Here's an explanation : Leia didn't know she was adopted. She thought Bail Organa was her real father and his wife as her real mother. To make the cover-up complete she would never be told the truth, lest she goes out and tries to find out who she really is. So when Luke finally tells Leia they're brother and sister, the shock is greater.
well dude, if you've tried playing with the random generator, it gives you bogus references to Noam Chomsky writing about VoIP and Edsger Dijkstra and Isaac Newton as co-authors on a single paper. It's hilarious to read, and quite obviously fake.
As the number of times a monkey hits "reload" on that page approaches infinity, the probability that you'll get a paper worthy of a Turing award approaches 1.
Sometime people trying to sound smart are too smart for their own good. The best example yet was related to me by a friend who teaches Photoshop at an adult school (pity him):
Tsk. Don't you know you should always say "Adobe® Photoshop® software" instead of just "Photoshop"?
Welcome our new KDE overlords and wish them luck in removing gnome from every other distrobution.
If that had been "Welcome our new Gnome overlords and wish them luck in removing KDE from every other distribution", you'd probably have been modded down as flamebait, despite the humourous intentions. There is a lot of anti-gnome bias here.
UPN has officially confirmed that Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) will appear on the Enterprise finale, in a sequence set on the holodeck.
So "Enterprise" was just one big holodeck fantasy novel? Hooray!
But the license of the iTunes Music Store prohibits using any application other than iTunes to access it.
And under what law is this supposed to be enforced? It's not copyright law, because copyright law only covers unauthorised copying. But what is "unauthorised use" of something you legally purchased?
No kidding. That's always been the least compeeling linux argument for me (and I say this as a user) - it is NOT possible for even a college trained programmer to go in and start playing with even a small OSS project.
Then why was the Brazilian kid Marcelo Tossatti, not even gone to college yet at the time, elected by Linus Torvalds as maintainer of the freakin' LINUX KERNEL (2.4.x)?
The openness doesn't hurt, so if doesn't benefit you, don't whine about it.
While that may be true for the vast majority of the population, it's an insult to the minority who will tinker with the code of the OSS they are exposed to, get a taste for it, and go on to develop a home-grown software industry as a result.
How very true! Somewhere out there, in Brazil, or anywhere else, is a kid who wants to learn how an OS works, and wants to try his hand at making it better. Who the hell are Megacorps to deny that kid the right to do that, just because "the majority doesn't need to know".
By the way, Marcello Tossati, maintainer of the 2.4 kernel, is from Brazil. He works for the local Brazilian distro called Connectiva. How could any of this have been possible if the world only had a shoddy Microsoft playpen to play in, with the nicest toys only meant for the privileged few employed by Megacorp to write operating systems?
Now think about what would happen if you had a word processor, a spreadsheet app, a photo editor, an instant messenger, a browser, a music jukebox, and any other "software application" running inside a Web framework that's as fast and responsive as any desktop you've ever used.
"The next killer app in 5 years" was supposed to be the web application. That was five years ago. No, Google is working on something else... I can feel it in the force.
Reality check : the dialogue in the original trilogy was monsterously bad too. Sir Alec Guiness hated his lines because they were so awful. Yet, people loved the original trilogy. Come on guys, it's supposed to be just a fun movie, don't take it too seriously.
See, those Encyclopedists are just a cover for a political group that wants to take over the internet through the science of psychohistory. And they actually revealed their plans on their own website too, but say it's "fiction" to make it seem like a hoax! Brilliant.
No, no, no... shields are a defense mechanism against energy weapons. Space debris is knocked out of the way by the navigational deflector or main deflector dish. Get your fictional technology right!
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Wow, that's a new low. Nature sells out.
Then the aliens kill the prez and plant a flag on his body and laugh manically.
Not a good image to evoke.
Here's an explanation : Leia didn't know she was adopted. She thought Bail Organa was her real father and his wife as her real mother. To make the cover-up complete she would never be told the truth, lest she goes out and tries to find out who she really is. So when Luke finally tells Leia they're brother and sister, the shock is greater.
Is it just me, or is General Grievous a moron?
General Grievous is an overrated mediocrity, just like Boba Fett.
nobody expects the Spanish (Recording Industry Association) inquisition!
As long as enough people buy it for whatever reason, the price will go down, and that's always a good thing for all of us.
well dude, if you've tried playing with the random generator, it gives you bogus references to Noam Chomsky writing about VoIP and Edsger Dijkstra and Isaac Newton as co-authors on a single paper. It's hilarious to read, and quite obviously fake.
As the number of times a monkey hits "reload" on that page approaches infinity, the probability that you'll get a paper worthy of a Turing award approaches 1.
From basic probability theory, this number is certainly always finite -- and in some cases, very much so.
I heard the number of monkeys was 12. But that's imperial units. Silly Americans, refusing to use metric.
Sometime people trying to sound smart are too smart for their own good. The best example yet was related to me by a friend who teaches Photoshop at an adult school (pity him):
Tsk. Don't you know you should always say "Adobe® Photoshop® software" instead of just "Photoshop"?
Welcome our new KDE overlords and wish them luck in removing gnome from every other distrobution.
If that had been "Welcome our new Gnome overlords and wish them luck in removing KDE from every other distribution", you'd probably have been modded down as flamebait, despite the humourous intentions. There is a lot of anti-gnome bias here.
Hush, don't argue with Mr. Smart!
UPN has officially confirmed that Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) will appear on the Enterprise finale, in a sequence set on the holodeck.
So "Enterprise" was just one big holodeck fantasy novel? Hooray!
But the license of the iTunes Music Store prohibits using any application other than iTunes to access it.
And under what law is this supposed to be enforced? It's not copyright law, because copyright law only covers unauthorised copying. But what is "unauthorised use" of something you legally purchased?
No kidding. That's always been the least compeeling linux argument for me (and I say this as a user) - it is NOT possible for even a college trained programmer to go in and start playing with even a small OSS project.
Then why was the Brazilian kid Marcelo Tossatti, not even gone to college yet at the time, elected by Linus Torvalds as maintainer of the freakin' LINUX KERNEL (2.4.x)?
The openness doesn't hurt, so if doesn't benefit you, don't whine about it.
While that may be true for the vast majority of the population, it's an insult to the minority who will tinker with the code of the OSS they are exposed to, get a taste for it, and go on to develop a home-grown software industry as a result.
How very true! Somewhere out there, in Brazil, or anywhere else, is a kid who wants to learn how an OS works, and wants to try his hand at making it better. Who the hell are Megacorps to deny that kid the right to do that, just because "the majority doesn't need to know".
By the way, Marcello Tossati, maintainer of the 2.4 kernel, is from Brazil. He works for the local Brazilian distro called Connectiva. How could any of this have been possible if the world only had a shoddy Microsoft playpen to play in, with the nicest toys only meant for the privileged few employed by Megacorp to write operating systems?
Now think about what would happen if you had a word processor, a spreadsheet app, a photo editor, an instant messenger, a browser, a music jukebox, and any other "software application" running inside a Web framework that's as fast and responsive as any desktop you've ever used.
"The next killer app in 5 years" was supposed to be the web application. That was five years ago. No, Google is working on something else... I can feel it in the force.
Ok, I'm not supposed to use that word then? Ok fine. I'll just say, "sounds like Europe but without the Europeans (or a decent oxygen supply)".
Reality check : the dialogue in the original trilogy was monsterously bad too. Sir Alec Guiness hated his lines because they were so awful. Yet, people loved the original trilogy. Come on guys, it's supposed to be just a fun movie, don't take it too seriously.
To all of you repeatedly asking the question:
"WHY WOULD ANYONE RUN LINUX ON A MAC?"
There's your answer. Some of the people who do so write operating systems for PPC.
See, those Encyclopedists are just a cover for a political group that wants to take over the internet through the science of psychohistory. And they actually revealed their plans on their own website too, but say it's "fiction" to make it seem like a hoax! Brilliant.
No, no, no... shields are a defense mechanism against energy weapons. Space debris is knocked out of the way by the navigational deflector or main deflector dish. Get your fictional technology right!