GTA4 isn't exclusive like GTA3, Vice City or San Andreas?!!! OMG! Oh wait - those came out for Xbox and computers. I forgot - what's the fucking point here?
No no no - Slashdotters have such a great fucking grip on reality - the last line should read"
"This is serious business. It is quite possible that the SEC could someday make Steve Jobs explode just my making a single phone call with their magical fucking CEO exploder phone!"
And Snakes on a Plane was OSCAR WINNER MATERIAL BABY! PWNED!
re:"As a business, i wouldn't purchase a product with that great of a changeover if i could avoid it."
So I'm guessing you don't use computers then. I heard those have some NASTY changeover!
In other news, Dell announced they're going to offer XP again for everyone because the Vista changeover is causing holy horror with the Windows community. So in that regards, I can see why you'd fear change. I'd say I could empathise, but I can't. Lord knows I can't.
Any reports on how many chairs were flying by during the interview? I'm guessing about 3 chairs a minute on average. So in a 35 minute interview we're looking at flung furniture in the low hundred or so. But I'm only guessing. What's the scoop?
They only shut the fuck up about games when it looked like the NRA was going to be eaten alive. The usual political limelight points moved outside their topic sphere. Whoop de shit.
Well, perhaps it's time to start looking into the morons breeding these lil' monsters. If you're going to raise a suicide bomber / shooter, perhaps it's time to investigate and help others take responsibility for their lack of parenting abilties or their bent chromosomes. If the Hatfields want to keep shooting up the neighborhood, I think it might be time to look at the whole family. Not just the blown-fuse of the week.
Perhaps some good old fashioned dissapearances and re-eductation centers weren't such a bad idea after all.
Or you could get some perspective on how this stacks up to the world around you, and all the other (far more fun) ways you can be chucked out of it. Like that car you drive for instance. Crashy Crashy!
I dunno. I'm seeing a considerable number of EU member nations that have "freedoms" but have fought fewer wars and have less crime and shootings in the last 200 years. Perhaps their govt knows something we refuse to address. Oh - wait - sorry - U-S-A! U-S-A! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
In the meantime I think Wall Mart has a sale on Kevlar. It's what's in fashion this spring!
re:"The US is the most free country in the world, and with those liberties unfortunately come with consequences but in the end it's always better to be free."
Which is also why we average a war every 20 years - or more. Democracy works and is perfect! And if that doesn't work - we've got nukes. So there!
re: Ooh, ooh, can I get on TV predicting how the shooter's computer has Microsoft Word installed on it?
Not until I finish up my amended report from the RIAA on how his pirated music collection was to blame. It was also tied into Imus but I'm having trouble working that in. No wait - I know - the FOX angle. Clinton's failed administration is to blame.
Lessie - double checking to make sure the shooter isn't to blame anywhere here.
There we go! Pulitzer prize! Bleeding and leading baby! Someone tell me what the Arbitron numbers are, because it's entertainment tonight on all channels and satelite feeds.
Or pehaps I'm just being cynical.
Nah - RUN THAT BABY! Guns! Kids! Dead dead dead! - don't know how many died in car wrecks today - or died in Iraq - but KIDS N' GUNS GUNS GUNS! That's good journalism.
The cube is worth more certainly, but it's getting harder to find one not scuffed up (that paint was terrible). I've only come across them in Colorado (where BlackHole Inc is located) and here in the SF Bay Area where plenty of techies have gotten their hands on one since they were built here. Last cube I saw was from someone who used to work in the factory. The monitors are a pain since early ones got dimmer over time because of the oxide used.
I know that's the odd part of it all. The YouTube deal was brilliant insofar that within 24 hours, Google's stock increase ment a market cap of an additional 4.8 billion on a 1.5 billion dollar (stock) deal. So they made over 3 billion in valuation nearly instantly. This deal being cash is a bit more strange.
Perhaps if they succeed in getting their TV and Radio ad empire rolling they can threaten content providers trying to pull clips from YouTube with online and traditional advertising boycotts. That'd be cute actually...
Well between Mr. Sun trying to fry us and the automobile industry trying hard to convince everyone global warming by CO2 is no big deal, let's take a page from Carl Sagan and bring on a mild nuclear winter. We still have enough nukes to cast a pretty decent shadow I'm guessing. OR - perhaps we could take Douglas Adams' cue and burn down all the forests. In seriousness, was in the fallout zone of Northern Colorado from the Yellowstone fire of the late 80s. The drop in temperature was significant, and the sky was overcast gray for days. Not from cloud cover though.
A few years of that applied should allow a new ice-age to form. And that's better right? RIGHT? Food meh - we don't need crops! We need to solve global warming! Plus it's been decades since we've seen a stunning H-Bomb mushroom cloud. Think about the children! Would you deny them this fantastic sight? 3 megaton fireworks are pretty impressive! And ya ya ya, barium this cadmium that - just stock up on iodine and switch to instant Soy Milk. A few hundred mega-rads never killed anyone - instantly - from behind a lead wall.
You can add 5 inches to the screen for 1080p and drop the price to just over 1000 if you go with Westinghouse on Amazon. So far the only ding-review was on Westinghouse service. Not sure who makes the actual glass for the product, but it seems to more than deliver for the price-point. (note this is a monitor - doesn't have a built in tuner)
The iPod will fail! The PS3 will never sell! Blu-Ray will be trounced by HDDVD! Snakes on a Plane - Boffo!
The only exception at this point is the Zune - but that's got more failure-mass than a white-dwarf. So I'm not sure it counts.
Can't wait for the iPhone to join the hit-list. I'm buying one because it's pretty much negative comments here. Solid gold endorsement if I ever heard one.
I kind of agree though. The market share is strange or regionally skewed. I work for startups in SF (as a contractor among other business) there's no fewer than 15 startups on one of my client's floors alone so a quick walkabout is revealing. I've seen macs on developer desks (not just designers) more and more. Linux is still on many admin and coder desks, and (at least) one startup has nothing but macs. Most of the new geeks meeting in the various local cafes and coffee-holes are also hauling around Apple logos.
Perhaps this isn't the case in flyover country, but something is up in Apple's favor around here. And btw - before I became an Apple fanboi again, I wrote a website / protoblog test-case based on "John Dvorak's school of getting hitcounts" called "the apple doomsday clock". Aside from using every OS under the sun (even IRIX) professionally, I'd always considered myself a platform agnostic. I went back to Apple once the varient of my fave OS came out - NeXTstep. I keep thinking I might put Vista on dual-boot or parallels at some point, but I just can't find the need (I keep my gaming on consoles largely, as well as my collection of fridge-sized of 80s gamecabs and that's the only reason I can see Windows being relevant at this point. I'm also addicted to RTCW - which you can run on a C64 for all intensive purposes.).
'bout time. A much proved dino-industry dies. Cry me a river. If by small independent lables, you mean all those hip-hop record labels that are selling out theatres and are making and owning their own music, then I say pour some more gas on the fire.
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Retro-geek or not, this is why I still miss Infocom games.
re:"not hard core gamers"
Right - Zelda is a fucking cakewalk. Very casual. A Pushover. So short a game you could call it tiny.
Highest selling game for the Wii totally validates the causal gamer market. You betcha.
GTA4 isn't exclusive like GTA3, Vice City or San Andreas?!!! OMG! Oh wait - those came out for Xbox and computers. I forgot - what's the fucking point here?
Consultant? I recall he was brought in on that note - SEC bar that as well?
No no no - Slashdotters have such a great fucking grip on reality - the last line should read"
"This is serious business. It is quite possible that the SEC could someday make Steve Jobs explode just my making a single phone call with their magical fucking CEO exploder phone!"
And Snakes on a Plane was OSCAR WINNER MATERIAL BABY! PWNED!
I know. Getting a free developer suite with every macintosh is such a bitch! FUCK APPLE!
re:"As a business, i wouldn't purchase a product with that great of a changeover if i could avoid it."
So I'm guessing you don't use computers then. I heard those have some NASTY changeover!
In other news, Dell announced they're going to offer XP again for everyone because the Vista changeover is causing holy horror with the Windows community. So in that regards, I can see why you'd fear change. I'd say I could empathise, but I can't. Lord knows I can't.
Any reports on how many chairs were flying by during the interview? I'm guessing about 3 chairs a minute on average. So in a 35 minute interview we're looking at flung furniture in the low hundred or so. But I'm only guessing. What's the scoop?
They only shut the fuck up about games when it looked like the NRA was going to be eaten alive. The usual political limelight points moved outside their topic sphere. Whoop de shit.
re:"people are always going threw worse then you"
Like getting exposed to moronic assholes from the likes of Digg.com. That's certainly worse. Oh how I feel your pain!
Well, perhaps it's time to start looking into the morons breeding these lil' monsters. If you're going to raise a suicide bomber / shooter, perhaps it's time to investigate and help others take responsibility for their lack of parenting abilties or their bent chromosomes. If the Hatfields want to keep shooting up the neighborhood, I think it might be time to look at the whole family. Not just the blown-fuse of the week.
Perhaps some good old fashioned dissapearances and re-eductation centers weren't such a bad idea after all.
Or you could get some perspective on how this stacks up to the world around you, and all the other (far more fun) ways you can be chucked out of it. Like that car you drive for instance. Crashy Crashy!
I dunno. I'm seeing a considerable number of EU member nations that have "freedoms" but have fought fewer wars and have less crime and shootings in the last 200 years. Perhaps their govt knows something we refuse to address. Oh - wait - sorry - U-S-A! U-S-A! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
In the meantime I think Wall Mart has a sale on Kevlar. It's what's in fashion this spring!
re:"The US is the most free country in the world, and with those liberties unfortunately come with consequences but in the end it's always better to be free."
Which is also why we average a war every 20 years - or more. Democracy works and is perfect! And if that doesn't work - we've got nukes. So there!
Well that settles it! The gunman should be expelled! The system works!
In other news half the dead students and their families are still being sued by the RIAA.
After all - rules are rules.
re: Ooh, ooh, can I get on TV predicting how the shooter's computer has Microsoft Word installed on it?
Not until I finish up my amended report from the RIAA on how his pirated music collection was to blame. It was also tied into Imus but I'm having trouble working that in. No wait - I know - the FOX angle. Clinton's failed administration is to blame.
Lessie - double checking to make sure the shooter isn't to blame anywhere here.
There we go! Pulitzer prize! Bleeding and leading baby! Someone tell me what the Arbitron numbers are, because it's entertainment tonight on all channels and satelite feeds.
Or pehaps I'm just being cynical.
Nah - RUN THAT BABY! Guns! Kids! Dead dead dead! - don't know how many died in car wrecks today - or died in Iraq - but KIDS N' GUNS GUNS GUNS! That's good journalism.
re: the NeXTstation - depending on what model, about 300 dollars
http://blackholeinc.com/
The cube is worth more certainly, but it's getting harder to find one not scuffed up (that paint was terrible). I've only come across them in Colorado (where BlackHole Inc is located) and here in the SF Bay Area where plenty of techies have gotten their hands on one since they were built here. Last cube I saw was from someone who used to work in the factory. The monitors are a pain since early ones got dimmer over time because of the oxide used.
I know that's the odd part of it all. The YouTube deal was brilliant insofar that within 24 hours, Google's stock increase ment a market cap of an additional 4.8 billion on a 1.5 billion dollar (stock) deal. So they made over 3 billion in valuation nearly instantly. This deal being cash is a bit more strange.
Perhaps if they succeed in getting their TV and Radio ad empire rolling they can threaten content providers trying to pull clips from YouTube with online and traditional advertising boycotts. That'd be cute actually...
The reference YouTube clip has already been removed, and I'm among the first 10 posts here.
Feh.
Well between Mr. Sun trying to fry us and the automobile industry trying hard to convince everyone global warming by CO2 is no big deal, let's take a page from Carl Sagan and bring on a mild nuclear winter. We still have enough nukes to cast a pretty decent shadow I'm guessing. OR - perhaps we could take Douglas Adams' cue and burn down all the forests. In seriousness, was in the fallout zone of Northern Colorado from the Yellowstone fire of the late 80s. The drop in temperature was significant, and the sky was overcast gray for days. Not from cloud cover though.
A few years of that applied should allow a new ice-age to form. And that's better right? RIGHT? Food meh - we don't need crops! We need to solve global warming! Plus it's been decades since we've seen a stunning H-Bomb mushroom cloud. Think about the children! Would you deny them this fantastic sight? 3 megaton fireworks are pretty impressive! And ya ya ya, barium this cadmium that - just stock up on iodine and switch to instant Soy Milk. A few hundred mega-rads never killed anyone - instantly - from behind a lead wall.
You can add 5 inches to the screen for 1080p and drop the price to just over 1000 if you go with Westinghouse on Amazon. So far the only ding-review was on Westinghouse service. Not sure who makes the actual glass for the product, but it seems to more than deliver for the price-point. (note this is a monitor - doesn't have a built in tuner)
Bet against everything the slashdotters like.
The iPod will fail! The PS3 will never sell! Blu-Ray will be trounced by HDDVD! Snakes on a Plane - Boffo!
The only exception at this point is the Zune - but that's got more failure-mass than a white-dwarf. So I'm not sure it counts.
Can't wait for the iPhone to join the hit-list. I'm buying one because it's pretty much negative comments here. Solid gold endorsement if I ever heard one.
Got any least-favorite lottery numbers?
Probably meant that - but I'm nearly 40 so that linguistic bug is kind of hard coded with me now.
I kind of agree though. The market share is strange or regionally skewed. I work for startups in SF (as a contractor among other business) there's no fewer than 15 startups on one of my client's floors alone so a quick walkabout is revealing. I've seen macs on developer desks (not just designers) more and more. Linux is still on many admin and coder desks, and (at least) one startup has nothing but macs. Most of the new geeks meeting in the various local cafes and coffee-holes are also hauling around Apple logos.
Perhaps this isn't the case in flyover country, but something is up in Apple's favor around here. And btw - before I became an Apple fanboi again, I wrote a website / protoblog test-case based on "John Dvorak's school of getting hitcounts" called "the apple doomsday clock". Aside from using every OS under the sun (even IRIX) professionally, I'd always considered myself a platform agnostic. I went back to Apple once the varient of my fave OS came out - NeXTstep. I keep thinking I might put Vista on dual-boot or parallels at some point, but I just can't find the need (I keep my gaming on consoles largely, as well as my collection of fridge-sized of 80s gamecabs and that's the only reason I can see Windows being relevant at this point. I'm also addicted to RTCW - which you can run on a C64 for all intensive purposes.).
'bout time. A much proved dino-industry dies. Cry me a river. If by small independent lables, you mean all those hip-hop record labels that are selling out theatres and are making and owning their own music, then I say pour some more gas on the fire.
I'll shed a tear for all the makers of play-piano scrolls now. Get over you fucking selves retailers and sell something new or STFU.