"From here on out i'm going to be breaking down this early German film like it was an episode of Pretty Little Liars"
Like you didn't know what you were getting in to.
What? Yes, of course spying on governments is illegal. That's why it's called "espionage" and not "just straight up asking for some classified information because, hey, it's not against the law or anything".
What is this Saint-whatever's for Texas? Shiner all the way!
@scruffylookingnerfherder: I figured that out after realizing that "Sheena" and "Uma" were the same kid in different clothes.
@Snarfblat: Haha yes.
@WednesdayAM: Someone needs to make that movie. Like now.
@icesir: Right, so the red line would be horizontal (or, given physical decay, mostly horizontal with a slight downward curve), while the blue line would retain its slope. I'm just saying assuming that red line represents just one CPU over time doesn't make any sense, because a single CPU isn't going to be getting exponentially faster as time goes on.
"Granted, the advertised speed of the processor doesn't decrease*, but the productivity gap gets larger."
The productivity gap would get smaller. The gap is where productive things happen (that is, the speed of the CPU - bloat = the productivity gap).
Conversely, if the CPU speed increased while bloat stayed the same, the productivity gap would get larger.
Am I interpreting the graph differently from you?
"Granted, the advertised speed of the processor doesn't decrease*, but the productivity gap gets larger."
The productivity gap would get smaller. The gap is where productive things happen (that is, the speed of the CPU - bloat = the productivity gap).
Conversely, if the CPU speed increased while bloat stayed the same, the productivity gap would get larger.
Am I interpreting the graph differently from you?
"Shitty people confused, angered by continued shittiness after surgery"
@icesir: "Got it. Sorry, I was thinking about a single processor, not the collective speed of available processors."
Actually, a single processor would just be a straight horizontal line, as the processor itself doesn't get any slower as bloatware increases, it only would appear to be slower.
(This is where I push my glasses up on my nose and wheeze with superiority)
Actually, a single processor would just be a straight horizontal line, as the processor itself doesn't get any slower as bloatware increases, it only would appear to be slower.
(This is where I push my glasses up on my nose and wheeze with superiority)
I vote Laura Harris, who played Daisy Adair on "Dead Like Me". I just can't hear the name Daisy without hearing that sing-songy voice introducing herself as "Daisy, Daisy Adair."
@todbodman: Ah, and because Canada is America's little brother, we won't let it play our video games until we're tired of them.
Warcraft III? Is it 2003 again?
@misslexington: I think there is a lot of truth to this. As a kid, I was OBSESSED with the things grown-ups did. I loved my mom's heels and make-up, but I hated plastic "dress-up" heels and that cheap dollar store "make-up" (nasty smelling Chapstick and peel-off nail polish) for kids. It wasn't about being pretty so much as it was about experiencing the real deal, not a cheap plastic knock-off.
I also had a game I imaginatively dubbed "College", where I'd sit at the kitchen table with a grown-up looking book (one of my dad's Plato volumes, I liked it because the cover was cloth and non-descript) and a notepad and scribble furiously and say things like "Oh no! I'll NEVER get this paper done!"
Rambling anecdotes aside, I used to do my little cousin's make-up, but while we were doing it I'd run her through a kind of affirmation catechism - "Why do we put make-up on?" "Because it's fun!" "Do we look just as pretty without it?" "Yes!" "Do we HAVE to wear make-up?" "Not unless we want to!" etc.
I also had a game I imaginatively dubbed "College", where I'd sit at the kitchen table with a grown-up looking book (one of my dad's Plato volumes, I liked it because the cover was cloth and non-descript) and a notepad and scribble furiously and say things like "Oh no! I'll NEVER get this paper done!"
Rambling anecdotes aside, I used to do my little cousin's make-up, but while we were doing it I'd run her through a kind of affirmation catechism - "Why do we put make-up on?" "Because it's fun!" "Do we look just as pretty without it?" "Yes!" "Do we HAVE to wear make-up?" "Not unless we want to!" etc.
@mustlovebooknerd: Terry Richardson is gross and so are these pictures, and they have nothing to do with the show, and they are gross.
But, to your point - it's in GQ. Which is a magazine marketed to straight men. A magazine marketed to straight men doing a story on Glee, a show whose demographic skews heavily female, probably because Fox paid them a buttload of money. So I'm thinking someone over at the GQ HQ thought "Hmm, how are we going to get dudes to read this? I know, we'll get that skeevy photographer Terry Richardson to take some half naked pictures of the chicks. That oughtta do it."
But, to your point - it's in GQ. Which is a magazine marketed to straight men. A magazine marketed to straight men doing a story on Glee, a show whose demographic skews heavily female, probably because Fox paid them a buttload of money. So I'm thinking someone over at the GQ HQ thought "Hmm, how are we going to get dudes to read this? I know, we'll get that skeevy photographer Terry Richardson to take some half naked pictures of the chicks. That oughtta do it."
As someone who works support and occasionally has to call support, I can see this both ways. It totally sucks calling a support line knowing you know more than the jerk on the other end. It also totally sucks that most IT support jobs, especially 1st level ones, pay less than dirt. Anyone with the knowledge you crave and desire in your support personnel is way too smart to take that job.
Weird that for both sexes, straight people are more likely to mention the things they do (hunt, poker, hang out with buddies/girlfriends, horseback riding) and gays are more likely to mention the media they like.
Also, why do so many straight women mention their passports and couches in their profiles?
Also, why do so many straight women mention their passports and couches in their profiles?
My absolute favorite Christine O'Donnell insanity is something she said on Bill O'Reilly's show 3 years ago:
"They are -- they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains."
Just...just let that roll around in your mind for a few minutes.
"They are -- they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains."
Just...just let that roll around in your mind for a few minutes.
@The HZA.: "You're good." "You're VERY good."
@Deneuverly: Yeah, at 17 I had to explain to a (male) friend that girls don't pee from their vaginas.
@siriana: Wha? Conception is the fun part. How do you not know that!
