That's a pretty good pick for #1. I'm not sure I agree with it, but Homer falling to the floor and running in a circle (yes, lying on the floor) going "Who hoo !" is priceless.
And where's "A Streetcar Named Marge" ? Homer is used to almost surgical effect in the main story, and Maggie in the Ayn Rand School for Tots is the best sequence in the entire series. The Great Escape bit is fantastic and...
Homer: "Maggie ! We've come to get YAHHHHHHH !!!!!!.......So many babies"
And I liked "Bart to the Future". the wedding episode was better, sure, but it wasn't the worst episode.
Other than a few I'm tired of, and KTVU, home of the technical difficulty, shows 'em 3-4 times a month for a whole quarter, -- the dipshits, I don't really have a worst episode per se. Some of them are lame, but even those rate higher than average for much else on TV these days.
GamingBliss is wrong on this one. It wasn't a Microsoft team. If it was, they'd have stolen the game. And I'd have cried a little every month as the charge for playing the game went on my credit card.
Incidentally, there is a project going to revive the game. God, I don't know if I have the heart to tell my buddy who played with me.
I feel your pain man. I've been handed the hardcopy list of every.exe on the LAN myself. I managed a 98% hit rate (Google), deleted the random unidentified files (crossed fingers) and waited to see if anything died. Nothing did so I had a 100% ID on the whole network, even the HR clerk on her own subnet.
To digress, HR types get a LOT of viruses in my experience. I remember one particularly alert HR manager who asked me why this one resume was a.dot file. I laughed 'til my sides hurt because the application was for IT manager. It very satisfying to tell her to delete the resume of someone who was looking to be my boss (and having her do it). Unfortunately, it wasn't the resume of the guy they did hire.
Here
is the sourcecode for a kernel extension that remaps keys just the way you like 'em. Grab the code, buy a PowerBook and get cracking buddy. Mmmmm.... backlit keyboard on the 17"... mmmmm.... Mmmmm.... it's GPL code.... mmmm.....
Say, you do keep that comment in a file, or do you go back to your old comments and copy-and-paste ?
I can top that ! I have a 300MHZ B&W G3 that, for a time, was running 10.1.5 with only 64MB RAM. It made a great iTunes jukebox and it could even run Explorer. Apps took upwards of 30 seconds to launch though.
One day I had iTunes blaring away, and jumped online to make a visit to http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/0/trance_control.h tml to look for new tracks. iTunes skipped once while Explorer was loading.
I found some new stuff and started previewing it. Then I realised I hadn't paused iTunes. I had two MP3s playing, in different applications, on an OS X box with the aforesaid 64MB RAM.
Well, look at your menu bar(s). Now choose "Font" or "Typeface" to appear up there. In Mozilla I have "Bookmarks" which is longer, and "Window" which is shorter. Other than that everything else in the menu bar is 4 or 5 characters long (I never use "Go" for some reason, so I'm not counting it).
Historically, the early Mac apps often combined typeface, size and style under one menu. So the distinction blurred even further right from the early days of the GUI.
Without having to worry about physical fonts, I'll gow ith the shorter word, thank you very much.
Steve does pretty good though. Mozilla on OS X with a good Postscript font (Futura Book for example) looks *really* nice.
But more fonts for Linux is a Good Thing, and based on experience with nicely anti-aliased text it'll Really Help make Linux acceptable on the desktop. It takes both good fonts (well, typefaces, it's shorter) and good AA to create a really appealing desktop. That's why Apple went with the "lickable" look - it was supposed to look really sweet.
Can someone tell me why the comment input textarea is only 10x50? It's insanely annoying. and completely off-putting to all but the most determined! (I bet most people write their comments in another window and then cut and paste!)
Congratulations ! You've missed one of the new (presumably) slashcode preferences. Go check your user page, the text area size can be changed ! It's down towards the bottom of the page.
I'd like to take a few bytes to thank Google for doing things like this. At one point, some months ago, I was doing a search for some obscure points of naval history ("predreadnought") and most of the top 50 results (mid 30s) were all to a set of linked pages. These were all lists of keywords to sweeten your metatags with. And they all linked to each other.
It wasn't SearchKing, it was all related to some bozo promoting techniques for improving search results. He had a lot of good ideas, some of which were even ethical.
I fired off an email to Google and at some point those pages disappeared. SearchKing might just be the only ones who sued.
Slashdot Mirror
"Oh lord, bless this rocket house and all who dwell in it."
Homer and Burns hanging out and slowly going crazy.
A fantastic episode.
I get chills every time the creek turns into a snake.
Homer: "Oooookay. I think I'll be going now."
The best Krusty moment is from Bart the Fink".
Krusty's tombstone reads "See ya real soon kids."
Facts shmacts, you can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
Bart: And I think it's ironic that for once dad's butt prevented the release of toxic...
Marge:Bart !
That's a pretty good pick for #1. I'm not sure I agree with it, but Homer falling to the floor and running in a circle (yes, lying on the floor) going "Who hoo !" is priceless.
...So many babies"
And where's "A Streetcar Named Marge" ? Homer is used to almost surgical effect in the main story, and Maggie in the Ayn Rand School for Tots is the best sequence in the entire series. The Great Escape bit is fantastic and...
Homer: "Maggie ! We've come to get YAHHHHHHH !!!!!!....
And I liked "Bart to the Future". the wedding episode was better, sure, but it wasn't the worst episode.
Other than a few I'm tired of, and KTVU, home of the technical difficulty, shows 'em 3-4 times a month for a whole quarter, -- the dipshits, I don't really have a worst episode per se. Some of them are lame, but even those rate higher than average for much else on TV these days.
For God's sake, finish that quote !
Mr. Burns: "We know what you think."
GamingBliss is wrong on this one. It wasn't a Microsoft team. If it was, they'd have stolen the game. And I'd have cried a little every month as the charge for playing the game went on my credit card.
Incidentally, there is a project going to revive the game. God, I don't know if I have the heart to tell my buddy who played with me.
http://jenner.agdclan.com/index.php
No, it'll be a surprise.
I feel your pain man. I've been handed the hardcopy list of every .exe on the LAN myself. I managed a 98% hit rate (Google), deleted the random unidentified files (crossed fingers) and waited to see if anything died. Nothing did so I had a 100% ID on the whole network, even the HR clerk on her own subnet.
.dot file. I laughed 'til my sides hurt because the application was for IT manager. It very satisfying to tell her to delete the resume of someone who was looking to be my boss (and having her do it). Unfortunately, it wasn't the resume of the guy they did hire.
To digress, HR types get a LOT of viruses in my experience. I remember one particularly alert HR manager who asked me why this one resume was a
I got burned on a BT3025 comment last time EA.com came up. Short version: Microsoft owns the BT franchise. Any questions ?
BT3025 ruled. I'd have owned the galaxy if I'd had my new gaming rig when it was in beta.
This is why I use my mod points as fast as I get 'em, all the really cleevr posts come along when I don't have any mod points.
Say, you do keep that comment in a file, or do you go back to your old comments and copy-and-paste ?
I can top that ! I have a 300MHZ B&W G3 that, for a time, was running 10.1.5 with only 64MB RAM. It made a great iTunes jukebox and it could even run Explorer. Apps took upwards of 30 seconds to launch though.
h tml to look for new tracks. iTunes skipped once while Explorer was loading.
One day I had iTunes blaring away, and jumped online to make a visit to http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/0/trance_control.
I found some new stuff and started previewing it. Then I realised I hadn't paused iTunes. I had two MP3s playing, in different applications, on an OS X box with the aforesaid 64MB RAM.
Not too shabby for Apple.
Well, look at your menu bar(s). Now choose "Font" or "Typeface" to appear up there. In Mozilla I have "Bookmarks" which is longer, and "Window" which is shorter. Other than that everything else in the menu bar is 4 or 5 characters long (I never use "Go" for some reason, so I'm not counting it).
Historically, the early Mac apps often combined typeface, size and style under one menu. So the distinction blurred even further right from the early days of the GUI.
Without having to worry about physical fonts, I'll gow ith the shorter word, thank you very much.
Steve does pretty good though. Mozilla on OS X with a good Postscript font (Futura Book for example) looks *really* nice.
But more fonts for Linux is a Good Thing, and based on experience with nicely anti-aliased text it'll Really Help make Linux acceptable on the desktop. It takes both good fonts (well, typefaces, it's shorter) and good AA to create a really appealing desktop. That's why Apple went with the "lickable" look - it was supposed to look really sweet.
Congratulations ! You've missed one of the new (presumably) slashcode preferences. Go check your user page, the text area size can be changed ! It's down towards the bottom of the page.
Turn in your pocket protector and get a haircut.
It has a status bar, it just isn't on by default.
Some days I think menus were a bad idea, people just don't look around in them to see what can be done.
Sounds like a natural for a Mozilla add-in.
Thanks Aaaron, nice typo in the URL too.
On the other hand, that's a user's page at Kuro5hin and not a link to the *.cx site.
I will NOT be repeating the experiment in google's image search.
I'd like to take a few bytes to thank Google for doing things like this. At one point, some months ago, I was doing a search for some obscure points of naval history ("predreadnought") and most of the top 50 results (mid 30s) were all to a set of linked pages. These were all lists of keywords to sweeten your metatags with. And they all linked to each other.
It wasn't SearchKing, it was all related to some bozo promoting techniques for improving search results. He had a lot of good ideas, some of which were even ethical.
I fired off an email to Google and at some point those pages disappeared. SearchKing might just be the only ones who sued.
The "I feel lucky" button goes a long way to prove this.
The browser doesn't freak out, it downloads "attachment.cgi:, which reads as follows:
Konqueror Bug #52665 Testcase
This document is malformed XML, and should therefore not be rendered completely when served as application/xhtml+xml
This second paragraph should not appear.
"In Soviet Russian, TV watches you!" at least has the dignity of being an Orwell reference - telescreens in 1984 are used to watch the populace.