What the hell are they thinking? These awful
popups have actually
genuinely achieved
a new low: even pop-unders and nefarious crap like that have an obvious
way to dismiss the advert.
Apparently it’s also OK to just plaster them all over the content so you
can’t even see it.
You go to the arrow at the bottom right and click “Turn Off
Annotations”. These are Annotations
in the “Ministry Of Love” sense. Oh, you have to do that for every video
by the way. Unlike the
volume control, which of course persists across all videos.
Obviously, YouTube want you to hate them.
Can you please hurry up and actually release a decent A4 e-book reader?
You guys are so
close…
I will pay stupid money.
I can’t quite get over how arrogant his
talk
was. If you’re not sending in kernel patches, that means you’re bad and
all your developers should get jobs elsewhere, apparently. Things like
HAL aren’t “Linux plumbing”, and if you contribute to that, or GNOME in
general, tough luck, since other operating systems can use it. GCC,
binutils, and X.org are OK though, because, well … just because.
As I just noticed on the TV advert:
Universal Pictures will release a special
sing-along edition of the hit movie musical Mamma Mia! in selected
theaters nationwide
I’ve thought of a worse thing than this though: a “wit-a-long” version
of Sex And The City.
Dave Stewart’s American
Prayer makes
we wish I was a Republican[1]. And I don’t even live in the US.
Whittaker: stop it. George from Seinfeld: stop it. Stewart: I told you a
long time ago.
This is almost as bad as Roger Taylor’s
Nazis
(at the very least, read the
lyrics,
if you haven’t - awesome).
[1] a little bit
Things I never expected to read in a prominent Intelligent Design blog:
Sorry if I’m offending anyone but these people disgust me. They’re all
like “I believe in rational inquiry, science, and bearded thunderers
who live in the sky and worry about my immortal soul”. Please. Choose
one or the other but not both.
So there you have it. If you’re a Christian you’d better not be an ID
proponent, and vice versa. Or, of course,
ID has nothing to do with rational enquiry. I’m not sure they really
realised they were saying that.
In March of this year, a customer wrote, “I have attached a Word
document that describes the problem.” (Hey, here’s an idea: Why not
describe the problem in your email message?)
The Word document contained a screenshot.
The screenshot was of an email message.
The email message contained a screenshot.
Bonus remark from the customer liaison: “Once you open the document,
you may need to zoom it further to read it.”
Awesome.
For those wondering how on earth to access an underlying real device
when PulseAudio is enabled (yes, both alsamixer and pavucontrol only
show one mixer control - brilliant!), you can do this:
alsamixer -c 0
Of course, this behaviour isn’t documented anywhere. I don’t know how
people are supposed to discover this.
In case you needed another fatuous reason for supporting Obama, here it
is:
Obama’s Top Ten tunes versus
McCain’s. Apart from the U2 stumble, not bad at all, Barack, not bad.
