Haven't you seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
I think if someone was to simply eliminate images/experiences from their mind, they wouldn't learn from anything. They'd end up repeatedly going back to the grossly overweight woman -- and hell, why not just marry her? I'm sure she has a wonderful personality.
From the/. description:
An Apollo application can connect automatically to online data or services when an Internet connection is detected, with new components automatically downloaded and integrated. I'd be leaning on the side of a realist. Spam, popups, and malware are increasing at an alarming rate and now we're going to provide them an easy way to infest macs as well as windows PCs? An equivalent product I can think of is ActiveX (of course, sans automatic update and persistent execution). Didn't we learn our lesson with that? How many porn dialers have you removed from unsavvy friends' computers?
Recently I've been noticing a trend among console and hand-held gaming companies involving attempts at getting their hooks set in older generations and other consumers not normally categorized as gamers. With Nintendo products I've seen an increase in "targeted" games such as Brain Age; however, Sony seems to be following the idea that game devices should be movie/music/etc capable as well. For example, one of the seemingly major sales pitches of the base-model PS3 was its "low-cost" Blu-Ray player.
Can you comment on how well Sony's strategies has been working, and what other ideas are being pursued? Also, if my interpretations of Sony's strategies have been incorrect, then please feel free to correct me.
It's the only feature distinguishing it from other prebuilt-computers, bar case skins. There's a reason I mentioned building my own anyways; it's usually much cheaper for an equivalent system. The only time I've seen any reason to think about buying prebuilt is when they include components that are exclusively sold via one vendor for a few months.
I like my computers the same as I like my cars: don't look like much, but perform like a beast. The rest just seems a little too much like ego-stroking rice-rocketry.
Okay, so I went to check out the "pretty damn gorgeous", saw their site, and clicked on the arrow for the XX. Looking towards the bottom of the page I saw the best thing ever:
Preloaded with a C64 emulator, containing more than 50 classic games
Why do you need all that processing power for 50 classic C64 games? I mean, don't get me wrong, I love C64 games. But why would I buy a quad-core, 2xGPU computer for that? I was kinda hoping for a computer more in the spirit of the original commodore (of course updated), not just another prebuilt set of computers. I'd rather just buy the C64 DTV and continue building my own computers...
OH WAIT! You're wrong. Fetal stem cells are not taken from would-be-birthed babies. They're taken from babies that are already to-be-aborted. So let's think here, "kill the baby and get nothing out of it" OR "kill the baby and get research material". I don't care if you're against abortion, the baby is going to die legally anyways.
Also, if you're going to contest fetal stem cell research, you can't say that it's seen no progress because it's people like you that have been blocking it with claims that it's killing would-be babies.
Actually I think you're right. It's been quite a few years since I really looked into it. Thanks:)
But even so, according to the article you pop your SIM card into the SkyQube to get it working. That being the case, seems Verizon customers are SOL anyways.
Most cell-phone companies are extremely protective of anything they seem to think is theirs (phones they sell you, SIM cards, etc). They will be unhappy if you get it to work.
The problem that arises is most cell-providers use a white-list of ESNs. For example, if you move your SIM card from a Verizon phone to an unbranded, direct-from-manufacturer phone, your will get rejected of service because the ESN isn't in that whitelist.
If nothing else, that "response" seems to be more of a paraphrase than anything else, with a few links that are on the original anyways. And obviously the comment quoted by CRN doesn't understand the problem from the shoes of the OEMs.
Seriously, is anyone else tired of all these random companies entering into the cell phone design/manufacturing industry? I'm fairly certain that all the available phones have more than enough features for everyday users. I'm one of few people I know that even cares about changing ring-tones, much less browsing web, etc.
What we need is not more phones, but rather better cell services. If we get services that allow customers to cheaply use features available on the existing phones, we won't need every other shop making their own. For example, I have yet to see a single Verizon-sold (and as such included on Verizon's whitelist) phone that allows picture transfer via bluetooth.
Then what would be the point? If you could match the speed once it got past the snail-crawl, why wouldn't you just use that technology instead?
So assuming this craft would use the same technique for deceleration, once this thing got to its destination would it have to boomerang around the local star a few times before it could slow to a speed more conducive to deboarding? Or can we just expect that by the time this thing would even have accelerated enough to be useful in the first place, all human passengers would have died of boredom/life-support-system exhaustion?
Obviously Microsoft prefers the market to use their software even if it's pirated, rather than the alternative: the use of free software. The article doesn't even mention free alternatives. As such, I believe the clause "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else" was wildly misconstrued in the/. posting. Microsoft is may be anti-FOSS, but that doesn't mean it's all they ever talk/think about.
I think people were just too horrified by the idea of countless obese avatars rolling around online. How could anyone think of porn with that mental image?... Don't answer that. Please.
You are forgetting, of course, that in America everybody is innocent until proven guilty -- except in the cases that either they're a terrorist or they're not a citizen. Being that AT&T's execs are all "patriotic" citizens, there is no question that they were "helping" the government fight freedo--i mean terrorism.
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Haven't you seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
I think if someone was to simply eliminate images/experiences from their mind, they wouldn't learn from anything. They'd end up repeatedly going back to the grossly overweight woman -- and hell, why not just marry her? I'm sure she has a wonderful personality.
It's really too bad that Linux won't get "upgraded" to v3.
An Apollo application can connect automatically to online data or services when an Internet connection is detected, with new components automatically downloaded and integrated. I'd be leaning on the side of a realist. Spam, popups, and malware are increasing at an alarming rate and now we're going to provide them an easy way to infest macs as well as windows PCs?
An equivalent product I can think of is ActiveX (of course, sans automatic update and persistent execution). Didn't we learn our lesson with that? How many porn dialers have you removed from unsavvy friends' computers?
If only DoA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball was available for the PS3... Bikini Teams playing bikini games. Who needs beer to watch that?
Recently I've been noticing a trend among console and hand-held gaming companies involving attempts at getting their hooks set in older generations and other consumers not normally categorized as gamers. With Nintendo products I've seen an increase in "targeted" games such as Brain Age; however, Sony seems to be following the idea that game devices should be movie/music/etc capable as well. For example, one of the seemingly major sales pitches of the base-model PS3 was its "low-cost" Blu-Ray player.
Can you comment on how well Sony's strategies has been working, and what other ideas are being pursued? Also, if my interpretations of Sony's strategies have been incorrect, then please feel free to correct me.
It's the only feature distinguishing it from other prebuilt-computers, bar case skins. There's a reason I mentioned building my own anyways; it's usually much cheaper for an equivalent system. The only time I've seen any reason to think about buying prebuilt is when they include components that are exclusively sold via one vendor for a few months.
I like my computers the same as I like my cars: don't look like much, but perform like a beast. The rest just seems a little too much like ego-stroking rice-rocketry.
Preloaded with a C64 emulator, containing more than 50 classic games
Why do you need all that processing power for 50 classic C64 games? I mean, don't get me wrong, I love C64 games. But why would I buy a quad-core, 2xGPU computer for that? I was kinda hoping for a computer more in the spirit of the original commodore (of course updated), not just another prebuilt set of computers. I'd rather just buy the C64 DTV and continue building my own computers...
The next part is to admit that when they cannot buy a product, they steal the idea instead.
OH WAIT! You're wrong. Fetal stem cells are not taken from would-be-birthed babies. They're taken from babies that are already to-be-aborted. So let's think here, "kill the baby and get nothing out of it" OR "kill the baby and get research material". I don't care if you're against abortion, the baby is going to die legally anyways.
Also, if you're going to contest fetal stem cell research, you can't say that it's seen no progress because it's people like you that have been blocking it with claims that it's killing would-be babies.
Actually I think you're right. It's been quite a few years since I really looked into it. Thanks :)
But even so, according to the article you pop your SIM card into the SkyQube to get it working. That being the case, seems Verizon customers are SOL anyways.
I agree with you, except for one thing:
Most cell-phone companies are extremely protective of anything they seem to think is theirs (phones they sell you, SIM cards, etc). They will be unhappy if you get it to work.
The problem that arises is most cell-providers use a white-list of ESNs. For example, if you move your SIM card from a Verizon phone to an unbranded, direct-from-manufacturer phone, your will get rejected of service because the ESN isn't in that whitelist.
Okay, so universes are bubbles inside a pot of boiling water? Wouldn't that imply that there is something outside of the universe?
...Or is he just testing how far he can go before people stop the "OMG! It's Hawking! Everything he says is right." crap?
If nothing else, that "response" seems to be more of a paraphrase than anything else, with a few links that are on the original anyways. And obviously the comment quoted by CRN doesn't understand the problem from the shoes of the OEMs.
Apple? Trolltech? And now, Google?
Seriously, is anyone else tired of all these random companies entering into the cell phone design/manufacturing industry? I'm fairly certain that all the available phones have more than enough features for everyday users. I'm one of few people I know that even cares about changing ring-tones, much less browsing web, etc.
What we need is not more phones, but rather better cell services. If we get services that allow customers to cheaply use features available on the existing phones, we won't need every other shop making their own. For example, I have yet to see a single Verizon-sold (and as such included on Verizon's whitelist) phone that allows picture transfer via bluetooth.
Then what would be the point? If you could match the speed once it got past the snail-crawl, why wouldn't you just use that technology instead?
So assuming this craft would use the same technique for deceleration, once this thing got to its destination would it have to boomerang around the local star a few times before it could slow to a speed more conducive to deboarding? Or can we just expect that by the time this thing would even have accelerated enough to be useful in the first place, all human passengers would have died of boredom/life-support-system exhaustion?
Maybe it's because with the lack of "good games" people still need ways to numb their minds.
I think people were just too horrified by the idea of countless obese avatars rolling around online. How could anyone think of porn with that mental image? ... Don't answer that. Please.
You are forgetting, of course, that in America everybody is innocent until proven guilty -- except in the cases that either they're a terrorist or they're not a citizen. Being that AT&T's execs are all "patriotic" citizens, there is no question that they were "helping" the government fight freedo--i mean terrorism.
Does that mean goth is the new emo? Or black is the new pink? O, what a horrible, horrible world.