Bingowings

It’s weird to not be dead. You end up walking around old buildings not scaring people.

Darth Id said:

TV’s Frink said:

You’re a terrible person. Congratulations.

No.
I’m your conscience.

His conscience is a prick…?

yhwx said:

Bingowings said:

In the early naughties I would have said Apple was worth the extra cost. My 2002 laptop still works fine. But now I would suggest Linux for coding and Chromebooks for general use. I had to get a laptop with windows installed about a month ago to run course software. It’s a brand new top of the range machine and it’s running windows 10 and the bugger takes forever to get it’s buggy ass into gear. Modern Apple build quality is terrible and overpriced. A hackintosh solution might work with some people but to be honest Chrome or Linux is the answer for most user types.

Whenever this topic comes up, all the Linux people come out of the woodwork to suggest Linux. But in reality, there’s not that much to suggest it. User interface and compatibly are worse, the
applications aren’t there. So there just isn’t enough to make the switch, which could be pretty costly.

I think that the computer that most people will be using in the future will not be one like how we think of computers today. There are three main problems with the GUI paradigm of today:

• Management of files
  People don’t know how the filesystem works. And when I say filesystem, I mean the hierarchy of files on a disk. Folders, files, saving, etc. This is why I think auto-save in OS X is a great feature. Managing files in a traditional desktop system is burdensome to most users. This is why something like the Chromebook or iPad is better for people.
• Management of windows
  Most people just full screen them anyway. A full window management system is not required.
• General hard-to-use-ness
  The traditional GUI has built up so much UI debt that it’s hard and/or bad to remove it. So, to get rid of all this debt, you need to build a whole new system that doesn’t have all the hang ups of the traditional PC. For example, when people update their PCs/Macs, they are always very cautious when doing so. Updating an iOS device is done so almost carelessly. So, needles UI debt should be no more.

This is why I’m betting on the iPad for the future of computing. Capital F, Capital C. It removes all of this UI debt in what I see is the best way possible. It’s finally a computer for the rest of us.

Anything you can do on a PC or Mac you can do just as well on a Linux machine with hardly any worries about viruses or malware and with lightning fast speed. It runs on any kind of machine (cheap second hand laptops go like a bomb) and it’s free and won’t spam you for updates you don’t want.
It comes in loads of different styles and shapes and can be made to look whatever way you please.

For your casual net user, office app user etc chromebook is the thing.
Particularly if like my mum your finger tips don’t work so you can’t use a fondle pad.

My pal has regained consciousness and is having come to terms with not being dead.

Because men never get prudish or uptight on here but women almost certainly would? Yeah… have I been eating cheese again?🎅

In the early naughties I would have said Apple was worth the extra cost. My 2002 laptop still works fine. But now I would suggest Linux for coding and Chromebooks for general use. I had to get a laptop with windows installed about a month ago to run course software. It’s a brand new top of the range machine and it’s running windows 10 and the bugger takes forever to get it’s buggy ass into gear. Modern Apple build quality is terrible and overpriced. A hackintosh solution might work with some people but to be honest Chrome or Linux is the answer for most user types.

i crosseth the void beyond the mind
the exsufflicate space yond circles timeth
i seeth wh’re oth’rs stumble blindeth
to seeketh a sooth those gents nev’r findeth
et’rnal wisdom is mine own guideth
i am the doct’r

through cosmic wasteth mine own timeth ship flies
to gust the secret source of life
a presence science can’t deny
exists within, outside, behind
the latitude of human minds
i am the doct’r

mine own voyage dissects the course of timeth
“who knoweth?,” thee sayeth
but art thee right?
who is’t searches deep to findeth the lighteth
yond glows so darkly in the night
toward yond pointeth i guideth mine own flight

as fing’rs moveth to endeth mankind
metallic teeth beginneth their grindeth
with sw’rd of sooth i turneth to square
the satanic pow’rs ever there
is thy faith bef’re thy mind?
knoweth me
am i the doct’r?

I thought I was more of an implement, an ancient and versatile agricultural hand tool used to shape the soil, control weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops that sort of thing but dirty and unpleasant.

is it done yet?

DuracellEnergizer said:

FanFiltration said:

Still HOT!

Too boney for my tastes.

Don’t eat the bones then…duh

Imperials do that after enough masturbation.

We made it. I guess I was wrong,
there was no danger at all…

Can we add killing someone with a machine gun to the list? We don’t want their kind in here.

I’m all for doing this sort of thing as a political statement but it’s the off topic pages of a Star Wars forum. It just seems a bit rubbish really. Like mooning people who are into wigs.

What if we are all animals on an alien space farm 😮

Solitaire : Neil Sudoku (Sedaka) It was on a documentary about the chap. It’s really clawingly maudlin stuff. Not really my thing. Captain and Toenail though…yayyy! Now your talking

Normally I would suggest requesting a thread merge but I’m not sure if it’s still possible. Besides I’d imagine that the mods have more pressing troubles. It’s essentially the same topic so could you in future keep your exciting Crispin Dry news to one of the two threads. He is an interesting guy and I have to confess to having some sympathy for the topics he raises. What with me being a raving lefty and all.

I would like to have a proper rational discussion with the person repeatedly vandalising the forum. What’s he get out of it?
It just doesn’t make any sense to me.

The wise men of Gotham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham,_Nottinghamshire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejedQA3KPzQ

I’ve known him since I was 17. He came over from India and we did our foundation art course together. The girls on the course couldn’t pronounce his name so the called him Baloo (after the Jungle Book character). Baloo is also Hindi for Bear and he wasn’t familiar enough with the Kipling story to make the connection and thought it was incredible that all these girls were calling him Bear in Hindi.
The first week we were there it snowed and he hadn’t seen snow before so he just spent the whole time in utter amazement. One day we were parked in a car when a lady friend of mine and her mum saw me in a car and came over to talk to me. When we drove off he was asking me who she was and she was asking her mum who that guy was driving me around. It wasn’t long before he was going to Russia where she worked and then they got married and had two lovely kids. Then her brother (also my friend) met my Indian friend’s sister and fell in love and got married and currently have six kids so I’m this honorary third parent to eight children.
I’ve spent the whole day with this really nasty knot in my stomach. Not knowing what’s going to happen to him and all these connected people.
Thanks for the good wishes.

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Crispin-Glover-on-how-hed-preferred-Back-to-the-Future-to-have-ended/id/18127

So ridiculously young.

Tyrphanax said:
I’d hope to be more than just a dick to him.

You are a human being and your name is Tyrphanax… 😄

A very good friend of mine is currently in the intensive care unit of a hospital in India. I’ve just been talking to his wife his brother in law, one of his children and a very close mutual friend in the Czech republic, to let him know.

He had a heart attack and it’s touch and go. I talked to him before he left and he sounded really depressed and suicidal. Hopefully if he pulls through it will the sort of life changing event that will restore his life but we have 24hrs to find out.

What a morning.