Comment Janeway was Terrible (Score 0) 618
Most annoying character played by the most annoying actress with the most annoying voice.
Comment Firefox sucks (Score 0) 807
Firefox turned into a slow, unstable piece of shit when they copied chromes tabs in the title bar thing. And then shortly after they started an extremely short development cycle that the only purpose of is to break your add ons every couple weeks.
Use chrome, opera our even internet explorer. Fuck firefox!
Comment April 1 (Score 0) 516
They are a little early (or perhaps late)
Comment Piracy can help smaller bands (Score 0) 463
As a broke ass grad sudent my appetite for metal is significantly greater than my budget. I realize that it is very important to support smaller metal bands because most of them have to work an actual job in order to not starve. Whenever a band I like tours I always try to go see them. Which is rare because most of my favorite bands are european and don't tour canada often. Whenever I can afford it I spend a bunch of money on cds from smaller bands. I won't buy a cd from a big band (unless its blind guardian) because they don't need my money.
I am pretty sure smaller bands survive through piracy (either standard bit torrent downloads or youtube posts). Its like the mix tape trading in the eighties (only better). I would not have found many of my favorite bands if not for piracy.
Now that the conservative party is going full retard on its quest to make Canada like America. It its only a mater of time before they pass some retarded copyright legislation. Maybe I should relearn some french and move to Switzerland.
The End of Paper Books 669
Hugh Pickens writes "Books are on their way to extinction, writes Kevin Kelly, adding that we are in a special moment when paper books are plentiful and cheap that will not last beyond the end of this century. 'It seems hard to believe now, but within a few generations, seeing an actual paper book will be as rare for most people as seeing an actual lion.' But a prudent society keeps at least one specimen of all it makes, so Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, has decided that we should keep a copy of every book that Google and Amazon scan so that somewhere in the world there was at least one physical copy to represent the millions of digital copies. That way, if anyone ever wondered if the digital book's text had become corrupted or altered, they could refer back to the physical book that was archived somewhere safe. The books are being stored in cardboard boxes, stacked five high on a pallet wrapped in plastic, stored 40,000 strong in a shipping container, inside a metal warehouse on a dead-end industrial street near the railroad tracks in Richmond California. In this nondescript and 'nothing valuable here' building, Kahle hopes to house 10 million books — about the contents of a world-class university library. 'It still amazes me that after 20 years the only publicly available back up of the internet is the privately funded Internet Archive. The only broad archive of television and radio broadcasts is the same organization,' writes Kelly. 'They are now backing up the backups of books. Someday we'll realize the precocious wisdom of it all and Brewster Kahle will be seen as a hero.'"
Comment How should sony compensate their customers? (Score 0) 386
a free xbox 360
Comment what happened to you Samsung (Score 0) 515
what the fuck samsung, you used to be cool
Comment They should've used John Petrucci instead (Score 0) 188
Nothing inspires technical innovation like a bitchin guitar solo
Comment My problem with SGU (Score 0) 762
Episode ending musical montages, they're just awful. You can use them once a season (at most!). Leave that garbage for shitty teenage girl dramas.
Comment adblock extension (Score -1, Troll) 142
its about fucking time
Comment Re:Needed one when watching The Wire (Score 1) 487
I didn't need the subtitles.... maybe i should apply
Comment Re:Major fixes (Score 1) 100
it was easy once I realized the prompts telling you which way to move the sticks were bullshit and just tried to keep the bitch straight with the nose pointed down a little
Comment Re:Still alive (Score 1) 763
"Taste the meat not the heat"
fuck charcoal
Comment Ass Pennies (Score 1) 594
You have to watch out for those ass pennies. Thats why I don't handle pennies anymore.
A Hyper-Velocity Impact In the Asteroid Belt? 114
astroengine writes "Astronomers have spotted something rather odd in the asteroid belt. It looks like a comet, but it's got a circular orbit, similar to an asteroid. Whether it's an asteroid or a comet, it has a long, comet-like tail, suggesting something is being vented into space. Some experts think it could be a very rare comet/asteroid hybrid being heated by the sun, but there's an even more exciting possibility: It could be the first ever observation of two asteroids colliding in the asteroid belt."
