If the big screen copy protection is as subtle as CD audio copy protection, I'm going to wear a radiatian suit in case I have to go anywhere near a theater.
interestingly enough, what did you say for "car"? is it supposed to get you from one place to another? why is it then that when you get into a car you don't just think of where you want to go and end up there? You have a ton of things to worry about: gears, speeds, direction. what for? a car should "just work"!
Heaven forbid you bring up how complicated toasters are.
First you have to decide which "slots" to use, then you have to perform a few feats of intuition to define how well toasted the bread is supposed to be, then you have to locate a lever and pull it to a point where it stays in place, then you have to sit around an wait with no hint of how long it will take, then after a surprise DING! in order to not be injured you have to wait for the bread to be cooled (why the toaster doesn't cool the toast automatically is beyond me, I should sue the mctoaster companies), then after all that you have the clean the toaster out and buy various poisons for all the creatures you have invited!
This was just things going optimally! Imagine if the toaster was unplugged, or if the fridge, microwave and lights were all on the same "circuit" while you activated the toaster!
And amazingly enough the toaster often is not compatible with everything you might want to insert into it.
What most fans are not twigging on, is the fact that the 'Tolkien icon' is the REAL hoax here. Think we could get Slashdot to really keep and use it? Hah!
Just stick a windows logo in the middle of the ring and give me karma.
"The Borg! Wow! Wait, let me guess-- The crew will A) Forget of their existance by the end of the ep or B) Not recognize them as Borg and feel their presence so insignificant as not to report it in the chain of command thereby filling Picard with COMPLETE surprise three centuries later when he encounters them. Like the Ferrengi. I'm sensing a trend here, Rick."
If they're still screwing around with the temporal cold war plot then Enterprise could be a different timeline. Which would explain my not caring about anything that happens in the show.
Getting PPV from the cable company without paying is the same as walking into a video store and walking off with an armload of videos.
Except that part about gaining an armload of videos and depriving some other entity of an armload of videos along with some random but generally large fraction of gross income they would gain from such videos.
I'm a big B5 fan, but that "children of the egg" crap (however well executed) would probably make Nemesis look really good as far as entertainment goes.
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If the big screen copy protection is as subtle as CD audio copy protection,
I'm going to wear a radiatian suit in case I have to go anywhere near a theater.
It was somewhat amazing how good a picture the color version could do with the right driver (took a loong time, but was a nice picture).
I may try to bring mine back into use. (fell out of use when a bunch of color ribbons I ordered were misaligned color wise)
And my mod points just timed out...
"Every time a key leaks,
an angel gets his wings."
I mean, sure, $200 is way to much to pay, but are you really gonna argue that Windows XP isn't worth $30?
I'll argue that.
I'll even go as far as arguing that its worth less than free!
interestingly enough, what did you say for "car"? is it supposed to get you from one place to another? why is it then that when you get into a car you don't just think of where you want to go and end up there? You have a ton of things to worry about: gears, speeds, direction. what for? a car should "just work"!
Heaven forbid you bring up how complicated toasters are.
First you have to decide which "slots" to use,
then you have to perform a few feats of intuition to define how well toasted the bread is supposed to be,
then you have to locate a lever and pull it to a point where it stays in place,
then you have to sit around an wait with no hint of how long it will take,
then after a surprise DING! in order to not be injured you have to wait for the bread to be cooled (why the toaster doesn't cool the toast automatically is beyond me, I should sue the mctoaster companies),
then after all that you have the clean the toaster out and buy various poisons for all the creatures you have invited!
This was just things going optimally! Imagine if the toaster was unplugged, or if the fridge, microwave and lights were all on the same "circuit" while you activated the toaster!
And amazingly enough the toaster often is not compatible with everything you might want to insert into it.
Toasters just aren't ready for prime time yet...
Could be a child of "Ped Xing".
What most fans are not twigging on, is the fact that the 'Tolkien icon' is the REAL hoax here. Think we could get Slashdot to really keep and use it? Hah!
Just stick a windows logo in the middle of the ring and give me karma.
The words "cryptographically secure hash" sounds alot more appealing than "checksum", and its also vastly less likely to lead to the word "r00t3d".
"The Borg! Wow! Wait, let me guess-- The crew will A) Forget of their existance by the end of the ep or B) Not recognize them as Borg and feel their presence so insignificant as not to report it in the chain of command thereby filling Picard with COMPLETE surprise three centuries later when he encounters them. Like the Ferrengi. I'm sensing a trend here, Rick."
If they're still screwing around with the temporal cold war plot then Enterprise could be a different timeline. Which would explain my not caring about anything that happens in the show.
Thats what interpolation and stuff is for.
Getting PPV from the cable company without paying is the same as walking into a video store and walking off with an armload of videos.
Except that part about gaining an armload of videos and depriving some other entity of an armload of videos along with some random but generally large fraction of gross income they would gain from such videos.
Really, and people called B5 a soap opera. :-)
The point was that they were using coathangers for ethernet cabling and stuff.
Well, 30 hours on a CD may be nutty.
But a CD on a floppy is just around the corner!
I got dibs on gnutella4.com!
Let's not take cues from societies that steal the freedom of the individual for the good of society.
Yeah, nobody is gunna take away my rights as an individual to randomly murder people just because it might harm "society".
Umm, what were we talking about again?
Highscore competitions on the game "Uptime". :-)
...has a Help key. I never used it, but it sounds really useful today.
Also I'd like a dvorak layout with F-keys on the side of the keyboard. (or make a new qualifier key to change numpad keys into F keys)
Numlock, scroll lock, printscreen and pause can all go.
I'm done.
I'm not duwb enough to have a cellphone or use wireless networking.
:-)
If someone is pumping me full of cancer waves I should have the right to know why!
And its named Locutus for crying out loud!
!!BORG!!
Maybe you just use really nasty power supplies?
Thats alot of dying you're seeing...
Actually each machine can work on a fraction of a frame. Seen it done with Lightwave and Realsoft 3D.
No option to launch a nuclear strike on "Bob Markoff"?
I'm a big B5 fan, but that "children of the egg" crap (however well executed) would probably make Nemesis look really good as far as entertainment goes.