Pam Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat! Greg Focker: Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples. Jack Byrnes: [He reacts] I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?
Are you confusing TV with watching video content on your computer because those are two entirely different things and Steve supported the latter. He probably realized that slaving PCs to broadcast/scheduled TV was a non-starter... Just as making PCs have built-in FM/AM Tuners would've been.
I'm not saying Steve was a prophetic genius as he certainly made mistakes and it's wholly possible he disdained TV because he didn't want the cable companies like Comcast to get a foothold into his control of the industry. But this was far from "a miss".
> Let me know when the AI complains about the ending of Mass Effect 3.
BUZZ CLICK WHIRRR... This Game Sucks. Click.
(Side note - I wonder how long before the AI evolves (degenerates?) into comic book guy nerd speak... Are all of our nerdisms really just natural progressions of logic? BUZZ CLICK WHIRR... Worst Game EVER. Exclamation point. Exclamation point. Exclamation point. Click. )
Few bills - His first two years was a Democrat controlled congress so anything that reached his desk was something he wanted.
Ever since, until this year, the Republicans controlled the house and the Democrats the Senate and Reid basically played bad cop to Obama's good cop. Reid would block and deflect any legislation that wasn't in the Democrats interest so all legislation was slowed down considerably as most bills originate in the house. (which is why there's been no budget bill for years just continuing resolutions on the one passed years ago, Reid would never act on them). Now the Republicans have control of the congress so legislation Obama doesn't want has reached his desk.
Even though this legislation could be reasonably stated to be a bipartisan bill. There's not enough votes currently to override but it's not an insurmountable number, either.
Before cell phones, before the internet, before computers... heck before REMOTE CONTROLS FOR YOUR TEEVEE!
Radio Shack was THE place for geeks to hang out. Kinda like a micro-Fry's in every mall. My dad swore by the Realistic stereos (I never did but when the only other alternatives at the time were Sears or JCPenney's for stereo receivers... They held up pretty well.) I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 Model 1 (Of course I promptly pooh-poohed it for the TRS-80 Model II because it's still true that geeks don't handle obsolescence well! Christmas was asking for the 150 electronics project kits or other gadgets.
Sure, it sucks now and we don't seem to live in a time where people play with electronics or chemistry sets anymore but a time where people are content to watch what the kardashians are up to and re-tweeting it on their phones because, gosh darn it, math is hard.
And now I watch as Radio Shack sells off to the Undying Lands. It's better this way anyway, it was a lousy cell phone store and the last time I went in there to buy a pair of speaker stands, to match the set I had purchased in that store 5 years earlier, I was told by the new kid manager that they don't have *and never sold* speaker stands.
I've got one of these and I honestly don't care if the band isn't secure. Sure they can get my motion data and I'm sure some nefarious insurance company could install bluetooth readers worldwide to pilfer my data, confirm that I'm not moving enough and raise my rates but... heck any good scale and heart rate meter would tell you that and probably be a lot more useful.
But now that it's been cracked - I'd like to see somebody use this to make an android version of the software.
I'd like to see somebody interface with the iPhone better so when I get a call it could display the name of the caller or an appointment reminder on my band (ooh, wotta concept!)
And maybe, just maybe somebody would write a download tool that'd COLLECT THE DATA BETTER THAN NIKE DOES!!!! Because right now I average about 1 bad read a month. (Killer if you're trying to go for the consecutive days award or, y'know, actually, accurately *monitor* your activity levels)
Well if the science here is correct you can only see who won the superbowl in THAT alternate reality... You don't know for sure who won in OUR reality until, of course, it happens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... > I don't care what anyone says, the masses are morons. My own grandmother is an idiot. You can't count on them to pick good stuff. Just check out Network TV to see what the masses want for entertainment. There's certainly a place for that kind of thing but it's not on Fark. Now go away and let me finish taking a crap!
I was one of the early (and later) adopters of HDTV. I've currently got a ~5 year old Pioneer Plasma (Kuro baby!) that does 1080p and, frankly, I'm fine with it. I've seen the 4K TVs and the additional resolution, to my eyes, doesn't seem to do much for the picture. I'm sure there's more detail there. I had the fortune of seeing the Hobbit in both the new HiDef projection screen (with LCD style panning, oooh) and in an IMAX theater back to back and I was amazed at how much more sharper and detailed the HiDef projection was vs the IMAX (EG I could see specific details and patterns on emblems on the clothing) But I only noticed it for a few seconds and then that was because I was specifically thinking about the picture quality. On a "smaller" screen (50" TV screens oughta be enough for anybody!) I just don't think those details are going to be noticed as much.
If I NEED a TV I'm sure I'll take 4k screens into consideration (especially if they're commonplace by the time I need one) but it's not going to make me jump from my current setup.
That said, do I want a 4K monitor for my PC? Oh yeah!
The one reason that people like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, et al made such lasting impacts on not only their companies but the world as well was not because of some great business acumen but because they fixed the problems directly. Sure, they were assholes but ultimately they cared about their products and how customers reacted to them.
Degree milled MBA's don't understand this and would not have given this fix a second thought because a> they couldn't do it and b> the economics didn't make sense because some team would've had to be picked to go out, ascertain the problem, determine the solution which might be a larger fix than a one line change and now you're looking at potentially tens of thousands of dollars expense to fix a bug in a product that isn't even YOURS! It just don't make no economic sense and you'd get dinged and the next stockholders meeting.
You see this in all the industries. Apple after Steve Jobs. Car manufacturers who were eventually run by "businessmen who understood the auto markets" instead of "a car geek who understood business" the entire industry turned into regurgitated pablum with a few occasional bursts of brilliance by a car geek that broke through the red tape. I worked in the consumer electronics industry and have seen first hand how once highly held and coveted products have been turned into cheap commodities by a "fresh executive team" because it's easier to sell to the masses who don't understand the finer details of a product than it is to actually push the envelope and innovate your product into the next generation. Then, when that market dies out completely because the enthusiasts don't want your product because it sucks so the masses don't want it anymore because "it's not cool", the CEOs blame the market for being fickle.
Agreed. I can't even get the new gas station attendant, a block away from my house that I've been going to for 10 years to get gas, to print out my lottery ticket appropriately. "I want 2 lottery plays, same ticket." Hands me 2 tickets with one play each. "Uh... same ticket?" "Oh sorry, I don't know how to work the machine that way, I'm new here and I'll figure it out eventually... Is this OK?" -- Next week - same attendant "2 lottery plays, same ticket please." Hands me one ticket (yay!) with 3 plays. -- Next week - same attendant again "2 lottery plays, same ticket please" Hands me 2 tickets with one play each. "Oh sorry, I didn't hear you right."
Yeah, I trust this person to be able to handle maintenance checking of a flammable liquid.
Gotta love him playing Marley's ghost and chewing the scenery like the line "The first ghost will arrive at 1, the second ghost will arrive at 2 and the third ghost will arrive at..." looks around trying to remember "3"
Abrams knows STYLE. The look and feel of 8mm and Cloverfield are excellent. I don't care at all for the new Enterprise design but Abrams at least attempted to care about it as an actual character compared to Berman and the Enterprise D where the ship was treated as just another prop. Scarlett Johansson is a good, if not obvious, pick (although most directors these days wouldn't know obvious if it came up and bit them on the ass) (I think Angelina Jolie might've been better as her personality is a better match for the character but there's the age factor and stunt work) But I digress...
My beef is with his story telling which seems to follow the pattern of a series of exciting acts that add up to a fireworks style big bang finale but never actually has a point because, ultimately, I don't think Abrams has anything to say. Lost - they're all dead (WTF?!). 8mm has a giant showdown with the alien who then just" goes home" after leaving a swath of destruction miles wide and the kids learn that...uh... rescuing aliens is better than home movie making? Cloverfield. Great monster movie. Where'd the monster come from, was he actually destroyed by the nuke, why is he ripping up the city? Not important, but dang wasn't it cool?!
Star Wars is, ultimately, a serial story-line and the main line has to continue the serialization and I don't think Abrams can pull that off. (It'd be different if he was doing one of the one-offs) Lucas didn't exactly do a bang up job himself on the prequels either (Darth Vader is C3PO's father... WTF?!) but he at least continued the narrative.
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My bad - the last number I recalled hearing was 25 million (including me)
And they've compromised about 5% of the US population...
Pam Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat!
Greg Focker: Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
Jack Byrnes: [He reacts] I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?
Really?
A miss?
Are you confusing TV with watching video content on your computer because those are two entirely different things and Steve supported the latter. He probably realized that slaving PCs to broadcast/scheduled TV was a non-starter... Just as making PCs have built-in FM/AM Tuners would've been.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
I'm not saying Steve was a prophetic genius as he certainly made mistakes and it's wholly possible he disdained TV because he didn't want the cable companies like Comcast to get a foothold into his control of the industry. But this was far from "a miss".
Sort of belies your statement then doesn't it, lackwit?
Maybe because they should finalize the rules in writing BEFORE voting on them?
Nah nah... Government is teh awesome
Eureka!
We've succeeded in making the world's first perpetual motion machine!!!
...
Looks like somebody has read the non-publicly released FCC plan to regulate the Internet for "net neutrality"
> Let me know when the AI complains about the ending of Mass Effect 3.
BUZZ CLICK WHIRRR... This Game Sucks. Click.
(Side note - I wonder how long before the AI evolves (degenerates?) into comic book guy nerd speak... Are all of our nerdisms really just natural progressions of logic?
BUZZ CLICK WHIRR... Worst Game EVER. Exclamation point. Exclamation point. Exclamation point. Click. )
Oil Laundering...
Few bills - His first two years was a Democrat controlled congress so anything that reached his desk was something he wanted.
Ever since, until this year, the Republicans controlled the house and the Democrats the Senate and Reid basically played bad cop to Obama's good cop. Reid would block and deflect any legislation that wasn't in the Democrats interest so all legislation was slowed down considerably as most bills originate in the house. (which is why there's been no budget bill for years just continuing resolutions on the one passed years ago, Reid would never act on them). Now the Republicans have control of the congress so legislation Obama doesn't want has reached his desk.
Even though this legislation could be reasonably stated to be a bipartisan bill. There's not enough votes currently to override but it's not an insurmountable number, either.
"Yeessss!" - the brain.
Before cell phones, before the internet, before computers... heck before REMOTE CONTROLS FOR YOUR TEEVEE!
Radio Shack was THE place for geeks to hang out. Kinda like a micro-Fry's in every mall. My dad swore by the Realistic stereos (I never did but when the only other alternatives at the time were Sears or JCPenney's for stereo receivers... They held up pretty well.) I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 Model 1 (Of course I promptly pooh-poohed it for the TRS-80 Model II because it's still true that geeks don't handle obsolescence well! Christmas was asking for the 150 electronics project kits or other gadgets.
Sure, it sucks now and we don't seem to live in a time where people play with electronics or chemistry sets anymore but a time where people are content to watch what the kardashians are up to and re-tweeting it on their phones because, gosh darn it, math is hard.
And now I watch as Radio Shack sells off to the Undying Lands. It's better this way anyway, it was a lousy cell phone store and the last time I went in there to buy a pair of speaker stands, to match the set I had purchased in that store 5 years earlier, I was told by the new kid manager that they don't have *and never sold* speaker stands.
yah... Fare thee well...
NOW GET OFFA MY LAWN!!!!
I've got one of these and I honestly don't care if the band isn't secure. Sure they can get my motion data and I'm sure some nefarious insurance company could install bluetooth readers worldwide to pilfer my data, confirm that I'm not moving enough and raise my rates but... heck any good scale and heart rate meter would tell you that and probably be a lot more useful.
But now that it's been cracked -
I'd like to see somebody use this to make an android version of the software.
I'd like to see somebody interface with the iPhone better so when I get a call it could display the name of the caller or an appointment reminder on my band (ooh, wotta concept!)
And maybe, just maybe somebody would write a download tool that'd COLLECT THE DATA BETTER THAN NIKE DOES!!!! Because right now I average about 1 bad read a month. (Killer if you're trying to go for the consecutive days award or, y'know, actually, accurately *monitor* your activity levels)
Meh, just go back in time and get Cambridge to accept "at nauseum" as the approved version.
That's how nerds will win the internet in the future. :)
Well if the science here is correct you can only see who won the superbowl in THAT alternate reality... You don't know for sure who won in OUR reality until, of course, it happens.
> The results are in perfect agreement with predictions from the 1990s--there are no grandfather-type paradoxes.
There is no time travel citizen! Go on about your lives.
Meanwhile the military starts researching chrono-troops. Because, you know, Australia has always controlled the world with its benevolent Empire...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
> I don't care what anyone says, the masses are morons. My own grandmother is an idiot. You can't count on them to pick good stuff. Just check out Network TV to see what the masses want for entertainment. There's certainly a place for that kind of thing but it's not on Fark. Now go away and let me finish taking a crap!
And now he wants the "masses" help to elect him?
Do you think that's air you're breathing? Hmmm...
I was one of the early (and later) adopters of HDTV. I've currently got a ~5 year old Pioneer Plasma (Kuro baby!) that does 1080p and, frankly, I'm fine with it. I've seen the 4K TVs and the additional resolution, to my eyes, doesn't seem to do much for the picture. I'm sure there's more detail there. I had the fortune of seeing the Hobbit in both the new HiDef projection screen (with LCD style panning, oooh) and in an IMAX theater back to back and I was amazed at how much more sharper and detailed the HiDef projection was vs the IMAX (EG I could see specific details and patterns on emblems on the clothing) But I only noticed it for a few seconds and then that was because I was specifically thinking about the picture quality. On a "smaller" screen (50" TV screens oughta be enough for anybody!) I just don't think those details are going to be noticed as much.
If I NEED a TV I'm sure I'll take 4k screens into consideration (especially if they're commonplace by the time I need one) but it's not going to make me jump from my current setup.
That said, do I want a 4K monitor for my PC? Oh yeah!
This, a thousand times this.
The one reason that people like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, et al made such lasting impacts on not only their companies but the world as well was not because of some great business acumen but because they fixed the problems directly. Sure, they were assholes but ultimately they cared about their products and how customers reacted to them.
Degree milled MBA's don't understand this and would not have given this fix a second thought because a> they couldn't do it and b> the economics didn't make sense because some team would've had to be picked to go out, ascertain the problem, determine the solution which might be a larger fix than a one line change and now you're looking at potentially tens of thousands of dollars expense to fix a bug in a product that isn't even YOURS! It just don't make no economic sense and you'd get dinged and the next stockholders meeting.
You see this in all the industries. Apple after Steve Jobs. Car manufacturers who were eventually run by "businessmen who understood the auto markets" instead of "a car geek who understood business" the entire industry turned into regurgitated pablum with a few occasional bursts of brilliance by a car geek that broke through the red tape. I worked in the consumer electronics industry and have seen first hand how once highly held and coveted products have been turned into cheap commodities by a "fresh executive team" because it's easier to sell to the masses who don't understand the finer details of a product than it is to actually push the envelope and innovate your product into the next generation. Then, when that market dies out completely because the enthusiasts don't want your product because it sucks so the masses don't want it anymore because "it's not cool", the CEOs blame the market for being fickle.
Agreed. I can't even get the new gas station attendant, a block away from my house that I've been going to for 10 years to get gas, to print out my lottery ticket appropriately.
"I want 2 lottery plays, same ticket."
Hands me 2 tickets with one play each.
"Uh... same ticket?"
"Oh sorry, I don't know how to work the machine that way, I'm new here and I'll figure it out eventually... Is this OK?"
-- Next week - same attendant
"2 lottery plays, same ticket please."
Hands me one ticket (yay!) with 3 plays.
-- Next week - same attendant again
"2 lottery plays, same ticket please"
Hands me 2 tickets with one play each. "Oh sorry, I didn't hear you right."
Yeah, I trust this person to be able to handle maintenance checking of a flammable liquid.
Scrooge!
Gotta love him playing Marley's ghost and chewing the scenery like the line "The first ghost will arrive at 1, the second ghost will arrive at 2 and the third ghost will arrive at..." looks around trying to remember "3"
Ok, everytime I read the subject I'm thinking of Amadeus:
"Too many notes."
Lucas: "Well how many Ewoks do you want me to remove? I used exactly as many Ewoks for my cute, furry army as I thought I needed for merchandising."
Abrams knows STYLE. The look and feel of 8mm and Cloverfield are excellent. I don't care at all for the new Enterprise design but Abrams at least attempted to care about it as an actual character compared to Berman and the Enterprise D where the ship was treated as just another prop. Scarlett Johansson is a good, if not obvious, pick (although most directors these days wouldn't know obvious if it came up and bit them on the ass) (I think Angelina Jolie might've been better as her personality is a better match for the character but there's the age factor and stunt work) But I digress...
My beef is with his story telling which seems to follow the pattern of a series of exciting acts that add up to a fireworks style big bang finale but never actually has a point because, ultimately, I don't think Abrams has anything to say. Lost - they're all dead (WTF?!). 8mm has a giant showdown with the alien who then just" goes home" after leaving a swath of destruction miles wide and the kids learn that...uh... rescuing aliens is better than home movie making? Cloverfield. Great monster movie. Where'd the monster come from, was he actually destroyed by the nuke, why is he ripping up the city? Not important, but dang wasn't it cool?!
Star Wars is, ultimately, a serial story-line and the main line has to continue the serialization and I don't think Abrams can pull that off. (It'd be different if he was doing one of the one-offs) Lucas didn't exactly do a bang up job himself on the prequels either (Darth Vader is C3PO's father... WTF?!) but he at least continued the narrative.