the face"
Would that be called the sense of sight, perhaps?
Erm... no. That would be called "the fist".
Kites are hardly groundbreaking
Hard ground, on the other hand, is often kitebreaking.
- Open refrigerator doors, Hal.
- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you eat that.
...but it turns out that *sigh* in Japan, powered armor is only for old people. There. I said it.
Jesus Fricking Christ, what is wrong with (some of) you people? It is not like you have to get humped by a bullsquid every time you want to play HL2. You get it through Steam (giving Vivendi the proverbial finger), you activate it (once), then you put Steam Client into Offline Mode and then you play the goddamned game without ever having to log on to Steam again. Sheesh.
Plus, when your HL2-playing OS of choice dies on you or something, you can just copy the Steam directory from previous installation to the next one and you're good to go. No backup, reinstall, redownload (*shudder*) required.
"City 17, a ramshackle series of buildings raised from the remains of a now mostly destroyed civilization."
Hey, maybe I'am picking serious nits here, but C17 ain't no Fallout's Hub. The buildings are not 'ramshackle' (not at the beginning anyway) and they certainly were not 'raised from the remains' of anything - not since WW2, probably. Some eastern-european cities do look like this - believe me, I live in one.
'Ramshackle' begins outside of town, where everything was laid to waste and where human remnants fight off both Combine raids and that nasty Outworld fauna.
Ok. And what was my point exactly?
Alright, suppose it IS bigger than a breadbox, it IS a person, and it is neither Bat- nor Spider-Man... so who the hell is it, then!?