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Re: STFU, Marrieds - “Just when we thought M.S. was finished…” -...

xlnt — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:40:03 -0000

Oh my God, this was the guy who wanted a "thin, good-looking, hard-working, big-hearted single woman" to date? Does he even own a mirror? Why does he have such high standards for women but he is allowed to be a chubby, greasy, parent-living basement troll?

Re: STFU, Marrieds - “These people are Canadian, so I’m not sure why...

xlnt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:26:55 -0000

Really? Wow, no one has pointed that out yet. Weird.

Re: STFU, Marrieds - “Just when we thought M.S. was finished…” -...

xlnt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:24:30 -0000

I like that he makes it seem like C and P are responsible for the fact that he had to move back in with his parents. Um, isn't this your deal MS? The fact that you have literally nowhere else to go and no means to get another apartment by yourself (at 34!) is pretty telling.

Also, "I'm used to being the only person I know who is not allowed to hurt others without consequence" - that is quite a martyr complex. Better hop back up on the cross!

Re: STFU, Marrieds - “These people are Canadian, so I’m not sure why...

xlnt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:41:39 -0000

I disagree - I think an American knowing that November Thanksgiving isn't universal suggests that they are aware that Canadian Thanksgiving is different. In my experience most Americans assume our Thanksgiving is the same as theirs.

Regardless, surely anyone can see why she brought up the Canadian thing - it clarifies why this already pukey discussion is actually even more loathsome.

Re: STFU, Marrieds - “These people are Canadian, so I’m not sure why...

xlnt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:31:42 -0000

I don't really see why it's ignorant - November Thanksgiving = not a Canadian holiday. October Thanksgiving = not an American holiday. Therefore, N is talking about a holiday that doesn't exist for them.

I don't see anything in what Lea said that makes me think she doesn't know about Canadian vs. American Thanksgiving.

Re: Come & Live

xlnt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:52:38 -0000

No suggestions on new organizations, but I'll definitely check out Come & Live! Thanks!

Re: Grappling Hook for $14.95!

xlnt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:51:44 -0000

Did you consider lowering the price even more?

I like your game, so don't get me wrong but I think you could do better if the game was $5, not $15. That's just my guess of course but I believe there's many people that look at your game or even play the demo and think they'd buy it if it was less expensive.

I can get games such as World of Goo or Braid for $15 (or less on special deals via Steam etc.) and I'd say the level of polishing (visually, audio wise and story wise) is much higher there.

Anyway, good luck with your game!

Re: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Developers only now realizing that Android is not a platform

xlnt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:08:44 -0000

What Windows fuck up? 99% of Windows users are very happy with it and Windows is the foundation of a billion dollar industry.

Android is poised to become the Windows of mobile phones, which would be a huge success.

Re: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Developers only now realizing that Android is not a platform

xlnt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:06:03 -0000

I'm old enough to actually have participated in the UNIX wars.

UNIX lost because it was (and still is) an inferior desktop operating system compared to Windows. Very little to do with fragmentation.

Re: BIODRIVSTOFF - - Det blir avgift p�iodiesel - Nettavisen

xlnt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:55:20 -0000

Jeg tror planene for produksjon i Norge var såkalt "generasjon 2" biodiesel - laget av trevirke. Hvordan i all verden kan det redusere matproduksjonen? Såvidt jeg ser, er det bare fordeler, CO2-nøytralt, ingen redusert matproduksjon og i tillegg arbeidsplasser - faktisk i INDUSTRI - i Norge.

Re: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Developers only now realizing that Android is not a platform

xlnt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:06 -0000

Looks like history is about to repeat itself: first, Windows and MacOS and now, the iPhone and Android.

Fragmentation ended up working pretty well for Windows, let's talk market share again in a couple of years.

Re: Urban Review’s Voter Guide

xlnt — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:37:19 -0000

You are very right to question voting to retain Judge Limbaugh. I've met the guy before and he is very nice--often making jokes at his cousin's expense. However, he was the only Justice to dissent in the opinion that held the GOP's Voter ID act unconstitutional. Sad to say, but in the end, he proved himself to be nothing by a Republican hack.

Re: Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III

xlnt — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:43:06 -0000

trust me, it's better.

Re: Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III

xlnt — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:56:54 -0000

Can't say if it's better than the rest, but this album is certainly good.

Re: Advent | “Naked And Cold”

xlnt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:57:32 -0000

Cool! Love them both!

Re: Advent | “Naked And Cold”

xlnt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:11:23 -0000

Yeah, they do look similar. The Advent one is better.

Re: Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel

xlnt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:16:58 -0000

album rules

Re: Scream the Prayer

xlnt — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:10:12 -0000

This tour is pretty decent.

Re: Kasabian | West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

xlnt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:18:46 -0000

"Baby I was born with a fast fuse!"

Re: Indie Vision Music T-Shirt

xlnt — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:46:54 -0000

I really like the design. The site's also really cool! Thanks for introducing me to it.

Re: Sale!

xlnt — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:45:36 -0000

Awesome, man! I'll have to get me that Mini Set!

Re: Here, Here and Here Redesign

xlnt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:48:04 -0000

looks better than what they have

Re: The Long Fall Back to Earth Album Art

xlnt — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:49:30 -0000

their new album is actually quite good

Re: Show 1 = Smashing Success

xlnt — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:47:46 -0000

What a wonderful show and what a marvelous time we had! The “Jayhawk People” were very gracious, the “eats” were yummy,and seeing the people enjoy the “United Plates of America” far outweighed my expectations. The visiting with old friends, meeting new ones warmed my heart, and the memory of the evening is PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!! The idea of every age enjoying the project was evidenced by watching a 95yr old lady as well as a toddler looking at it…….smiling. Bringing pleasure to others through your talent has to be the greatest motivator ever for future projects….and along with that, allows you to feel such a sense of accomplishment!

Re: Arizona

xlnt — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:47:09 -0000

I agree!

Re: New Hampshire

xlnt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:46:52 -0000

classy!

Re: North Carolina

xlnt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:07:32 -0000

Now every time I look at NC I'm going to see cherry pie... haha! Very creative.

Re: Oklahoma

xlnt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:47:55 -0000

chop chop! I love it! Such a cool take on OK.

Re: Wisconsin

xlnt — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:09:04 -0000

Yes it is perfect! So simple

Re: Taking-Over

xlnt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:04:42 -0000

I really like the logo and layout.

Re: Fearless Records Logos

xlnt — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:42:53 -0000

I remember this Fearless Records logo competition fiasco. These are really well done, but I personally think actual Fearless Records logo they use is horrendous.

Re: Various Logos #1

xlnt — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:12:57 -0000

TMG used to be so good

Re: Book Covers

xlnt — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:44:12 -0000

it's too bad these aren't the designs used for the actual books. They're a great read and I like the idea of tying them together visually... especially the Schwab and Salomon books.

Re: 40K ASKEW: LEET is my speak

xlnt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:23:11 -0000

Dropcrons!

Re: Neu im Kino: Zu Hause ist der Zauber los

xlnt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:59:37 -0000

mal was intrissantes in nächster weile geplahnt????????????

Re: Borg trolls are planting false complaints on our user forum

xlnt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:16:19 -0000

Much slower since upgrading 10.6 on top of 10.5.x (naming software is stupid, but goes along with so many things the ever so vain Steve Jobs wants) on a MacBook 2Ghz Core Duo with 2 Gig RAM. 10.6.1 didn't help.

Re: Facebook Is Not Really That Special

xlnt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:55:47 -0000

wow you got a lot of hostile and badly thought out replies on yc. i sympathize (and replied to a bunch).

Re: Perfect timing! (Scripting News)

xlnt — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:34:44 -0000

Or, um, a pointer. Or any system with hierarchical relationships.

Don't get me wrong, OPML is great, but c'mon...

Re: 32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read

xlnt — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:28:07 -0000

ROGER ZELAZNEY- 'LORD OF LIGHT' and all the ray bradbury short stories

Re: Mass. man killed in Milford head-on crash with truck

xlnt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:21:05 -0000

How many people have to die on 101/101A, in Milford, before something is done?

Re: Straight Cash Homey Dot Net

xlnt — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:44:41 -0000

Sure, he was good, but not Hall of Fame good (as in the actual Hall of Fame, in Springfield MA, not this mythical SCH Hall of Fame). And his prime was 10-15 years ago. Too recent to have any "throwback" cachet, too old to be relevant...add in the saggy britches and the undershirt, and it definitely belongs.

Re: http://straightcashhomey.net/post/70699515

xlnt — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:55:33 -0000

Uh, sorry, I think you got the wrong site. Try www.straightcashhoser.ca

Re: Did Jesus Teach Racism? [Matthew 15:23]

xlnt — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:05:20 -0000

This post is a travesty of the teachings you attempt to pervert.

Even if what you say is true, even if, you completely forget the story of the good Samaritan. Off the top of my head, a lawyer of the Torah asked Jesus to define what he meant by neighbor.

Jesus response was:
"A certain man fell to thieves while making a journey to Jericho. They stole his clothes, hurt him bad, and ran off. By chance, a priest passed him on the road, seeing the traveler hurt, and went on his way. A Levite passed him in the same way. But a Samaritan passed and saw this man. He wrapped his wounds, took him to an inn and payed the innkeeper to take care of him. Which of these three do you think was the traveler's neighbor?"

The lawyer replied, "The Samaritan that showed mercy, of course."

Jesus responded, "Go, and do likewise."

Whether or not the quote is a "mistranslation," as you put, matters not. Jesus taught us to love everyone as our neighbor.

Re: Full Zunar eclipse

xlnt — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:12:16 -0000

Why does that 4% number sound familiar? Oh right. Mac's market share worldwide.

Guess we're even now.

Re: Hot diggety damn -- I do love blowing people's minds

xlnt — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:28:51 -0000

Stock price down $8 already. It's all your fault!

Re: Dear journalists: Leave my anus out of it

xlnt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:55:04 -0000

When Sergey goes into space, maybe he could use that trip as an opportunity to visit Uranus?

Re: Oh My, 80 cents

xlnt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:59:52 -0000

There is no Canadian company doing enough in-country R&D that comes anywhere close to being able to use those credits.

Re: Learn Japanese from anime in only 5 minutes a day! 1337! | Tofugu.com

xlnt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:45:38 -0000

I watch anime and love it. I like reading manga, translated. Although it might be useful later on (it might, I don't know, I'm not there yet) -- you know, when you can actually read most necessary kanji, it might help to increase your reading speed / context comprehension -- otherwise, I have found manga completely useless as a learning aid so far. Although it's fun to notice how you pick up sentences you didn't before in anime, they're really just about as useless.

Re: RYBEL - om en tjockis som gillar kläder

xlnt — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:36:36 -0000

Det ser faktiskt jävligt mycket bättre ut än mycket annat. Hellre en sådan brud än ja....

Re: http://rickrolldb.com/entries/3680

xlnt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:28:10 -0000

It's a f*cking rickroll!

Re: Possibly largest data privacy breach, ever

xlnt — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:13:37 -0000

Shouldn't the SEC be investigating the timing of this message??

Like they are investigating the health info about Jobs, at Apple????

Re: HHS needs a real health care leader. That rules out Tenn. Governor Phil Bredesen and Tenn. Congressman Jim Cooper

xlnt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:31:46 -0000

C Everett Koop

I fhis health is any good, a good scientist, a serious public policy guy,
real reputation, and he could state "America's health insurance is killing americans"
and who could attack him?

Re: The one about the gay dad going to the airport...

xlnt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:29:42 -0000

sounds like the guard was having a few seconds spooling up but then dealt.
Fortunately it's LA, but, it's not illegal to travel domestically with small kids,
so if you do get hassled, you just say
"You have checked my ID, you know my destination, if you have
any concerns, contact the police and let them handle it, otherwise,
you have doen your job and i need to go"

Re: Charlie Rangel [hearts] AIG

xlnt — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:49:03 -0000

charlie has major league ethics problems.

He Murtha, waters need to step down from their chairs while it's investigated.

Re: Sarah Palin's Scientology link, and Greta Van Susteren's massive conflict of interest

xlnt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:56:13 -0000

if you want to know if Hillary is shilling for the scientologists,
watch their policy on religious freedom in germany.

The German government bans scientology as a dangerous cult,
and the scientologists have routinely protested that.

If State changes course and acts on this, then we know

Re: I almost forgot, there was good economic news today

xlnt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:02:13 -0000

yeah it's a suckers play.

throw some good news out, and watch the suckers rush in

Re: One phone call Obama should never make: To George Bush if Obama wants his help

xlnt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:05:02 -0000

No he should Call George.

"Mr President? Why yes, Mr President, How can I help you Barack? Well George, I need your help. It seems there is a minor glitch in the
negotiations in Baghdad, and I need you to go talk some sense with these people. Can you sit down and have a come to Jesus meeting with
them? I know you want it to be a big success, and it shouldn't take more then 2 weeks or so. Thanks, I owe you".

Re: WSJ: Geithner and Summers weighed in with Dodd over bonus provision

xlnt — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:07:54 -0000

geithern is too close to these Wall street types.

remove him, replace him with Paul Krugman

Re: Exploding idiots

xlnt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:28:29 -0000

john

I"m going to suggest 2 or 3 classes of people who really did get preyed upon hard, and I can name a few.

1) I knew this guy mario, he cut lawns for a living, mexican immigrant, barely speaks any english. This fast talking spanish real estate agent sold him a house
(Really a converted chicken coop), got him to sign all the documents, and remember this is an illiterate peasant, and then walked. Mario was doing okay until the
25th month when the payments kicked up. He was doing okay renting a place, now he's packing out ahead of foreclosure with wrecked credit. Was he stupid? sure,
but he's also a peasant.

2) Pretty much everybody who got a 110-125% mortgage. Lets be real, the only reason to sell a 110% mortgage is to increase the front fees to the broker.

3) Subprime mortgages in the inner city. These were people who should have been renters entirely.

I"m smart, I hate bankers, so, i'm okay, but, when i bought my house at closing, there were just these miracle junk fees. I raised hell and they took them off, but
for someone less savvy? they'd be screwed.

Re: As Pentagon chief, Cheney proposed big Pentagon cuts

xlnt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:23:33 -0000

cheney also ruthlessly slashed procurement,
he cancelled the Navy A-10 Attack bomber then when the
navy bucked him, he cancelled the A-6 aircraft right
off the carriers, he actually had them fly the airplanes
still in service to scrap fields where he had the wings
carved off with torches.

Why? To show the Navy who was boss.

Re: As Pentagon chief, Cheney proposed big Pentagon cuts

xlnt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:11:50 -0000

well it was a mess.

Cheney wanted to cancel the A-12 in part because it was overweight, behind schedule and over budget plus the Lockheed people were not sharing any stealth technology with McAir.

I don't know who was right, certainly the program was in deep trouble, and Cheney ordered it cancelled, the Navy Admiral refused to send the Stop Work Order so Cheney did it, which
was illegal in he wasn't the "Agent of Record".

McAir sued, got a billion and change, then got locked out
of every other DoD gig. The Navy fought cheney and he
wrecked the careers of every Attack pilot in the navy.

So it was a disaster all the way around.

Re: CNBC: How to play the housing rebound

xlnt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:04:27 -0000

Dead CAt BOUNCE

Re: Fox TV brings more family values to TV

xlnt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:11:25 -0000

I'd rather see it done at JP Morgan Chase Bank.

Start in the executive offices and start firing at will.

Re: CNBC: How to play the housing rebound

xlnt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:31:34 -0000

john, the sharpest webloggers on housing are
1) Professor John Piggington piggington.com
2) Calculated Risk www.calculatedrisk.com
3) patrick patrick.net

Re: CNBC: How to play the housing rebound

xlnt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:37:54 -0000

housing affordability is better but until all the foreclosures
begin working their way out through and the market settles down
will we know what's really happening.

Every spring is good, and it's april, and given the tsunami
coming, i wouldn't want to be anwhere near the
purchase of anything but the best of deals.

Re: Wells Fargo reports profit for first quarter earnings

xlnt — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:44:51 -0000

I'm sure WF announced this, as being very profitable,
as long as they don't have to M2M any of their Assets.

If you look at WF Balance sheet, you should be terrified.
WF has a 7.6% Equity, when it should be 10%.
of that 2.5% is TARP, so WF is really 5% equity.
Their balance sheet is loaded with MBS, junior mortgages,
credit card debt and mortgages of poor quality.

i figure they are negative 25 Billion in real terms.

this is just a play to sucker people

Re: Federal government places order with Detroit for fuel efficient cars

xlnt — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:23:15 -0000

if the US Post office would replace it's fleet with
Natural Gas powered Hybrid SUV's that would be a
big opportunity for Detroit.

USPS runs a nationwide fleet, it's big enough to justify
a decent production run and if you bid Hybrid CNG
SUV's they would have enough room for a lot of mail.

The US Produces a lot of Natural gas, the bybrids would
really do well in dropping mail, and most of these are
available in right hand drive versions anyway
and if you made them dual fuel, you could manage through
any gas price spikes.

there are about 45000 zip codes, so figure 20 vehicles
per post office, and you are talking almost a million vehicles.
that's a decent production run.

Make Ford and GM share subsystems, and bid them
by region.

Re: Federal government places order with Detroit for fuel efficient cars

xlnt — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:40:37 -0000

Look I wasn't a Obama guy from the beginning, but,
he is still significantly better then these DLC types or
the GOP.

I wish richardson or Edwards had won, but, it is what it is.

Re: Breaking: Navy frees captain in firefight

xlnt — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:54:30 -0000

18 USC 81 provides for Life Imprisonment for
Acts of Piracy. The relevant court is Federal District,
i suspect they would take this case in Miami,
just because the courts there have more experience with this
or in Annapolis.

Re: New Homeland Security report warns of rise of right-wing extremism

xlnt — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:52:30 -0000

don't forget the 2 attacks on the white house
and the assaults on clinton

Re: Dublin archbishop gets it

xlnt — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:12:32 -0000

The Archbishop's column: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/200...

Re: Live Blogging

xlnt — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:43:53 -0000

That's unfortunate! If you've never played before, then you should try out "Minesweeper", which comes standard with Windows operating system. It's like Tentaizu (or vice versa), but Minesweeper has a number in every square that does not have a star (mine in this case). It also times you so that you can race against yourself, and have multiple size boards and even customizable sizes.

Re: Tech-NO!

xlnt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:16:31 -0000

http://images.tigerdirect.com/SkuImages/gallery...

Re: Mobile UI

xlnt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:11:12 -0000

I can't believe I'm the first person to say these things... but THANK YOU and IT ROCKS.

Seriously with the frequency in which I use Checkvist, this is so great.

You all do an awesome job with this entire project. It's all "done right". Thank you.

Re: If Philosophers Were Programmers

xlnt — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:30:11 -0000

C++ is certainly *not* "fully" backwards compatible with C.

Re: Lawyer says transgender bathroom bill a safety threat

xlnt — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:03:48 -0000

My gawd that lawyer is a bigot.

Re: New lead in missing person case

xlnt — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:39:16 -0000

I'd love to give April 40 valium, then dump the rest down his throat. I'm sure he's a real nice guy...

Re: Acer cuts back on netbook orders

xlnt — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:54:53 -0000

Personally, I'm waiting for the touchscreen models to hit.

Re: Q: What's the going rate for indisputably proving to the world that you are a tiny little man who is profoundly afraid of women?

xlnt — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:54:15 -0000

actually it's now half off at the political trivia store in DC

Re: Compliments for Mani Ratnam

xlnt — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:56:36 -0000

This guy is overated. He does not deserve this much respect in the film industry. He is not half as good they say he is.

Re: Blessed for being a woman

xlnt — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:18:58 -0000

Em Sunitakkayya , Namratha madam mandalinchindaa mee 'Unhappy days' article ki?

Edho lady vi kabatti chusi chudakunda vodilesthunnam ani indirect ga hecharinchinattu anipinchaledhu ??

Lolz...tollywood topstars never change

Re: A star’s charity remains incomplete

xlnt — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:12:45 -0000

asalu mana andariki ee rogam ento,
oka cinema star ni evaraina ante anta rosham, anta emotion enduku, mana amma naana ni evadaina edanna anna kooda, intaga pattichukomemo!!

meeru mararu, bavilo kappalu laga, oka caste ani, oka favarotism ani, edo reason kavali kottuku chavadaniki.
avunu chiranjeevi sayam cheyaledu kavachu, neeku poyindi enti ra chetta vedava, meeku panulu leva, mee intlo panulu leva, aa time edo, mee amma ko mee nanna ko help cheyachu kada, picchi nayala,
kallu dobbaya, chiranjeevi ni anta support cheyalsina avasaram vunda, vadu jeevetam lo nee moham kooda choodadu kavachu,
oka cinema vundi nee lanti vallaki, krantikar ani
Naana patekar di, neeku elago cinema pichi vundi ga! adi choosi chavu, martavemo!

Re: Video: How To Prevent Airline Seats From Reclining

xlnt — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:02:13 -0000

This is ridiculous, the seat is designed to recline and the person in it is entitled to use the seat that they paid good money for. If someone behind me told me I couldn't recline, I would just call the stewardess over and they could deal with them.

If you know what the seats are like, and know that you won't be comfortable, you either need to deal with it or pay more and fly in a higher class. The world does not have to adapt to your specific needs.

Re: Sad: Good Samaritan Sued over Car Rescue

xlnt — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:33:38 -0000

What they've done here is promoted selfishness. I wouldn't help anyone in that situation now for fear of being sued for all my assets. What an asinine decision.

Re: Opera Mini for iPhone rejected by Apple from App Store

xlnt — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:24:08 -0000

There are still many things on the iPhone which are simply missing. Not just another browser, which of course could be nice, why not. But there are more fundamental things like a local file manager which lets you store files you download from the web or transfer from the computer, such that you can read them, maybe attach them to an email you send, upload them to some webpage etc....
Why shouldn't all this be possible?? I just don't understand the reason for not implementing such a file system manager. And that's the thing which makes be a bit upset. I mean I like my iPhone, it's cool, there are hundreds of apps available for it, but these things are just limiting its usage.

Re: Warning: This Post Contains a Discussion of Public Reason, Which is Just a Theory

xlnt — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:20:17 -0000

Will, you're mistaking opinion for science. Yes, there is a gap between the left and right's viewpoints. Yes, there is room for reasonable disagreement on a lot of things, from abortion to gun control to cultural mores.

But there is not room for such disagreement in a science classroom. The scientific method has led us to certain conclusions, and if people reject them they're indulging in intellectual cowardice, plain and simple. No "viewpoint" is being forced on these people -- it's their own damn viewpoint! They drive cars, take drugs and use electricity. They live and enjoy freedoms in a country formed upon enlightenment principles. If they want to move to Pennsylvania and start building furniture, they can be my guest. Otherwise it's time to admit that science works, secular discourse has gotten this country where it is, and you don't get to pick and choose elements of either to believe in unless you have very good reasons.

Instead, any caveat mentioned by scrupulous scientists about the bounds of induction is pounced upon by folks who deduce a false equivalence and conclude that, shucks, reasonable folk can disagree. Well, I suppose they can, but to do so in this case they have to throw away six or seven of the most important centuries of human intellectual progress. If people insist upon doing that I guess it's their prerogative, but they shouldn't expect the rest of us to accomodate their views and give them respect they don't deserve according to the standards of the intellectual framework that was developed and confirmed to work within our shared history.

If I wander off the visitor's tour at Cape Canaveral and telling the first person I meet that I have some interesting ideas about rocketry (I don't), should they indulge me? No! Doing so would be ridiculous.

American students are bad enough at science already, thank you very much. Until the Old Testament starts helping us build more powerful microprocessors or lifesaving drugs, it needs to be kept out of the lab.

Re: Warning: This Post Contains a Discussion of Public Reason, Which is Just a Theory

xlnt — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:15:29 -0000

That one belief is mere opinion, while another is solid truth is not obviously relevant to the political point

Will, if that's true, then we are in serious trouble. I understand your point, and I think you're correctly characterizing the way this conflict is viewed by the religious right. But that doesn't mean we should indulge them.

We will never find an acceptable middle ground with the evangelical school board members. I think the only bloc genuinely in play here is the next generation. We should win the majority of those kids: science works, mysticism isn't logically consistent, and the city's more fun than the farm.

I don't think that granting a false equivalency in this argument for the sake of politics helps with the larger effort. It may seem like it will allow for a short-term resolution, but really it just makes the know-nothings' position seem more tenable to their kids.

I think we need to be clear and firm: science is true. There are benefits to a secular society. (It is worth repeating, in almost as loud a voice, that no, this doesn't mean you have to stop believing in God.)

I don't see what's to be gained politically by ceding ground on the fundamental point here. The way science is taught doesn't seem to have swung the last election, after all, although certainly the debate is a symptom of a contributing phenomenon. Are you arguing for a basic change in the left's dedication to secular humanism in order to appeal to fundamentalists? I agree that we need to meet America halfway on a lot of things, but this doesn't seem like one of them.

Re: Go Blue DS

xlnt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:42:55 -0000

Don't feel bad that you borked up the colors. Just sell that one to someone from Sweden and buy a new one :P

Re: Restaurant Review - Sep 29, 2005 - southphillyreview.com

xlnt — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:05:55 -0000

Ironically? really?

Re: me vs. the internet

xlnt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:27:58 -0000

A solid start, but there's so much more to be done. For instance: I need dinner reservations near the DC convention center on Saturday evening. Italian might be nice. GO!

Re: weather; d.c. restaurants; chelsea movie times

xlnt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:18:12 -0000

Thanks for the help, Mr. Gessen. Although I'm afraid that Les Halles just closed its DC location, your recommendations weren't bad, and I am prepared to assign them either a "thumbs up" or some quantity of stars (not exceeding three) -- whichever system you employ. I assume there's some sort of form that you'll need to mail to me?

Re: The Digital Garden : LOS ERRORES DEL BARÇA: 1ª JORNADA

xlnt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:33:19 -0000

Se menciona que el 4-3-3 dogmático es un problema.
No creeis que como terapia, el Barça debería jugar al contrataque, a la inglesa o como lo queráis llamar? Como terapia.
Guardiola y Valdes han dicho que después de toda una pretemporada, se repiten los mismos errores. Se necesita pues una terapia de chock. La conducción, el centrocampismo, etc están demasiado incrustados en los futbolistas. Se necesita un Clemente para resetear a los jugadores :-)

Re: The Digital Garden : PREVIA F.C.BARCELONA- RACING DE SANTANDER: MESSI ES JOVEN Y APRENDERÁ

xlnt — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:19:39 -0000

@ RIP.
Se me ocurre que un equipo podria emitir un parte (falseado) en el que se indica que la lesion requiere X semanas de recuperacion, con el fin de evitar que un jugador del otro equipo no pudiese jugar .
Siendo riguroso (imposibilidad genetica española) Figo deberia haber acabado su carrera el dia que lesiono a no se que jugador irreversiblemente

Re: Fünf kurze Links: iPhone-Bot, Ocarina, To-Do, iAsciiArt, Tamagochi

xlnt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:37:53 -0000

iRobot? hehe

Re: Screencast: Die iPhone-Feature der TubeStick DVB-T Software

xlnt — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:28:21 -0000

Und wo ist der DVB-T Stick den man direkt ans iPhone stecken kann?

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver. 3

xlnt — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:36:37 -0000

You can really see the tinfoil mob in action on the Foxconn threadwreck. Scary shit.

http://hehe2.net/thedarkside/microsoft/even-mor...

for even more tinfoil. priceless comments, as always.

Re: Lusers make me laugh ver. 3

xlnt — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:49:41 -0000

BTW, a former MS engineer was commenting on a Rambus thread on Arstechnica a few days ago that Windows contains a ton of crufty, unnecessary (in theory) code just to deal with Sony's older non-standard laptop BIOSes. Zomg, it has to be an elaborate ploy by the evil Japanese corporate empire to sabotage their only OS provider!

Re: Foxnews^H^H^H^Hconn conspiracy

xlnt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:59:16 -0000

>> So you hava a needlessly byzantine spec that manages to work cleanly under KernelA but is a total hairball under KernelB.

No ... it works under KernelA because there are smart, paid people working on KernelA, whose first priority is _get it working no matter what_, since _users_ don't care about whose fault it is, just that their computer isn't bootin', their microwave isn't cookin', their car radio is stuck on the boot splashscreen.

read this for a great overview of the subject of specs vs. reality - there is Microsoft bashing, so you'll be able to get thru it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17....

then you can head there: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tp...

money quote: "[...]I can also point out that when people complain about code bloat in Windows(talking kernel mode here, not apps), much of it is due to having to try to deal with every vender's non-standard implementation(you should see how much hacked code was present in XP just to deal with Sony's f'd up BIOS back in those days)."

Re: Foxnews^H^H^H^Hconn conspiracy

xlnt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:39:46 -0000

Sorry, but I think your nickname is spelled wrong, pretty lame, and you have the reading comprehension of a chimpanzee on drugs.

- I'm not talking about drivers
- I'm not talking about IQ distribution in IT
- I'm definitely not talking about supercomputing

all interesting topics, just for another discussion. You haven't addressed any of the points I made, just spewed some pretty average, rehashed FOSS DIY marketing material. Really, you guys are worse than the rabid Apple zealots of the mid '90s.

Again, read that Joel blog post, and all the stuff that's linked within it.. It's pretty awesome.

Re: Foxnews^H^H^H^Hconn conspiracy

xlnt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:31:41 -0000

>> Who knew that Eric Raymond was just some unix hacker who was full of shit? I did.

I lol'd. With friends/gurus like the gun totin' pagan flute god esr and Stallman, the FOSS scene does not need any enemies.

Hands off the kernel, though. It's the only part in the stack that's actually worth something, and is quite a remarkable software engineering achievement, all things considered. Still not as cool as the NT kernel (which never got, and still does not get the cred it deserves, for some weird reason), but definitely better than the well-tuned architectural abomination that powers OSX. Of course in the warped zealot's mind it's always been perfect since the 0.1 release, but in the real world they gradually improved it, and by now it's really pretty decent. It's already into a lot of hardware, and that will only skyrocket with UMPCs, Android and stuff. Together with Firefox and Apache, I'd put it in the 'rare example of good FOSS' bin.

The real pain starts as soon as you enter userland - abandon all hope, ye who dare. But that'd be preaching to the choir, here.

Re: One bug report to rule them all

xlnt — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:45:53 -0000

My little personal experience: I tried Ubuntu 7.10, on a disk with an XP install. I chose the minimum partition size proposed, and the installer poof-crashed before the end, trashing the XP MBR in the process without installing GRUB (deleting the original boot sector long before installing yours is a stroke of genius, but I digress). I cursed, shrugged, recovered the XP install with another PC, and submitted the bug. After a few months of being ignored, a genius wrote to me that I should have included a log, and since I didn't he closed it. Basically he asked me to trash my system a second time on purpose. Make of that what you will.

A couple months later, this came out: http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/140

Re: Shouldn’t Sombody Be MADD at Paris Hilton?

xlnt — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:12:23 -0000

Like she gives a toss about what any of us/we think.

Bet you she has some stonking house-parties for the next while, or gets photographed at some event/club/whatever.

Skank

Re: How to Uninstall Adobe Air Applications on Ubuntu?

xlnt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:41:25 -0000

thanks for your post, im moving forward to linux. nice OS..

Re: Over 10 Free Money Management Services to help you manage your finance better

xlnt — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:00:02 -0000

I have been using Rudder.com for last 3 months. Rudder is one that provides reviews of all accounts in one place, track all your bills and also help you with budget and cash flow management.It is free, safe and reliable too.

Re: Over 10 Free Money Management Services to help you manage your finance better

xlnt — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:01:33 -0000

It is really important to save and tracking all spending may do a lot of wonders. Even in the absence of outside help, you can track everything if discipline is just on the forefront. Anyway, your list is helpful just in case.

Re: Last.FM Linux Client Available

xlnt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:36:30 -0000

Applications>Add/Remove>Lastfm

Re: Don’t Hassel the Hof, David Hasselhoff

xlnt — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:22:17 -0000

Ha! He's been drinking. Onya Hoff! It's subtle, but definite. Watch and listen carefully. Here's a guy trying to be enthusiastic, but his body language and slight slurs tell us that really his mind is in another place.

Another thing - With the 'Hoffspace' thing (or whatever his site is called), when someone promoting their own site is visibly cringing when they say "It's all about bringing people together", it doesn't take a Nostradamus to predict where the site is heading.

Kudos to him, however, for keeping the 'Hoff legend' (tongue in cheek) alive in a tragic Elvis kind of way. Hopefully we won't read about him being found on a toilet somewhere.

Re: Code Overhaul (How and Why I Started Using HTML 5) » articles » will work for art

xlnt — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:40:03 -0000

Hah! Yeah! w00t! i lkke lions and playing with my frisbee.

That's what html 5 means to me, sister - less Ajax, more semantics - so more frisbee time!!!!!!

Re: Vista: Use BCDEDIT to change boot up options (dual boot w/XP Prof) | Microsoft Vista | Tech-Recipes

xlnt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:18:27 -0000

Thnx very useful!

Re: We're back to making this a blog about my no-insurance hospital visits.

xlnt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:01:19 -0000

hope this is the last time you have to go to the e.r. and you make a speedy recovery.

-Hart

Re: We're back to making this a blog about my no-insurance hospital visits.

xlnt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:01:46 -0000

Hope this is the last time you have to go to the E.R. and you make a speedy recovery.

-Hart

Re: The CIA Solves a Non-Existent Problem

xlnt — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:23:38 -0000

Yeah, I seriously doubt that field agents receive sensitive information from CIA.gov. There are more secure, less obvious ways to disseminate information if the agent's computer can be counted on to run a client-side app (and obviously there are a lot of reasons why an agent would only use a secured agency computer for that sort of thing -- keyloggers and tampering with the certificate authorities being just two).

I suspect this is born of the CIA being used as a pretext for some phishing scams. This approach is pretty much all they can do about it: turn on SSL and issue a press release telling the public to look for the little lock in their browser whenever they think they're visiting cia.gov.

Re: Amazing Gains in Digital Storage Technology

xlnt — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:19:43 -0000

I feel bad for storage researchers -- sounds like we're only counting milestones every three orders of magnitude. That's a pretty high bar.

This post is appropriate, since just yesterday the first HD-DVD appeared on BitTorrent, and with it the next frontier in consumer storage needs. Still, HD video only represents a one OOM (or so) increase in size. We're pretty close to getting our home theaters' bandwidth to match our optic nerves'. Once that's accomplished I can't think of the next major consumer bandwidth application that we're likely to see -- until immersive 3D environments and/or Smell-O-Vision arrive, anyway. Either way, it seems likely that the current paradigm of magnetic storage technology is going to be able to be pushed beyond consumer needs for a lengthy period.

Re: Video Games and Movies without Copyright?

xlnt — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:23:51 -0000

Tim & Adam:

I think you're taking me to have a stronger opposition to copyright than I actually have. Yes, I'm very optimistic about technology lowering barriers to entry in various creative fields. But I still believe in the need for copyright. I think that we need to reform it to shorten its term, deal with orphan works and expand fair use, but none of those changes really apply to this argument.

My point was that even under the current copyright regime, piracy is going to exert a transformative effect on these industries — but that this doesn't mean we're not going to be able to watch movies or play games. Here's the paragraph that followed the ones Tim quoted:

Piracy's going to continue to be effective. It's also going to become much more accessible to people without soldering irons and Linux servers. The industry will respond by chasing ad revenue; by adjusting the cost:benefit ratio for piracy by making smaller, cheaper games; and by continuing to move toward service-based offerings (e.g. subscription fees in MMORPGs). For Madden devotees, this is bad news. For those of us bored by the industry's addiction to big titles and consequent inability to innovate, it's not a bad thing at all.

Adam, I assure you that I do understand what goes into game development. And I expect many big franchises like Madden to continue to thrive. But piracy and increased ease of distribution will change the sorts of games that are most profitable, and that'll change what sorts of games are made — in the same way that Hollywood stopped making sprawling historical epics and extravagant musicals (although digital effects have made the former cheap enough to produce once again). You can already see this happening in the runaway success of many smaller games on Xbox Live Arcade.

If you're dead-set on the enormous franchises Adam cites, then yeah, I think you'll be disappointed to find that you have a smaller selection of them in the future (relative to the overall size of the market, anyway). But there's no reason to think that the current trend in game budgets is sustainable as the predominant model for the industry — people like John Carmack and J Allard have acknowledged as much. So have the folks at Nintendo, whose latest console represents a conscious retreat from the graphics arms race. I'm looking forward to an era of smaller, cheaper, riskier games; I can understand that others might not. But I think it's going to happen either way.

Re: Why Does FCC Spending Keep Growing?

xlnt — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:00:53 -0000

I'm not sure I understand your argument. You're saying that as a market's size increases, the associated regulatory agency should be expected to... shrink?

I'm not a big fan of the FCC, but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Re: Patents in Everything

xlnt — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:31:41 -0000

Derek Lowe, who is a pharmaceutical chemist, has just started writing a series of posts on the question of patenting genes. You can find part one here. As you might guess, Lowe is more sympathetic to the idea of applying IP to nature than you or I might be inclined to be, but it's definitely a thoughtful take on the subject and an interesting read.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » Explaining Our Knee-Jerk Opposition to Wireless Regulation

xlnt — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:15:16 -0000

Thanks for the response, Tim. I should offer a couple of clarifications: you're right, one of the actions that freeconference.com is asking its customers to pursue is contacting the FCC. And I'm actually not at all convinced that the carriers blocked this number maliciously -- I think it's just as plausible that it's a screwup of some sort. Finally, I suspect you're right that the FCC has the power to correct the problem (although obviously having to beg your customers to entreat a regulatory agency is a slightly crazy thing for a business to have to do).

I don't really want more FCC regulation, either. My point (which I could have made more explicitly) was simply that the cell phone market in the US is working *terribly*, and it's silly to pretend otherwise. When mistakes like this incident arise the market can't select against the companies perpetrating them, as Steve points out.

I get frustrated when I read arguments against intervention in this arena that hinge on allowing the market to function naturally. It seems clear to me that it's not working very efficiently right now, and that capital costs are too high for new players to enter the market. There are plenty of egregious examples: did you know that you can't offer an SMS-based service that uses obscenity (including clinical references to anatomy)? Or that it isn't possible to use premium SMS to raise money for charity in the US? Or that if you have a commercial premium SMS application, you'll be lucky to be able to collect even half of the revenue it generates? Or that if you encourage your customers to use the SMS-to-email gateway functionality that they've bought from their carrier to use your service, you'll get blocked and charged a toll if you have even mild success? And that's just in the text-messaging space.

I agree that ad-hoc regulation isn't the way to solve these problems. But they are problems, and they're not going to be resolved until customers are able to exert pressure on the carriers more often than once every 12 or 24 months. I don't know any way to make that happen other than regulatory intervention.

Re: Patents vs. the Rule of Law

xlnt — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:51:47 -0000

It certainly seems like the chemical formula of a drug would offer an good way to draw the clear lines that are essential for any genuine property right.

It's not just the formula, though. It's frequently specific steps in the synthesis, as well.

At any rate, the vast profitability of the pharmaceutical industry relative to other patent-using fields strongly implies to me that the balance between innovation-spurring patent protection and commons-benefiting public domain releases may be more out of whack than usual in this arena.

Re: Just a Number

xlnt — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:59:42 -0000

Thanks for the link, Tim, and the thoughtful commentary. I'm not sure I agree with all of it, though.

First, I worry about any kind of length-based criteria for granting copyright. Are visual works going to be treated as bitmaps or vector art? If the latter, some minimalist artists are going to be in trouble. Will poets start worrying about increasing the average entropy of their stanzas?

Second, I think this quote gets at the root of the problem with Felten's argument:

...asserting ownership of a 16-byte number is still dramatically different than asserting ownership over a thousand-byte (text), million-byte (music), or billion-byte (movies) number.

I think the confusion comes from the implication that the AACS LA is asserting ownership -- it isn't. You're still perfectly welcome to use those numbers for other purposes. You just aren't allowed to redistribute them for a specific purpose that victimizes the AACS LA. The analogy I drew in Felten's comments is to a neighborhood association asking a store to restrict the sale of spray paint to minors. It's not asserting ownership over the paint, just restricting its distribution for a particular use.

With that said, I think that the idea of suppressing information because of what *could* be done with it is inherently problematic, and that the DMCA is bad policy. But I don't think the number-ownership argument makes a lot of sense.

Re: Just a Number

xlnt — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:23:36 -0000

I would argue that most of the current distribution of the key in question is NOT for circumvention purposes, but rather as a statement of opinion about such distribution. I.e., it's political speech.

That's an interesting point, Jim. I'm inclined to agree, and am very curious what a court would say about it.

Re: Encrypt Your Stuff, People

xlnt — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:39:16 -0000

Unfortunately, most ISPs that are implementing traffic shaping are closing the encryption loophole by simply throttling all encrypted traffic at their most restrictive rate.

Re: Encrypt Your Stuff, People

xlnt — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:43:54 -0000

Whoops -- hit submit too soon. Just wanted to add that I think this underscores the need for metered bandwidth. The current "all you can eat (but not really)" system creates perverse incentives for the ISPs. To maximize profitability they need to provide the absolute minimum amount of service that their customers will tolerate while still paying the one-size-fits-all rate. That's not a good situation for consumers.

ISPs should be *happy* when people use (and pay for) more of their network services -- those are the conditions under which competition and innovation will flourish.

Re: Encrypt Your Stuff, People

xlnt — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:36:20 -0000

Doug: I've seen this story several times with different ISPs, but here's the first thing that Google turned up:

Rogers Fights BitTorrent by Throttling All Encrypted Transfers

Needless to say, telecommuting VPN users are not pleased by this development.

MikeT raises an interesting point, although of course filesharing means that metered bandwidth would really just intensify the already-present incentive for locking down your wifi. I'd be sorry to see the availability of open APs decline, but one can imagine projects like NoCatAuth or La Fonera offering functionality that would require payment for high-traffic use while allowing lighter-weight apps like VoIP or web access through. La Fonera in particular already has a system in place to encourage this sort of altruism. And Busboys & Poets, a coffeeshop not too far from my house, already offers free-bandwidth-to-a-point, with the limit determined by total transfer volume (each user gets a daily allotment).

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » TCP/IP “More or Less by Fiat?”

xlnt — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:43:04 -0000

A great point, and more than I knew about TCP/IP's birth, to be sure. That's why I hedged my bets by referring to all web technology -- I was specifically thinking of W3C, ISO and MPEG. But you're right that I'm oversimplifying the picture. Even those bodies are influenced and improved by the chaos of the market, like with Microsoft's introduction of the nonstandard XmlHttpRequest Javascript object.

Re: Grand New Party

xlnt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:37:57 -0000

Quick! Find that CDROM of Reagan JPEGs!

Re: Truck Bearing Kibble

xlnt — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:04:36 -0000

Five years with that watch up my ass.

Re: Linux (Kubuntu) vs Windows XP vs OS X

xlnt — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:28:09 -0000

# Windows - Inspires one to try other OS’s.
* since it’s old and crufty

I know the general trend is to bash Windows but this one just isn't true. I think you'll find - whoops, I'm making an assertion here based on nothing- that the majority of people who use Windows *just don't care*. They want it to let them do what they want *and it does.* It's only the ones of us who like to do a bit more than surf the internet with a computer that care.

And, a Windows user can take advantage of free programs as much as they can of paid programs.

Re: Waxin' & Milkin': A Visual Mixtape

xlnt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:54:02 -0000

plural of magnum... magna?

neither sounds right to me.

Re: No Need for Bushido! Webcomic updates Mondays!

xlnt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:02:05 -0000

such flimsy pole axes they used back in the days XD

Re: No Need for Bushido! Webcomic updates Mondays!

xlnt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:11:53 -0000

The ground stomp is just a misdirection... another shower of arrows spells death from above... none of the soldiers dodge because they were staring at the hole in the ground and wondering about the Tao :D

Re: the Tumblelog of Zac Zellers

xlnt — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:51:10 -0000

i love that song!

Re: Me bein' a Facebook creepster with a person I've talked to on the bus and in Jewelry class a couple of times:

xlnt — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:53:31 -0000

yeah, that's creepy.

Re: HOW TO FIND WEBSITES FROM 1997:

xlnt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:28:37 -0000

what, too good for ebay? try etsy.com :)

Re: Upside Down Dogs

xlnt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:02:13 -0000

Are we supposed to understand what you wrote?
I'm french and look, I'm writing in english!!!

Re: Upside Down Dogs

xlnt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:09:28 -0000

This is one of the funiest pictures of a dog, and you found a way to write : "Hey!!! I'm here!!! " By the way, the dog is half upside-down, so I think this picture belongs to this site...

Re: ROMANIA - O TARA DE CACAT

xlnt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:40:18 -0000

Unde e vina doctorilor?
Toti se plafoneaza cu scuza asta de imbecil ca romania ar fi o tara de cacat ..... o fi ...da ce-ai facut tu ca sa schimbi lucru` asta? Sesizati, aratati voi problemele parca lumea nu le-ar sti, va credeti voi destepti, da din fotoliu de blogaras care se crede lider de opinie nu stiti sa va coborati. Nu te grabi sa pui etichete "cacati de jandarmi" ca habar n-ai ce-i ala.

Re: Spaceless HTML in Django

xlnt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:52:41 -0000

So... every third byte was whitespace? That's a bit hard to believe, even as a worst-case. Still, if you saw improvements, then my congratulations.

I would suggest, though (as I see others have), that people facing the same problem have a look at simply gzipping their text-based output at the webserver level. Since the action's probably happening on the webhead either way, it's unlikely to be much more costly in CPU terms, and it's even simpler to implement than your solution (it typically just takes a line or two in .htaccess if you're using Apache). Gzipping will certainly remove any overhead that whitespace represents.

Re: Cool SQL function: EXTRACT

xlnt — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:55:35 -0000

Well, this isn't so useful if you want the name of the day instead of a number. Say, "MON" instead of 2. Back to TO_CHAR!

Re: Is Moon The Astronomers’ Paradise ?

xlnt — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:02:56 -0000

I take it this is fiction? It's quite normal not to see stars when the Sun is up. How about stepping over the terminator into the dark side of the moon? ;)

Re: iMob Online for iPhone

xlnt — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:48:07 -0000

136 764 501

Re: La haine / Hate (1995, Matthieu Kassovitz) - opening sequence analysis

xlnt — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:34:06 -0000

Hi Kevin--These commentary tracks are a great idea! Like Harry, I enjoyed them all, and LA HAINE might be my favorite.

Also, like you, I dug PERVERT'S GUIDE. FYI, here's a transcript of the film:

http://subject-barred.blogspot.com/2006/06/that...

Re: Video Essay for 902 (43). Hour of the Star (1985, Suzana Amaral)

xlnt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:50:52 -0000

"Out of shape"? I've met you, Kevin, and so I will respectfully disagree your mother on that one!

But seriously, this was a wonderful personal essay. As Dave said, you should do more of these.

Re: Video Essay for 907 (48) The Woman in the Window (1944, Fritz Lang) with guest commentary by Girish Shambu

xlnt — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:23:52 -0000

Hey thanks, guys! Glad you enjoyed it.

And a thank you to Kevin for making the clips flow so seamlessly, thus making me sound almost coherent!

Re: Video Essays (three of them!) for 909. La femme infidele and 910. Le boucher

xlnt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:47:01 -0000

Kevin & Dan -- This is such a fun, wonderful post. Great work!

Dan, I'm going have to dig up that Bazin essay that talks about the "amalgam" created by professional and non-professonal acting. I don't believe I've ever read it.

Kevin, I had forgotten that the dance-club scene in La Femme Infidele was recorded in one single, continuous take. But it was nice to be guided through the take in your clip.

I saw Dan a couple of hours after he recorded this conversation with you and we talked for a good while about how under-appreciated he is.

Re: Video Essays (three of them!) for 909. La femme infidele and 910. Le boucher

xlnt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:16:34 -0000

Ah, just clarifying: how underappreciated CHABROL is...

Re: Video Essays (three of them!) for 909. La femme infidele and 910. Le boucher

xlnt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:35:46 -0000

Thanks, Dan!

Re: Google Chrome OS: Will It Kill Windows?

xlnt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:08:56 -0000

"is based off its Chrome (Chrome) browser" ...
Hahaha, do you guys even know what an operating system is. This operating system will be just a linux distribution. I know you often sell your opinions as news, but at least try to know a bit about what you talk about ...

Re: Flickrdreams - vida guerra

xlnt — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:46:16 -0000

now that, my friends, is a boootayyyyyyy. I heart Vida

Re: Flickrdreams

xlnt — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:47:00 -0000

I would like to be buried between those breasts. Seriously.

Re: Malgudi Days Episode 1 - A Hero

xlnt — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:41:17 -0000

admin,
we could able to watch the video you have posted... can you pelase let us know how to watch the video

thanks
uniongrove

Re: SIGG to Launch New Brand STEELWORKS

xlnt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:43:18 -0000

so what, is it aluminum or steel?

Re: SIGG to Launch New Brand STEELWORKS

xlnt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:43:18 -0000

so what, is it aluminum or steel?

Re: Tener en tu casa de invitada a Kagney Linn Karter puede ser muy divertido

xlnt — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:34:33 -0000

a lo que está entre legal y milf xD

Re: XP 1.0 is better than XP 2.0

xlnt — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:23:56 -0000

I don't understand what is so brilliant about XP. It's a methodology that contains two good ideas (TDD and refactoring) and ten ideas that are completely unproven in the real world and arguably even detrimental to productivity.

Re: Asset Diversification Theory Fail

xlnt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:41:04 -0000

Quite an attitude: If I don't understand it, it must be crazy.

Re: Reading Twilight: Chapter 10 (Interrogations)

xlnt — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:01:13 -0000

CHAPTER 13!!!!! get to it asap...I love ur little comments!

Re: Reading Twilight: Chapter 13 (Confessions)

xlnt — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:46:43 -0000

You really get the book, Kaleb! No boy understands Edward as well as you do!Why can't more guys be manly and read this. U rock Kaleb! I stand by your mission 110% !!!!!!!!! KALEB ROX MY SOX!

Re: Reading Twilight: Chapter 13 (Confessions)

xlnt — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:50:25 -0000

U will have plenty of girls in no time!

Re: Reading Twilight: Chapter 15 (The Cullens)

xlnt — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:34:12 -0000

i love you "for Dummies" idea. The whole insight you gave on Piano and Edward (my sweetheart) was just so...so...*deep*. I love it! You are so sweet! You get Edward and his actions! edward is perfect and you get it! I love your thoughts on the book! Kaleb U ROK!

Re: Reading Twilight: Chapter 15 (The Cullens)

xlnt — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:34:47 -0000

Quiero un CD. (I want that CD)

Re: Reading Twilight: Chapter 16 (Carlisle)

xlnt — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:02:12 -0000

Kaleb, ur soo funny! I agree w/ Jenova and Elise. WHAT THE F-ING HELL is wrong with the 2%...oh I know i guess they're Jacobs.....I can read MUCH faster than u but ur time 2 write these blogs are soo...IDK, generous! Boy's minds can be scary! I love ur thoughts tho!

Re: Cricbuzz.com: Racism in KKR Camp, alleges Ajay Jadeja

xlnt — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:26:07 -0000

just plain sad state of affairs.

Re: Cricbuzz.com: Panic did us in, rues Tendulkar

xlnt — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:08:41 -0000

gr8 spirit shown by the royals... the indians really lost their nerve... fantstic game neways... the ipl was really dull in its opening weeks... the excitement has returned now.

*hope MI make it to the semis

Re: Cricbuzz.com: Possibility of match-fixing in IPL: Miandad

xlnt — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:17:11 -0000

roflmao.....wt else can i say

Re: Xbox takes down TechCrunch

xlnt — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:14:21 -0000

The OS still feels like an XBMC ripoff?

You are aware that XBMC is itself a shameless ripoff of Microsoft's own Windows: Media Center Edition design, right?

Re: EXCLUSIVE: T-Mobile BlackBerry Roadmap for 2008

xlnt — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:23:41 -0000

T-Mobile may lose me on this one. Hell they may lose my corporate account with this one if the uproar is loud enough from the users on my network. This is truly sad to read. Verizon with Thunder, at&t with all the 3g blackberries... tmobile with... a flip phone?? I feel a little rinky dinky.

Re: KKSF 103.7 - Smooth Jazz

xlnt — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:43:11 -0000

I thought my car radio was broken. After ten years of good music, the radio stopped playing smooth jazz.
Sad to see the news that my radio isn't broken, but the station is gone. I hope that there will be enough comments to realize that this was a popular station.

Please bring it back.

Re: http://www.fifaromania.net/stiri/articol/un-nou-film-despre-fifa-10-pentru-console/

xlnt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:18:31 -0000

Puțină derută la început și după două luni iar o să înjure lumea EA Sports pentru că nu au schimbat mare lucru la Fifa

Re: http://www.fifaromania.net/stiri/articol/un-nou-film-despre-fifa-10-pentru-console/

xlnt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:23:16 -0000

Da, pe console sunt destul de putini jucatori.

Re: Easter Eggs in Pixar’s Up

xlnt — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:11:38 -0000

Carl is seen investigating a Mac mouse in the credits.

Re: Did Jesus Teach Racism? [Matthew 15:23]

xlnt — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:05:20 -0000

Re: Atheros: driver ath9k open source

xlnt — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:52:42 -0000

Sarebbe bello se funzionassero pure...

Re: Redfin Secures Another $12M in Financing

xlnt — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:43:12 -0000

I wanted to respond to the comment by April. If you really believe in a 'right to choose', why do realtors protect access to information about listings so carefully? Why are you being sued by the DOJ? The MLS is a closed, uncompetitive marketplace that only benefits agents. Try and imagine if stocks were bought and sold like houses. The SEC would never allow the games you play.

The bottom line is realtors will do *anything* to protect their undeserved 6% commission.

Re: TV Recap: Big Brother 11 - Week 4 Nominations

xlnt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:16:15 -0000

Great article. You definitely have a good sense of this game.

Re: http://disqus.com/preview/

xlnt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:10:58 -0000

Yo Yo Yo

Re: Onoare si Oroare

xlnt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:25:18 -0000

Bre Livione, esti beton!

Re: Oh, Gruber! We got you again!

xlnt — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:27:15 -0000

Dan is obviously on some personal vendetta trip here. I just wonder why Newsweek agrees to be pulled into this. Mocking is one thing. Smearing a product with one-sided quotes disguised as humor is unworthy of a publication with journalistic standards.

Re: Oh, Gruber! We got you again!

xlnt — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:28:50 -0000

Idiot. This is his day job, has been for several years.

Re: New verb: "to gruber"

xlnt — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:54:40 -0000

I don't think that telephone call ever took place.

Re: http://blog.inc.com/archives/2005/05/the_apprentice_25.html

xlnt — Sat, 21 May 2005 16:18:08 -0000

Honestly? Does anyone care about this anymore?

Tana's on the Omaorsa track and Kendra will probably be decorating the walls of her office with colored push pins just like Kelly.

The onyl reason why Bill Rancic has stayed in the public eye is because he has a semblance of a personality and is a good public speaker. Kelly and Kendra are bland and boring. Without sounding mean, Kendra isn't attractive enough to warrant much much press attention. And her interview style is mostly pre-rehearsed answers and distractingly poor elocution. She doesn't seem very intersting, funny or charming - which really is what the apprenticeship is all about. Publicity and wooing the press. Bill does it well. He's good looking, he's charming (albeit a bit skittish) AND he happens to be a smart business person.

Re: Case Company “Vaja” Lists iPhone nano Section in Website

xlnt — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:11:50 -0000

What's the big deal with Vaja asking for you to sign up for more info for a yet to be released product? It happens all the time. Now, if there is NO real product coming, that's different.

Re: Football history

xlnt — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:17 -0000

It's not true, American Football is the most watched sport...
Superbowl is the greatest event in the world...

Soccer is for losers and sissies... :-)

Re: Yellow + Blue Wines Expands Its Use of Sustainable Tetra Pak Cartons

xlnt — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:35:30 -0000

from Ruben Anderson in Tyee:

While looking for wine in refilled bottles I had the misfortune to see one of those shrill displays of wine in Tetra Paks; this crap is being flogged as a "Green Solution." It's junk like this that drives me to the liquor store in the first place. Tetra Paks are here to save us because they weigh less, so less climate-changing diesel fuel is required to lug them across the ocean from Australia. Dear God, where to start?

First, even if you can get the drunkards off their lazy asses to join the mere quarter of the North American population that recycles, few places recycle Tetra Paks. Second, the places that say they recycle Tetra Paks are liars. What does "re" mean? It means again. Can a Tetra Pak be made into another Tetra Pak? No. Tetra Paks are seven incomprehensibly thin layers of paper, plastic and aluminum. The poor suckers who try to recycle them use giant blenders to mush the paper pulp off the plastic and metal, then they need to separate the plastic from the metal. What idiot thought this would be a better idea than washing a bottle and refilling it?

But the biggest problem is actually the same problem -- jackasses. When did it become okay to destroy the climate and kill 50-90 per cent of living species so we could drink imported wine? How did it become possible for us to think we could have whatever we wanted wherever we wanted it? Do you really want to try to look your children in the eye and explain that they have to eat jellyfish gumbo because you couldn't resist that lovely imported shiraz?

Re: @ MidemNet: Google's Eun On Music: Some Labels Too Defensive

xlnt — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:33:30 -0000

Classic google, screwing others for their benefit while not letting anybody get a hair from them. well done warner, I'm looking to see all others follow them so that goog does not build an empire of wealth based on others content.

Re: @ Dealmakers Summit: Chris Saridakis, Chief Digital Officer, Gannett; Focus On Demographics

xlnt — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:30:45 -0000

What a big bag of wind!

Re: SpinVox Paying Staff In Stock To Save On Costs

xlnt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:13:55 -0000

blah blah

Re: Nasri Breaks His Leg: – Do We Need More? - Eduardo, Arshavin & Fabregas Possess Greater Footballing IQ Than Any Other Players In The League

xlnt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:27:44 -0000

Why not console yourself about having the three cleverest players and forget non of them physical presence, the loss of Adebuymore has taken out all the physical presence in the front end of the pitch, unless Bendtnar can come good this season and Le boss buys a beast of a DM (I don't see him buying another defender).Adebayor was useless last season and he obviously didn't care, I'm not backing the guy but over 20 matches as a long striker because the midfield was incapable of matching other teams will demoralise anyone, you would understand if you played football. Remember Drogba plays as a lone stricker but theres always two wing forwards working with him lets not forget the ubber physical and solid 3 midfielders behind them .this is surely another trophy-less season. bottom line is Arsenal have become the morden day Ajax, only without the trophies and maybe if the fans were not riding Adebuymore's back so much, the board would not have a reason to cash in on him, like they do every year. We have become a selling club and are content to be in the top 4, its a business no doubt but when all the board is not ambitious the team will die because the fans will leave.Its not wenger who does not want to buy players,the board say one thing and do the opposite.

Re: Roman Pavlyuchenko to Arsenal for £6mil? - Video of Player

xlnt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:57:34 -0000

you people make me laugh, Roman Pavlyuchenko = sqaureroot(adebayor's talent), but yet you fools are excited.

Re: Ricky Gervais Live at LA’s Kodak Theatre July 11 and 12

xlnt — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:54:25 -0000

fucking joke. he just played MSG in New York and did the SAME gig word for word he did a year ago. Ive got his dvd and some of the material is 6 YEARS OLD for chist sakes. How does he have the balls?!?!

FUCK OFF GERVAIS!

Re: http://disqus.com/preview/

xlnt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:15:56 -0000

visitor in the house!

Re: One eskimO – Givin’ Up (Don Diablo Remix)

xlnt — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:39:44 -0000

true that

Re: The trouble with Android, cont'd

xlnt — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:11:41 -0000

The iPhone will have to evolve, sooner or later. Bigger screen, higher DPI, better haptic feedback, additional sensors and maybe who knows, a hardware keyboard, a stylus or whatever will be trendy in a few years.

And because of all these restrictions that are currently seen as a feature of the current iPhone, Apple will have to fight an uphill battle to evolve.

Android took a risky bet by being very flexible, but it will pay off in the future, and Gartner seems to agree with that analysis.

Let's talk again in a couple of years.

Re: 40K EDITORIAL: To much of a good thing?

xlnt — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:26:46 -0000

Know your army and play it often. That trumps a mystery list from the web any day.