"This beautiful handset took 9 weeks of detailed intricate work"
So basically, just long enough for it to become obsolete?
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My personal tipping point came some years ago when I was trying to find out how to calculate the angles of a right triangle {atan, yes, but I didn't know at the time}. Wikipedia kindly provided the formula of {somethingsomethingsomething}/((a^2+b^2)-c^2).
I've never looked back.
"The wider collective might claim to be leaderless," Massie explained. "But the IRC channel had a power structure and hierarchy that was clear from looking at what was going on."
And this is new how? Every mob has its instigators - what do you think the ablative armor in front is for if not for rhetorical hiding behind?
The word is about, there's something evolving
Whatever may come, the world keeps revolving
They say the next big thing is here
That the revolution's near
But to me it seems quite clear
That it's all just a little bit of history repeating...
{with apologies to Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads}
"These figures don't take into account the takings from from digital sales and online gaming subscriptions."
And won't once they're trotted out as another reason why we need stronger "anti-piracy measures"*.
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*the usual way of saying "you should pay us for the service of handing your machine to us"
It's even less of a stretch between the two, once you consider the origins of the vampire myth - namely rabies symptoms.
Both are contracted by bites - I'm not sure how widespread blood-sucking bats are across the globe, but it dovetails nicely with the traditional vampiric ability to transform into flying rats {the featherless kind}.
Rabies' scientific name is hydrophobia - a quite literal fear of water that usually comes from the victim's inability to swallow. Especially holy water, as the local godbothering institutions quickly took out a "solution for repelling hemo-oriented entities" patent.
Aversion to sunlight, which while it doesn't quite turn the rabies victims to dust, the photosensitivity would probably make them wish it did.
And of course, the massive drooling combined with the aforementioned difficulty to swallow which gave rise to the iconic showing of the fangs.
Or maybe Count Dracula was just patient zero...
Of course, there'll be also-rans, with voting numbers in single digits {or decimal points, for that matter}.
But then again, if recent history is to be believed, the American electorate can barely be bothered to tell the difference between two candidates, let alone a dozen. Might as well flip a coin and be done with it.
User friendliness - or lack thereof - in whatever Linux distro be your preference is probably the biggest contributing factor that Windows managed to get as entrenched in the nineties as it did, and the "by geeks, for geeks" mindset is something the Linux development community still needs to get out of.
The day the word "compile" is excised from the basic help files for Joe Luser is the day Linux stands a chance as a consumer OS.
Am I the only one who actually takes a positive view at this? I mean, let's reiterate what we know so far;
The eponymous heroine is captured and cornered. One of the captors attempts to rape her and *promptly gets his ass gunned down by his would-be victim*. Followed by cries of objectification and "poor raped Lara".
The only message I'm seeing here is "you don't have to be a victim". That even if a woman can't prevent an attempted rape, however dire the circumstances, she can prevent a successful one. I can't speak for members of the double-X demographic, but I find the situation where a female character is put in a nauseating position and *gets herself out of it* empowering more than anything else.
...how many revolutionary projects the Turtleneck Saint must have been working on right before he keeled over so far? A cynical mind might suspect a play to drum up a little extra hype for whatever new widget Marketing is hoping to wheel out.
{Cashing in on a famous stiff? Perish the thought!}
A bit of a quote correction there; while the "noone would want a computer in their home" quote is factually true, it's also completely out of context, since the original quotee referred to the big, clunky ubercomputers with a role more reminiscent of modern-day servers than play-and-surf PCs of today.
http://snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp