Viewing camera photos on a larger screen while STILL away from home is one of the only good "must have" reasons I have seen for a tablet. For now I still need to carry my netbook with me to do this easily.
Tell me, if someone you first meet lets you know how important Jesus is in their life, does your mind not form a "knee-jerk" reaction about that person? If they tell you how important Britney Spears is in their life? Or Rush Limbaugh? Or the Dalai Lama? If they tell you how they are "really into" heavy metal? Or hip-hop? Or gambling? How about someone whom, upon first meeting them, tells you how much they like women with large breasts? Or leather jackets?
All of these are actually pretty common things, but all will pretty much form an image about that person in your head. (Often just: "Sure, but why the HELL are they putting that in their profile?")
Guess what bozo, you have the same knee-jerk reactions to things other people do. Just because you don't have it for comic books doesn't mean you aren't a (knee) jerk like the rest of the human race about things YOU may not be into.
Unless you are an alien robot, in which case I heartily welcome you to my planet.
Comics may be a mainstream interest now, but if one of the first things I find out about someone is that they are really into comic books, my first reaction is still: "Hopeless Nerd!"
Then again, if the first thing I find out about them is that they are really into football, I think "Brainless Sports-a-holic!" Even though football is WAY more mainstream than comic books.
Yep. Last week my mother, who is the Mac "guru" amongst all her associates, called me to ask why and how a virus could have wiped out all the Macs at her job in one day. "That's not possible, is it?" she asked. Um...it happened, didn't it?
The "Macs are safe from viruses" mantra has been drilled into the users a little too well. The vast majority of Mac users are convinced they are safe and take no precautions.
So how many robots does it take to provide enough work for one robot repairman? It certainly is not a 1:1 ratio.
YOU'VE never worked in a high-tech factory. It takes a LOT of people to monitor, care for and repair everything in a modern fab. Even a "lights out" fab has hundreds of people working to keep it running. Those chips don't get cheaper by themselves.
I bought a dozen of the LaunchPad dev kits and gave them out to other engineers at work in exchange for various engineering favors. Bribery always works like a charm, and I never told them they cost me under $5 each.
Since I believe the Kindle and other e-readers have built-in browsers, couldn't the magazine embed links to pictures (or thumbnails with links) that would open up in the browser? This would mean the actual number of bytes delivered with the "magazine" would be fairly low.
That's pretty much how a lot of web sites handle large photos associated with stories.
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Yet another big advantage that Peruvian school children will have over Americans.
The first being that they don't giggle uncontrollably when they hear about "Lake Titicaca."
But what if I don't want to just click on pictures of breasts?
S*mpr*n*?
Whiner.
We need a whole day where we can just say "fuck it" and not worry about the oh-so important world of technology.
And bully for the good old US of A, the bastion of democracy and goodness, for coming up with it!
I, and all of my attractive, intelligent and clever friends agree with this! You should agree as well!
Do this for cell phone reception and AT&T will put a hit out on you.
Hear, hear!
Viewing camera photos on a larger screen while STILL away from home is one of the only good "must have" reasons I have seen for a tablet. For now I still need to carry my netbook with me to do this easily.
This is also a great "Aunt Mabel" application.
Because I'm still waiting for that opening in the "roller coaster testing with bikini-models" department?
It must be amazing to never have any preconceived notions about anyone based on anything superficial that you learn about them!
You are truly the worlds greatest humanitarian! You must walk through the poorest ghettos with confidence!
Knee-Jerk?
Tell me, if someone you first meet lets you know how important Jesus is in their life, does your mind not form a "knee-jerk" reaction about that person?
If they tell you how important Britney Spears is in their life? Or Rush Limbaugh? Or the Dalai Lama?
If they tell you how they are "really into" heavy metal? Or hip-hop? Or gambling?
How about someone whom, upon first meeting them, tells you how much they like women with large breasts? Or leather jackets?
All of these are actually pretty common things, but all will pretty much form an image about that person in your head. (Often just: "Sure, but why the HELL are they putting that in their profile?")
Guess what bozo, you have the same knee-jerk reactions to things other people do. Just because you don't have it for comic books doesn't mean you aren't a (knee) jerk like the rest of the human race about things YOU may not be into.
Unless you are an alien robot, in which case I heartily welcome you to my planet.
Comics may be a mainstream interest now, but if one of the first things I find out about someone is that they are really into comic books, my first reaction is still: "Hopeless Nerd!"
Then again, if the first thing I find out about them is that they are really into football, I think "Brainless Sports-a-holic!" Even though football is WAY more mainstream than comic books.
It's human nature.
Yep. Last week my mother, who is the Mac "guru" amongst all her associates, called me to ask why and how a virus could have wiped out all the Macs at her job in one day. "That's not possible, is it?" she asked. Um...it happened, didn't it?
The "Macs are safe from viruses" mantra has been drilled into the users a little too well. The vast majority of Mac users are convinced they are safe and take no precautions.
Like a box of Runts?
Fine. I'm patenting "1".
Now you and I can sue everyone who uses a binary computer.
So how many robots does it take to provide enough work for one robot repairman? It certainly is not a 1:1 ratio.
YOU'VE never worked in a high-tech factory. It takes a LOT of people to monitor, care for and repair everything in a modern fab. Even a "lights out" fab has hundreds of people working to keep it running. Those chips don't get cheaper by themselves.
What part of "Russian Payment Processor" tipped them off?
I bought a dozen of the LaunchPad dev kits and gave them out to other engineers at work in exchange for various engineering favors. Bribery always works like a charm, and I never told them they cost me under $5 each.
I think I still prefer the brown-paper-bag-over-the-head approach for making people beautiful
Ah, the old "Unknown Comic" filter.
Um...AFAIK Virtualization is really not recommended for database servers.
So I get to keep my arcane knowledge.
.357 at 10 yards does it for me.
Because we HAVE to stick to every tradition that is thousands of years old or civilization will collapse!
Now, where is my favorite concubine...
Obviously, it's teh gheys that are recruiting members for their growing army by using Facebook.
So most cabs will be ending up at porn shops?
Since I believe the Kindle and other e-readers have built-in browsers, couldn't the magazine embed links to pictures (or thumbnails with links) that would open up in the browser? This would mean the actual number of bytes delivered with the "magazine" would be fairly low.
That's pretty much how a lot of web sites handle large photos associated with stories.
I end all my sentences with *ksschk* so it sounds like I'm in space.