Lessee,
Decent rear projection TV - $3k
TiVo - $500 + service
Decent Tuner - $1k
Decent Speakers - $1k
Decent DVD player - $1k
This is not a market that is shy about spending a buttload of money for fancy entertainment gadgets.
Maybe a year ago the market for this device was fairly large, lots of stock-options-rich dotcommers out there. Not so many right about now, but still SOME people out there have the money, the nerdiness to deal with the inevitable UI gaps such complexity demands, I really think that such a system should be doable. I mean, if TiVo was doable, this is.
But it should be based on Satellite feeds and DSL for networking. Not Cable. Cable is evil.
For instance, in the music industry, new music is peer-reviewed by talent scouts and agents, who are widely respected in their fields as experts in determining which new, up and coming musicians give the best head.
put a big tube going all the way to the top, open at the ends, atmospheric pressure at the top is less than that at the ground, so you could build a constant suction device!
Maybe modify your calculations;
put 100,000 people into a building for 10 years, you're going to have a lot more than 100,000 people at the END of that 10 years.
Unless you had a system to distribute condoms...
Re:Sunday Supplement Projects
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A joke?
Look at the shape of that thing!
It's actually going to be a giant vibrator for Galactus' girlfriend. (Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, Marvel comix? Remember?) Hey, it's built to wiggle as much as 8'. (does Galactus' gf have an 8' "button"?)
Re:Couple of thoughts on tall buildings
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what if they only did the roofs like this. that's where most of the sunlight's hitting anyway.
That reminds me, don't they have that in Sweden? (where they have *everything*, including many, many sets of sexy, blonde, big busted, blue-eyed, twins, triplets, and quadruplets)
Yeah, it was like some deal where the roof was arranged in a staircase-like shape, and the tops were white to reflect high-angle summer sun, and the sides were black to absorb low-angle winter sun. . .
Yeah, that's all MOST people need, right? One graphics card? the rest of us can go to hell. I made this same point when Intel first proposed AGP.
At least I was wrong on one point, decent PCI cards *are* still available. Just not the new top high end ones. (which are generally what the people who need TWO cards need).
I wish everybody at the gun range knew basic gun-safety rules. Because that is definately not the case. When I've gone shooting, I get guns pointed at me, waved past me, all the time, loaded, unloaded, whatever.
last month, there was an interesting article in Scientific American, about agression. The author states that the current widely held belief that agression is caused by low self esteem is flawed.
He cites his studies that state that agression is more likely caused by people that have too-high self esteem. Baseless self-love, and when that self-love is threatened, they lash out. When applied to the model of the "geek" who's being teased, it makes a lot of sense. There certainly is a rationalization of superiority. These kids, we geeks, believe that we are superior to others, because we are smarter. And when it is proven to us that just being smarter isn't enough, you also have to be stronger, faster, better looking, and more socially adept, (and probably richer), that superiority complex is threatened.
Of course, that goes for the bullies too. When they feel threatened by someone smarter than them, they lash out similarly, to demonstrate that their attributes are superior.
If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.
The author of this article faults the current system, the way we raise our kids, afraid to criticize or judge too harshly, lest we crush their frail egos and turn them into homocidal maniacs. When in fact, we are building up their egos too much, to the point where they get this 'tude, and then, they are basically ticking time bombs, waiting for a threat to their egos.
In my observation, those Star Wars Lego Technics sets have been selling like hotcakes. From where I sit in my cubicle, I see at least 4 displays of Lego Technics Star Wars sets built by my coworkers.
If you ask me, any person who can dedicate space on their desk (not covered with papers and books) for Legos is a SLACKER!
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okay, but you should realize and face facts:
Targeted advertising means, all of your commercials will be for:
Computers,
Games,
Joysticks,
Monitors,
Porn.
My box (DishPlayer) has a "feature" (a new one, downloaded with the latest automatic software update) where if I press the mute button during commercials, subtitles appear. (the same is not true for programming).
How will you support and supply troops delivered at such a range? Without at least a half a dozen backup flights?
How do you pull the troops out of there in a hurry?
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monopolies, even regulated monopolies ARE BAD!
Two words:
BLACK PHONES.
Remember the same phone EVERYONE got to lease from the phone company before Ma Bell was split up? Now picture THAT kind of innovation as a DSL modem.
... PLUS: .
Virtual Game Station. .
Cost an arm and a leg?
Lessee,
Decent rear projection TV - $3k
TiVo - $500 + service
Decent Tuner - $1k
Decent Speakers - $1k
Decent DVD player - $1k
This is not a market that is shy about spending a buttload of money for fancy entertainment gadgets.
Maybe a year ago the market for this device was fairly large, lots of stock-options-rich dotcommers out there. Not so many right about now, but still SOME people out there have the money, the nerdiness to deal with the inevitable UI gaps such complexity demands, I really think that such a system should be doable. I mean, if TiVo was doable, this is.
But it should be based on Satellite feeds and DSL for networking. Not Cable. Cable is evil.
actually, if you buy coke at the soda fountain (Mc Donalds, etc.) they use the water that comes out of the tap at that location.
Remember, Evian is naive spelled backwards.
naw, it's a great comparison,
For instance, in the music industry, new music is peer-reviewed by talent scouts and agents, who are widely respected in their fields as experts in determining which new, up and coming musicians give the best head.
if that's the case, then I would like to formally submit my paper on the mating habits of the penis-bird. . .
'nuff said?
damn.
.
can't fool you. .
you can watch the shadow of your finger on the ground move. All it takes is patience.
crime is not caused by population density, it's caused by economic disparity.
uh yeah, tell that to people who live in the Denver area and do daily commutes to 7000 feet.
might not be so far from the truth. . .
put a big tube going all the way to the top, open at the ends, atmospheric pressure at the top is less than that at the ground, so you could build a constant suction device!
Maybe modify your calculations;
put 100,000 people into a building for 10 years, you're going to have a lot more than 100,000 people at the END of that 10 years.
Unless you had a system to distribute condoms...
A joke?
Look at the shape of that thing!
It's actually going to be a giant vibrator for Galactus' girlfriend. (Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, Marvel comix? Remember?) Hey, it's built to wiggle as much as 8'. (does Galactus' gf have an 8' "button"?)
don't pump water.
pump steam.
what if they only did the roofs like this. that's where most of the sunlight's hitting anyway.
That reminds me, don't they have that in Sweden? (where they have *everything*, including many, many sets of sexy, blonde, big busted, blue-eyed, twins, triplets, and quadruplets)
Yeah, it was like some deal where the roof was arranged in a staircase-like shape, and the tops were white to reflect high-angle summer sun, and the sides were black to absorb low-angle winter sun. . .
Sell his music on the internet and he can be eDitty - hey, that's got a ring to it.
PATENT TIME!!!
Yeah, that's all MOST people need, right? One graphics card? the rest of us can go to hell. I made this same point when Intel first proposed AGP.
At least I was wrong on one point, decent PCI cards *are* still available. Just not the new top high end ones. (which are generally what the people who need TWO cards need).
I wish everybody at the gun range knew basic gun-safety rules. Because that is definately not the case. When I've gone shooting, I get guns pointed at me, waved past me, all the time, loaded, unloaded, whatever.
Oh, I'm all for missile defense systems (if only we had technology that actually worked!).
But bitching about needing new fighters and tanks and ships is just a bunch of defense-contractor lobbyist bullshit.
last month, there was an interesting article in Scientific American, about agression. The author states that the current widely held belief that agression is caused by low self esteem is flawed.
He cites his studies that state that agression is more likely caused by people that have too-high self esteem. Baseless self-love, and when that self-love is threatened, they lash out. When applied to the model of the "geek" who's being teased, it makes a lot of sense. There certainly is a rationalization of superiority. These kids, we geeks, believe that we are superior to others, because we are smarter. And when it is proven to us that just being smarter isn't enough, you also have to be stronger, faster, better looking, and more socially adept, (and probably richer), that superiority complex is threatened.
Of course, that goes for the bullies too. When they feel threatened by someone smarter than them, they lash out similarly, to demonstrate that their attributes are superior.
If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.
The author of this article faults the current system, the way we raise our kids, afraid to criticize or judge too harshly, lest we crush their frail egos and turn them into homocidal maniacs. When in fact, we are building up their egos too much, to the point where they get this 'tude, and then, they are basically ticking time bombs, waiting for a threat to their egos.
Makes ya think.
In my observation, those Star Wars Lego Technics sets have been selling like hotcakes. From where I sit in my cubicle, I see at least 4 displays of Lego Technics Star Wars sets built by my coworkers.
If you ask me, any person who can dedicate space on their desk (not covered with papers and books) for Legos is a SLACKER!
okay, but you should realize and face facts:
Targeted advertising means, all of your commercials will be for:
Computers,
Games,
Joysticks,
Monitors,
Porn.
DishPlayer
My box (DishPlayer) has a "feature" (a new one, downloaded with the latest automatic software update) where if I press the mute button during commercials, subtitles appear. (the same is not true for programming).
How convenient is that?
As troop transport, that's not a very good idea.
How many troops will one flight transport?
How will you support and supply troops delivered at such a range? Without at least a half a dozen backup flights?
How do you pull the troops out of there in a hurry?
This isn't a good plan for delivering troops.