My story isn't quite as bad... but still shows their average employee's ignorance.
I went in a couple months ago to buy a cassette adapter. I'm trying to explain to the guy that I need one to connect my MP3 player to my car's cassette player so I can listen to my tunes through my car stereo. I had to explain it a few times, but he eventually gets what I'm talking about and says "OH YEAH... But we don't have those. We only have ones that connect CD players to your car." I respond with "Yeah, CD players, walkmans, MP3 players, whatever." and he says back to me "No, we only have the CD player ones."
WTF Mate? Apparently this guy always bought a new set of headphones with each portable music player he owned. *shrug*
Stay in your little fantasy world isolated from reality and keep believing you are superior to everyone else.
I don't know. I think this software could have come up with a better attack plan if it had more data to pull from. How might the program have told the team to approach this monumentous game if it had more data on... say... Nancy Kerrigan?
About nine out of 10 men chose the baby picture, roughly 12 percent expressed no interest in the baby picture, and the remaining subjects had a range of interest.
90% + 12% + x% = 100%... WTF Mate?
This kinda reminds me a quote about Reganomics. It went something like: "Pretend this apple is our National income. Take the apple and cut it in half. The first half of the apple is for the National Budget, the second half is for National Defense, and the other half is for the National Debt."
I can also record 2 shows at once, which I understand Tivo has just come up with?
I've had my DirecTiVo for almost 3 years now and it has always had this capability. (and from what I heard before I bought it, it had this functionality long before then too.)
Not only can you record 2 different channels at the same time, you can watch a third [previously recorded] show at the same time as recording those 2 different channels as well.
As for the "boops"... I got used to it after a day or two. It's really not that annoying, but I'm sure there's a way to disable the sound-effect if you hack your TiVo (which you have to do anyways if you want to add in more harddrive space).
The guide is slow? What model TiVo have you been looking at that has a slow channel guide? If there is any delay, it still pops up in less than a second. At least on my machine.
As for the PIP... well, I guess I never really understood that part. If it can record 2 channels, I'd expect it to be able to output 2 channels> Maybe they didn't put in 2 coax outputs because they didn't want people to use it as a receiver for 2 different televisions. *shrug*
...a new, much more evil leader takes over the evil empire and manages to convince the leading powers to just give him entire countries, even when the other powers could have easily crushed him. Then he joins forces with another equally evil leader and surprises these idiots by launching lots of invasions. Then the other evil leader is shocked when the evil empire turns on him too. What a bunch of bloody idiots!
Thanks. You just gave away the ENTIRE battleplan of how I've been winning at Risk all these years.
That's ALL we would really need. Have them Hollywood folks come up with some new movie that happens BEFORE the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. They'll probably start messin with the timeline that they discussed in the trilogy and do a spin-off saying how that after Bilbo found the ring, he went on all of these adventures or something. Psssshhhh. These greedy producers can never just leave a masterpiece alone.
Come on; this is Slashdot. We tend not to believe any statements that contain the words "my girlfriend", nor care to hear about what you do in your [imaginary] sexual pasttime.
(It should be noted that our position on this subject is ENTIRELY reversed if YOU are also female.)
cool... looks like I have my Lotto numbers for this week!
You must not watch the show. Those actually ARE numbers one of the characters used to win the lottery. If those numbers ever DO hit, you'll just end up splitting the jackpot with hundreds of other fanatics of that show that picked those same numbers for the exact same reason.
Evolution involves the death of weaker individuals before they can breed. With soap (the yardstick of civilisation), surgery, rescue helicopters, dentistry, wheelchairs etc, weaker individuals aren't killed off so easily before they can breed.
I think you're confused. You're talking about Civilization. Evolution is just there to make your life easier.
The device is clearly shown running a version of Halo...
Now, I'm not someone who has experienced this "Halo" game firsthand, but why are they bragging about a product that looks (at least from the picture I see in that article) like a colorized version of a drawing that my 5 year old made on his etch-a-scketch just last week? If that honestly displays the graphical capabilities of of XBox and Halo, I'm glad I didn't waste my money.
A better solution would be for browsers to use a very basic rendering core and then dynamically download new features from a standards body. You could have multiple standards and just have the header say which source to use.
That actually sounds like a pretty good idea... but that would require everyone's browser to be bloated with unnecessary "standard metadata" and/or a rather large rendering engine to handle each standard that might possibly be used. It just doesn't exactly seem backwards compatible with everything that's currently out there on the net being used. (How many sites out there actually declare their DOCTYPE tag at the beginning of their HTML output?)
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My story isn't quite as bad... but still shows their average employee's ignorance.
I went in a couple months ago to buy a cassette adapter. I'm trying to explain to the guy that I need one to connect my MP3 player to my car's cassette player so I can listen to my tunes through my car stereo. I had to explain it a few times, but he eventually gets what I'm talking about and says "OH YEAH... But we don't have those. We only have ones that connect CD players to your car." I respond with "Yeah, CD players, walkmans, MP3 players, whatever." and he says back to me "No, we only have the CD player ones."
WTF Mate? Apparently this guy always bought a new set of headphones with each portable music player he owned. *shrug*
wOW. i THOUGHT i WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID THAT. uNFORTUNATELY, MY LAPTOP CAME WITH THE CAPSLOCK on BY DEFAULT.
You're high (or you just don't know how to use your Treo): ...
http://www.google.com/palm
http://www.google.com/pda
http://www.google.com/xhtml
http://m.gmail.com/
http://news.google.com/
They better have more talented animators than the trash found on the internet. Blech!
For those of you that haven't seen it, the quote is from Dr. Strangelove.
Which COMPLETELY coincidentally, is the movie I just finished watching for the first time not even an hour ago. Wacky.
To me, it looks like some kind of possessed version of my old Speak-N-Spell.
This kinda reminds me a quote about Reganomics. It went something like: "Pretend this apple is our National income. Take the apple and cut it in half. The first half of the apple is for the National Budget, the second half is for National Defense, and the other half is for the National Debt."
Not only can you record 2 different channels at the same time, you can watch a third [previously recorded] show at the same time as recording those 2 different channels as well.
As for the "boops"... I got used to it after a day or two. It's really not that annoying, but I'm sure there's a way to disable the sound-effect if you hack your TiVo (which you have to do anyways if you want to add in more harddrive space).
The guide is slow? What model TiVo have you been looking at that has a slow channel guide? If there is any delay, it still pops up in less than a second. At least on my machine.
As for the PIP... well, I guess I never really understood that part. If it can record 2 channels, I'd expect it to be able to output 2 channels> Maybe they didn't put in 2 coax outputs because they didn't want people to use it as a receiver for 2 different televisions. *shrug*
Details in spelling make a big difference (as in the "man" in "Superman" and "Spider-Man").
It's "CmdrTaco"... not "Cmdr Taco".
-Grammar Nazi
"Wonder Joints."
(ok, well, two words.)
Actually, from what I've heard about it, Superman Returns is basically continuing the story of the movies from the 80's.
Yeah, great. Within weeks of THAT game coming out, you KNOW someone will have a "Midge and Gary" patch released. ew.
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... a Prequel!
That's ALL we would really need. Have them Hollywood folks come up with some new movie that happens BEFORE the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. They'll probably start messin with the timeline that they discussed in the trilogy and do a spin-off saying how that after Bilbo found the ring, he went on all of these adventures or something. Psssshhhh. These greedy producers can never just leave a masterpiece alone.
Come on; this is Slashdot. We tend not to believe any statements that contain the words "my girlfriend", nor care to hear about what you do in your [imaginary] sexual pasttime.
(It should be noted that our position on this subject is ENTIRELY reversed if YOU are also female.)
clearly you've never visited Orkut
Now, I'm not someone who has experienced this "Halo" game firsthand, but why are they bragging about a product that looks (at least from the picture I see in that article) like a colorized version of a drawing that my 5 year old made on his etch-a-scketch just last week? If that honestly displays the graphical capabilities of of XBox and Halo, I'm glad I didn't waste my money.
No, that was just the excuse your brother gave you when he was locked in the bathroom for hours on end (while he was actually "exploring" his body).
That actually sounds like a pretty good idea... but that would require everyone's browser to be bloated with unnecessary "standard metadata" and/or a rather large rendering engine to handle each standard that might possibly be used. It just doesn't exactly seem backwards compatible with everything that's currently out there on the net being used. (How many sites out there actually declare their DOCTYPE tag at the beginning of their HTML output?)