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Re: News from the Front

Bob — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:07:46 -0000

This sort of discussion always (without exception) generates a few "college is critical, I went to college and it made me the man I am today" comments, and a few "I didn't learn anything in college - or didn't go at all - and I'ld always employ someone who was self-taught rather than a sheep who went to college."

This only confirms one thing - if you want a job, your best chance of success comes from having the same background as the person who decides who to hire.

And for all the cry-baby whinging in the comments about "corporate sheep", we all seem happy enough to enjoy using computers that are designed and built by those people and are available at a low price (when compared, for example, to a 1980-era mainframe with all the computing power of a 2007-era wristwatch) due to the fact that large companies have economies of scale. If computers were only manufacturered by two guys in a garage who didn't want a big company with sheep doing the work then we wouldn't be here. Entrepreneurs with their startups are often vlaubale and useful, but it's incredibly arrogant to assume that noone else contributes anythign of value to society.

There are a lot of different career paths and what matters for one path is irrelevant for another. Apparantly the noble free-spirited entrepreneurs here are just as capable as the corporate 9-5 office workers when it comes to insulting people for their career choice.

Re: Putting The Band Back Together

Bob — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:25:56 -0000

Yeah, acting as the conductor on Thomas the Tank Engine kids' cartoon series was really a highlight!

Re: 19 Ways To Speed Up Windows XP

Bob — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:42:51 -0000

forgot to include "remove old system restore" entries.

Re: Justin.tv streams child porn: industry crackdown coming?

Bob — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:58:58 -0000

Oh, please. You see this kind of content on ustream all the time. Let's see...bad comments about everyone but ustream. Could it be more obvious that this article was fed to you by ustream employees?

It's a shame that ustream can't get ahead by making a good product, and instead have to resort to generating nasty rumors.

Re: Barack Obama Makes Shocking Confession

Bob — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:53:02 -0000

So he had a change of heart. Big deal.
Perhaps this comment will be removed by that guy that loves to slate Obama.

Re: Wheego Whip

Bob — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:05:10 -0000

$19? I'll buy twenty.

Re: RUMORS: IG Murmurs Continue

Bob — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:04:21 -0000

Man, I used to think like you, but now.... 60 points is the better part of a small veteran squad with triple flamers or meltas, something that will likely do much more damage than any of the pyschic powers.

The thing is about all the eamples....
-increase range of leadership: the best one, but only a 1 in 6 chance, and if I have enough psychers to stick them with troops, then possible I get this power on a troops squad with ld 7.
-Null psychic powers- against this unit. Honestly, my command squads don't usually get hit with a lot of psychic powers/firepower, as they are generally not that much of a threat compared to my tanks, vets, and heavy weapons squads. The chance of this coming into play are quite remote. Besides, you can always take an allied Inquisitor with psychic hood...
-D3 str 3 power weapon attacks... - on a WS 2 guy with a 5+ save. This is not at all goo.
-An anti-tank troop? - No, this is a haywire grenade. On ONE guy. Not worth 12 points.
- d6 shooting attacks? that''s a heavy d6 lasgun. For 60 points I can get 10 guys who are GUARANTEED to get 12 shots off in rapidfire range.

I'm sorry, but there's no disguising the fact that psykers are horribly overpriced and their powers weak.

And I've gone the route of the Honorifica and Force Weapon, and it is still weak. Anything you would want to wound with a force weapon is either going to be a: so tough that it's hard to wound with str3, or b: much faster than you and will probably kill the psyker first.

I love the idea, but the execution is so very, very wanting.

60 points! That's 5 rough riders with str5 init 5 power weapons.

Sorry to be so harsh, but I speak from someone who loved the idea when I read the codex and tried and tried to make it work, only to abandon it in despair...

Re: A lesson to learn

Bob — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:57:29 -0000

Definitely gotten that email/call before. Thanks, dad!

Re: TAKE A STAND AGAINST ALL CAPS EMAILS …

Bob — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:13:11 -0000

I AGREE!!!! 2NDED!!!! DOWN WITH CAPS!!!

Re: NSFW! Agyness Deyn Butt-Naked and Beautiful in 032c Mag -Refinery29 Pipeline-

Bob — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:27:05 -0000

It's BUCK naked, god damn it. I want to strangle the first idiot that got everyone else started with BUTT naked.

Re: Is A Burrito A Sandwich?

Bob — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:23:37 -0000

Sushi is a sandwich then - it's a handheld carbohydrate-bound concoction. Only rolls, of course.

Re: Unbreaded | The Ultimate Sandwich Blog

Bob — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:23:37 -0000

Sushi is a sandwich then - it's a handheld carbohydrate-bound concoction. Only rolls, of course.

Re: Is A Burrito A Sandwich?

Bob — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:23:37 -0000

Sushi is a sandwich then - it's a handheld carbohydrate-bound concoction. Only rolls, of course.

Re: 2006/08/09/skyblog-and-skyrock-the-french-myspace/

Bob — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:10:31 -0000

Skyblog is great, indeed.
Thanks for your article.

Re: Justin.tv Lets You Watch and Broadcast Live Video on Facebook

Bob — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:17:14 -0000

Except for the fact that Ustream doesn't acutally let anyone broadcast, of course.

Re: Twitter’s Security Meltdown

Bob — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:33:48 -0000

You are wrong in so many ways.

Re: Hot or Not Live: This Could Get Ugly

Bob — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:39:42 -0000

If only ustream and mogulus had interested users and a free API, you'd be seeing the same sort of things from them. Justin.tv has been smart and innovated enough to provide a free API for everyone to use, and its loyal user base is taking full advantage.

Re: Honesty

Bob — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:50:52 -0000

Maybe we should all just ignore her oddball opinions on how the laws should be interpreted differently by gender/race, and ignore her comments on where law is made.

Re: Honesty

Bob — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:37:09 -0000

Her membership in La Raza doesn't concern you? You can't admit that this candidate is not controversial. She was nominated for one reason and one reason only, she's a minority. No other reason. She has a rather large number of decisions that are overturned by the supreme court. She makes statements that are pantently false as to who makes the law in this country (it's not the courts), and she's a member of a semi-extremist organization that does not believe in immigration restraint along with other controversial agendas.

This is not someone who should be serving on the highest court in the land.

Re: REVIEW: MOTOPURE H12 – Size, Style and Comfort in a Bluetooth Headset

Bob — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:11:14 -0000

All those pics and not one shown with it on someone's ear??!!

Re: The Value of Self-Enforcing Protocols

Bob — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:01:47 -0000

The Greek antiquities taxation system is also often used in partnership dissolutions. In every 2-person business partnership I have been involved in, that procedure was in the founding documents - if a party wanted to leave the partnership, they'd request out. The other person states a buyout figure, and the first party has the option to buy or sell at that price.

Re: Did Verizon kneecap Google’s Android?

Bob — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:14:45 -0000

I cannot wait until my mobile phone subscription with Sprint is over next summer.

I'm figuring out what to do when that time comes.

I'm not impressed with any of the players out there. I might go with one of the pay-as-you-go plans that require no contract, etc.

Re: Oh, no…

Bob — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:21:57 -0000

Praying he makes it through.

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Bob — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:25:05 -0000

Takes the fun out of actually stopping and interacting with a real, live human being.

Who knows, you could have to stop and actually talk with people. Real people. Not computers.

This is one aspect of modern technology I don't like. The aspect of the "person" is largely gone these days. It started back in the early 90s.

I remember back in the 70s and early 80s when I was but a lad. Kids actually went outside and played with each other. They played ball, went on hikes, went camping. These days, kids get all pissy and put out hits on their parents if they don't get 7 days a week on their xboxes. Whatever happened to actually seeing people face to face. People say they are busier now. That's not true. I'm no busier than I was 10 years ago, and I have a kid now. I spend time with my kid, go out, see movies, take walks (without gadgets).

Robert, gadgets are cool, but people are better. Learn a little French or German, or whatever before you go somewhere. Go a little Luddite every know and again. It's healthy. Try it.

I remember several months ago, Wil Wheaton wrote a post about getting off the grid for a whole week, with not even a cell phone. Robert, I challenge you to go one whole week with no devices. None. No cell phones, no Internet, no gadgets. Totally unjack yourself from the matrix. I think you would be pleasantly surprised at the results. Your comments would be a lot fresher at the end of any week you tried this.

Re: The last ScobleShow

Bob — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:35:14 -0000

Happy Birthday + congrats on the new job. You might want to consider rewording this sentence, though... ;)

"Some really killer stuff, too, including interviews with my first girlfriend, Xbox Live’s Larry Hryb.."

Re: Hack Attack : Dual Boot Leopard and Windows Vista

Bob — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:40:39 -0000

So far I have prepared the partition, restarted the machine and booted into the Leopard iATKOS v1.0 DVD, I have pressed F8 and typed -v at the prompt.
My problem is that immediately after this step I see scrolling DOS style text which freezes up and never progresses. It displays the message:
"com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components:
use only one style.

Re: RMS To The Rescue

Bob — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:33:55 -0000

The real RMS doesn't use the words "Open Source". "Free Software" is his thing.

Re: TH Forums Highlights: The Best New Fuel, Debating Recycling + More

Bob — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:50:14 -0000

downside to curbside recycling?

1) bums going through your bins at 3am looking for cans/bottles

2) unsightly/block the sidewalk, trucks make noise

3) do you mean to tell me that some communities DON'T HAVE ANY RECYCLING?!?! I thought we were out of the stone age, since just yesterday I noticed jet airplanes circling overhead!

Re: Hitler’s Real Plan!!!

Bob — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:40:30 -0000

how ridiculous of you to say that. preventative care costs MORE because you are now protecting people who will never even be affected by the issue, instead of only treating people who are actually sick.

Re: Rocky Hall rabbit guard

Bob — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:23:10 -0000

looks great!

Re: Updates

Bob — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:36:41 -0000

This blog really is about wine. zing!

Re: [ Press Release ] TXTBlocker – parent lock for txt messaging while driving

Bob — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:07:53 -0000

Can somebody uninstall IQ-blocker from the brain of the developer of this stupid piece of software? Only $9.99/month to alienate yourself from your teen. Go screw yourselves.

Re: Ducking an iPhone Annoyance

Bob — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:42:14 -0000

if you backspace and change the 'fix' multiple times (i think it takes 3 times), the iphone will learn the new word.