"I found myself alone in a room, in front of a deep square or rectangular pool of impressively clear, still water. There was a pile of material at the bottom of the pool, and a blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in the water around it."
That was when I heard his voice:
"Bruce Perens in the flesh... or rather in the Hazard Suit.
I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons... most of them were government property. As for the suit... I think you've earned it."
...within half and hour I received a call from them asking me about the call and asking if I would be prepared to talk to the Australian Federal Police, who then rang me 10 minutes after that and grilled me about the call too.
Is anybody else bothered by the fact that this is the last post Centurix has ever made?
I think that once Hollywood dies from all these sequels, remakes, and rehashes, I'll prepare a little speech. I'm sure there's a few things they'd want to have said and I don't mind being the speaker for the dead.
So you're saying we see a combination of the color emitted from the light + the color reflected from the wall? BRILLIANT.
No. He's saying that we percieve light in ways that are constantly changing, whereas a camera takes a more literal approach. We have an automatic color balance in our heads.
Here's the line you forgot to read before you hit reply with your snarky comment:
We have this brain thing that constantly adjusts our color perception so that we think colors are quite different from what they actually are.
You and the dumbshit who spent a mod-point on your comment need to both brush up on your reading comprehension and you need to try turning the auto-color-balance on your camera and take a few photos inside your mother's basement. Once you've completed these two goals, you'll be able to bring something to this conversation.
Apple products always were like that. It's just that since Jobs reality distortion field went offline, peoples are starting to see all these flaws as real actual problem instead of fashionable features
That's bullshit. iOS is the worst update Apple has done. You can criticize previous iOS updates as being feature-incomplete, and you won't have any problem standing your ground on that, but iOS 6 is buggy. Even my wife, who does not share Slashdot's passion for getting all emotional about Apple, is wondering what the heck is happening over in Cupertino.
I do love Slashdot's view on Apple's success, though: "Oh.. uhh must be... magic?"
I just signed up for this same plan. It's a great deal - 100 minutes of talk a month is 5x what I normally use anyway. AND the 5GB cap just means you get dropped to EDGE speeds for the rest of the month if you use more than 5GB of data.
Recently T-Mobile re-added unlimited Data plans. They've finally gotten my attention, I'm tempted to switch.
I'm that one guy who manages to get pretty good reception through AT&T where I live. I regularly make 2+ hour phone calls that do not get dropped. I don't have missed calls or SMS's that never arrive. On that note, I'm actually fairly happy with them. But in terms of service... UGH.
Twice this year I've had issues that required that I have a chat with them. Both were issues that could easily have been resolved via e-mail, and both ended up with a lengthy email exchange AND time on the phone. I don't meant that these were complex issues that required escalation or anything like that, I mean I had to send emails to the tune of: "Could you please READ WHAT I WROTE?" They have dumbasses answering questions and, frankly, their policies aren't designed to avoid issues. Really, they want you to go into overages. I suspect their service is so bad so that the next time you call to challenge an overage, you sit there and have a conversation with yourself about whether or not it's even worth the time. Of course, I really cannot prove that.
I've had a terrible time with AT&T this year, I just wanted to give you a heads up on that. (... and I just wanted to rant because I'm still pissed off at them.)
I'm just wondering if there's bias behind your choices in what you read up on. I mean, patents offering nothing of value at all is a rather extreme opinion from somebody using objective sources.
Slashdot Mirror
Pants are optional, but recommended for you.
Well, I kinda have to. I keep stepping on it.
A dupe on Slashdot means a change in the Matrix....
"I found myself alone in a room, in front of a deep square or rectangular pool of impressively clear, still water. There was a pile of material at the bottom of the pool, and a blue glow of Cherenkov radiation in the water around it."
That was when I heard his voice:
"Bruce Perens in the flesh... or rather in the Hazard Suit.
I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons... most of them were government property. As for the suit... I think you've earned it."
...within half and hour I received a call from them asking me about the call and asking if I would be prepared to talk to the Australian Federal Police, who then rang me 10 minutes after that and grilled me about the call too.
Is anybody else bothered by the fact that this is the last post Centurix has ever made?
You should have read it anyway. The ending was easy to work out early in the book and it was still enjoyable to read.
They're going for dramatic tension where the audience knows almost the entire time(if not actually the entire time).
They're overestimating the audience. Virtually nobody remembered the way the original War of the World's ended when they saw the remake in 2005.
The sci fi movie to ender all sci fi movies...
I think that once Hollywood dies from all these sequels, remakes, and rehashes, I'll prepare a little speech. I'm sure there's a few things they'd want to have said and I don't mind being the speaker for the dead.
Here on Slashdot, where Android is the BFD, your sarcasm might be mistaken for Insightful.
The Lone Battlestar State?
Meh. That joke was olmos funny.
I, for one, welcome our new Chinese Overlords!
Did you know that we got the word 'Obligatory' from the Japanese phrase: "domo obligato mistah ra bahtoo"? Which basically means: "automated comment".
In 1986, James Doohan demonstrated a slight purple flare when transporting live sea creatures into/out of transparent aluminum (sapphire) aquariums.
They used a Klingon transporter to do the beaming... The transporter effect was orange.
Double dumb ass.
So you're saying we see a combination of the color emitted from the light + the color reflected from the wall? BRILLIANT.
No. He's saying that we percieve light in ways that are constantly changing, whereas a camera takes a more literal approach. We have an automatic color balance in our heads.
Here's the line you forgot to read before you hit reply with your snarky comment:
We have this brain thing that constantly adjusts our color perception so that we think colors are quite different from what they actually are.
You and the dumbshit who spent a mod-point on your comment need to both brush up on your reading comprehension and you need to try turning the auto-color-balance on your camera and take a few photos inside your mother's basement. Once you've completed these two goals, you'll be able to bring something to this conversation.
The directive from Tim Cook to the development team was for "more flair!" but unfortunately, Tim's iPad autocorrected that to "more flare!"
HAHAHA!
I wonder if that's what happened with Maps:
"Dear Team, as we head into September, our landmarks are moving closer."
Apple products always were like that. It's just that since Jobs reality distortion field went offline, peoples are starting to see all these flaws as real actual problem instead of fashionable features
That's bullshit. iOS is the worst update Apple has done. You can criticize previous iOS updates as being feature-incomplete, and you won't have any problem standing your ground on that, but iOS 6 is buggy. Even my wife, who does not share Slashdot's passion for getting all emotional about Apple, is wondering what the heck is happening over in Cupertino.
I do love Slashdot's view on Apple's success, though: "Oh.. uhh must be... magic?"
So how about some screenshots of how the site looked back in the day?
Seconded!! I'd love to reminisce about the good ol' days when the HTML on the site worked.
Well, that figures... the ONE time the Editors get spelling and/or grammar right.
I just signed up for this same plan. It's a great deal - 100 minutes of talk a month is 5x what I normally use anyway. AND the 5GB cap just means you get dropped to EDGE speeds for the rest of the month if you use more than 5GB of data.
Recently T-Mobile re-added unlimited Data plans. They've finally gotten my attention, I'm tempted to switch.
Nope, you made no point.
Actually.... yep I did. Sorry!
I do hope, at least, that the remainder of your week is good.
I'm that one guy who manages to get pretty good reception through AT&T where I live. I regularly make 2+ hour phone calls that do not get dropped. I don't have missed calls or SMS's that never arrive. On that note, I'm actually fairly happy with them. But in terms of service... UGH.
Twice this year I've had issues that required that I have a chat with them. Both were issues that could easily have been resolved via e-mail, and both ended up with a lengthy email exchange AND time on the phone. I don't meant that these were complex issues that required escalation or anything like that, I mean I had to send emails to the tune of: "Could you please READ WHAT I WROTE?" They have dumbasses answering questions and, frankly, their policies aren't designed to avoid issues. Really, they want you to go into overages. I suspect their service is so bad so that the next time you call to challenge an overage, you sit there and have a conversation with yourself about whether or not it's even worth the time. Of course, I really cannot prove that.
I've had a terrible time with AT&T this year, I just wanted to give you a heads up on that. (... and I just wanted to rant because I'm still pissed off at them.)
Wow!! So what exactly did I say that was sooOOoo offensive that I earned that response? Whatever it was, it must really have stung!
There's just as many Apple idiots who hate people for choosing non-Apple devices as there are Android idiots.
No, there really isn't. You're thinking of the group people who are sick of the bashing.
I think that what he meant to suggest is that both products are overpriced, but that Samsung isn't going to be able to sell their products that way.
I think what he meant to say was: "I hate Apple, do you like me now?"
I'm just wondering if there's bias behind your choices in what you read up on. I mean, patents offering nothing of value at all is a rather extreme opinion from somebody using objective sources.
Insert the customary SkyNet/Borg comment here...
Relax. Only Android devices modded with CyanogenMod can actually kill.
Super Bacteria Create Gold
Me use fire, melt gold!