I am not famous, nor have a miniscule UID, but/. was the first forum I really enjoyed participating and felt at home. Thanks for all the great work and for creating such an awesome environment for us to receive the news the matters, discuss, rant and eventually troll.
oh, since this is a Religious hoax it doesn't count? It's got "science" in the name and they pretend to explain the world in a pseudo-scientific method.
I think Commandos have a very good take at that, because although it is definitely a puzzle, and the designer must have thought in a solution for every stage, you don't have to his solution. You just need to find a way to kill Person A without sounding any alarms. Actually, Lemmings already did that, some decades ago.
That's exactly what I do. Nobody wants to hear those adorable MSN/yahoo!/etc sounds, winks and whatnot. If I have to listen to something on my computer, God created headphones for this ocasions.
I love that ending exactly because the heroes think that he is just monologuing, when that is not exactly what happens. I was pretty much vague to avoid spoilers. Watchmen is definitely one of the best comics there is, so it is a big challenge to bring it to the screen. Even more if you consider the parallel stories and subplots.
Well, computer games are not exactly art, but anyway. In CSI:Hard Evidence, one of the tools you can use to gather evidence at the places you visit is a USB pendrive that can find "encrypted files" in any computer.
Amem to that. If you really, for some obscure reason need to use megabit and megabyte, use the lowercase b for bit and capitalized B for Byte: mb (megabit) and mB (megaByte).
you shouldn't have a problem with us calling ourselves whatever we want when we talk amongst ourselves. I think this is precisely the point: I don't have a problem with you calling yourselves whatever you want amongst yourselves. I do have a problem, when this is supposed to be to "correct form" to call the citizens of the US.
Uhh, there's a small flaw in your logic: this "America=USA" thing only works inside the USA. For the rest of the world, America is the continent, divided into North, Central and South America. What happens is that there is not a term for "native citizens of the USA", as there is for Mexican, or Brazilian or anything like that, basically because USA is not a name, is a designation. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against the US. So, the residents borrow the term from the continent, using "Americans". But I have to say I don't like it very much, because I live in Brazil, and I am an American too, since I live in South America. The spanish have a good term for this, it's "estadounidense", something like "unitedstatian".
Forget about why MS did this. Is it a good idea to use a rich client like silverlight/flash/whatever to present a Web Comic? Sure it looks great, but it takes longer to load, which can definitely be a factor if you're going to visit the site daily, I mean, I woudn't like to wait 3-5 seconds to then enter the navigation and see the comic, this when the plugin doesn't crash firefox. Second, I don't know if the full screen is a good idea. I mean, if you're doing a full blown comic, it's ok, but you won't be able to do that on a daily basis for too long, and if it was supposed to be a strip, then I would want it to be in its tab, or together with other strips in a rss feed, or something like that. Which brings us to another problem: how are you going to let other people hotlink your strip if it's an application? Of course there are ways to do this, but is it worth the trouble? Think about it, there are tons of web comics out there, and some with cash to spend in flash or other amenities, and yet, none of them does this. They just render the image, in plain old HTML, with the navigation nearby.
That would be the Wright Brothers. And although their invention was sooner, it needed a catapult to be pushed into the air. Santos Dummont was the first person to build and pilot a vehicle that could take off, fly and land without any outside help.
watch the theatrical release. I watched both this and the "Director's Cut", which is quite literal in this case, because he cuts 5 minutes towards the end.
[...]others have had to do a software restore back to version 1.1.2 of the iPhone software. 1.1.2 is the current version of the software. It seems to me that apparently the problem is with british jailbreaken phones, which wouldn't be either Apple's or O2's fault.
That's just an excuse. "This is not sci-fi, I can do whatever the bloody hell I want with it" and so on. If it has robots and gadgets it is Sci-fi, period.
That's completely true. I had to work with an Australian for a couple weeks, and the pronunciation was really different at times. This reminds me of a very lame and politically incorrect joke:
An australian goes to london, and is crossing the street nonchalantly, when a car screeched to a full stop. The driver, completely mad about the uncaring behaviour of the turist, gets out of the car and yells at him:
-Did you come here to die?!?
-No, I came here yestahdie.
But the most different accent I've ever met, maybe because I learned english from a british school, and therefore am more used to it, was in Scotland. Seriously, I went to Glasgow and Edimburg. *everytime* I spoke with a waiter I had to ask him to repeat around 3 times before I could make any sense out of it.
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I am not famous, nor have a miniscule UID, but /. was the first forum I really enjoyed participating and felt at home. Thanks for all the great work and for creating such an awesome environment for us to receive the news the matters, discuss, rant and eventually troll.
That's exactly what I thought. blood ninja is awesome.
I think it's ironic for MS to complain about "malvertisement" when they just confirmed to do it themselves at Best Buy stores.
Uhh...what Vista fiasco? Oh, you mean the trolls and stories on The Register? Vista is doing fine, thankyouverymuch.
oh, since this is a Religious hoax it doesn't count? It's got "science" in the name and they pretend to explain the world in a pseudo-scientific method.
I think Commandos have a very good take at that, because although it is definitely a puzzle, and the designer must have thought in a solution for every stage, you don't have to his solution. You just need to find a way to kill Person A without sounding any alarms. Actually, Lemmings already did that, some decades ago.
That's exactly what I do. Nobody wants to hear those adorable MSN/yahoo!/etc sounds, winks and whatnot. If I have to listen to something on my computer, God created headphones for this ocasions.
About the Streissand effect.
Be careful with the thrown sai, they make a big whoooosh sound.
ps. Who, in the name of Pete moderated the parent informative? Clueless would be more appropriate.
I love that ending exactly because the heroes think that he is just monologuing, when that is not exactly what happens. I was pretty much vague to avoid spoilers. Watchmen is definitely one of the best comics there is, so it is a big challenge to bring it to the screen. Even more if you consider the parallel stories and subplots.
Well, computer games are not exactly art, but anyway. In CSI:Hard Evidence, one of the tools you can use to gather evidence at the places you visit is a USB pendrive that can find "encrypted files" in any computer.
Amem to that. If you really, for some obscure reason need to use megabit and megabyte, use the lowercase b for bit and capitalized B for Byte: mb (megabit) and mB (megaByte).
Uhh, there's a small flaw in your logic: this "America=USA" thing only works inside the USA. For the rest of the world, America is the continent, divided into North, Central and South America. What happens is that there is not a term for "native citizens of the USA", as there is for Mexican, or Brazilian or anything like that, basically because USA is not a name, is a designation. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against the US. So, the residents borrow the term from the continent, using "Americans". But I have to say I don't like it very much, because I live in Brazil, and I am an American too, since I live in South America. The spanish have a good term for this, it's "estadounidense", something like "unitedstatian".
Let's hope this one does not create a virus that kills 95% of the human population, right?
Forget about why MS did this. Is it a good idea to use a rich client like silverlight/flash/whatever to present a Web Comic? Sure it looks great, but it takes longer to load, which can definitely be a factor if you're going to visit the site daily, I mean, I woudn't like to wait 3-5 seconds to then enter the navigation and see the comic, this when the plugin doesn't crash firefox. Second, I don't know if the full screen is a good idea. I mean, if you're doing a full blown comic, it's ok, but you won't be able to do that on a daily basis for too long, and if it was supposed to be a strip, then I would want it to be in its tab, or together with other strips in a rss feed, or something like that. Which brings us to another problem: how are you going to let other people hotlink your strip if it's an application? Of course there are ways to do this, but is it worth the trouble? Think about it, there are tons of web comics out there, and some with cash to spend in flash or other amenities, and yet, none of them does this. They just render the image, in plain old HTML, with the navigation nearby.
That would be the Wright Brothers. And although their invention was sooner, it needed a catapult to be pushed into the air. Santos Dummont was the first person to build and pilot a vehicle that could take off, fly and land without any outside help.
watch the theatrical release. I watched both this and the "Director's Cut", which is quite literal in this case, because he cuts 5 minutes towards the end.
The photo with Harvey Keitel. All they need now is start listening to the man.
That's just an excuse. "This is not sci-fi, I can do whatever the bloody hell I want with it" and so on. If it has robots and gadgets it is Sci-fi, period.
I thought only Wired used these buzzwords. Because they're so hip and cool and all that.
You know what they say: Violence is not the answer, it's the question. The answer is YES.
That's completely true. I had to work with an Australian for a couple weeks, and the pronunciation was really different at times. This reminds me of a very lame and politically incorrect joke:
An australian goes to london, and is crossing the street nonchalantly, when a car screeched to a full stop. The driver, completely mad about the uncaring behaviour of the turist, gets out of the car and yells at him:
-Did you come here to die?!?
-No, I came here yestahdie.
But the most different accent I've ever met, maybe because I learned english from a british school, and therefore am more used to it, was in Scotland. Seriously, I went to Glasgow and Edimburg. *everytime* I spoke with a waiter I had to ask him to repeat around 3 times before I could make any sense out of it.
You know, that's exactly what I'm going to do now.