My favourite line was when you tried to do something to the mechanic chick who I can't remember her name. Ben says 'Naaa - she's got a wrench'. I mean you HAVE to try the stupid things out just to see if the programmers added anything for it:)
The two things I like on Opera over Firefox (I have both on my machine but use Opera mainly) are that the email client IS built into it so I can open one and check the web and see when I have emails and not have to have two things open and my main favourite - the open where I left browsing last time. That way I can have slashdot open in one window all the time and check it all easily.
Lets agree on one things though - both are WAY better then IE:)
There was some REALLY annoying ads for Bounty with this REALLY bad jingle 'bounty, the stronger soak-er upp-er. Bounty!'. Got the award for the most annoying ad. But EVERYONE knew what is was. They even talked about how damn annoying the ads were. Then the next year they drop the annoying ads and put a.. well slightly less annoying ad in my opinion. But they had brand awareness by then.
That is what they wanted. It was a new product. I had never heard of bounty before. But I did after the ads. I still hate the ads and won't buy it from principle, but it seems 95% of people have the memory of a goldfish so get the brand awareness, then switch to a (slightly) better ad and then... people buy it. Unfortunately:(
Bill Engvall had a thing about that - I ate this whole tube of preperation H and I still got them hem'roids. My mouth's so small I can't even eat a peanut. But I can whistle real good.
OK probably badly paraphrased, but it's funny when he says it
Top Gear is on the Beeb (BBC) and they do not have commercials. OK well they kinda do in between programs but never IN a program. And between programs it's just for the beeb, so no annoying damn maxi pad ads. Just the 'tomorrow night at 9' or 'next month the new Star Trek series' or similar. This was one reason the US shows only take 42 minutes in the UK on the beeb (also some of them like Star Trek they put on at 6 so they had to cut a few bits).
The downside is you are required to buy a TV licence (license er... whatever) to watch ANY tv, which people kinda bitch at, but for 170 quid a year or so for a whole year of all the beeb programs (TV, radio, the bbc website, bbc world service etc) I don't mind paying that. Compare that to satellite / cable where you pay for the shows AND get the ads.
This is why whenever you watch a BBC program they never 'fade out'. ITV and Channel 4 on the other hand (the 'other' terrestrial channels) DO have ads, but in different places to the US. So you have the fade outs STILL in the programs.
Any my most hated thing on ITV is every smegging night (well probably, I don't watch them) they have a movie starting at 9. Then at 10 they have a THIRTY MINUTE NEWS BROADCAST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIM. Then they continue the film.
p.s. Ads = Adverts = Advertisements = Commercials for any of our cousins across the pond - I keep confusing you with that (seriously!)
No no no, far to narrow. Something like a patent to "infuse two or more flavours together into a shape" THAT would get allowed straight away, then you can sue everyone over their ideas!
Although even that is getting boring as Schumacher keeps winning so people formed A1GP and another one I can't remember the name of where instead of different cars they all run with the same ones to make it more of the best driver winning, then simply the best car.
Many years ago I was watching a program called Tomorrow's World (in the UK) where they show new technology (most of which failed to make it to market but that is another story) where they explained quantom cryptography, or rather _one_ way of doing it. I haven't read anywhere about a similar way of doing it so I will give details and then people can explain either how it would work or why I can't remember it right and it won't work.
They had a laser beam (presumably polarised?), which they split into two beams and sent that to the recipient who combined the two beams and got the message. They claimed that if someone where to interrupt the beams because of quantum flux and all that (actually they explained it as me wearing a sombrero and me not wearing a sombrero instead of 1 / 0 but anyway) it would force the beam to give either 1 or 0 but as a random and not the actual value.
Now all the stuff I've read on Wiki has it being a single beam - does splitting the beam cause some weird quantum thing that means you can't intercept or was it just as much vapourware as the rest of the 'unbreakable' encryption schemes? I know this probably wouldn't help over the internet but the military could use it for excryption? Anyway I would like to hear someone who actually knows about this stuff to explain it to me as I've always wondered about it - this was oh... probably 15 years ago that it came out on TV!
I should point out I'm not really that up on the whole quantum entaglement stuff so please use smaller words when explaining;)
Just to clarify myself. My posts parent said he didn't want prayer in school and I was just trying to say IF they banned it then it could cause problems from those that are requred to do daily prayers. I never said it wasn't - I'm English and not fully up on the US school system. Hell I'm not even up on the UK system since they changed everything to year 12 and so on.
OK playing Devil's Advocate here. What about religions that require daily prayer. Should they be allowed to do that at school? Doesn't that mean one religion is given extra.
The problem with all these things is that if you do one thing for one group it HAS to be done for the others, and unfortunately it's normally the minorities and not the majorities. One examplt. MOBO, the Music Of Black Origin awards. If I started up the MOWO awards do you think there would be cries of it being racist?
You have to allow it all or ban it all, there is no real middle ground because that would give favour to one group or other (Christian worship isn't allowed, but Muslim prayer is for example isn't fair on Christians).
Just remember that South Park episode where they turned Christmas into the 'winterval' crap that bugs the hell out of me (for info I'm not really religious) because people banned ANYTHING religious. Unfortunately almost everything has some religion in (OK I know someone will reply and point out 10 thing that aren't but you get the idea).
Anyway enough ranting from me, someone else can continue if they want:P
Didn't Superman capes have a note on them stating that the cape did not allow the wearer to fly? And there was some ready meal that had a warning about "Caution: Product will be hot after heating". And starbucks have "The drink you're about to enjoy is extremely hot" although I would disagree with the 'enjoy' bit myself. Wonder if I can sue them for it.
I did have a quick look for links but couldn't find any apart from other people saying it, and I'm meant to be packing as I'm flying to the US tomorrow so I really shouldn't be reading Slashdot. Wish me luck going through the customs though please:)
Number 6:Welcome, friend. I'm Number 6.
Number 15:I'm Number Fifteen. What number are you?
Homer:I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you ever... oh wait... [notices a button on his lapel with a "5" on it] I'm Number Five. Ha-ha! In your face
The lighters I asked about - they are considered dangerous explosive materials and are taken into a bomb proof room kinda thing until they are all burnt in a controlled explosion... well according to one guy I spoke to.
And what about wearing a pair of boots on board (as I have done) - they could give a hell of a whack to someone if you wanted. But you can't take nail clippers because they can cut someone!
As with a few things, it's not the thing itself its the IDEAS they make. If everyone thought lie detectors worked they would shit themselves and confess... well sometimes anyway.
Wasn't there an America's Dumbest Criminals where two cops plugged metal collander into photocopier with the words LIAR and everytime they thought the guy was lying they just hit the copy button? Or did I just dream that?
OK so about 18 months ago I lost my job outsourced to India and I went travelling. Had a ticked UK -> Oz stopping off in the US. I had a flight in to the east coast of US, flight out from west coast and I was making my own way across by planes trains and automobiles. I got stopped EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT for extra security checks, and I got talking to various TSA guys and one of them said basically because I was a single guy flying one way it was causing the extra checks. It seems stupid, if you want to cause problems just buy a return ticket and travel together and you will probably be OK through security.
I was also talking to an American on one of these flights, and he was saying that, for a bit of a laugh he decided to start muttering in Arabic loudly, to no-one in particular. No-one said anything at all. He asked one of the TSA guys if he could get a job here as he spoke fluent Arabic (was stationed there during the war or something) and the TSA guy replied that he thought this guy would be profiling which is illegal.
Of course picking on single guys travelling one way could be construed as profiling?
And yes I always get nervous going through security - am I going to the right gate - is my plane going to be on time (connections suck), will people be there when I get there. In fact I have a couple of flights next week so that could be fun (yes going to the US again). Rules have changed again apparently, I must provide the address of where I will be on the first night in the UK so the US security have time to check it out before I land so they can reject me instantly if they don't like it (the GF will be pissed if they do - she's the one I'm going to see!)
OK, in that case can I submit the story about Google to celebrate the London office opening has got local kids to do pictures of the google logo on google.co.uk - a different one a day (actually this is a real story but I don't see the point of actually submitting it:)
Actually there are TWO budweiser drinks, one American one... some other country that I can't remember (although this is probably the right one so it would be Czech). I'm guessing this is why Bud did the whole 'genuine bud' thing to make the difference quite obvious.
I wouldn't drink the non American one - it's not great. Although to be honest I'm not too fussed about 'the king of beers' either - I'd rather have oneofthese.
Although IMHO this is the only way to actually make people stop polluting - make it cheaper for them not to. Of course I'm sure the power that be would just tax polluters as they can make a LOAD of cash that way (oh wait...)
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Download and read God's Debris by Scott Adams (free download from his website) he goes on about things like this. Major mind f*ck but a good read :)
My favourite line was when you tried to do something to the mechanic chick who I can't remember her name. Ben says 'Naaa - she's got a wrench'. I mean you HAVE to try the stupid things out just to see if the programmers added anything for it :)
The two things I like on Opera over Firefox (I have both on my machine but use Opera mainly) are that the email client IS built into it so I can open one and check the web and see when I have emails and not have to have two things open and my main favourite - the open where I left browsing last time. That way I can have slashdot open in one window all the time and check it all easily.
:)
Lets agree on one things though - both are WAY better then IE
There was some REALLY annoying ads for Bounty with this REALLY bad jingle 'bounty, the stronger soak-er upp-er. Bounty!'. Got the award for the most annoying ad. But EVERYONE knew what is was. They even talked about how damn annoying the ads were. Then the next year they drop the annoying ads and put a .. well slightly less annoying ad in my opinion. But they had brand awareness by then.
:(
That is what they wanted. It was a new product. I had never heard of bounty before. But I did after the ads. I still hate the ads and won't buy it from principle, but it seems 95% of people have the memory of a goldfish so get the brand awareness, then switch to a (slightly) better ad and then... people buy it. Unfortunately
Bill Engvall had a thing about that - I ate this whole tube of preperation H and I still got them hem'roids. My mouth's so small I can't even eat a peanut. But I can whistle real good.
OK probably badly paraphrased, but it's funny when he says it
Top Gear is on the Beeb (BBC) and they do not have commercials. OK well they kinda do in between programs but never IN a program. And between programs it's just for the beeb, so no annoying damn maxi pad ads. Just the 'tomorrow night at 9' or 'next month the new Star Trek series' or similar. This was one reason the US shows only take 42 minutes in the UK on the beeb (also some of them like Star Trek they put on at 6 so they had to cut a few bits).
The downside is you are required to buy a TV licence (license er... whatever) to watch ANY tv, which people kinda bitch at, but for 170 quid a year or so for a whole year of all the beeb programs (TV, radio, the bbc website, bbc world service etc) I don't mind paying that. Compare that to satellite / cable where you pay for the shows AND get the ads.
This is why whenever you watch a BBC program they never 'fade out'. ITV and Channel 4 on the other hand (the 'other' terrestrial channels) DO have ads, but in different places to the US. So you have the fade outs STILL in the programs.
Any my most hated thing on ITV is every smegging night (well probably, I don't watch them) they have a movie starting at 9. Then at 10 they have a THIRTY MINUTE NEWS BROADCAST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIM. Then they continue the film.
p.s. Ads = Adverts = Advertisements = Commercials for any of our cousins across the pond - I keep confusing you with that (seriously!)
No no no, far to narrow. Something like a patent to "infuse two or more flavours together into a shape" THAT would get allowed straight away, then you can sue everyone over their ideas!
How about each point you score gives you one parachute, losing team is thrown out. That would make it REALLY interesting ;)
But in F1 they also turn right!
Although even that is getting boring as Schumacher keeps winning so people formed A1GP and another one I can't remember the name of where instead of different cars they all run with the same ones to make it more of the best driver winning, then simply the best car.
Alice? Alice? Who the f*ck is Alice?
(It's from a song before anyone says)
Many years ago I was watching a program called Tomorrow's World (in the UK) where they show new technology (most of which failed to make it to market but that is another story) where they explained quantom cryptography, or rather _one_ way of doing it. I haven't read anywhere about a similar way of doing it so I will give details and then people can explain either how it would work or why I can't remember it right and it won't work.
;)
:)
They had a laser beam (presumably polarised?), which they split into two beams and sent that to the recipient who combined the two beams and got the message. They claimed that if someone where to interrupt the beams because of quantum flux and all that (actually they explained it as me wearing a sombrero and me not wearing a sombrero instead of 1 / 0 but anyway) it would force the beam to give either 1 or 0 but as a random and not the actual value.
Now all the stuff I've read on Wiki has it being a single beam - does splitting the beam cause some weird quantum thing that means you can't intercept or was it just as much vapourware as the rest of the 'unbreakable' encryption schemes? I know this probably wouldn't help over the internet but the military could use it for excryption? Anyway I would like to hear someone who actually knows about this stuff to explain it to me as I've always wondered about it - this was oh... probably 15 years ago that it came out on TV!
I should point out I'm not really that up on the whole quantum entaglement stuff so please use smaller words when explaining
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Sorry for misquoting you
Just to clarify myself. My posts parent said he didn't want prayer in school and I was just trying to say IF they banned it then it could cause problems from those that are requred to do daily prayers. I never said it wasn't - I'm English and not fully up on the US school system. Hell I'm not even up on the UK system since they changed everything to year 12 and so on.
OK playing Devil's Advocate here. What about religions that require daily prayer. Should they be allowed to do that at school? Doesn't that mean one religion is given extra.
:P
The problem with all these things is that if you do one thing for one group it HAS to be done for the others, and unfortunately it's normally the minorities and not the majorities. One examplt. MOBO, the Music Of Black Origin awards. If I started up the MOWO awards do you think there would be cries of it being racist?
You have to allow it all or ban it all, there is no real middle ground because that would give favour to one group or other (Christian worship isn't allowed, but Muslim prayer is for example isn't fair on Christians).
Just remember that South Park episode where they turned Christmas into the 'winterval' crap that bugs the hell out of me (for info I'm not really religious) because people banned ANYTHING religious. Unfortunately almost everything has some religion in (OK I know someone will reply and point out 10 thing that aren't but you get the idea).
Anyway enough ranting from me, someone else can continue if they want
No, quite a few Aussies do too
Didn't Superman capes have a note on them stating that the cape did not allow the wearer to fly? And there was some ready meal that had a warning about "Caution: Product will be hot after heating". And starbucks have "The drink you're about to enjoy is extremely hot" although I would disagree with the 'enjoy' bit myself. Wonder if I can sue them for it.
:)
I did have a quick look for links but couldn't find any apart from other people saying it, and I'm meant to be packing as I'm flying to the US tomorrow so I really shouldn't be reading Slashdot. Wish me luck going through the customs though please
Number 6:Welcome, friend. I'm Number 6. ... oh wait ... [notices a button on his lapel with a "5" on it] I'm Number Five. Ha-ha! In your face
Number 15:I'm Number Fifteen. What number are you?
Homer:I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you ever
Someone had to quote it!
For a quick minute of the song here from the Iron Maiden website (so I guess it's legit!) from The Number of the Beast album
They used a sample from the beginning of the prisoner on the song, but the clip isn't of that.
The lighters I asked about - they are considered dangerous explosive materials and are taken into a bomb proof room kinda thing until they are all burnt in a controlled explosion... well according to one guy I spoke to.
And what about wearing a pair of boots on board (as I have done) - they could give a hell of a whack to someone if you wanted. But you can't take nail clippers because they can cut someone!
As with a few things, it's not the thing itself its the IDEAS they make. If everyone thought lie detectors worked they would shit themselves and confess... well sometimes anyway.
Wasn't there an America's Dumbest Criminals where two cops plugged metal collander into photocopier with the words LIAR and everytime they thought the guy was lying they just hit the copy button? Or did I just dream that?
OK so about 18 months ago I lost my job outsourced to India and I went travelling. Had a ticked UK -> Oz stopping off in the US. I had a flight in to the east coast of US, flight out from west coast and I was making my own way across by planes trains and automobiles. I got stopped EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT for extra security checks, and I got talking to various TSA guys and one of them said basically because I was a single guy flying one way it was causing the extra checks. It seems stupid, if you want to cause problems just buy a return ticket and travel together and you will probably be OK through security.
I was also talking to an American on one of these flights, and he was saying that, for a bit of a laugh he decided to start muttering in Arabic loudly, to no-one in particular. No-one said anything at all. He asked one of the TSA guys if he could get a job here as he spoke fluent Arabic (was stationed there during the war or something) and the TSA guy replied that he thought this guy would be profiling which is illegal.
Of course picking on single guys travelling one way could be construed as profiling?
And yes I always get nervous going through security - am I going to the right gate - is my plane going to be on time (connections suck), will people be there when I get there. In fact I have a couple of flights next week so that could be fun (yes going to the US again). Rules have changed again apparently, I must provide the address of where I will be on the first night in the UK so the US security have time to check it out before I land so they can reject me instantly if they don't like it (the GF will be pissed if they do - she's the one I'm going to see!)
OK, in that case can I submit the story about Google to celebrate the London office opening has got local kids to do pictures of the google logo on google.co.uk - a different one a day (actually this is a real story but I don't see the point of actually submitting it :)
On my machine both Opera and Firefox (both should be latest versions of each) bounce me from www.windowsupdate.com to http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/thank s.aspx?ln=en&&thankspage=5 which says:
:)
Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.
To use this site, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later.
To upgrade to the latest version of the browser, go to the Internet Explorer Downloads website.
Now I'm sure you can add things to firefox to get it working, I'm just wondering what you did
Actually there are TWO budweiser drinks, one American one... some other country that I can't remember (although this is probably the right one so it would be Czech). I'm guessing this is why Bud did the whole 'genuine bud' thing to make the difference quite obvious.
I wouldn't drink the non American one - it's not great. Although to be honest I'm not too fussed about 'the king of beers' either - I'd rather have one of these.
As always money first, pollution second.
Although IMHO this is the only way to actually make people stop polluting - make it cheaper for them not to. Of course I'm sure the power that be would just tax polluters as they can make a LOAD of cash that way (oh wait...)