9 posts tagged “wtf”
I was looking for a memorable article but couldn't think of how to find it, even with the Awesomebar. (“Starling” isn't in the URL or title.) So I decided to give up and reinstall Google Desktop Search. Now my MBP is warming my lap in the summer, primarily because...
The one part you can't disable is the part the OS already provides. Wtf??
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piehead.)Not a glowing start, especially given my prejudices (I incorrectly remembered Ubuntu as the Linux for ricers; that's actually Gentoo). This was trying to use the "alternate" Edgy image after finding that the "server" image (of the current stable version, whatever it's called) causes processor faults in Parallels. So without the server option it installed the full desktop with Xwindows and everything. The answer was to use the "mini" image for network installation; it let me use the server profile where all I got was the eponymous parts of the LAMP stack.
I still feel dirty using Ubuntu though.
I'm gonna fight 'em off
A four-armed Santa couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back...
Who seriously thinks "the ones that put you in the now" is effective ad copy?
I've been a happy emusic subscriber for one and a half months now, and today I log in and see this:
It's still better than a buck each, but they get you on album downloads (you pay per song, even getting a whole album).
What is this again? It's not a smart car, that I can tell. It was parked at the San Jose Diridon transit station.
Speaking of Jack Thompson, he and some political action groups are protesting the upcoming Rockstar Vancouver game Bully:
The mood-setting animation that leads into the first playable moments of the game depict a troubled teen anti-hero from a fractured family, an uncaring establishment and a large private school campus. Fifteen-year-old Jimmy Hopkins is not a bad kid, just a troubled one.
And yet (my emph):
“[W]e don’t think there is a purpose for this type of game,” said [Ronald] Moten, whose group [Washington, D.C.-based Peaceoholics] protested in front of Rockstar Games’ New York offices last year after the initial announcement [of Bully]. “I think we can stop it from coming out. If it does come out, we can get the stores that sell to stop selling it.”
Extra bravo to the National PTA, though, for supporting the ESRB:
While Rockstar says the game is about the experience of school, its critics, who have yet to see the game, see it as being all about the bullying. But the National Parents and Teachers Association says it has chosen not to address Bully specifically, instead relying on the video game rating system to do its job.
“We don’t have any position on any specific games right now,” said national PTA spokesman James Martinez. “But we do (have a position) on the fact that parents should make informed decisions using the ESRB’s ratings and that those ratings should be enforced by retail stores.”
