You know, I tossed that market cap comment in there just to see if anyone would actually take themselves too seriously and go off on it despite it being in the middle of a silly wrestling goof post. I actually allowed myself to believe no one would. Ah well...
I'm guessing an eight round electrified cage match with Jobs and Ballmer in Mexican wrestling masks and refereed by Chuck Norris
It will be inconclusive for seven rounds until Jobs seriously injures Ballmer with a flying clothesline after Ballmer cheats with a folding chair strike to Jobs' liver. Ballmer will tag in Bill Gates, but Jobs will tag in Phil Schiller. Schiller will then proceed to completely own Gates and win the match with a shining wizard followed by a dragon whip and atomic crotch punch.
The result will be Apple's market cap continuing to stomp on Microsoft's, and the kickoff of Phil's worldwide "Schillermania" tour.
You're right! They should have just edited a config file or two. It's easy! They just sat there for a month! It would have been, like, reported in the news if they had tried anything else. I saw *nothing* on Boing Boing or Daily WTF about it.
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A good % of the *human race* has "supernatural feelings"
Now, now. This is Slashdot.
1. The USA is 100% Evangelical Christian. 2. The rest of the world is perfectly secular.
Now memorize that. There will be a quiz.:-)
I'm an atheist and a skeptic, but, heck, anything goes in fiction as far as I'm concerned. all I ask is that it makes internal sense to the author's universe. Unfortunately, some of my fellows feel they must come down hard even on fictionalized looks at the metaphysical. Never really understood it myself. It's just stories. Should I never read The Odyssey again? Shakespeare? Lord Of The Rings?
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I'm glad they didn't explain the island completely. I never understood my fellow geeks in their need to have stuff like that explained in SF or fantasy. I mean, it's just going to be some fantasy thing the writers made up, right? Who cares?
Ooo! How does the warp drive work. It's doesn't. It's made up. The only rule in this stuff is internal consistency, and given the scope and number of characters they had to juggle, I think they did a good job.
So it leaves me to fancy that the thing with the glow was an ancient artifact of the Old Ones.:-)
I also don't get the "Oh, no! metaphysics!" Geez, I'm a complete atheist, but I can watch a story about an afterlife. It's a *story*, people.
Remember, this is Slashdot where, despite the election of Darling Obama, the USA is the inner circle of Hell and everywhere else is a Utopic vision of perfection beyond the pale of mortal man where the beer makes you live forever, the kids are doing tensor analysis by age 2, and peoples of all colors, creeds and beliefs dance about arm in arm loving one another.
Pfft! My COBOL.Net based app for the iPad contraption will pwn your feeble efforts! I have my COBOL to Ada to Lisp to LabView to FORTRAN to VHDL to C to Objective C/Cocoa workflow all ready to start chugging away. Throw the switch, Igor!
Your device's participation in the Flashverse is dependent on whether Adobe thinks you're important enough to deserve a Flash plugin.
Ran into that when I got a Wii. I thought, cool, I can watch online video on my big TV. Went to Hulu and... nothing. Googled what was up with Adobe updating the Wii's flash support to the required version (9, I think) and Adobe's attitude was "What? Who cares? Go away!" If that's their attitude with, like, 70 trillion Wiis sold, geez, what's next?
It pisses me off to no end that me, an European, have to be then one pointing out the he's a man that has succeeded in getting elected to a highly coveted position, which few can achieve and that maybe his non-political opinions, at least once in a while, should be heard instead of dismissed outright because of his political affiliation
Wow. You not only drank the Kool-Aid you bathed in it. Somehow I suspect you'd not make the same statement about Bush. Or McCain if he had won.
He, like every other politician, was elected by a vast machine process where the actual vote is just a final formality.
Right on, and that is precisely the problem we have right now: most of the citizens do not care. People are not just unaware of the issues facing America and what their government is doing; they seem not to care about any of it at all.
Give me a reason to. I used to stay very aware of what's going on. It didn't help.
Give me a reason to not just work hard, retire early and get the hell out. No one I vote for wins. The ones in there are gerrymandered in so even with term limits we just get a clone in the next election. It's clear only sociopaths can survive the media process to get elected, and when they get there, their every act is to enrich themselves and if it destroys the economy they simply don't care.
And behind each politician are legions of ideological citizens who sit in little tiny reality bubbles where the world is reduced to a sub-Cliff's notes version For Dummies where you're either a Messiah or Hitler. The armies of the tiny brained rah rah rah behind their selected lizard (because, you know, the wrong lizard might get elected) and anyone with functioning critical thinking and reason skills has zero chance of being heard much less understood.
And, yes, I have in the past gone out and worked on a couple political campaigns. That's actually where I picked up most of my jade crust. If you still have a scrap of belief in this system, working to improve it quickly will put that to rest.:-P
Not outside some wrestling show that google returned, nope, and I do try to keep up with current slang. I find it interesting how it evolves.
And no, you're not cute.No hardware engineer is~
But I'm a rebel! I break the mold! Or something.:)
Ironically, the only Virus I ever got was on an Apple product.
Oh, OS9 and previous had plenty. To be honest, I've never had a virus on any of my machines- Mac, Linux or Windows, so, actually, my original goof post is a wee bit true.
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You know, I tossed that market cap comment in there just to see if anyone would actually take themselves too seriously and go off on it despite it being in the middle of a silly wrestling goof post. I actually allowed myself to believe no one would. Ah well...
I'm guessing an eight round electrified cage match with Jobs and Ballmer in Mexican wrestling masks and refereed by Chuck Norris
It will be inconclusive for seven rounds until Jobs seriously injures Ballmer with a flying clothesline after Ballmer cheats with a folding chair strike to Jobs' liver. Ballmer will tag in Bill Gates, but Jobs will tag in Phil Schiller. Schiller will then proceed to completely own Gates and win the match with a shining wizard followed by a dragon whip and atomic crotch punch.
The result will be Apple's market cap continuing to stomp on Microsoft's, and the kickoff of Phil's worldwide "Schillermania" tour.
You're right! They should have just edited a config file or two. It's easy! They just sat there for a month! It would have been, like, reported in the news if they had tried anything else. I saw *nothing* on Boing Boing or Daily WTF about it.
Honestly, this site sometimes...
OK, but they're such a shiny and lickable empire. :)
Yeah, well, this is the year that Neuromancer will rule the desktop in Soviet Russia! So there! Profit!
It's a gameplay conceit, and I can't really fault them for it.
Well, yeah, what with it being a game and all.
(. ) ( .)
Pfft! Totally fake!
A good % of the *human race* has "supernatural feelings"
Now, now. This is Slashdot.
1. The USA is 100% Evangelical Christian.
2. The rest of the world is perfectly secular.
Now memorize that. There will be a quiz. :-)
I'm an atheist and a skeptic, but, heck, anything goes in fiction as far as I'm concerned. all I ask is that it makes internal sense to the author's universe. Unfortunately, some of my fellows feel they must come down hard even on fictionalized looks at the metaphysical. Never really understood it myself. It's just stories. Should I never read The Odyssey again? Shakespeare? Lord Of The Rings?
I liked it.
However, the Fringe finale completely owned it.
I'm glad they didn't explain the island completely. I never understood my fellow geeks in their need to have stuff like that explained in SF or fantasy. I mean, it's just going to be some fantasy thing the writers made up, right? Who cares?
Ooo! How does the warp drive work. It's doesn't. It's made up. The only rule in this stuff is internal consistency, and given the scope and number of characters they had to juggle, I think they did a good job.
So it leaves me to fancy that the thing with the glow was an ancient artifact of the Old Ones. :-)
I also don't get the "Oh, no! metaphysics!" Geez, I'm a complete atheist, but I can watch a story about an afterlife. It's a *story*, people.
Remember, this is Slashdot where, despite the election of Darling Obama, the USA is the inner circle of Hell and everywhere else is a Utopic vision of perfection beyond the pale of mortal man where the beer makes you live forever, the kids are doing tensor analysis by age 2, and peoples of all colors, creeds and beliefs dance about arm in arm loving one another.
.... could possibly go wrong?
You should write for Hollywood.
I, for one, hate our new cow fart powered future. :(
I miss Hugo Gernsback.
Please leave your DNA with the school nurse...
Is she cute?
I'm not sure but I suspect that K-Y Jelly will be involved.
Nope. Sorry. Budget cutbacks.
Radiation! Yay! This century has been *AWESOME* so far!
Seriously, when the hell did everyone turn off their freaking common sense?
You are assuming most people have it to turn off. This premise is not supported by observable fact.
So, what's your point?
Er... um...
Wow! Look at that really interesting thing over there!
[QD dashes into the woods, into the night]
Pfft! My COBOL.Net based app for the iPad contraption will pwn your feeble efforts! I have my COBOL to Ada to Lisp to LabView to FORTRAN to VHDL to C to Objective C/Cocoa workflow all ready to start chugging away. Throw the switch, Igor!
Your device's participation in the Flashverse is dependent on whether Adobe thinks you're important enough to deserve a Flash plugin.
Ran into that when I got a Wii. I thought, cool, I can watch online video on my big TV. Went to Hulu and... nothing. Googled what was up with Adobe updating the Wii's flash support to the required version (9, I think) and Adobe's attitude was "What? Who cares? Go away!" If that's their attitude with, like, 70 trillion Wiis sold, geez, what's next?
Put down the iPad and XBox, get out of the house, and get involved face-to-face.
Been there, done that. Twice. It's what finally murdered any remaining confidence I had in The System[tm].
It pisses me off to no end that me, an European, have to be then one pointing out the he's a man that has succeeded in getting elected to a highly coveted position, which few can achieve and that maybe his non-political opinions, at least once in a while, should be heard instead of dismissed outright because of his political affiliation
Wow. You not only drank the Kool-Aid you bathed in it. Somehow I suspect you'd not make the same statement about Bush. Or McCain if he had won.
He, like every other politician, was elected by a vast machine process where the actual vote is just a final formality.
Right on, and that is precisely the problem we have right now: most of the citizens do not care. People are not just unaware of the issues facing America and what their government is doing; they seem not to care about any of it at all.
Give me a reason to. I used to stay very aware of what's going on. It didn't help.
Give me a reason to not just work hard, retire early and get the hell out. No one I vote for wins. The ones in there are gerrymandered in so even with term limits we just get a clone in the next election. It's clear only sociopaths can survive the media process to get elected, and when they get there, their every act is to enrich themselves and if it destroys the economy they simply don't care.
And behind each politician are legions of ideological citizens who sit in little tiny reality bubbles where the world is reduced to a sub-Cliff's notes version For Dummies where you're either a Messiah or Hitler. The armies of the tiny brained rah rah rah behind their selected lizard (because, you know, the wrong lizard might get elected) and anyone with functioning critical thinking and reason skills has zero chance of being heard much less understood.
And, yes, I have in the past gone out and worked on a couple political campaigns. That's actually where I picked up most of my jade crust. If you still have a scrap of belief in this system, working to improve it quickly will put that to rest. :-P
You can have my XBox when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
You have never heard the term Smackoff?
Not outside some wrestling show that google returned, nope, and I do try to keep up with current slang. I find it interesting how it evolves.
And no, you're not cute.No hardware engineer is~
But I'm a rebel! I break the mold! Or something. :)
Ironically, the only Virus I ever got was on an Apple product.
Oh, OS9 and previous had plenty. To be honest, I've never had a virus on any of my machines- Mac, Linux or Windows, so, actually, my original goof post is a wee bit true.