Not trying to be snotty, but can you give a citation for that?
I am not a comic book fan, but think Marvel has been hitting mostly home runs for about a decade now with movies. They're now probably making a _bit_ too many, but I can understand that happening, with them being so successful. 1-2 superhero movies a year would be good, IMHO. A Star Wars movie every year? That sounds like a lot, even if they're all good (which I suspect they won't be).
Though I actually often use screen sharing for things like this. Heck, I use screen sharing (built into OS X and probably every other modern GUI) to another machine in my office, to use my preferred keyboard/trackball!
BASIC was an interpreted language initially. That meant you to type in little snippets of your program, even individual expressions, to see how or if they did what was expected. If you typed in a program and there was a syntax error, you'd know as soon as you hit "return".
Don't you really mean when you hit RUN?
Or do you mean people would literally type individual lines at the prompt one by one, instead of lines with line #s? (Sort of like how you CAN type Python lines directly at the interpreter prompt, but I don't.)
Yes, I'm asking this from the perspective of a MS-based BASIC (AppleSoft, PET, etc.)
I still think I could probably whip out VERY simple scripts in BASIC faster than in either shell script or Python. Once in a while I want to just do a LEFT$() or MID$() kind of thing really easily. (Yeah, I know, there's probably going to be a million responses of how to do that in Python.. I just mean that I already know the syntax for BASIC.)
You don't need something like this anyway. 1) get your bills electronically, and/or set them up for automatic payments 2) use dmachoice.org and optoutprescreen.com to stop virtually all junk mail (former for 'regular' junk mail, latter for the credit card offers). Yes, they're run by the junk mail companies, but they work, and no, I don't work for them.
but Shatner has pretty much always embraced his role in Trek.
I realize you italicized pretty much, but in one of his books, he talks about living out of the back of his truck in the 70s while doing not very good gigs.. IIRC dinner theater and such... being annoyed by Trek.
Though from other replies, maybe mine was a ripoff. I seem to remember mine having stickers, other replies said the sticker ones weren't true Rubik's Cubes.
I don't know what magnets you're talking about, but the one I had was just plastic pieces and could easily be taken apart with a screwdriver.. you gently twist a flathead screwdriver between two pieces, and twist.. Then you can easily pull that piece off. After you take a few off, the rest can pull out with no more screwdriver.
Not all people can go antenna, even out in the boonies.
DSL is even more limited, since you have to be so close to the local phone box... and of course DSL is slower.
(I don't know if I personally am within DSL range, but know that even in cities, people sometimes can't get it. I would switch for cost reasons, as I don't need the speed... At some point.. Currently I'm on a relatively cheap cable bundle.)
I think that's exactly right. The "range" on electric cars is best case (no radio, no climate control, being that dick who won't accelerate on the on-ramp, etc). "Half" is probably a good engineering fudge factor, and a 40 mile practical range doesn't cut it.
You are WAY underestimating it.
I honestly have not driven my smart to absolutely empty, but I do know that its range is very conservative. E.g. I drive 20 miles, and it only takes off 15 miles from the range estimate after that. So I end up going farther than it says when 'full', which usually is in the low-mid 60 miles. (I think the official range is 68 miles.)
Because, as noted, you don't get the _current_ programming.
BTW, I used to do exactly what you did, with e.g. movies or HBO shows.. Just "wait a year" and get them from netflix.
Heck, I don't even stay current with my shows, I'm just now watching this season of "The Following" and "Revolution". But I'm still watching them much sooner (and without commercials) than other places get them.
If you want to watch the commercials on Hulu, great.. and I've used it one or twice in the past for some rare missed show (a local preemption perhaps).
It's not "a better deal" since you can't get all of the current/new programming. (Also, I skip all the ads with a Tivo.)
I would pay a LOT more for something like Hulu Plus if it didn't have commercials (yes, having it all On Demand _is_ easier than "having" to record it myself, even with lots of tuners, since there are preemptions, annoying timeslot overruns that make the # of tuners less than you think you have, etc.)..
I was a Netflix subscriber from the VERY early days until around a year ago, btw.. and am still a "fan"... Just not a subscriber, except maybe for a month or two sometime to get their orig shows and one or two other things they have exclusive rights to.. but not as a continuing customer most likely.
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One word answer: Holodeck.
(...or at the very least, the first baby steps towards such a thing...)
Not trying to be snotty, but can you give a citation for that?
I am not a comic book fan, but think Marvel has been hitting mostly home runs for about a decade now with movies. They're now probably making a _bit_ too many, but I can understand that happening, with them being so successful. 1-2 superhero movies a year would be good, IMHO. A Star Wars movie every year? That sounds like a lot, even if they're all good (which I suspect they won't be).
Though I actually often use screen sharing for things like this. Heck, I use screen sharing (built into OS X and probably every other modern GUI) to another machine in my office, to use my preferred keyboard/trackball!
Don't you really mean when you hit RUN?
Or do you mean people would literally type individual lines at the prompt one by one, instead of lines with line #s? (Sort of like how you CAN type Python lines directly at the interpreter prompt, but I don't.)
Yes, I'm asking this from the perspective of a MS-based BASIC (AppleSoft, PET, etc.)
I think he laughed so hard _because_, at least as it is covered in the media, "all those COBOL programmers" _are_ doing it for legacy support.
So something else as annoying as Python.
(I *like* Python, despite hating indent==scope with the fire of a thousand suns.)
Sadly? Happily.
I still think I could probably whip out VERY simple scripts in BASIC faster than in either shell script or Python. Once in a while I want to just do a LEFT$() or MID$() kind of thing really easily. (Yeah, I know, there's probably going to be a million responses of how to do that in Python.. I just mean that I already know the syntax for BASIC.)
You don't need something like this anyway.
1) get your bills electronically, and/or set them up for automatic payments
2) use dmachoice.org and optoutprescreen.com to stop virtually all junk mail (former for 'regular' junk mail, latter for the credit card offers). Yes, they're run by the junk mail companies, but they work, and no, I don't work for them.
I realize you italicized pretty much, but in one of his books, he talks about living out of the back of his truck in the 70s while doing not very good gigs.. IIRC dinner theater and such... being annoyed by Trek.
Though from other replies, maybe mine was a ripoff. I seem to remember mine having stickers, other replies said the sticker ones weren't true Rubik's Cubes.
Except that Rubik's Cube still sells millions per year.
I don't know what magnets you're talking about, but the one I had was just plastic pieces and could easily be taken apart with a screwdriver.. you gently twist a flathead screwdriver between two pieces, and twist.. Then you can easily pull that piece off. After you take a few off, the rest can pull out with no more screwdriver.
WiFi is "critical infrastructure"!??! ...and a for profit is giving it away FOR FREE?
(yes, obviously they get ad dollars and information in exchange)
Why isn't having a company doing it for profit motive a better reason than charging _all_ citizens for it?
It's apparently worth it for Google, why not let them do it?
Not all people can go antenna, even out in the boonies.
DSL is even more limited, since you have to be so close to the local phone box... and of course DSL is slower.
(I don't know if I personally am within DSL range, but know that even in cities, people sometimes can't get it. I would switch for cost reasons, as I don't need the speed... At some point.. Currently I'm on a relatively cheap cable bundle.)
Deploying WiFi there, but shutting down their free public WiFi in Mountain View.. Bizarre...
Yeah, but that wouldn't be in a field.. I was mostly riffing on the "parked in a field" part.
Looks like the cheapest flip phone on virginmobile has no camera:
http://www.virginmobileusa.com...
Get an electric car covered with solar panels, and you'll have a _small_ part (larger with better solar panels) of your wish fulfilled.
I'm glad this was the first response. It's the first thing I thought of too when seeing the image on FB. (From "I fing love science")
You are WAY underestimating it.
I honestly have not driven my smart to absolutely empty, but I do know that its range is very conservative. E.g. I drive 20 miles, and it only takes off 15 miles from the range estimate after that. So I end up going farther than it says when 'full', which usually is in the low-mid 60 miles. (I think the official range is 68 miles.)
Because, as noted, you don't get the _current_ programming.
BTW, I used to do exactly what you did, with e.g. movies or HBO shows.. Just "wait a year" and get them from netflix.
Heck, I don't even stay current with my shows, I'm just now watching this season of "The Following" and "Revolution". But I'm still watching them much sooner (and without commercials) than other places get them.
If you want to watch the commercials on Hulu, great.. and I've used it one or twice in the past for some rare missed show (a local preemption perhaps).
It's not "a better deal" since you can't get all of the current/new programming. (Also, I skip all the ads with a Tivo.)
I would pay a LOT more for something like Hulu Plus if it didn't have commercials (yes, having it all On Demand _is_ easier than "having" to record it myself, even with lots of tuners, since there are preemptions, annoying timeslot overruns that make the # of tuners less than you think you have, etc.)..
I was a Netflix subscriber from the VERY early days until around a year ago, btw.. and am still a "fan"... Just not a subscriber, except maybe for a month or two sometime to get their orig shows and one or two other things they have exclusive rights to.. but not as a continuing customer most likely.
...like the people carrying guns around legally practically everywhere in Georgia.
Profit that beats expectations and you RAISE prices?
Why not LOWER prices, or at least vow you won't raise prices for X years? That seems like it would create more positive views in customers' minds.