You're damn right "whoosh". Either it's a random quote for something I don't know, or it's just an unfunny (to me) reference to spelling differences. It's you guys that fuck with the spellings, not us;)
The guy trys to blame Mozilla for acting like evil spammers, when this is just a simple bug. Most likely hardly anyone chooses not to upgrade, so that's why it's taken them so long for it to be reported. It's not like FF3 is like going to Vista from XP. It fixes memory leaks, and the "awesome bar" doesn't really change the way you browse unless you want it to.
Well spotted - I saw a news piece on this tonight and they had a brief animation of a 3D google logo made out of lego, I've never made the connection before as I thought it was just a cool word they chose that was a play on 'googol'.
As for when I first used google, it must be 9 or 10 years ago. I remember my dad telling me about it being the most clever and fast search engine. I was stunned at the ability to search millions of pages and send back results in fractions of a second (possibly it was the first time I'd ever seen "this page was generated in 0.15 seconds" type thing).
Obviously I didn't expect in the least for google to become a household name, but I started using it instead of altavista (back then vista was a cool word in my dictionary). I thought that it would be 'just another search engine' and stay as a fairly obscure one that only geeks knew about. I was pretty shocked to find out that they were making money from it because I pictured the whole thing as being a type of science/computing curioso than an actual company, as my dad had mentioned that it was a university project.
Thankyou for having the first good explanation I've seen as to why the LHC won't kill us all:) Though that means I'll have to take the long road to find out if there is an afterlife, and I'm getting pretty fed up with this one.
The music was pretty awesome on Half-Life. It's usually fine for single player games, but when it comes to stuff like Counter-Strike I don't understand why people would play MP3s in the background. I tried it but if you can't hear where people are it makes you a worse player. Of course since Source you can't shoot people through walls anyway so it probably makes less of a difference. I have killed a few people in the past just by listening and shooting (and then getting called a hacker, hah..)
Actually you could do remote listening and speaking through AIBOs years ago, we considered using one for teleconferencing in the boardroom for a while. It would be funny having the MD walking round the table as a little robotic dog. We actually had the AIBO but one of the managers just left it on its charging station for like a year and ruined it:/ He could have given it to me and I would have made much better use of it.
Hence him saying that he's been able to get those speeds for 10 years (a decade). I think 8Mbps is pretty standards in the UK but I'm happy with my 2Mbps because I just use it for surfing.
For blu-ray to be gone in five years, an awful lot of people would have to start using stuff like Virgin Media or some other video on demand system. A lot can happen in 5 years of course, but I expect I'll still have my blu-rays. I still have some VHS videos lying around!
Even if they stretched first they'd have to be able to balance rather than just know the actual techniques. Someone else's "muscle memories" of how to balance properly while performing a technique will likely be different from the ones you need, if your weight distribution is different.
Actually I completed Escape Velocity a few years ago, and more recently when I got a Mac again I completed one of the storyline paths in Nova (the one where you are a being that can create spaceships from your own energy, though you can also use the normal ships if you want). Great game:)
Those that find it 'creepy' are likely just jealous women who are jealous of the digitally perfect ass.
I wouldn't call it creepy so much as just plain good old fashioned geeky sadness. I've never played any 3D MMOs, though I admit when I've played motostorm or whatever it is, that I preferred the female bike riders to watching the dudes wiggling their leather-clad asses around:p
You're hilarious:) The irony of giving a guy a bollocking for not knowing his terminology, when in fact you yourself are the one that is incorrect. From your link:
"Vapor is responsible for the familiar processes of cloud formation and condensation"
(emphasis mine)
From the Wikipedia article on clouds:
"On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds."
(emphasis mine again)
Water vapour may become clouds, but clouds, fog, mist, whatever you want to call it are not vapour, they are water in a liquid or solid state which happens to be suspended in the air, similar to a gas.
You had me doubting my definition of vapour with your confident rebuttal of that guy a few posts back. If you were right you would have still been being a jerk to the guy, you had a lousy superior attitude. Since however you are wrong, it's just hilarious:)
Thanks. I don't have the means to look this up as I don't have a library membership, nor will my opinion make a jot of difference to how the world's leadership treats the planet over the next few decades, but thanks. I don't really have an opinion either way any more (I know it's selfish but I've just given up, I know I'm probably going to die before it really affects me, and I don't have any kids to care what happens to them). I just get ticked off when people say things like "there are plenty of valid studies" when a lot of them have been discredited and such.
Actually I'd never heard of Too Human until I saw ads for it in the last couple of weeks:s Heard of DNF maybe 8 years ago or more though.
Seeing as it's Xbox only I don't really care though:) The only thing XBox really has that I wish the PS3 had is a decent port of the source engine. But if I really wanted to play Counter-Strike or anything like that again I could just resurrect my old gaming PC. The games I've got for PS3 have been enough to keep me occupied though I even enjoyed playing Battlefield: Bad Compan with just a joypad - something I never though I'd be able to do with an FPS.
I had a Wii long before SSB, but the fact it took so long to come out, and that I ended up getting a PS3 and several games before SSB arrived means that I just loaned it to my sister instead. SSB really doesn't look worth getting the Wii back for (and it would be pretty sick of me considering my sis just got Wii Fit for her birthday)
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You're damn right "whoosh". Either it's a random quote for something I don't know, or it's just an unfunny (to me) reference to spelling differences. It's you guys that fuck with the spellings, not us ;)
You put it a bit better than I was going to :)
The guy trys to blame Mozilla for acting like evil spammers, when this is just a simple bug. Most likely hardly anyone chooses not to upgrade, so that's why it's taken them so long for it to be reported. It's not like FF3 is like going to Vista from XP. It fixes memory leaks, and the "awesome bar" doesn't really change the way you browse unless you want it to.
Actually it's bunker in the UK as well o_0 I was actually quoting from Die Hard 4.0, or in the US, "Live Free or Die Hard"
Well spotted - I saw a news piece on this tonight and they had a brief animation of a 3D google logo made out of lego, I've never made the connection before as I thought it was just a cool word they chose that was a play on 'googol'.
As for when I first used google, it must be 9 or 10 years ago. I remember my dad telling me about it being the most clever and fast search engine. I was stunned at the ability to search millions of pages and send back results in fractions of a second (possibly it was the first time I'd ever seen "this page was generated in 0.15 seconds" type thing).
Obviously I didn't expect in the least for google to become a household name, but I started using it instead of altavista (back then vista was a cool word in my dictionary). I thought that it would be 'just another search engine' and stay as a fairly obscure one that only geeks knew about. I was pretty shocked to find out that they were making money from it because I pictured the whole thing as being a type of science/computing curioso than an actual company, as my dad had mentioned that it was a university project.
Anyway, Happy Birthday Google, congrats2u!
It's not a basement, it's a command centre
Thankyou for having the first good explanation I've seen as to why the LHC won't kill us all :) Though that means I'll have to take the long road to find out if there is an afterlife, and I'm getting pretty fed up with this one.
The migration must be quick and dirty, but with as little mess as possible
You sounds just like my wife!
Wait, I don't have a wife. Nevermind.
Even worse, I really didn't consider the context before I started talking about wives. Oops.
That wasn't really what I was trying to get at, but it sounds plausible enough.
They don't usually sell it, they just give it gratis to anyone with a good enough idea for a practical joke involving said paint.
And then when he gets big enough we can use him as a second moon!
Oops, I meant LHC. Though miners know a lot about black holes too.
Nothing is 100% black
What about black holes? They just need to get the LHD guys to make them some strangelet paint.
The music was pretty awesome on Half-Life. It's usually fine for single player games, but when it comes to stuff like Counter-Strike I don't understand why people would play MP3s in the background. I tried it but if you can't hear where people are it makes you a worse player. Of course since Source you can't shoot people through walls anyway so it probably makes less of a difference. I have killed a few people in the past just by listening and shooting (and then getting called a hacker, hah..)
Actually you could do remote listening and speaking through AIBOs years ago, we considered using one for teleconferencing in the boardroom for a while. It would be funny having the MD walking round the table as a little robotic dog. We actually had the AIBO but one of the managers just left it on its charging station for like a year and ruined it :/ He could have given it to me and I would have made much better use of it.
Hence him saying that he's been able to get those speeds for 10 years (a decade). I think 8Mbps is pretty standards in the UK but I'm happy with my 2Mbps because I just use it for surfing.
For blu-ray to be gone in five years, an awful lot of people would have to start using stuff like Virgin Media or some other video on demand system. A lot can happen in 5 years of course, but I expect I'll still have my blu-rays. I still have some VHS videos lying around!
Depends if they trained their spysats on your 2inch lifted walk, or your natural walk ;) You'd probably have to vary it each day to be any use.
Even if they stretched first they'd have to be able to balance rather than just know the actual techniques. Someone else's "muscle memories" of how to balance properly while performing a technique will likely be different from the ones you need, if your weight distribution is different.
Actually I completed Escape Velocity a few years ago, and more recently when I got a Mac again I completed one of the storyline paths in Nova (the one where you are a being that can create spaceships from your own energy, though you can also use the normal ships if you want). Great game :)
Those that find it 'creepy' are likely just jealous women who are jealous of the digitally perfect ass.
I wouldn't call it creepy so much as just plain good old fashioned geeky sadness. I've never played any 3D MMOs, though I admit when I've played motostorm or whatever it is, that I preferred the female bike riders to watching the dudes wiggling their leather-clad asses around :p
You're hilarious :) The irony of giving a guy a bollocking for not knowing his terminology, when in fact you yourself are the one that is incorrect. From your link:
"Vapor is responsible for the familiar processes of cloud formation and condensation"
(emphasis mine)
From the Wikipedia article on clouds:
"On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds."
(emphasis mine again)
Water vapour may become clouds, but clouds, fog, mist, whatever you want to call it are not vapour, they are water in a liquid or solid state which happens to be suspended in the air, similar to a gas.
You had me doubting my definition of vapour with your confident rebuttal of that guy a few posts back. If you were right you would have still been being a jerk to the guy, you had a lousy superior attitude. Since however you are wrong, it's just hilarious :)
Indeed. I hypothesise this was due to the non-zero sense of humour expectation value of the particle dying a little inside.
Thanks. I don't have the means to look this up as I don't have a library membership, nor will my opinion make a jot of difference to how the world's leadership treats the planet over the next few decades, but thanks. I don't really have an opinion either way any more (I know it's selfish but I've just given up, I know I'm probably going to die before it really affects me, and I don't have any kids to care what happens to them). I just get ticked off when people say things like "there are plenty of valid studies" when a lot of them have been discredited and such.
Actually I'd never heard of Too Human until I saw ads for it in the last couple of weeks :s Heard of DNF maybe 8 years ago or more though.
Seeing as it's Xbox only I don't really care though :) The only thing XBox really has that I wish the PS3 had is a decent port of the source engine. But if I really wanted to play Counter-Strike or anything like that again I could just resurrect my old gaming PC. The games I've got for PS3 have been enough to keep me occupied though I even enjoyed playing Battlefield: Bad Compan with just a joypad - something I never though I'd be able to do with an FPS.
I had a Wii long before SSB, but the fact it took so long to come out, and that I ended up getting a PS3 and several games before SSB arrived means that I just loaned it to my sister instead. SSB really doesn't look worth getting the Wii back for (and it would be pretty sick of me considering my sis just got Wii Fit for her birthday)
Warning - full (well.. kind of) frontal male nudity ahead!