Try reading Oscar Wilde's "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Over a hundred years ago he was imagining a world where machines were the new slaves and the majority of mankind was released from the drudgery of labor.
Sure it's all beer and skittles if you don't have to think about how the "majority of mankind" is going to clothe and feed itself. For those things you need money or a system instead of money like a barter system. Then again we could try living in "Bitchun Society" and try to accumulate "Whuffie"
at one point saying it was 'crazy bad.' The embassy later deleted the phrase, saying it was an 'incorrect' description and it would revise the language to use when the air quality index goes above 500, its highest point and a level considered hazardous for all people by US standards.
In other news "Hella" is accepted as a unit of measurement
Absolutely. There are no threats. Pakistan, India, North Korea etc. do not exist in your universe. You are just in an episode of Sliders and need to activate your device, and try to get home again.
I'm a retired Pharmacist and ever since the dawning of the PDA it's been said that that portable computing was the future of medicine.Except for a medical reference (that's very widely used) it just hasn't happened. That's almost 20 years people.
I don't know the reason, but I think it's mostly because people just don't trust the fact that information that would be available over a WiFi net would be hackable enough that someone could get in and download all sorts of tidbits.
The whole secret to buying gifts for kids, as far as I'm concerned, is to buy them stuff that fits their interests AND and is sufficiently different than the crap other relatives buy. This takes brain power. Rather than saying books, puzzles etc. you actually have to think "What would the kid want?".
For example I have a 3 year old autistic grand daughter who loves picture books.Last year I went to B&N shopping and came up with a book with pictures that seemed to move as the pages were turned. She still hasn't put it down. An 8 year old grand son joined the Boy Scouts and was taking it very seriously, so I bought him a Boy Scout Knife. Some of the grand children are much younger and I find that Think Geek as a first stop shopping place.
You're correct. Mr. Hon is now doing what I've been doing for some time. I was reading books on my iTouch and didn't want to buy a Kindle because of its limitations. I was given a Kindle 3 as a gift from my girl friend and now realized my mistake. It's so easy to use, and there are so many sites where I can download recent books in.mobi format for free, as in beer. Sorry I didn't get into the Kindle sooner.
I bought the ROKU when it first became available, mainly for its Netflix capability. I also used it for Pandora, which was a pleasant surprise.
Lately, ROKU has added a metric shit ton of content, and it seems to be growing constantly.
I have looked at products like Google TV, Apple, and Boxee and none of the seems to come close to the ROKU in terms of content and ease of use.
At first I had the ROKU in my bedroom, using wireless WIFI, and it worked well enough. Since then I moved it to my living room and hooked up via ethernet and that's also good.
I will not give up my ROKU until they pry it from my cold dead hand
PS-What's with the CW? The only place "Supernatural" is available is on iTunes. No HULU or even HULU Plus
Forgive my stupidity, but can you give a link for this? I have the same condition as you, cannot wear contacts, and don't trust laser surgery (look what happened to Ned on the Simpsons).
yeah but, I'm in the capital of the world NYC, with a cable connection to Road Runner through Time Warner Cable, and I'm only getting a download rate of 9.61 MB/sec. Damn, wish I lived in the Australian Outback, except of course for for Australia's censorship laws.
Maybe I'm not understanding TFA, or maybe I'm just muzzy in the head at 4 AM, BUT if a Chrome OS notebook is being released this month (Nov.), then how can it be said that Google is releasing Chrome OS in December?
I feel so bad for MS because IE, SOMETHING THEY GIVE AWAY FOR NOTHING! is doing so poorly while Windows 7, and Office, for which they charge an arm and a leg, are still industry standards
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Nothig to see here, move along
Try reading Oscar Wilde's "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Over a hundred years ago he was imagining a world where machines were the new slaves and the majority of mankind was released from the drudgery of labor.
Sure it's all beer and skittles if you don't have to think about how the "majority of mankind" is going to clothe and feed itself. For those things you need money or a system instead of money like a barter system. Then again we could try living in "Bitchun Society" and try to accumulate "Whuffie"
What I think is they say "we'll help defend against missiles and fuck up your interwebs too"
This is how to defeat the Chinese without firing a single shot. We let theair quality get so bad that they fall to the ground, choking in the streets.
at one point saying it was 'crazy bad.' The embassy later deleted the phrase, saying it was an 'incorrect' description and it would revise the language to use when the air quality index goes above 500, its highest point and a level considered hazardous for all people by US standards.
In other news "Hella" is accepted as a unit of measurement
Absolutely. There are no threats. Pakistan, India, North Korea etc. do not exist in your universe. You are just in an episode of Sliders and need to activate your device, and try to get home again.
I don't know the reason, but I think it's mostly because people just don't trust the fact that information that would be available over a WiFi net would be hackable enough that someone could get in and download all sorts of tidbits.
For example I have a 3 year old autistic grand daughter who loves picture books.Last year I went to B&N shopping and came up with a book with pictures that seemed to move as the pages were turned. She still hasn't put it down. An 8 year old grand son joined the Boy Scouts and was taking it very seriously, so I bought him a Boy Scout Knife. Some of the grand children are much younger and I find that Think Geek as a first stop shopping place.
Know the kid and shop intelligently!
When I was a youngster like you, we had 200Mhz, single core ARM processors and we liked it! Get off my lawn!
"They can have my mouse when they pry it from my cold, dead hands."
True dat. I grew out of that genre a long time ago
Can't we all just get along?
The radio said “No, John. You are the demons”
It's over Johnny. Nothing is over.
There's nothing to see here, move on.
Satan is sometimes described as having a pitchfork. Seeing their general amount of intelligence, I guess they get easily confused
DRM, we don't need no stinkin' DRM
BTW, don't know where I saw it (might have even been on /.) that someone was actually working on that transparent aluminum thing.
At first I had the ROKU in my bedroom, using wireless WIFI, and it worked well enough. Since then I moved it to my living room and hooked up via ethernet and that's also good.
I will not give up my ROKU until they pry it from my cold dead hand
PS-What's with the CW? The only place "Supernatural" is available is on iTunes. No HULU or even HULU Plus
Forgive my stupidity, but can you give a link for this? I have the same condition as you, cannot wear contacts, and don't trust laser surgery (look what happened to Ned on the Simpsons).
yeah but, I'm in the capital of the world NYC, with a cable connection to Road Runner through Time Warner Cable, and I'm only getting a download rate of 9.61 MB/sec. Damn, wish I lived in the Australian Outback, except of course for for Australia's censorship laws.
Why yes, because I was always taught the principal is or PAL !
Not so. We've had teachers who are robotic in the USA at least since the 1980s.
Maybe I'm not understanding TFA, or maybe I'm just muzzy in the head at 4 AM, BUT if a Chrome OS notebook is being released this month (Nov.), then how can it be said that Google is releasing Chrome OS in December?
I feel so bad for MS because IE, SOMETHING THEY GIVE AWAY FOR NOTHING! is doing so poorly while Windows 7, and Office, for which they charge an arm and a leg, are still industry standards
It's not plagiarism it's bullshit