As time goes on, is there really much difference between watching leading-edge graphics video in demo mode, and a film of the game? Perhaps a "Halo" movie might be interesting if it had a running sarcastic commentary from sillouhette heads of Morgan Webb and Adam Sassler. On second thought, make sure to silhouette more than Morgan's head.
"It indexes emails, calendar entries and other things. It is so much better than Windows search that there is, literally, no comparison"
It sure sounds like it. The search with Windows 95 (yes, that old) wasn't so bad, but they made it much harder to use for the XP versions. Not only that, it crashes a lot. I've seen it do this on a wide variety of machines. It's pretty slow to start, too: like someone programmed a 20-second pause just so you can be impressed with how that damn orange puppy flaps its ears.
OT: question about Finder. I don't use it, but am curious if you can "pause" searches. In Windows, anyway, the searches can take hours and dog down the system to terrible slowness. If you want to do something else at decent speed, you have to kill the search (often with task manager) and start it over. No pause.
"Why bother? People like you would simply claim it's an incomplete or somehow dishonest list anyway."
People like me meaning "the average user". The MSIE releases have a track record of coming out of the box and producing "Gee, I wonder if someone in Microsoft actually tested it before it was released". I did try the Beta, but got rid of it because they messaged with the usual way to open a new window, and it also happened to kill Visual Studio. (I guess nobody at Microsoft, prior to the beta, ever considered opening a new window with it or seeing whether or not it was fatally incompatible with major Microsoft products).
"Packard-Bell was an old vacuum-tube era radio company. That is the company that isn't here any longer."
So they say. I remember the computer company Packard Bell invoking the radio company's name in its ads. However, I've seen many old radios over the years, and have gone over many old radio magazines, and have never seen anything from this older company. I also doubt that this older Packard Bell was ever known as an "electronics company" either. In whatever name, I'm glad its gone again. The name was just too close to other things. I remember the time when Packard Bell was a major national computer company, and when I heard the name of the regional phone company "pacbell" (abbreviation for Pacific Bell), I had to think twice a few times. And you can only imagine what the name result would have been if Hewlett-Packard had somehow merged with Dell at one time.
And don't forget #11. After you get the run-around from Xevxev Waphutslatouunahiuunahi (whose terrible communication skills and thick-as-Mrs-Butterworth's accent indicates that he is so bad that Bangalor must have outsourced to HIM), you ask for a supervisor or manager. He tells you that he doesn't have supervisors or managers.
"I could have sworn that most of the really bad things Netscape did to themselves came after Microsoft gave OEMs a discount for not bundling Netscape."
I think so too. Did Netscape see this as a green light to crapify their browser for some reason?
No kink at all. Variations on "it wasn't the captain's fault what happened on his watch on his ship" excuses are very old, time worn, and not any surprise at all.
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As time goes on, is there really much difference between watching leading-edge graphics video in demo mode, and a film of the game? Perhaps a "Halo" movie might be interesting if it had a running sarcastic commentary from sillouhette heads of Morgan Webb and Adam Sassler. On second thought, make sure to silhouette more than Morgan's head.
"It's easier to go through a lot of sites if you can use a bulldozer instead of a toothbrush (figuratively)"
If I hear someone saying that through the office door in the waiting room at the dentist's, I'm out of there.
"E Wallis Budge (translator of the Dover edition Egyptian Book of the Dead)....and the better hotel accomodations at the Cairo Hilton.. "
Was that before or after his lucrative pr0n career, in which he found cozy accomodations at the Paris Hilton instead?
"one of which included an inscription warning that anyone who violated the sanctity of the grave would be eaten by a crocodile and a snake"
Crikey!
Steve Irwin, Toom Rydah! Danga danga danga!"
If you do not support saving these remains, you must be some sort of anti-dentite.
mmmmmm.....deviled ham on rye. mmmmmmmm..
Thanks for setting the record straight. I had thought he invented the Internet too.
"It indexes emails, calendar entries and other things. It is so much better than Windows search that there is, literally, no comparison"
It sure sounds like it. The search with Windows 95 (yes, that old) wasn't so bad, but they made it much harder to use for the XP versions. Not only that, it crashes a lot. I've seen it do this on a wide variety of machines. It's pretty slow to start, too: like someone programmed a 20-second pause just so you can be impressed with how that damn orange puppy flaps its ears.
Why did the topic mention slave labour, but the body of the message never even touched on it?
OT: question about Finder. I don't use it, but am curious if you can "pause" searches. In Windows, anyway, the searches can take hours and dog down the system to terrible slowness. If you want to do something else at decent speed, you have to kill the search (often with task manager) and start it over. No pause.
"...and other shareware creators that never saw real money despite the widespread use of their shareware"
You know, some times if you do nothing but give stuff away, you never know, your cash flow might $0 incoming!
"The revolution will NOT be televised."
If it is on youtube, does that count as being televised?
"its Indian spam"
The curry-sauce makes it a lot easier to choke down.
No doubt Apple's new cell phone offering will include vibrate mode.
"Why bother? People like you would simply claim it's an incomplete or somehow dishonest list anyway."
People like me meaning "the average user". The MSIE releases have a track record of coming out of the box and producing "Gee, I wonder if someone in Microsoft actually tested it before it was released". I did try the Beta, but got rid of it because they messaged with the usual way to open a new window, and it also happened to kill Visual Studio. (I guess nobody at Microsoft, prior to the beta, ever considered opening a new window with it or seeing whether or not it was fatally incompatible with major Microsoft products).
"In addition, there is a long list of fixed bugs that plagued previous IE browsers for years"
It's be nice if Microsoft provided a list of every single unfixed bug in IE7 as well.
"In that anime, which even after repeated viewing remains impenatrable"
An excellent summary of anime overall, dear AC.
"Packard-Bell was an old vacuum-tube era radio company. That is the company that isn't here any longer."
So they say. I remember the computer company Packard Bell invoking the radio company's name in its ads. However, I've seen many old radios over the years, and have gone over many old radio magazines, and have never seen anything from this older company. I also doubt that this older Packard Bell was ever known as an "electronics company" either. In whatever name, I'm glad its gone again. The name was just too close to other things. I remember the time when Packard Bell was a major national computer company, and when I heard the name of the regional phone company "pacbell" (abbreviation for Pacific Bell), I had to think twice a few times. And you can only imagine what the name result would have been if Hewlett-Packard had somehow merged with Dell at one time.
"--there may be intentionally funny rightwingers but Rush Limbaugh is not one of them"
He's often funny with his song parodies, but that might be more of him taking credit for another's work.
And don't forget #11. After you get the run-around from Xevxev Waphutslatouunahiuunahi (whose terrible communication skills and thick-as-Mrs-Butterworth's accent indicates that he is so bad that Bangalor must have outsourced to HIM), you ask for a supervisor or manager. He tells you that he doesn't have supervisors or managers.
"I could have sworn that most of the really bad things Netscape did to themselves came after Microsoft gave OEMs a discount for not bundling Netscape."
I think so too. Did Netscape see this as a green light to crapify their browser for some reason?
"symantec in particular brings a system to its knees"
But that is security! Studies have shown that a system brought to a complete 100% standstill is impervious to malware and virus infection.
No kink at all. Variations on "it wasn't the captain's fault what happened on his watch on his ship" excuses are very old, time worn, and not any surprise at all.
Thanks for the correction. I was not aware of that. Mod you informative.
"Mark Hurd knew or should have known ...."
2001 called. It wants its business news headline back. It seems like you took an old Enron story and switched Lay's name with Hurd's....