Has anybody seriously considered this? Does anyone know what would be involved in creating it? A window manager that's as easily extensible as Firefox would be great... does it exist and I just dont know what to google for? Seems like the kind of thing somebody would have at least tried and given up on by now. Only reference I've found is somebody else saying it would be neat, and doing nothing about it. (guys like me are everywhere, I guess:)
Any civilization which has survived long enough to get to Earth and kick our monkey asses has probably figured out enough that they dont need to exploit anybody. And even if they did, they'd probably wait until we got over our pesky nuclear weapon phase- no point in stealing an irradiated planet. Of course, if they don't have FTL travel, they may just be patient enough to wait out a little radiation.
Well there was the very good point I heard: The song wasnt chosen because of the way the music sounds, the song was chosen because of what it says, the original words, the original message. It's a parody of the song, and uses satire to acieve that, just as much as it's a satire which uses a parody of the song to achieve that.
The horror of this is it shows that people think you can only parody one thing at a time, or that you can't combine parody with satire. This song is very obviously (completely 100% undebateable) a parody of the song. The problem is it's also Satire, and people are fucking whorish enough to say "That's satire! Satire isnt protected! Give me money!"
I have a cheap $30 chair I bought at one of those office liquidation (or whatever) places. Was a nice chair, for the price. Unfortunatly, the arms were just a bit too high to fit more than a bit under the desk. Eventually I decided to just take the arms off in order to get that extra inch closer to everything (I'm the type who uses every corner of the desk and needs to be able to reach it all without moving) Of course, within the month the back had fallen off. It wasnt designed for use without arms. I figured I'd use it through the week and buy another one during the weekend. (I'd just drill through the arms to reposition them lower). Turns out the place I bought the chair from is closed on weekends. It kept slipping my mind during the week, eventually a month had passed and I realized that I now found every other chair horribly uncomfortable. Chairs with backs just invite you to lean in them, and it just didnt feel right anymore. Within two months I didnt like chairs with arms, either. It has become much more comfortable to sit with my legs crossed. Several years have passed now, and the chair seems almost ready to seperate itself into its component peices (moreso than merely back, arms, and base) For a chair which wont wreck your back, I reccomend one which doesnt do anything to your back at all- let your back hold itself up, the way the human body was meant to work. Sitting without relying on leaning all the time will build up atrophied muscles and make your back feel better in non-sitting related situations as well. But then, I also sleep directly on the floor, so I assume that disqualifies me from any comfort-related discussions. Still, if anyone knows where I can buy a comfortable backless chair, please let me know. I havent seen any, and it was a bit of a hassle to remove the arms, the remainder of the back, and the painful metal spikes of death which the arms were attached to.
My back feels great, and I have no self esteem! Yay me!
I thihk it's more an issue of: try making a suggestion about usability or UI design to a programmer or OSS project. Watch that suggestion: get ignored, spit back at you with "You want it? It's open source! Why arent you writing it yourself?" or of course "You dont like it? Don't use it"
The problem isnt that nobody is willing to do the design work, the problem is nobody is willing to accept design work. This isnt just a FOSS problem, but in other situations there are external parties which force programmers to listen to design experts, even though the programmers [me] think they're full of shit and asking for things which go against the fundamental system design which was originally requested.
What there really needs to be is a place where people can make suggestions, have them all laid out, and they can be ignored if the programmers wish. But right now there is no place for ideas to go to be used or ignored- every idea needs at least to have a chance to be ignored!
though AC'd, probably in anticipation of moderation by people who dont get the refrence, parent is not a troll. It's actually a refrence to an early (not/too/ early, I wasnt around back then) virus which I managed to get infected with on Windows 3.1 (no, I dont use antivirus software to this day, I just dont trust every floppy I find in a computer lab anymore... and no, I dont really still use floppies) deserves at least a 0, funny. I mean, it's not that funny, but it's not a troll.
just wondering here.. why "never mind" half the people who voted for them are now labeled "pirates"? (and given the voter turnout, could be all of the people who voted for them and THEN some;))
wouldnt a statistic of "one in four" people having downloaded a movie illegally merely discredit the MPAA and warn legislators that they need to wise up and make sure that laws make sense? Any time 25% of the population is guilty of something, it's time to re-think your definition of a crime.
So why would the MPAA lie about this? To purposely make themselves look less credible?
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You're an idiot. Congratulations. Do I need to back up my statement? No. Because anyone likely to care about such already knows that you're an idiot.
That being an understood, you should pee on him.
Has anybody seriously considered this? Does anyone know what would be involved in creating it? A window manager that's as easily extensible as Firefox would be great... does it exist and I just dont know what to google for? Seems like the kind of thing somebody would have at least tried and given up on by now. Only reference I've found is somebody else saying it would be neat, and doing nothing about it. (guys like me are everywhere, I guess :)
yeah, not until december, I mean geez..
didnt watch the fucking trailer.
Remember Timecop? No? Good. May the same be said of this load. "Time Ripples" are always unforgiveable.
especially because it's years after the product was released. Few people will respond to the recall at this point.
which one's which?
a perfect opportunity to use a semicolon, wasted!
Any civilization which has survived long enough to get to Earth and kick our monkey asses has probably figured out enough that they dont need to exploit anybody. And even if they did, they'd probably wait until we got over our pesky nuclear weapon phase- no point in stealing an irradiated planet.
Of course, if they don't have FTL travel, they may just be patient enough to wait out a little radiation.
it's where they keep the Zats.
I'm not 40.
terrorists dont get Miranda :)
Repeating frames, maybe? Can't you do that in GIF?
Now if there's any problems we can just have a recount of Florida's votes. Nothing bad can possibly come of it!
sounds like a hardware problem with a software work-around to me.
Fortunatly, I sleep next to my computers, so the ringing doesnt bother me much.
Well there was the very good point I heard: The song wasnt chosen because of the way the music sounds, the song was chosen because of what it says, the original words, the original message. It's a parody of the song, and uses satire to acieve that, just as much as it's a satire which uses a parody of the song to achieve that.
The horror of this is it shows that people think you can only parody one thing at a time, or that you can't combine parody with satire.
This song is very obviously (completely 100% undebateable) a parody of the song. The problem is it's also Satire, and people are fucking whorish enough to say "That's satire! Satire isnt protected! Give me money!"
FUCK EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES.
check out the power of client-side filters (dumbass)
yeah, but it was on slashdot TWO weeks ago!
l337, of course, is proper latin.
I have a cheap $30 chair I bought at one of those office liquidation (or whatever) places. Was a nice chair, for the price. Unfortunatly, the arms were just a bit too high to fit more than a bit under the desk. Eventually I decided to just take the arms off in order to get that extra inch closer to everything (I'm the type who uses every corner of the desk and needs to be able to reach it all without moving)
Of course, within the month the back had fallen off. It wasnt designed for use without arms. I figured I'd use it through the week and buy another one during the weekend. (I'd just drill through the arms to reposition them lower).
Turns out the place I bought the chair from is closed on weekends. It kept slipping my mind during the week, eventually a month had passed and I realized that I now found every other chair horribly uncomfortable. Chairs with backs just invite you to lean in them, and it just didnt feel right anymore. Within two months I didnt like chairs with arms, either. It has become much more comfortable to sit with my legs crossed.
Several years have passed now, and the chair seems almost ready to seperate itself into its component peices (moreso than merely back, arms, and base)
For a chair which wont wreck your back, I reccomend one which doesnt do anything to your back at all- let your back hold itself up, the way the human body was meant to work. Sitting without relying on leaning all the time will build up atrophied muscles and make your back feel better in non-sitting related situations as well.
But then, I also sleep directly on the floor, so I assume that disqualifies me from any comfort-related discussions.
Still, if anyone knows where I can buy a comfortable backless chair, please let me know. I havent seen any, and it was a bit of a hassle to remove the arms, the remainder of the back, and the painful metal spikes of death which the arms were attached to.
My back feels great, and I have no self esteem! Yay me!
I thihk it's more an issue of: try making a suggestion about usability or UI design to a programmer or OSS project.
Watch that suggestion: get ignored, spit back at you with "You want it? It's open source! Why arent you writing it yourself?" or of course "You dont like it? Don't use it"
The problem isnt that nobody is willing to do the design work, the problem is nobody is willing to accept design work. This isnt just a FOSS problem, but in other situations there are external parties which force programmers to listen to design experts, even though the programmers [me] think they're full of shit and asking for things which go against the fundamental system design which was originally requested.
What there really needs to be is a place where people can make suggestions, have them all laid out, and they can be ignored if the programmers wish. But right now there is no place for ideas to go to be used or ignored- every idea needs at least to have a chance to be ignored!
though AC'd, probably in anticipation of moderation by people who dont get the refrence, parent is not a troll. It's actually a refrence to an early (not /too/ early, I wasnt around back then) virus which I managed to get infected with on Windows 3.1 (no, I dont use antivirus software to this day, I just dont trust every floppy I find in a computer lab anymore... and no, I dont really still use floppies)
deserves at least a 0, funny. I mean, it's not that funny, but it's not a troll.
this is the U.S.? I could have sworn it was in Athens..
just wondering here.. why "never mind" half the people who voted for them are now labeled "pirates"? (and given the voter turnout, could be all of the people who voted for them and THEN some ;))
wouldnt a statistic of "one in four" people having downloaded a movie illegally merely discredit the MPAA and warn legislators that they need to wise up and make sure that laws make sense? Any time 25% of the population is guilty of something, it's time to re-think your definition of a crime.
So why would the MPAA lie about this? To purposely make themselves look less credible?