I'm not buying a player until there's a clear winner
I had the same feeling... until I bought a new game console. Now I don't need to make a choice since it's already been made for me; now I don't have to go out and buy a player for either format.
I think the whole "war" is moot now anyways, since so many companies have already decided on backing one or both formats. So many movies/tv-series out already, and so many more on the way (for both formats)... I don't foresee either backing down now or ever.
Of course, they can simply use the phone itself to call the restaurant and ask!
Um... if you don't know WHERE the restaurant is, I doubt you'll know what the phone number is so that you can call and ask for directions.
I've actually used various phones with Web capability. They never work right. They take forever to navigate. It's hard to read the screens...
I've actually used various phones with Web capability. And um... they always work right. Navigation has always been simple and straight-forward. If you can't read the screen, get a better perscription on your glasses dude.
I also hope that people note the fact that the public has not been flocking to smartphones of any sort
Seriously? So there was never any rush of any kind to get an iPhone? More than 2/3rds of my family and friends' cellphones are actually figments of their imagination?
Probably the most successful power phone, though, is still the RIM BlackBerry...
Not sure about this statistic, but I actually know more people that have Treos than Blackberrys.
And let's not overlook both the power of the Mac mystique and the loyalty of BlackBerry users. Google has no such mavens.
Whoa, wha, huh?? Worship the Goog, my friend.
The best example of this lack of magnetism was Orkut, the social business network developed by the company to compete with both Friendster and LinkedIn. It never caught on in the U.S. It did become successful in Brazil and, apparently, only in Brazil. Nobody even noticed that it came and went.
Actually, I was on Orkut as soon as it became available and loved it... until the Brazilians overtook it. A few months later, once all of the boards became spammed with Brazilian Portugese (despite some baords even being listed as "English Only"), all the Americans left.
Fo sho! Crank the volume waaaaay up when playing this fascinating (and greusome) game. Hearing a cannon firing and a cat screeching "MrrrreeeeoooOOOOoOOOWwwwwrrrrrr..." will get you the most bizarre looks from fellow employees.
Not only was the concept on a tiny car already reused, but the fact that the vehicle folds-in on itself was taken from a several-years-old Toyota concept vehicle (Personal Mobility) too.
I just bought an EVGA 8800GTS 320MB PCI-E last week. Despite what the OP says, it only cost me $263.99, not $400... and that was at a store. If I had patience and ordered it online, I'm sure I could have spent even less.
The REASON I got it? (1) I haven't bought a new desktop in almost 8 years and I needed a new machine that I wouldn't have to worry about breaking down for another 8 - 10 years to come. (2) I've never actually had a graphics card in any of the machines I've built before and, from my research (and other places), this one seemed the best bang for my buck. (3) I have no intention of getting a Wii or 360 or whatever; plus the fact that the current games I want to play and apps I want to use can't be used on a gaming console anyways.
You say my "cutting edge premium card is going to look overpriced and behind the curve tomorrow"; I say the same about your gaming console.
add in some whiskey to that and i'll quit my server to join yours. waitaminute... damn. still having troubles distinguishing between reality and ffxi...
Animusic is the only one I've seen/heard that is 100% computer-generated audio and video. Saw it on PBS a couple months ago, told my brother about it and he went and bought the 2 DVDs; I've only borrowed the 2nd DVD from him so far. Pretty cool stuff in there actually. It'd be cool to see someone actually BUILD some of those setups too. (like Resonant Chamber from the 2nd disk)
Y1:
A VW Beetle and a one-story school? Y2:
Aye. Y1:
You were lucky. We we taught for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We only had a Bigwheel(tm), sans front-wheel, to admire... and good luck getting those back tires around anything... fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
I wonder if any of us (that is, humans) will be around to see the destruction, or if anyone alive then will ever know what they looked like today?
The "pillars" that the article is referring to are not massive solid structures that will, all of a sudden, crumble one day; they are gargantuan clouds of "space stuff" (stars, protostars, gases, etc...). Like clouds in our atmosphere, they are continuously, slowly and gradually changing. Wondering if humans 1,000 years from now are going to remember what it looked like to us now is as silly as wondering if the other kids on my 3rd grade field trip remember that cloud that looked like Bugs Bunny's head.
The only press that it might get 1,000 years from now would be from some historian that found this article in his archives and decides to fill a column with pointless reminiscing of "how naive we used to be". It would be today's equivalent of going back to articles written in the 1980's about predictions of "how great life and technology will be 20 years from now" and just pointing out that the author was incredibly off.
If you want perspective, just ponder the sheer SIZE of the Eagle Nebula compared to the size of our planet (which is, for now, the only thing our human civilization can affect directly). We are no more than a speck of sand on the beach dude.
The resulting inferno "cremated" his skin condition, and left first-degree burns on much of his body. Despite excellent treatment, he died in intensive care.
So... he was engulfed in flames, only got 1st degree burns, and then died from it.
I ahhhh.... don't see ahhhh... what you're ahhhh... trying to ahhhh get at... ahhhhh.... I thought the good... the good... the ahh.... err... the movie ahhh.. was pretty ahhhhhh good and ahhhhhhh well ahhhhh scripted.
I think this is along the same route that The Bloodhound Gang (the band, not the TV show) used for writing "A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying".
Yeah, the site seems to be mainly for entertainment than practical purposes.
They even kind of lie in the examples they show on that SayNoToCrack site. The first Bill Clinton picture that they show that they say immediately recognizes him... is the same picture. (one in color, the other in black and white)
From testing a few photos of me and some friends I noticed some of the same things you did. My pictures would always return a different set of recognitions based on the size of the smile on my face or the angle my nose was pointing. A picture of a female friend of mine (who I consider pretty hot) came up with the following list of celebrity matches (in this order): Mariah Carey, Lucy Lawless, Dakota Fanning, Anthony Kiedis, Peter Jackson, Jessica Simpson, Jared Leto, Rob Bourdon, Jessica Alba, Pete Burns.
Other grad-student cheaters include: engineering students, 54%; physical sciences, 50%; medical and health-care, 49%; law, 45%; liberal arts, 43%; and social science and humanities students, 39%.
I may have cheated quite a bit in college, but I don't think it really matters. For instance, I'm a double major in Mathematics and Statistics and I know for a FACT that this statement is based on falsified data. Everyone knows that when you sum up the parts, you can't have more than 100% of it. (54 + 50 + 49 + 45 + 43 + 39) > 100 PUH-LEEZE!
What happens when everyone running this thing jumps up and cheers (or yells) after the first touchdown of the Superbowl? (or this weekend's Ohio State vs Texas game?)
What about the random noise that could be caused by rushhour traffic past someone's apartment/office building? Or even just your furnace/air conditioner turning off and on?
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my point exactly
I think the whole "war" is moot now anyways, since so many companies have already decided on backing one or both formats. So many movies/tv-series out already, and so many more on the way (for both formats)... I don't foresee either backing down now or ever.
Yeah. He should take the hint and do like Bob Qwerty did and just keep a low profile for the rest of his life...
Fo sho!
Crank the volume waaaaay up when playing this fascinating (and greusome) game.
Hearing a cannon firing and a cat screeching "MrrrreeeeoooOOOOoOOOWwwwwrrrrrr..." will get you the most bizarre looks from fellow employees.
Not only was the concept on a tiny car already reused, but the fact that the vehicle folds-in on itself was taken from a several-years-old Toyota concept vehicle (Personal Mobility) too.
I just bought an EVGA 8800GTS 320MB PCI-E last week. Despite what the OP says, it only cost me $263.99, not $400... and that was at a store. If I had patience and ordered it online, I'm sure I could have spent even less.
The REASON I got it? (1) I haven't bought a new desktop in almost 8 years and I needed a new machine that I wouldn't have to worry about breaking down for another 8 - 10 years to come. (2) I've never actually had a graphics card in any of the machines I've built before and, from my research (and other places), this one seemed the best bang for my buck. (3) I have no intention of getting a Wii or 360 or whatever; plus the fact that the current games I want to play and apps I want to use can't be used on a gaming console anyways.
You say my "cutting edge premium card is going to look overpriced and behind the curve tomorrow"; I say the same about your gaming console.
add in some whiskey to that and i'll quit my server to join yours.
waitaminute... damn. still having troubles distinguishing between reality and ffxi...
Don't be so anal about it; he's only trying to make a joke.
Animusic is the only one I've seen/heard that is 100% computer-generated audio and video. Saw it on PBS a couple months ago, told my brother about it and he went and bought the 2 DVDs; I've only borrowed the 2nd DVD from him so far. Pretty cool stuff in there actually. It'd be cool to see someone actually BUILD some of those setups too. (like Resonant Chamber from the 2nd disk)
Y1:
A VW Beetle and a one-story school?
Y2:
Aye.
Y1:
You were lucky. We we taught for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We only had a Bigwheel(tm), sans front-wheel, to admire... and good luck getting those back tires around anything... fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
... and good luck getting the correct contact info INTO your phone with that one button!
How about some non-marketing related links... links that are more descriptive about the topic:
- Dune (novel)
- Dune: House Atreides
The "pillars" that the article is referring to are not massive solid structures that will, all of a sudden, crumble one day; they are gargantuan clouds of "space stuff" (stars, protostars, gases, etc...). Like clouds in our atmosphere, they are continuously, slowly and gradually changing. Wondering if humans 1,000 years from now are going to remember what it looked like to us now is as silly as wondering if the other kids on my 3rd grade field trip remember that cloud that looked like Bugs Bunny's head.
The only press that it might get 1,000 years from now would be from some historian that found this article in his archives and decides to fill a column with pointless reminiscing of "how naive we used to be". It would be today's equivalent of going back to articles written in the 1980's about predictions of "how great life and technology will be 20 years from now" and just pointing out that the author was incredibly off.
If you want perspective, just ponder the sheer SIZE of the Eagle Nebula compared to the size of our planet (which is, for now, the only thing our human civilization can affect directly). We are no more than a speck of sand on the beach dude.
To attract more people to come and settle there; it wouldn't sound as attractive if they had called it Glacierland or NotSoGreenOtherThanTheSouthernMostTipInMidSummerL
So... he was engulfed in flames, only got 1st degree burns, and then died from it.
Ummm... Wha??
I ahhhh.... don't see ahhhh... what you're ahhhh... trying to ahhhh get at... ahhhhh.... I thought the good... the good... the ahh.... err... the movie ahhh.. was pretty ahhhhhh good and ahhhhhhh well ahhhhh scripted.
So, are you suggesting there will be robot STDs in the future?
I think this is along the same route that The Bloodhound Gang (the band, not the TV show) used for writing "A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying".
... build a waterslide.
Yeah, the site seems to be mainly for entertainment than practical purposes.
They even kind of lie in the examples they show on that SayNoToCrack site. The first Bill Clinton picture that they show that they say immediately recognizes him... is the same picture. (one in color, the other in black and white)
From testing a few photos of me and some friends I noticed some of the same things you did. My pictures would always return a different set of recognitions based on the size of the smile on my face or the angle my nose was pointing. A picture of a female friend of mine (who I consider pretty hot) came up with the following list of celebrity matches (in this order): Mariah Carey, Lucy Lawless, Dakota Fanning, Anthony Kiedis, Peter Jackson, Jessica Simpson, Jared Leto, Rob Bourdon, Jessica Alba, Pete Burns.
WTF Mate?
(54 + 50 + 49 + 45 + 43 + 39) > 100
PUH-LEEZE!
Google (you can even click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button) for "bloodninja".
First few times I read this, I was laughing so hard I was crying.
What happens when everyone running this thing jumps up and cheers (or yells) after the first touchdown of the Superbowl? (or this weekend's Ohio State vs Texas game?)
What about the random noise that could be caused by rushhour traffic past someone's apartment/office building? Or even just your furnace/air conditioner turning off and on?
Yeah, that kinda confuses me there. Couldn't they do that before using a slightly different browser skin?