Broadcasters would have never adopted Closed Captioning technology unless the government forced them to...And mforbes is banging a Libertarian socialist gavel while talking about adopting Closed Captions on web content??
Just goes to show you that the hearing impaired can be just as fucking ignorant as any Cletus T. Jigglebelly you'd see on Jerry Springer.
Honestly, I still miss the trackballs of the 1xx Powerbooks, as well as the recessed trackballs of the Duos.
They had the best ergonomic experience of any laptop pointing devices ever. The size and mass of the ball, the position of the buttons...Just outstanding.
I miss the Trackball on the 100-series Powerboook
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That and cherry fizzies instant drink tablets, even though it always made me barf.
I had to laugh at the CGI footage. I think in order to be realistic, they should have shown them shaking apart their instrumentation package or bouncing off the rover in a botched landing and bursting into flames.
Anyone that has operated a remote-controlled plane or heli kit will look at that animation, roll their eyes and say "Yeah right."
If you aren't that impressed with your 8600's LCD screen...You might have a lower spec Hitachi fru. The 8600's shipped with Samsung LCDs get consistant raves...Hitachi boos.
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Robotech Cyclones haven't aged very well
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All of those 1980's wedged surfaces are fugly.
Besides, the nerd factor of riding any sci-fi reproduction pretty much means you will never get laid again...Ever.;P
Hopefully, the Australian government and businesses will take new notice about their nation's reputation as a SPAM haven.
I've read NANAE threads where my fellow American Sysadmins have configured their mail servers to deny/bounce/devnull any e-mail with the.au domain suffix anywhere in the headers...As well as blacklisting entire IP blocks registered in Australia.
Oy...Aussie SPAM is almost as annoying as the crap we get from China and Russia!
Basically, if your business model allows people convert stolen credit card dollars into Beenz/Flooze and let people buy worthless shit at the Disney store...The Secret Service is gonna leave your company alone.
But if your business model allows people convert stolen credit card dollars into bulk precious metals, aka something of real value...You're in for it.
- Female crewmembers in miniskirts and go-go boots...And lots of 'em.
- Female Yeomen who serve (Deep echoing voice) *SPAAACE COFFEE* in futuristic little blue styrofoam cups!
- Female Yeomen on the bridge who immediately cling to the Captain's chest at the drop of a hat. "Warp three??!? Oh! My hair! **CLING**"
- Sleazy saxaphone music every time a female Yeomen enters/leaves the room.
- I'm stealing this from the original "Lost in Space" series because it was just such a 1960's housewife's dream-come-true: *SPAAACE LAUNDRY*
Put the clothes in a hopper...Push a few buttons: The clothes come out seconds later washed AND dried AND pressed AND folded...AND individually WRAPPED IN PLASTIC!
(Of course, the Yeomen would have to do this, because laundry is women's work.)
- Food replicator serves multicolor Playdough cubes with dyed celery.
- Bridge chairs and other starship furniture that are conspicuously not fastened to the deck.
- An alcoholic Chief Engineer who sits at the controls of a matter/antimatter engine.
- Turbolifts with up/down/left/right motion indicators.
- Big-ass blinky cube 'o' lucite buttons on control panels.
- One bridge display showing a holographic version of the Mahir "I Kiss You!" web page with a counter of nine hundred thousand billion hits.
- Sulu's ever-so-cool robotic console viewing device...Which was only shown once in motion.
- The goosenecked "War of the Worlds"-style viewers with the 2" screens from TOS pilot.
- The Enterprise is that cheesy first design of Gene Rodenberry's...With the globe instead of the saucer.
(Think of a bastard spawn between the Enterprise-C with ship from the cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats in Space")
- Sullen, pimply teen parking attendant in the shuttlebay.
- An explaination for the three seperate slider controls in the transporter room that have to be brought down simultaniously.
- One episode only. On the first voyage, they visit "The Gamsters" planet...Are kidnapped and become Thralls...And are all killed after a sum wager of 275 Quatloos.
The Providers...Low on cash...License their own likenesses to Spencer Gifts as head-shop novelty lamps.
- The Enterprise delivers Dick Clark's brain to run the underground female Imorg society on Sigma Draconis 6...The brain outlasts the Morg/Imorg culture...The systems sun...And subsequently the heat-death of the universe.
Please feel free to add!
kendrickDAMNNOSPAM@biggeek.com...Do the usual removal.
Webcam images are bad enough on a stationary platform with constant lighting...
And you want to put a webcam on a moving, vibrating bicycle? Is there really a web audience for hundreds of blurry, badly contrasted and essentially unrecognizable images?
Follow the lessons from Critical Mass. Stick with a decent handheld digital camera.
Oh yeah...Mounting it on the bike is a bad idea. From a photo composition POV as well as from a mechanical one.
"No, it's YOUR turn."
"No, it's YOUR turn."
"No, it's YOUR turn."
"No, it's YOUR turn."
...
-The Talos IV Keepers...Realizing that illusion can only do so much.
"IT" is a Gyro-stable commuter OR Cherry 2000!
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When the device was turned on, behind closed doors, laughter can be heard:
Assuming this device was actally DEMONSTRATED IN USE in a room...It's probably not using fan blades (personal helicopter) or ducted fans (personal skirted hovercraft)...The thrust required to lift a person displaces a LOT of air...And that means NOISE!
(And not too smart to fire up in anything other than LARGE space....But the dimensions of the meeting space are not mentioned.)
The Metro model I imagine an alternative-energy Scooter with some kind of stablization gyro...Think of an untippable Zzap electric scooter. The Metro would provide low speed city transportation for metro commuters.
Think of a two wheeled iMac that your Mom could ride.
(Considering that you could fit 4 in every space a standard car would take up...In traffic and parking...One would need to redefine those parameters)
The Pro model would be a higher-speed seated/enclosed two-wheeled untippable vehicle.
The latter brings along the same liabilities as a conventional motorcycle on freeway traffic.
But the former...The Metro...In the version I presuppose...Could be VERY popular in cities. Especially in California. And even MORE especially in San Francisco.
Man...A technological advance letting the visually impaired see enough to simply navigate the real world.
Maybe to see enough to go to the bathroom, or get a drink out of the fridge.
Jesus, guys...Are you honestly concerned that there's an nVida chipset involved so that the blind can play Unreal Tournament? Yeesh!
I remember seeing a PBS Nova episode LONG ago...Where a congenitally deaf girl was surgically fitted with an electonic aural implant.
It was amazing to watch her as she heard her own voice for the first time! There was not a dry eye in the house!
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Broadcasters would have never adopted Closed Captioning technology unless the government forced them to...And mforbes is banging a Libertarian socialist gavel while talking about adopting Closed Captions on web content??
Just goes to show you that the hearing impaired can be just as fucking ignorant as any Cletus T. Jigglebelly you'd see on Jerry Springer.
Now you're getting into evil lair territory...
The price point is down to what I feel it should be, the bugs have been shaken out, and I've got a large catalog of pre-reviewed games to choose from.
In 2001 I bought a Dreamcast bundle for $100 on close-out and had my choice of Dreamcast games for $5 a pop.
Being an early adopter in the VG console arena is just not worth the price or the bother.
In five years, I'll pick up a PS3 or an XBox 360 for a hundred bucks and find out what the fuss is all about.
Honestly, I still miss the trackballs of the 1xx Powerbooks, as well as the recessed trackballs of the Duos.
They had the best ergonomic experience of any laptop pointing devices ever. The size and mass of the ball, the position of the buttons...Just outstanding.
That and cherry fizzies instant drink tablets, even though it always made me barf.
"Karloff did not deserve to smell my shit! That limey cocksucker can rot in Hell for all I care!"
Make sure you shake all the bugs out by then...OK guys?
The login mechinism can be bypassed, it is just a matter of time.
You sound like the Bork Queen trying to get into Commander Data's brain.
My favorite cheesy quote from the laser wielding Laura Linney just before she blasts the apes:
"Put them on the endangered species list!"
I had to laugh at the CGI footage. I think in order to be realistic, they should have shown them shaking apart their instrumentation package or bouncing off the rover in a botched landing and bursting into flames.
Anyone that has operated a remote-controlled plane or heli kit will look at that animation, roll their eyes and say "Yeah right."
If you aren't that impressed with your 8600's LCD screen...You might have a lower spec Hitachi fru. The 8600's shipped with Samsung LCDs get consistant raves...Hitachi boos.
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All of those 1980's wedged surfaces are fugly.
;P
Besides, the nerd factor of riding any sci-fi reproduction pretty much means you will never get laid again...Ever.
You think Morgan Webb has a huge rack??!?!?
Nigga, please!
SFSU's President just informed the head of their engineering program they're planning on shutting down the college of engineering entirely.
And right before spring break to minimize the protest.
Hopefully, the Australian government and businesses will take new notice about their nation's reputation as a SPAM haven.
.au domain suffix anywhere in the headers...As well as blacklisting entire IP blocks registered in Australia.
I've read NANAE threads where my fellow American Sysadmins have configured their mail servers to deny/bounce/devnull any e-mail with the
Oy...Aussie SPAM is almost as annoying as the crap we get from China and Russia!
And news.admin.net-abuse.email is always an entertaining and informative Usenet newsgroup to read.
Just fire up your newsreader and...
Oh, look. New porn in the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica groups...
Never mind!
Note the pantload of Google geek jobs just posted on craigslist.com last Thursday.
Personally, I found the obsessed Mathematician Max in Pi was a pretty good approximation of a lot of geeks I know.
(Except for the drilling-in-the-head thing and snot coming out of thei computers.)
But then again...It was an Indie film and not Hollywood.
Basically, if your business model allows people convert stolen credit card dollars into Beenz/Flooze and let people buy worthless shit at the Disney store...The Secret Service is gonna leave your company alone. But if your business model allows people convert stolen credit card dollars into bulk precious metals, aka something of real value...You're in for it.
- Female crewmembers in miniskirts and go-go boots...And lots of 'em.
...Do the usual removal.
- Female Yeomen who serve (Deep echoing voice) *SPAAACE COFFEE* in futuristic little blue styrofoam cups!
- Female Yeomen on the bridge who immediately cling to the Captain's chest at the drop of a hat. "Warp three??!? Oh! My hair! **CLING**"
- Sleazy saxaphone music every time a female Yeomen enters/leaves the room.
- I'm stealing this from the original "Lost in Space" series because it was just such a 1960's housewife's dream-come-true: *SPAAACE LAUNDRY*
Put the clothes in a hopper...Push a few buttons: The clothes come out seconds later washed AND dried AND pressed AND folded...AND individually WRAPPED IN PLASTIC!
(Of course, the Yeomen would have to do this, because laundry is women's work.)
- Food replicator serves multicolor Playdough cubes with dyed celery.
- Bridge chairs and other starship furniture that are conspicuously not fastened to the deck.
- An alcoholic Chief Engineer who sits at the controls of a matter/antimatter engine.
- Turbolifts with up/down/left/right motion indicators.
- Big-ass blinky cube 'o' lucite buttons on control panels.
- One bridge display showing a holographic version of the Mahir "I Kiss You!" web page with a counter of nine hundred thousand billion hits.
- Sulu's ever-so-cool robotic console viewing device...Which was only shown once in motion.
- The goosenecked "War of the Worlds"-style viewers with the 2" screens from TOS pilot.
- The Enterprise is that cheesy first design of Gene Rodenberry's...With the globe instead of the saucer.
(Think of a bastard spawn between the Enterprise-C with ship from the cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats in Space")
- Sullen, pimply teen parking attendant in the shuttlebay.
- An explaination for the three seperate slider controls in the transporter room that have to be brought down simultaniously.
- One episode only. On the first voyage, they visit "The Gamsters" planet...Are kidnapped and become Thralls...And are all killed after a sum wager of 275 Quatloos.
The Providers...Low on cash...License their own likenesses to Spencer Gifts as head-shop novelty lamps.
- The Enterprise delivers Dick Clark's brain to run the underground female Imorg society on Sigma Draconis 6...The brain outlasts the Morg/Imorg culture...The systems sun...And subsequently the heat-death of the universe.
Please feel free to add!
kendrickDAMNNOSPAM@biggeek.com
Webcam images are bad enough on a stationary platform with constant lighting...
And you want to put a webcam on a moving, vibrating bicycle? Is there really a web audience for hundreds of blurry, badly contrasted and essentially unrecognizable images?
Follow the lessons from Critical Mass. Stick with a decent handheld digital camera.
Oh yeah...Mounting it on the bike is a bad idea. From a photo composition POV as well as from a mechanical one.
"No, it's YOUR turn."
"No, it's YOUR turn."
"No, it's YOUR turn."
"No, it's YOUR turn."
...
-The Talos IV Keepers...Realizing that illusion can only do so much.
When the device was turned on, behind closed doors, laughter can be heard:
Assuming this device was actally DEMONSTRATED IN USE in a room...It's probably not using fan blades (personal helicopter) or ducted fans (personal skirted hovercraft)...The thrust required to lift a person displaces a LOT of air...And that means NOISE!
(And not too smart to fire up in anything other than LARGE space....But the dimensions of the meeting space are not mentioned.)
The Metro model I imagine an alternative-energy Scooter with some kind of stablization gyro...Think of an untippable Zzap electric scooter. The Metro would provide low speed city transportation for metro commuters.
Think of a two wheeled iMac that your Mom could ride.
(Considering that you could fit 4 in every space a standard car would take up...In traffic and parking...One would need to redefine those parameters)
The Pro model would be a higher-speed seated/enclosed two-wheeled untippable vehicle.
The latter brings along the same liabilities as a conventional motorcycle on freeway traffic.
But the former...The Metro...In the version I presuppose...Could be VERY popular in cities. Especially in California. And even MORE especially in San Francisco.
Man...A technological advance letting the visually impaired see enough to simply navigate the real world. Maybe to see enough to go to the bathroom, or get a drink out of the fridge. Jesus, guys...Are you honestly concerned that there's an nVida chipset involved so that the blind can play Unreal Tournament? Yeesh! I remember seeing a PBS Nova episode LONG ago...Where a congenitally deaf girl was surgically fitted with an electonic aural implant. It was amazing to watch her as she heard her own voice for the first time! There was not a dry eye in the house!