Hey, Robin just said that "a bunch of cyber geeks" figured out that it was a stock photo and tracked down the real woman, is she talking about SlashDot?
good job! you have a discerning eye
i'm surpised they didn't use this woman, she shows up EVERYWHERE nowadays
i bet MS never guessed someone would find the stock image they used, hehe, very funny
oh, ok, i thought the original poster was saying that all the loonies were going to pick up on this new planety thing and say "see! planet x! we told you!!!" which, well, considering they're all talking about something that doesn't exist anyway, they can just cram anything they want into their argument, which i have a feeling is precisely what they're going to do:)
"Hey you dogs! I can hear you barking! Hey! I'm a dog too! Can you hear me barking! Hey! Moon Moon Moon Mooooooooooooooooon!" That ep was on last night.
wow, i wish i could mod this AC as "rascist conspiracy theory believing troll idiot"
ask yourself for a moment who told them to do it(the civil rights movement), and who benefitted from it, and you'll see my point gee... my guess would be... all the people who weren't allowed to use a freaking PUBLIC BATHROOM because of the color of their skin
Yes, Lincoln was a conservative Republican; the liberal Democrats, the party of treason as always, were the party of the slave-owning South. Except that before the Civil War the Democratic party was sharply divided between north and south. The Northern Democrats took control of the party during the war (because there were no southerners in either party at the time), and maintained that control thereafter, thus resulting in an essentially completely different party.
Hmmmmm, let's see, we've got one guy down with massive cuts/burns in his arms and legs, and another whose lost an entire arm and was thrown about 15 feet backwards onto a concrete floor... I know! Yank 'em back real violent-like! Be sure to really wrench their spines around while you're at it!
Get the best pong players in the world (c'mon they just rounded up the best pitfall players ever, i'm sure they're around), add some color commentary, ("hey chip, did ya see the way he winged it off the edge of the paddle like that?!"), intercut the game screen with close up shots of the intense sweaty players, and call it "The 2002 World Pong Invitational". THEN you've got something!
Under current MPAA ideas, I pay not for a DVD, but for a license to view the content on that DVD. If I break my physical disc, but still retain the store's receipt, the box it came in, and even the broken media, is there any way I can get a replacement for that disc? Under their terms and conditions printed on the box, I think that I'm entightled to that agreement, could we sue the DVD distributors if they don't comply?
duh, brain fart! i get it now.... the thing that screwed me up was "...cp themselves through...", it didn't even occur to me that cp was the command for copy, so i was thinking of that as a noun, and the word "through" was just sort of hanging out there by itself then.... thanks
can anyone navigate the grammatical maze that is this sentence!?: ---No one speaks of subroutines that cp themselves through undocumented remote procedure calls because talk of 'computer viruses' carries all of the portent and weight of polio, anthrax, German Measles and tuberculosis.---
nice story to tell kids, except that the NES was invented and sold first in JAPAN as the Famicon!
seriously though, that sounds like the kind of thing that we would say as kids too, kids will make myth and legend out of anything (sort of like computer geeks recounting our long "history")
"It's not under our control." to any message you send to China Telecom. Hmmm, if nothing is under their control and they're a Chinese government controlled organiation........
i think that with the release of the gamecube and these 4th generation consoles (or is that 5th now, hm) the N64 pad was looking a bit dated... besides, the old Atari stick just has a such a retro-cool feel to it, its really much of an "Icon" in the traditional sense
I remember one game that had a second person sequence, the original Battletoads for the NES, at the end of the first level you fought a giant robot, and the screen switched to a Terminator-style red targeting screen where you had to control your character (which was a pain cuz the viewpoint kept moving around with the robot) and throw rocks at towards the head. Every time you hit it, a crack would appear, making it harder to see where you were going. Really neat concept.
hmmm, a major pain in the ass?..... why not just fold the motherboard in half? sure you'd probably have a 1/8 inch gap between the 2 sides, but you would barely have to change a single thing about the design, just point the pci slots in a different direction
(since when did good engineers complain about things being a "major pain in the ass"?)
not only was it funny AND on-topic, it also is a simpson's reference! (rebroadcasting major league baseball), the moderators have their heads up their asses today apparently (this is the second funny ontopic post i've seen incorrectly labeled as Troll today)
I know that Apple has trademarks to the name Firewire, and Sony owns iLink, and they're both IEEE1394 (although Sony's spec isn' fully implemented, small connectors only, so no power on the bus), but SoundBlaster is calling the port an "SB1394" port. Does this mean that its not a true Firewire implementation? Can I plug any 1394 device into it, or only high-end audio equipment?
just a throwback to our language's germanic roots, ever heard the expression "iron bars do not a prison make"? there's alot of english expressions like that with rather poetic sentence structure
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Hey, Robin just said that "a bunch of cyber geeks" figured out that it was a stock photo and tracked down the real woman, is she talking about SlashDot?
good job! you have a discerning eye i'm surpised they didn't use this woman, she shows up EVERYWHERE nowadays
i bet MS never guessed someone would find the stock image they used, hehe, very funny
oh, ok, i thought the original poster was saying that all the loonies were going to pick up on this new planety thing and say "see! planet x! we told you!!!" which, well, considering they're all talking about something that doesn't exist anyway, they can just cram anything they want into their argument, which i have a feeling is precisely what they're going to do :)
For those of you who don't stay up til 5am listening to Art Bell, here's a good primer on all the "Planet X" garbage assembled by Phil Plait. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/index .html
"Hey you dogs! I can hear you barking! Hey! I'm a dog too! Can you hear me barking! Hey! Moon Moon Moon Mooooooooooooooooon!"
That ep was on last night.
wow, i wish i could mod this AC as "rascist conspiracy theory believing troll idiot"
ask yourself for a moment who told them to do it(the civil rights movement), and who benefitted from it, and you'll see my point
gee... my guess would be... all the people who weren't allowed to use a freaking PUBLIC BATHROOM because of the color of their skin
Yes, Lincoln was a conservative Republican; the liberal Democrats, the party of treason as always, were the party of the slave-owning South.
Except that before the Civil War the Democratic party was sharply divided between north and south. The Northern Democrats took control of the party during the war (because there were no southerners in either party at the time), and maintained that control thereafter, thus resulting in an essentially completely different party.
apple girl is truly a goddess
It's a space station!
c'mon... SOMEBODY had to say it
actually, they had helmets and extra flashlights on the final trip
Hmmmmm, let's see, we've got one guy down with massive cuts/burns in his arms and legs, and another whose lost an entire arm and was thrown about 15 feet backwards onto a concrete floor... I know! Yank 'em back real violent-like! Be sure to really wrench their spines around while you're at it!
Get the best pong players in the world (c'mon they just rounded up the best pitfall players ever, i'm sure they're around), add some color commentary, ("hey chip, did ya see the way he winged it off the edge of the paddle like that?!"), intercut the game screen with close up shots of the intense sweaty players, and call it "The 2002 World Pong Invitational". THEN you've got something!
i don't know... that sounds kinda neat!
Under current MPAA ideas, I pay not for a DVD, but for a license to view the content on that DVD. If I break my physical disc, but still retain the store's receipt, the box it came in, and even the broken media, is there any way I can get a replacement for that disc? Under their terms and conditions printed on the box, I think that I'm entightled to that agreement, could we sue the DVD distributors if they don't comply?
duh, brain fart! i get it now.... the thing that screwed me up was "...cp themselves through...", it didn't even occur to me that cp was the command for copy, so i was thinking of that as a noun, and the word "through" was just sort of hanging out there by itself then.... thanks
can anyone navigate the grammatical maze that is this sentence!?:
---No one speaks of subroutines that cp themselves through undocumented remote procedure calls because talk of 'computer viruses' carries all of the portent and weight of polio, anthrax, German Measles and tuberculosis.---
nice story to tell kids, except that the NES was invented and sold first in JAPAN as the Famicon! seriously though, that sounds like the kind of thing that we would say as kids too, kids will make myth and legend out of anything (sort of like computer geeks recounting our long "history")
"It's not under our control." to any message you send to China Telecom. Hmmm, if nothing is under their control and they're a Chinese government controlled organiation........
i think that with the release of the gamecube and these 4th generation consoles (or is that 5th now, hm) the N64 pad was looking a bit dated... besides, the old Atari stick just has a such a retro-cool feel to it, its really much of an "Icon" in the traditional sense
I remember one game that had a second person sequence, the original Battletoads for the NES, at the end of the first level you fought a giant robot, and the screen switched to a Terminator-style red targeting screen where you had to control your character (which was a pain cuz the viewpoint kept moving around with the robot) and throw rocks at towards the head. Every time you hit it, a crack would appear, making it harder to see where you were going. Really neat concept.
why are moderators so dumb sometimes? what's trollish about what this apreche said?
hmmm, a major pain in the ass?..... why not just fold the motherboard in half? sure you'd probably have a 1/8 inch gap between the 2 sides, but you would barely have to change a single thing about the design, just point the pci slots in a different direction
(since when did good engineers complain about things being a "major pain in the ass"?)
not only was it funny AND on-topic, it also is a simpson's reference! (rebroadcasting major league baseball), the moderators have their heads up their asses today apparently (this is the second funny ontopic post i've seen incorrectly labeled as Troll today)
ok, redundant maybe, but its not fair to call mplex a troll now
I know that Apple has trademarks to the name Firewire, and Sony owns iLink, and they're both IEEE1394 (although Sony's spec isn' fully implemented, small connectors only, so no power on the bus), but SoundBlaster is calling the port an "SB1394" port. Does this mean that its not a true Firewire implementation? Can I plug any 1394 device into it, or only high-end audio equipment?
just a throwback to our language's germanic roots, ever heard the expression "iron bars do not a prison make"? there's alot of english expressions like that with rather poetic sentence structure