>You had to kiss a big moose puppet. So you get to die from a transmitted disease
Not if you don't live in a sterile world. People are too obsessive with cleaning and sanitising - it's wrecking our immune systems ability to deal with 'normal' germs. Back in the day kids used to eat dirt and live. Latest thinking is that the huge increase in asthma is a side effect of our dirt-free lives. get with the program, let your body see a few germs now and then - it needs the help.
>Sixties. Unfortunately, it was the 1060s.
Not a good decade if you were a king called Harold. A good decade if you were after inspiration for that big tapestry you were itching to start work on.
>Seems pretty lively on the P2P networks...
Wrong DivX. Before the format you're thinking of there were 'special' DVDs called DivX that you rented but never took back as they died about 2-3 days after opening the packet.
VHS might not be the best in quality or form factor but when people try to play back home burned DVDs of their treasured recordings in a few years time and find they've gone bad, VHS will suddenly look like a good idea. Factor in that when a DVD goes bad you lose a big chunk if not all of a recording whereas with VHS youmight get dropouts or increased grain.
>640K was beyond freaking imagination.
When I got my 48k Atari 400 back in early 1981, I couldn't get my head around how vast 48k was so I typed in 48k of rem statements then hit 'list' to watch it scroll by. Took quite a long time. I remember thinking 'Wow, so much space! I could do anything with that amount of data/program'
It also hurt my fingertips due to the 400's touch sensitive keyboard.
>airborne pain killer delivery system.
You want that combined with Hewy or Dewy from Silent Running so it can tend the lawn then blow away anyone that steps on it. Man, that was a sad film, makes me blub every time I see it. Ahem.
>airborne pain killer delivery system.
I can imagine Bush demanding that whatever ordnance is being dropped on civilians in is renamed to this rather inspired description.
There's something faintly obscene about dropping $2000 in a trinket toy when there are people that can't afford to pay their heating bills, eat or get medical attention.
A friend resampled the startup spund on his PC so it started playing, glitched, repeated a beat a few times like a sticking CD then faded whilst slowing down. Sounded really funny (the first few times).
Tech1: OK, we spent over $3m and 6 months on the Vista sound. Now it's time to begin work on the startup sound for the next version of Windows. Bono's unavailable, Madonna's running an orphanage now and no-one old enough to buy an OS listens to RnB/Rap any more and Jazz lost its streed credit after Woody.. well, yo know... So, any ideas?
Tech2: Umm, does it actually have to make a sound? Couldn't it just sort of start up silently?
Tech1: Doh!
>That would be like "combining" Windows and Mac OS X to make a better
>operating system. It doesn't quite work that way.
FX: Head of Vista development team "Doh!"
OK so it's a bit busted (potentially) but isn't it great that there is another vehicle nearby that can take a look? We're talking about Mars here! It's stories like this that show we really are starting to get out there in a big way, none of this one probe every 5 years that then lands and dies in a couple of days.
Let's have a big hand for the human race, people..
>chips for instance (a large one) has more than 1000 calories in it
That's my whole point! Don't buy a bag of 1000 calorie chips! I've got a bag of crisps here and it has 120 calories on the label. I've just gone and grabbed what I would consider a party sized pack i.e. that plus a few dips ought to keep 6-8 people munching happily. It has 750cals. One bag with 1000 cals is frankly obscene.
If you need to count them to know your eating too much then frankly there's no hope for you. Counting each and every calorie is obsessive and won't do you any good - it just turns the whole food/eating thing in to a 3 times a day issue. You've been brainwashed in to thinking you need to think 'oh, that was 250 calories, my next meal can be 500'. You just don't need to work at it that hard. Each and every meal just needs to be a sensible size. Don't snack (much) and walk a bit more.
All fair points but my main thrust (ooerr) was that a diet doesn't have to = healthy foods only. Just eat 'normal' food, just less of it. If 'normal' for you is McD Monday, Pizza Hut Tuesday, KFC Wednesday etc. then yes, you'll need to tidy that up but if you're eating standard meat & 2 veg type stuff then you'll be fine eating that, just smaller portions.
I suspect some of this may just be that people with DSLRs actually take more pictures in a session than film. Last week I went to a firework show and took maybe 150 pictures. If I had a film SLR I would have taken no more than one film - 36. When the cost per shot is effectively nil, you can afford to go a bit mad, experiment and fire away like crazy.
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>You had to kiss a big moose puppet. So you get to die from a transmitted disease
Not if you don't live in a sterile world. People are too obsessive with cleaning and sanitising - it's wrecking our immune systems ability to deal with 'normal' germs. Back in the day kids used to eat dirt and live. Latest thinking is that the huge increase in asthma is a side effect of our dirt-free lives. get with the program, let your body see a few germs now and then - it needs the help.
>Sixties. Unfortunately, it was the 1060s.
Not a good decade if you were a king called Harold. A good decade if you were after inspiration for that big tapestry you were itching to start work on.
>I have been trying to get my wife to let me record her naked for years to no avail.
I've got some tapes of her if you want..
>Seems pretty lively on the P2P networks...
Wrong DivX. Before the format you're thinking of there were 'special' DVDs called DivX that you rented but never took back as they died about 2-3 days after opening the packet.
VHS might not be the best in quality or form factor but when people try to play back home burned DVDs of their treasured recordings in a few years time and find they've gone bad, VHS will suddenly look like a good idea. Factor in that when a DVD goes bad you lose a big chunk if not all of a recording whereas with VHS youmight get dropouts or increased grain.
Harnessing the kinetic energy in all those chairs Balmer keeps throwing?
>640K was beyond freaking imagination.
When I got my 48k Atari 400 back in early 1981, I couldn't get my head around how vast 48k was so I typed in 48k of rem statements then hit 'list' to watch it scroll by. Took quite a long time. I remember thinking 'Wow, so much space! I could do anything with that amount of data/program'
It also hurt my fingertips due to the 400's touch sensitive keyboard.
>While MS is still the 800-lb Guerrilla
Please tell me you meant gorilla?
>airborne pain killer delivery system.
You want that combined with Hewy or Dewy from Silent Running so it can tend the lawn then blow away anyone that steps on it. Man, that was a sad film, makes me blub every time I see it. Ahem.
>airborne pain killer delivery system.
I can imagine Bush demanding that whatever ordnance is being dropped on civilians in is renamed to this rather inspired description.
There's something faintly obscene about dropping $2000 in a trinket toy when there are people that can't afford to pay their heating bills, eat or get medical attention.
Thd scientists asked the dolphins about tunes and they thought the question was about tuna so they all signed up.
>Will there be a 911 and other emergy number exception?
Almost. You'll get a YouTube ad for clips of Police beating up suspects.
>That's like having a girlfriend and never shagging her.
That would be marriage your thinking of.
>and it must be 3 1/4 seconds :-(
Which was how long it took to boot a PC back then
A friend resampled the startup spund on his PC so it started playing, glitched, repeated a beat a few times like a sticking CD then faded whilst slowing down. Sounded really funny (the first few times).
hackers managed to crack Vista via a security hole in the startup sound playing subroutines.
Tech1: OK, we spent over $3m and 6 months on the Vista sound. Now it's time to begin work on the startup sound for the next version of Windows. Bono's unavailable, Madonna's running an orphanage now and no-one old enough to buy an OS listens to RnB/Rap any more and Jazz lost its streed credit after Woody.. well, yo know... So, any ideas?
Tech2: Umm, does it actually have to make a sound? Couldn't it just sort of start up silently?
Tech1: Doh!
Don't have an email address.
>That would be like "combining" Windows and Mac OS X to make a better
>operating system. It doesn't quite work that way.
FX: Head of Vista development team "Doh!"
OK so it's a bit busted (potentially) but isn't it great that there is another vehicle nearby that can take a look? We're talking about Mars here! It's stories like this that show we really are starting to get out there in a big way, none of this one probe every 5 years that then lands and dies in a couple of days.
Let's have a big hand for the human race, people..
>chips for instance (a large one) has more than 1000 calories in it
That's my whole point! Don't buy a bag of 1000 calorie chips! I've got a bag of crisps here and it has 120 calories on the label. I've just gone and grabbed what I would consider a party sized pack i.e. that plus a few dips ought to keep 6-8 people munching happily. It has 750cals. One bag with 1000 cals is frankly obscene.
If you need to count them to know your eating too much then frankly there's no hope for you. Counting each and every calorie is obsessive and won't do you any good - it just turns the whole food/eating thing in to a 3 times a day issue. You've been brainwashed in to thinking you need to think 'oh, that was 250 calories, my next meal can be 500'. You just don't need to work at it that hard. Each and every meal just needs to be a sensible size. Don't snack (much) and walk a bit more.
All fair points but my main thrust (ooerr) was that a diet doesn't have to = healthy foods only. Just eat 'normal' food, just less of it. If 'normal' for you is McD Monday, Pizza Hut Tuesday, KFC Wednesday etc. then yes, you'll need to tidy that up but if you're eating standard meat & 2 veg type stuff then you'll be fine eating that, just smaller portions.
I suspect some of this may just be that people with DSLRs actually take more pictures in a session than film. Last week I went to a firework show and took maybe 150 pictures. If I had a film SLR I would have taken no more than one film - 36. When the cost per shot is effectively nil, you can afford to go a bit mad, experiment and fire away like crazy.