But in this case his point was there, clear as crystal - perhaps it is because you read the other comment first (which may indeed be irrelevant) so when you came to this one you weren't expecting it to be on topic and therefore didn't understand his meaning. To me and the others that have replied, his point was perfectly clear - The Laser TV may not be a Laser TV at all but rather just a Plasma TV configured to look better than the other Plasma TV beside it.
Corrupt, you corrupt, Bring corruption to all that you touch. Hold, you'll behold, And behold and for all that you've done. And Spell, cast a spell, Cast a spell on the country you run. And risk, you will risk, You will risk all their lives and their souls.
We're wacked, out on acid, too much acid to write decent lyrics. But release, we'll release it, because all the emos and angsty teens will love it.
Personally I think the album has a slump right up until Knights of Cydonia.
I didn't, I thought of the piece of shit album that the British band Muse released which had Supermassive Black Hole as its first single and is going to completely destroy the section of their fanbase that isn't completely retarded.
(For those who are looking to mod me troll, I'd like to point out that Muse was and to an extent still is one of my favourite bands, It's just a shame that their latest album was a Supermassive Hunk of Crap.)
No see, get it, it's actually a new twist on an old joke because the people operating the loudspeaker cameras would say it if someone loitered near the CCTV cameras. Get it?
What we need to remember is that Computer Games have always been a niche market and always will be. When most people play games, they just want to plug it in and have it work. They don't want a steep learning curve, they don't want to tweak their configs, they just want to have some quick clean fun.
Some people aren't like that. Some people like having the greatest graphics, the best framerates, the slickest mods, the most twinked Warlock. And they're willing to pay premium for that. Console gamers like the plug and play, computer gamers think "hey, I use my computer for all this crap anyway, might as well whack in a graphics card and do something fun with it".
For me, the biggest alure of computer gaming is the multi-functionality and the room to tweak. I dig that staff, and a lot of the geekier gamers do. But when the WoW servers go down here on a Teusday night, we fire up the Gamecube and the Xbox and lounge around on beanbags playing Super Smash Brothers etc. because it's just damn good fun. Both computer gaming and console gaming have their individual merits, but neither is inherantly better than the other, they're just suited to different kinds of people.
I didn't say the first post wasn't funny. I never flamed the first post. I told the guy who flamed the first post that he was a fucking moron. There's a difference.
...It's the introduction to Unreal Tournament. Also, what part of "News for Nerds" don't you understand? Furthermore, I feel sorry for any woman you've ever touched. Especially your mother.
See, now that the movie has been released and eveyone's saying it, it's not funnyn anymore. Find a new meme.
It was only a matter of time.
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Steve Irwin Dead
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Look, everyone knew that this was going to happen to Steve Irwin at some point. It didn't take a genius to see that he was unlikely to live to a ripe old age. He wasn't a complete idiot and he knew the risks he took. It was the game he played.
Personally, I am not too heartbroken about it. To me he was just another celebrity. I found his manner irritating and never gained anything particularly insightful from his documentaries or TV series. While he pumped a decent amount of money into environmental conservation, I feel that his contribution to raising envrironmental awareness was almost cursory, as his work normally relied upon shock value and "action" shots rather than highlighting the fragile nature of the environment or even nature's splendor.
To me, all Steve Irwin's death means is that I no longer have to put up with that ridiculous accent when I watch TV. (He did a lot of advertisments for his Zoo and Australian quarantine.)
I got a laptop at the start of eigth grade (the start of high school here). Me and 20 or so other students used laptops for pretty much every class except Maths (junior high school maths doesn't exactly involve complex modelling). Our "laptop program" class did fine. It wasn't actually a class full of nerds. Yes we had them, but the majority of the class were normies, equivalent "jocks", "musos" and "whores".
And yes we procrastinated, but every student does, laptop or no. It didn't matter because we were delivered content in such a way that it was optimised for "electronic learning" (as our principal liked to call it). We had an intranet site through which learning material was distributed and assignments/homework/classwork was submitted, and had reasonably tech savvy teachers. Because the subjects were delivered like this, work (especially group work) got done a lot faster, despite "procrastination".
Kids are going to screw around in class and after whether they have laptops or not. Nowadays when I don't have my lappy with me for classes I just draw in my book or fall asleep like a normal student. Also, Myspace is only harmful only to your eyes (zee goggles! zey do...) and perhaps your musical taste. If kids gain access to harmful materials because they own a computer, it's not going to be at school (hell, I couldn't even access much learning material with our school's blocking policy), it's going to be at home. Where you'd have a computer anyway. With internet access. If you can stop them looking at "harmful" sites on there, you can stop them when they're using a laptop. Remember, they're just like big computers except easier to carry.
What's the difference between being told to do something as government policy as opposed to having consent engineered by the liberal media? At least elected officials make the calls instead of someone like Murdoch telling us what we think because he has more money.
I dont think anyone here would argue that MS makes good hardware, so far as joysticks, mice and keyboards are concerned.
Indeed. Microsoft Keyboards - masters of the "F lock", which disables all of your function keys by default. Almost as clever as the scroll lock, and surely twice as useful. Not to mention the "ergonomic" designs, also known as the "break my pinkies" layout.
Pfft. Redback. I got bitten by one of when I was four and all that came of it was a few days off kindergarten and a whole backet of jellybeans... After I was rushed to hospital and delivered anti-venom.
Lousy parents didn't take me to the hospital till the next freaking morning. Stupid irresponsible father.
I think it's "the philosophy" that's a problem, as in the "Open Source or Die" approach. Not philosophy in general. I'm just saying that it's dumb Linuxers care more about the source code of graphics card drivers than the ability to include said drivers to make it easier for people to actually use the operating system.
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I'm calling someone who cares more for their wallet than the soldiers on the other side of the world fighting for their lives a traitor
"you daft cunt"
Also, people join the Armed forces to defend their country. It's not their fault their president isn't right in the head and sends them off to a war they don't need to fight. If they were kicking around in the barracks I wouldn't give a fuck about their iPods, but since they're over there, I do think they deserve not to be persecuted for trying for a little entertainment. If someone in another job was forced to go over there (doctors, nurses, etc.), I'd give a fuck about them too.
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But in this case his point was there, clear as crystal - perhaps it is because you read the other comment first (which may indeed be irrelevant) so when you came to this one you weren't expecting it to be on topic and therefore didn't understand his meaning. To me and the others that have replied, his point was perfectly clear - The Laser TV may not be a Laser TV at all but rather just a Plasma TV configured to look better than the other Plasma TV beside it.
I'm down with that.
Interesting, the blockquote tag isn't working. What's with that?
I didn't, I thought of the piece of shit album that the British band Muse released which had Supermassive Black Hole as its first single and is going to completely destroy the section of their fanbase that isn't completely retarded.
(For those who are looking to mod me troll, I'd like to point out that Muse was and to an extent still is one of my favourite bands, It's just a shame that their latest album was a Supermassive Hunk of Crap.)
And here I was thinking I was the only sane one.
The creator of Lost? Wow, I'm sure this is going to be a cinematic masterpiece.
An Ellipsis has: Three dots!
No see, get it, it's actually a new twist on an old joke because the people operating the loudspeaker cameras would say it if someone loitered near the CCTV cameras. Get it?
What we need to remember is that Computer Games have always been a niche market and always will be. When most people play games, they just want to plug it in and have it work. They don't want a steep learning curve, they don't want to tweak their configs, they just want to have some quick clean fun.
Some people aren't like that. Some people like having the greatest graphics, the best framerates, the slickest mods, the most twinked Warlock. And they're willing to pay premium for that. Console gamers like the plug and play, computer gamers think "hey, I use my computer for all this crap anyway, might as well whack in a graphics card and do something fun with it".
For me, the biggest alure of computer gaming is the multi-functionality and the room to tweak. I dig that staff, and a lot of the geekier gamers do. But when the WoW servers go down here on a Teusday night, we fire up the Gamecube and the Xbox and lounge around on beanbags playing Super Smash Brothers etc. because it's just damn good fun. Both computer gaming and console gaming have their individual merits, but neither is inherantly better than the other, they're just suited to different kinds of people.
I didn't say the first post wasn't funny. I never flamed the first post. I told the guy who flamed the first post that he was a fucking moron. There's a difference.
...It's the introduction to Unreal Tournament. Also, what part of "News for Nerds" don't you understand? Furthermore, I feel sorry for any woman you've ever touched. Especially your mother.
Tribute may not be the best song in the world, but Tenacious D IS the worst band.
See, now that the movie has been released and eveyone's saying it, it's not funnyn anymore. Find a new meme.
Look, everyone knew that this was going to happen to Steve Irwin at some point. It didn't take a genius to see that he was unlikely to live to a ripe old age. He wasn't a complete idiot and he knew the risks he took. It was the game he played.
Personally, I am not too heartbroken about it. To me he was just another celebrity. I found his manner irritating and never gained anything particularly insightful from his documentaries or TV series. While he pumped a decent amount of money into environmental conservation, I feel that his contribution to raising envrironmental awareness was almost cursory, as his work normally relied upon shock value and "action" shots rather than highlighting the fragile nature of the environment or even nature's splendor.
To me, all Steve Irwin's death means is that I no longer have to put up with that ridiculous accent when I watch TV. (He did a lot of advertisments for his Zoo and Australian quarantine.)
Sure... If you have Atention Defecit Disorder
...why exactly? How does a tabbed browser make any difference?
I got a laptop at the start of eigth grade (the start of high school here). Me and 20 or so other students used laptops for pretty much every class except Maths (junior high school maths doesn't exactly involve complex modelling). Our "laptop program" class did fine. It wasn't actually a class full of nerds. Yes we had them, but the majority of the class were normies, equivalent "jocks", "musos" and "whores".
And yes we procrastinated, but every student does, laptop or no. It didn't matter because we were delivered content in such a way that it was optimised for "electronic learning" (as our principal liked to call it). We had an intranet site through which learning material was distributed and assignments/homework/classwork was submitted, and had reasonably tech savvy teachers. Because the subjects were delivered like this, work (especially group work) got done a lot faster, despite "procrastination".
Kids are going to screw around in class and after whether they have laptops or not. Nowadays when I don't have my lappy with me for classes I just draw in my book or fall asleep like a normal student. Also, Myspace is only harmful only to your eyes (zee goggles! zey do...) and perhaps your musical taste. If kids gain access to harmful materials because they own a computer, it's not going to be at school (hell, I couldn't even access much learning material with our school's blocking policy), it's going to be at home. Where you'd have a computer anyway. With internet access. If you can stop them looking at "harmful" sites on there, you can stop them when they're using a laptop. Remember, they're just like big computers except easier to carry.
Indeed.
What's the difference between being told to do something as government policy as opposed to having consent engineered by the liberal media? At least elected officials make the calls instead of someone like Murdoch telling us what we think because he has more money.
Until you mentioned it, yes. Can I meet you wife wiz?
Indeed. Microsoft Keyboards - masters of the "F lock", which disables all of your function keys by default. Almost as clever as the scroll lock, and surely twice as useful. Not to mention the "ergonomic" designs, also known as the "break my pinkies" layout.
Pfft. Redback. I got bitten by one of when I was four and all that came of it was a few days off kindergarten and a whole backet of jellybeans... After I was rushed to hospital and delivered anti-venom.
Lousy parents didn't take me to the hospital till the next freaking morning. Stupid irresponsible father.
I swear on my life that I won't download this song.
I think it's "the philosophy" that's a problem, as in the "Open Source or Die" approach. Not philosophy in general. I'm just saying that it's dumb Linuxers care more about the source code of graphics card drivers than the ability to include said drivers to make it easier for people to actually use the operating system.
"you daft cunt"
Also, people join the Armed forces to defend their country. It's not their fault their president isn't right in the head and sends them off to a war they don't need to fight. If they were kicking around in the barracks I wouldn't give a fuck about their iPods, but since they're over there, I do think they deserve not to be persecuted for trying for a little entertainment. If someone in another job was forced to go over there (doctors, nurses, etc.), I'd give a fuck about them too.