Brodie: He's an alien, for Christ sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. That would kill him.
When Lex pulled out the tube of kryptonite and said "do you know what this is" in superman returns all I could think was "kryptonite condom".
-Qyiet
The best example I can come up with in the computer field is how most knowledgeable people will cringe when someone calls the computer itself the "hard drive" instead of a tower, box, or just "computer".
Hard drive? No, the ones that drive me nuts are the ones that refer the computer as "The Modem".
"The Modem makes a a funny noise when it turns on, and nothing comes up on the TV bit" Qyiet bashs head against the wall,
My favourite quest from KoTOR, and any RPG was from the same location in KoTOR.
You were sent to investigate a missing person, and discover a Romeo and Juliet type situation. Being of the darkside persuasion, not only were you able to engineer the deaths of both the star crossed lovers, but you could engineer it so it was their own families that killed them.
One of my guildmates just got her one up and going last night, Running WoW under rosetta. It wasn't actually a comprehensive test, but here comment was "Wow I'm in orgrimar and not lagging". So I'm guessing at default settings it's OK.
Performance should improve when bliz relases 1.9.3 and she dosn't have to use rosetta anymore.
I had trouble finding the Terms of Service for World of Warcraft to reference them. But I actually read it when I installed it, and I'm sure that it had an age requirement of 18 to play.
So how could blizzard be held reponsable for someone using their product in a way that was not intended hurting themselves?
It feels like a horrible waste to throw away such cool chars
Well if you really are going to throw your account away, not just park it, I would take it off your hands. drop me a message veryqyiet at gmail dot com.
every time some European brags about how much better their cell phones are than American cell phones
Heh, ironic really as I was told the reason the US cellular system is so screwed up is because the US Military refused to release the frequencies used by the rest of the world.
The only model of drive I have seen perform as bad as a deathstar is the old Quantum Fireball 6.4gb's, which tended to smoke their spindle motor controller IC. Quantum BigFoot drives (2-4gb I think), with the 5.25 inch form factor were the bain of my existance. Those babys died like nothing else I have ever seen. Fortunately the "Death Star" drives havn't seen huge use over here.
1. PCs that finally boot from USB and FireWire...My Mac laptops have had this for many years -- a decade already?
How quickly they forget.. In 1996 Apple.com had this baby on the front page. I guess it *may* boot from usb, but I'm not sure how you would get it to, as I can't figure out where to put the plug in.
I was told a funny story about how trimble got that contract. Please correct any errors I make in the retelling
The GPS Satilites are run by the US military. So as other people can't (easily) use them for *very* accurate positioning the military throw a deliberate error into the system. That error used to be much bigger than it is now.
The Gulf war was the first time they deployed a LOT of GPS units to troops, more than they could build in house. So they got the extra units from trimble. Now the trimble units couldn't fix the deliberate error that the military threw into the system (because it was a super secret), so for the duration of the war they turned the error off.
Out in the feild it was quickly discovered that the trimble GPSs were much better than the ones the military had built themselves. So some non-disclosure agreements later trimble had the algerithm for the error, and now sell their units to the military was well as the rest of the world.
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Brodie: He's an alien, for Christ sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. That would kill him.
When Lex pulled out the tube of kryptonite and said "do you know what this is" in superman returns all I could think was "kryptonite condom". -Qyiet
The best example I can come up with in the computer field is how most knowledgeable people will cringe when someone calls the computer itself the "hard drive" instead of a tower, box, or just "computer".
Hard drive? No, the ones that drive me nuts are the ones that refer the computer as "The Modem".
"The Modem makes a a funny noise when it turns on, and nothing comes up on the TV bit"
Qyiet bashs head against the wall,
Wow... the percentage of my country covered by the highres aerial photos has gone up massivly. This *really* adds to the usefulness of it. -Qyiet
...nothing beats rock.
[Scissors]Nerf rock!!!!
[Scissors]Nerf rock!!!!
[Scissors]Nerf rock!!!!
[Paper] Actually I think rock is fine
'Till there's a shortage of Blade Runners?
That's not a problem, we'll just build the Blade Runners too.
-Qyiet
I'm being discriminated against, just because I'm in a different country! That's geographicist, that is! Can I sue?
Only if you live in the US.
-Qyiet
You do know that american idol was taken directly from a EUROPEAN TV SHOW called pop idol?
Actually the origin was in New Zealand with a program called Popstars on which pop idol was based, then american idol followed.
For reference, we in New Zealand are very very sorry.
-Qyiet
My favourite quest from KoTOR, and any RPG was from the same location in KoTOR.
You were sent to investigate a missing person, and discover a Romeo and Juliet type situation. Being of the darkside persuasion, not only were you able to engineer the deaths of both the star crossed lovers, but you could engineer it so it was their own families that killed them.
Oh the devious evil, I loved it so.
-Qyiet
It's disturbing that I know that Steve Jobs was wearing blue jeans for this even.
-Qyiet
Give me one. I'll run WoW on it, and decide.
One of my guildmates just got her one up and going last night, Running WoW under rosetta. It wasn't actually a comprehensive test, but here comment was "Wow I'm in orgrimar and not lagging". So I'm guessing at default settings it's OK.
Performance should improve when bliz relases 1.9.3 and she dosn't have to use rosetta anymore.
-Qyiet
I had trouble finding the Terms of Service for World of Warcraft to reference them. But I actually read it when I installed it, and I'm sure that it had an age requirement of 18 to play.
So how could blizzard be held reponsable for someone using their product in a way that was not intended hurting themselves?
What does this mean for VoIP traffic that starts and ends outside the US, but is routed through the US on the way from A to B?
-Qyiet
It feels like a horrible waste to throw away such cool chars
Well if you really are going to throw your account away, not just park it, I would take it off your hands. drop me a message veryqyiet at gmail dot com.
every time some European brags about how much better their cell phones are than American cell phones
Heh, ironic really as I was told the reason the US cellular system is so screwed up is because the US Military refused to release the frequencies used by the rest of the world.
-Qyi1kx22x@#X) [carrier lost]
Hell, why not work on "masturbation without enjoyment" too
I would be careful if I were you, the Catholic Church already has several patents in that area.
-Qyiet
It could have done us all a favor, and infected Fox's network.
I mean installing a GPS in either the AP or the Phone. It'll only ever work when you can see up.. and not many APs I've seen can see the sky.
Phones, very seldom would know their location. Seems like a lot of expense for the consumer with next to no gain for anyone.
-Qyiet
Although neither of these are quite realeased yet,
Truphone + a Nokia N91
VoIP Over 802.11b when you can, and cellular when you can't.
(sorry about the N91 link. It's as close as I could get on their stupid flash site)
I can't see! Help!
Yes, but it's nothing to do with cellphones.. your mother told you that would happen if you didn't stop.
-Qyiet
The only model of drive I have seen perform as bad as a deathstar is the old Quantum Fireball 6.4gb's, which tended to smoke their spindle motor controller IC.
Quantum BigFoot drives (2-4gb I think), with the 5.25 inch form factor were the bain of my existance. Those babys died like nothing else I have ever seen. Fortunately the "Death Star" drives havn't seen huge use over here.
-Qyiet
Moreover, I don't have to give the litigious bastards (Apple, of course) any of my dough!
I thought that was SCO's trademark.
1. PCs that finally boot from USB and FireWire...My Mac laptops have had this for many years -- a decade already?
How quickly they forget.. In 1996 Apple.com had this baby on the front page. I guess it *may* boot from usb, but I'm not sure how you would get it to, as I can't figure out where to put the plug in.
I was told a funny story about how trimble got that contract. Please correct any errors I make in the retelling
The GPS Satilites are run by the US military. So as other people can't (easily) use them for *very* accurate positioning the military throw a deliberate error into the system. That error used to be much bigger than it is now.
The Gulf war was the first time they deployed a LOT of GPS units to troops, more than they could build in house. So they got the extra units from trimble. Now the trimble units couldn't fix the deliberate error that the military threw into the system (because it was a super secret), so for the duration of the war they turned the error off.
Out in the feild it was quickly discovered that the trimble GPSs were much better than the ones the military had built themselves. So some non-disclosure agreements later trimble had the algerithm for the error, and now sell their units to the military was well as the rest of the world.
-Qyiet
I'd pick cuba. Won't someone PLEASE think of the cigars.
Well... you could still go with the US if a democrat was in power.
I go down and ask him why "Oh, we had someone else come in, and we couldn't find the codes (he meant wep keys) so we just reset it. Great hu?"
What I do to prevent this happening, is get a sticker, write the whole key out, and stick it on the access point.
I expect them to loose it.
Oh.. and change the AP admin password, stick it there as well.
-Qyiet