okay first of all, who cares about wheat? When fungi start attacking air, call me. And second...what if some of those pills are made of wheat though? hehehe.
and if they do have something to hide, legal or just embarrassing, they're all gonna move to the US lol. At least it will be really simple to track all the citizens when 90% of them leave and there's almost nobody left. But you know what, I don't think we need a bunch of criminal or freaky/kinky/weird brits here rofl.
yeah and plus, if you're going to run an extremely illegal business, you might as well go the extra mile and not pay taxes on it lol. You know, don't wanna get audited or anything. It's like if you're robbing a bank, you know what, punch someone in the face cuz you're already committing a felony.
naw, if they win, people will just bomb their HQ like they did to Paypal lol. Paypal's user satisfaction was what like 42%? I think the RIAA's may be in the single digits. Their artists hate them, customers hate them...I bet the satisfaction rating is like -5% cuz people inside the company that hate it too are counted seperately:-P
well this actually wouldn't work like they said. It wouldn't work at all because once the signal is en route to your vocal cords, you're going to say it. It's an order to move your muscles. There's no avoiding saying it unless your brain very quickly sends a "cancel" signal before they actually start vibrating. But if you got used to keep sending stop and go signals so it was silent, it would vocalize the really stupid stuff that you almost say but then decide not to. So it would probably end up saying what you're thinking some of the time instead of what you'd actually say, but only the stupid, offensive stuff you stop yourself from saying at the last second. Pretty dumb invention. Oh and did I mention it wouldn't work at all anyway? These people have no idea how speech even works. People automatically alter the pitch and inflection using their mouth. If you just take what the vocal cords are producing, it would be nonsensical noise. Like a third of all letter sounds for example use the same vocal cord frequency and pattern but are altered on the way out by your mouth and tongue. This idea will never work.
yeah, the more people competing, the lower the prices. And the #1 thing that SSDs need right now is a price drop! Instead of 1 or 2 companies releasing a massive bunch of flash chips all connected to each other practically as a joke or concept product for like $1000+ now hopefully they'll get serious and start developing something that can rival a normal hard drive's price. 160GB is fine for me when it comes to a system drive. I have a 250 and a 500GB storage drive for videos and files and all that but the system drive is where I want a fast reaction. My boot time is horrible cuz of all the hard drive IO.
You gotta be kidding me and FYI, I'm not kidding. A "mac" running Windows is just an overpriced windows PC. By macs can't run 99% of software, I meant actual macs can't run 99% of software. It's kinda sad when being able to run your main competetor's OS is the biggest selling point. And what can macs run that PCs can't? Umm...final cut. That's all I can think of at the moment and I'm happy with the PC version of Adobe Premiere and some Ulead products so yeah, macs are kinda pointless except as some douchey, almost status symbol.
but if you're going for the cheapest machine you can find, I'm sure the manufacturer factored in what like $30-50 for the windows license on it. As for me, I don't want Linux running as slow as Vista so I'd buy a midrange PC instead of the cheapest. It's not like you're going to spend hundreds on software afterwards like a PC so why not spend some $ on a dual core system with some ram and give that penguin some caffeine:D
you should get a crazy ass chinese 3000 mah AAA battery lol. It's a lithium polymer I think. It's like 3.6V for the one I found which would fry it but it's still kinda funny. The litium ion ones I found are 500 mah! Normal ones are around 1000. Oh well, I just gotta mod it somehow and didn't feel like painting it lol.
Btw this MP3 player is actually sending to Logitech Z-5500's and X-530's in my car which are running on an 800 watt inverter lol. For the price, it kicks any car system's ass in quality and probably decibels:D Not that I was planning on using those crappy earbuds with it anyway. I do use it working out though with these huuuuge ass whole ear headphones. They got good bass!
One of the less technically knowledgeable staff points out the lack of standard features as cause for alarm
hey, he's not the only one lol. I don't think they were referring to the fact that it won't run 99% of software out there and is probably a heating nightmare waiting to happen like those giant all in the monitor beasts they call computers. My college had one and it kept overheating so they got rid of it about 3 weeks after they bought it. They always put looks over features and functionality. But really, if you wanted to build a bomb, would you put a bunch of ports and stuff on it?:-P
And to think I actually, seriously just bought my first non-optical MP3 player (as in CD-less) 3 days ago. I got the m250 that was on sale at newegg for $30. That was finally low enough for me. I'm so cheap (and poor). It's really good too if you're looking for one.
Oh really, I think corporate spy would be a simple job. Find out what they want you to do, turn in your company/boss, flip them off as the FBI takes them away, collect the reward and get a new job. Sounds awfully simple to me. If anyone ever asked me to pull some illegal bullshit job like that I'd be like "Hmm, yeah can you repeat that and speak closer to my MP3 recorder?"
This has been around for longer than you might think. See I learned how to do this in chemistry class and made an educational video and ummmm...well the grass never grew back:-P That's an added lesson. I say put this baby on during science class.
Oh and on a more serious note, this rocks cuz I was in high school just 3 year ago and most of the vids we watched were seriously still VHS. The teacher would often update us on corrections due to recent breakthroughs after some videos were done. And we were a pretty rich school! But have you ever seen the pricing on educations vids? They have horrible production values cuz of restricted budgets and since their customer is only non-profit and educational, they charge around $180 per copy for most of them. We even just watched episodes of 20/20 in some classes cuz that was cheaper and had WAY better production. So anything to get us away from that would be fantastic.
not where I live it isn't. Road Runner just went to 8 up 0.5 down. That's not a typo. 8 megabits! DSL is a joke compared to that. Even fiber isn't that much better. Do I want the file in 10 seconds or 5? Anyway, I've never seen that because I'm in a similar situation. Either they're throttling me for using about 250+ megabits this year in p2p traffic, mostly legal btw, or they screwed something up when they were building the new neighborhood behind me and wiring in the cable cuz that's about when the slowness started. I get about 1 megabit now and it pisses me off. It's always that limit at 5:00 PM or 2:00 AM. And if I use a multi-source downloaded like leechget I get the full 850 KB/sec from really, really good sources. So yeah I think they're throttling me or maybe they're pulling some similar scam or something.
you're right, it's exactly like a social security number. Boy, the article sure is right. I hope they never implement that here in the US! We're just not ready for something like that!
is that because naturally, bunkers don't have windows...cuz they're underground. Sorry, couldn't help it.
Anyway, this is a fucking joke. We have better security than this at the hospital where I work and that's just patient records and stuff. Why don't they hire people who know what they're doing instead of picking just whoever off monster.com or whatever idiotic thing they did that resulted in such a pathetic state of security? If I ran the IT systems for them, I'd say you really know what you're doing or you're fired and that's that.
For all the paranoid privacy freaks instead of the realistic people, do you really think the cops are going to just sit there and watch high schoolers walk by from miles away? Like they have time. They do seem to imply that the cops can view it from their car on the way to the place if a crime takes place. If that's the case, yeah they could just sit there while taking radar and tune into it. But then just make it only be able to be be accessed when it's "unlocked" from the HQ. Tada, problem solved.
that's not how it works. Rarely does some evil poltiical overlord try and make some BS law as a false front to do something shady. That's just in the movies. What usually happens is the person has good intentions and then someone later abuses it. That or someone hacks their system and steals all the information. Rarely do we ever see a "the government collected embarrassing info on me and put it on their myspace page for the world to see" like all the paranoid people fear, but boy do we hear the stories about way overly detailed and unnecessary databases getting hacked and all the data stolen!
lol speaking of size, that reminds me somehow of my totally bitchin ninja flash drive I got:P I don't remember what it's actually called but it's about 2cm x 1cm x 1mm. Barely bigger than a micro SD card really. It doesn't fit around the USB port, it just has bare terminals and you stick it between the "clamp" so it contacts. It's so cool! When I first saw it I was like "wow, I could totally hide this in my shoe or something" so yeah you reminded me of that. Those would be great in cuba. It held 2 GB too!
Excuse me? During launch? They're supposed to get into an emergency capsule if something goes wrong during launch? Okay let's just ignore the whole idea of how fast they'd have to be and say they're really, really fast astronauts...how the hell is anyone going to get up out of their seat and into a capsule while they're pulling what like 7 Gs? I'd like to see someone even lift their arm up let alone get up.
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okay first of all, who cares about wheat? When fungi start attacking air, call me. And second...what if some of those pills are made of wheat though? hehehe.
and if they do have something to hide, legal or just embarrassing, they're all gonna move to the US lol. At least it will be really simple to track all the citizens when 90% of them leave and there's almost nobody left. But you know what, I don't think we need a bunch of criminal or freaky/kinky/weird brits here rofl.
yeah and plus, if you're going to run an extremely illegal business, you might as well go the extra mile and not pay taxes on it lol. You know, don't wanna get audited or anything. It's like if you're robbing a bank, you know what, punch someone in the face cuz you're already committing a felony.
naw, if they win, people will just bomb their HQ like they did to Paypal lol. Paypal's user satisfaction was what like 42%? I think the RIAA's may be in the single digits. Their artists hate them, customers hate them...I bet the satisfaction rating is like -5% cuz people inside the company that hate it too are counted seperately :-P
well this actually wouldn't work like they said. It wouldn't work at all because once the signal is en route to your vocal cords, you're going to say it. It's an order to move your muscles. There's no avoiding saying it unless your brain very quickly sends a "cancel" signal before they actually start vibrating. But if you got used to keep sending stop and go signals so it was silent, it would vocalize the really stupid stuff that you almost say but then decide not to. So it would probably end up saying what you're thinking some of the time instead of what you'd actually say, but only the stupid, offensive stuff you stop yourself from saying at the last second. Pretty dumb invention. Oh and did I mention it wouldn't work at all anyway? These people have no idea how speech even works. People automatically alter the pitch and inflection using their mouth. If you just take what the vocal cords are producing, it would be nonsensical noise. Like a third of all letter sounds for example use the same vocal cord frequency and pattern but are altered on the way out by your mouth and tongue. This idea will never work.
yeah, the more people competing, the lower the prices. And the #1 thing that SSDs need right now is a price drop! Instead of 1 or 2 companies releasing a massive bunch of flash chips all connected to each other practically as a joke or concept product for like $1000+ now hopefully they'll get serious and start developing something that can rival a normal hard drive's price. 160GB is fine for me when it comes to a system drive. I have a 250 and a 500GB storage drive for videos and files and all that but the system drive is where I want a fast reaction. My boot time is horrible cuz of all the hard drive IO.
You gotta be kidding me and FYI, I'm not kidding. A "mac" running Windows is just an overpriced windows PC. By macs can't run 99% of software, I meant actual macs can't run 99% of software. It's kinda sad when being able to run your main competetor's OS is the biggest selling point. And what can macs run that PCs can't? Umm...final cut. That's all I can think of at the moment and I'm happy with the PC version of Adobe Premiere and some Ulead products so yeah, macs are kinda pointless except as some douchey, almost status symbol.
but if you're going for the cheapest machine you can find, I'm sure the manufacturer factored in what like $30-50 for the windows license on it. As for me, I don't want Linux running as slow as Vista so I'd buy a midrange PC instead of the cheapest. It's not like you're going to spend hundreds on software afterwards like a PC so why not spend some $ on a dual core system with some ram and give that penguin some caffeine :D
you should get a crazy ass chinese 3000 mah AAA battery lol. It's a lithium polymer I think. It's like 3.6V for the one I found which would fry it but it's still kinda funny. The litium ion ones I found are 500 mah! Normal ones are around 1000. Oh well, I just gotta mod it somehow and didn't feel like painting it lol. :D Not that I was planning on using those crappy earbuds with it anyway. I do use it working out though with these huuuuge ass whole ear headphones. They got good bass!
Btw this MP3 player is actually sending to Logitech Z-5500's and X-530's in my car which are running on an 800 watt inverter lol. For the price, it kicks any car system's ass in quality and probably decibels
And to think I actually, seriously just bought my first non-optical MP3 player (as in CD-less) 3 days ago. I got the m250 that was on sale at newegg for $30. That was finally low enough for me. I'm so cheap (and poor). It's really good too if you're looking for one.
Oh really, I think corporate spy would be a simple job. Find out what they want you to do, turn in your company/boss, flip them off as the FBI takes them away, collect the reward and get a new job. Sounds awfully simple to me. If anyone ever asked me to pull some illegal bullshit job like that I'd be like "Hmm, yeah can you repeat that and speak closer to my MP3 recorder?"
speaking of that, your post implies that you seem biased against biased people ;)
dude I got the sonic the hedgehog 2 and 3 music in my car :D it's awesome! I re-recorded it from my emulator hehehe.
This has been around for longer than you might think. See I learned how to do this in chemistry class and made an educational video and ummmm...well the grass never grew back :-P That's an added lesson. I say put this baby on during science class.
Oh and on a more serious note, this rocks cuz I was in high school just 3 year ago and most of the vids we watched were seriously still VHS. The teacher would often update us on corrections due to recent breakthroughs after some videos were done. And we were a pretty rich school! But have you ever seen the pricing on educations vids? They have horrible production values cuz of restricted budgets and since their customer is only non-profit and educational, they charge around $180 per copy for most of them. We even just watched episodes of 20/20 in some classes cuz that was cheaper and had WAY better production. So anything to get us away from that would be fantastic.
that's funny, I didn't know 13 year olds had accounts on Slashdot
not where I live it isn't. Road Runner just went to 8 up 0.5 down. That's not a typo. 8 megabits! DSL is a joke compared to that. Even fiber isn't that much better. Do I want the file in 10 seconds or 5? Anyway, I've never seen that because I'm in a similar situation. Either they're throttling me for using about 250+ megabits this year in p2p traffic, mostly legal btw, or they screwed something up when they were building the new neighborhood behind me and wiring in the cable cuz that's about when the slowness started. I get about 1 megabit now and it pisses me off. It's always that limit at 5:00 PM or 2:00 AM. And if I use a multi-source downloaded like leechget I get the full 850 KB/sec from really, really good sources. So yeah I think they're throttling me or maybe they're pulling some similar scam or something.
you're right, it's exactly like a social security number. Boy, the article sure is right. I hope they never implement that here in the US! We're just not ready for something like that!
is that because naturally, bunkers don't have windows...cuz they're underground. Sorry, couldn't help it.
Anyway, this is a fucking joke. We have better security than this at the hospital where I work and that's just patient records and stuff. Why don't they hire people who know what they're doing instead of picking just whoever off monster.com or whatever idiotic thing they did that resulted in such a pathetic state of security? If I ran the IT systems for them, I'd say you really know what you're doing or you're fired and that's that.
For all the paranoid privacy freaks instead of the realistic people, do you really think the cops are going to just sit there and watch high schoolers walk by from miles away? Like they have time. They do seem to imply that the cops can view it from their car on the way to the place if a crime takes place. If that's the case, yeah they could just sit there while taking radar and tune into it. But then just make it only be able to be be accessed when it's "unlocked" from the HQ. Tada, problem solved.
that's not how it works. Rarely does some evil poltiical overlord try and make some BS law as a false front to do something shady. That's just in the movies. What usually happens is the person has good intentions and then someone later abuses it. That or someone hacks their system and steals all the information. Rarely do we ever see a "the government collected embarrassing info on me and put it on their myspace page for the world to see" like all the paranoid people fear, but boy do we hear the stories about way overly detailed and unnecessary databases getting hacked and all the data stolen!
yeah, that's the one
I can see it now. "Please send us the info on everyone who might be a terrorist"
lol speaking of size, that reminds me somehow of my totally bitchin ninja flash drive I got :P I don't remember what it's actually called but it's about 2cm x 1cm x 1mm. Barely bigger than a micro SD card really. It doesn't fit around the USB port, it just has bare terminals and you stick it between the "clamp" so it contacts. It's so cool! When I first saw it I was like "wow, I could totally hide this in my shoe or something" so yeah you reminded me of that. Those would be great in cuba. It held 2 GB too!
Excuse me? During launch? They're supposed to get into an emergency capsule if something goes wrong during launch? Okay let's just ignore the whole idea of how fast they'd have to be and say they're really, really fast astronauts...how the hell is anyone going to get up out of their seat and into a capsule while they're pulling what like 7 Gs? I'd like to see someone even lift their arm up let alone get up.