Of course. They've been telling us for years not to use cell phones, fm radios, and tvs in planes. Why? Because the radio waves and emr emitted from our little devices might trigger some irreversible chain of events that will send us crashing into the icy ocean to eventually meet our deaths in the forms of choking on our own vomit because we are too weak from swimming for our gag reflexes to function correctly. Now this may be a little over traumatized but think about it. It is correct (unlike most everything else they tell us on those god forsakin instruments from hell). Even if they do have shielded wires, and cages and whatever other doo-das and doohickeys and gadgets, I am still not going to use a cell phone on a plane. Why? Because it used to cause problems. People used to get hurt when lightning struck nearby and they were talking on the phone. It Rarely ever happens anymore, but people still get off the phone during the storms, because it USED to happen. Nothing is ever (something) proof. There is still a chance. People will still probably not use cellular phones and the such on airplanes because it bothers other people and if everyone had one such item, then they would all get horrendous interference. I don't think that any invention other than seats seperated by cubicles will encourage the use of items that may cause interference. Another problem I have is that since the wires in the airplane are shielded from interference, could the people please come down to my house and make it so I don't have to listen to pilots speaking to one another 100+ times a day when I am listening to the radio. Maybe it's my radio. Maybe My location. Maybe my antenna. Maybe the planes that fly above my house are special. Maybe I am special and only I hear them. But I doubt it. About 20 and one time about 100 times a day I hear, only when Listening to my favorite radio station, airline pilots calling towers. Now I don't know what you guys know about radios, but It doesn't really matter what frequency something is on as long as it is powerful enough and close enough and the conditions are clear. I wish the airlines could use some sort of directional or vectorable antenna to transfer signals to each other and the tower. Maybe even Microwave signals??? Does anybody els have this problem? I'm not one to gripe the entire spiel I am giving so here is my good thing to say: I think that airlines are doing a decent job in keeping up their security, safety, and other aspects, and this entire comment is just my personal opinion and observations. As I said earlier, It might just be me that experiances these things, but As I also said: I doubt it.
Upon Reading the title of this article, I became immediately enticed. I LOOoOoOoOVE Pinball. Everytime I went to the East Village Grill or Raccoon Lodge(Same Building, different dress and look) I would play pinball. These were the days when I would jump a few feet in the air everytime I hit the flipper buttons. There was no real rhyme or reason to the hitting of the flippers except that I would start banging as soon as the ball got close to me. My pinballing has evolved since then. I now have tricks to hold the ball, bounce it back and forth between flippers, use one to flip the ball into the other tube to gain points, and flip the ball only when It hits my flipper. We could never have had any of this if we didn't have the flipper. Ahh The Flipper, the evolutionary aspect of modern pinball! The thing that brought pinball to the top and kept it there for a while. According to Russ Jenses(whose pinball genius can be found at: http://members.aol.com/rusjensen/index.htm): "There was, however, another pingame from that same year which could even be broadly considered to be "the first flipper game". That game was called DOUBLE SHUFFLE and was released by the Hercules Novelty Company sometime around the Fall of 1932. DOUBLE SHUFFLE had seven ball hitting devices on it's playfield (3 on the left side and 4 on the right)." Thank you Hercules. Once again the strong man brings us victory. Well, even if that is greek mythology, Hercules Novelty Company brought the world something that would entertain it for years. Well, I'm just trying to show that even though there were pinball machines, they were not pupular at all because the user had no control of the ball. Somebody took something boring and uncontrolable and tried, at risk of losing thousands of dollars, and succeeded in enhancing the pinballing experiance of thousands of users..errr...Players. Pinball has never let us down and I don't think any of us will live to see the day it does. Long Live Pinball!
I take offense to this comment. MacOS is a fine operating system, as is Linux. If you are the type of person that likes to do things for themselves then that's ok, but some of us don't have time to learn the entire language to work under Linux. Now, don't get me wrong, Linux is a powerful operating system and I may be a little biased because I have been a mac user all my life but they are both operating systems with their own advantages and disadvanteges. Although I despise microsoft because of their tactics and not necesarily stealing of ideas from apple, but trying to pass them off on their own...Sorry, I went off on a tangent. MacOS and Linux, and Unix, and Unix, and whatnot are trailing behind Windoze and their assorted OS'es in software, but we all still in need of a common bond to bring us together to fight the evil of William Gates III!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Of course. They've been telling us for years not to use cell phones, fm radios, and tvs in planes. Why? Because the radio waves and emr emitted from our little devices might trigger some irreversible chain of events that will send us crashing into the icy ocean to eventually meet our deaths in the forms of choking on our own vomit because we are too weak from swimming for our gag reflexes to function correctly. Now this may be a little over traumatized but think about it. It is correct (unlike most everything else they tell us on those god forsakin instruments from hell). Even if they do have shielded wires, and cages and whatever other doo-das and doohickeys and gadgets, I am still not going to use a cell phone on a plane. Why? Because it used to cause problems. People used to get hurt when lightning struck nearby and they were talking on the phone. It Rarely ever happens anymore, but people still get off the phone during the storms, because it USED to happen. Nothing is ever (something) proof. There is still a chance. People will still probably not use cellular phones and the such on airplanes because it bothers other people and if everyone had one such item, then they would all get horrendous interference. I don't think that any invention other than seats seperated by cubicles will encourage the use of items that may cause interference. Another problem I have is that since the wires in the airplane are shielded from interference, could the people please come down to my house and make it so I don't have to listen to pilots speaking to one another 100+ times a day when I am listening to the radio. Maybe it's my radio. Maybe My location. Maybe my antenna. Maybe the planes that fly above my house are special. Maybe I am special and only I hear them. But I doubt it. About 20 and one time about 100 times a day I hear, only when Listening to my favorite radio station, airline pilots calling towers. Now I don't know what you guys know about radios, but It doesn't really matter what frequency something is on as long as it is powerful enough and close enough and the conditions are clear. I wish the airlines could use some sort of directional or vectorable antenna to transfer signals to each other and the tower. Maybe even Microwave signals??? Does anybody els have this problem? I'm not one to gripe the entire spiel I am giving so here is my good thing to say: I think that airlines are doing a decent job in keeping up their security, safety, and other aspects, and this entire comment is just my personal opinion and observations. As I said earlier, It might just be me that experiances these things, but As I also said: I doubt it.
Upon Reading the title of this article, I became immediately enticed. I LOOoOoOoOVE Pinball. Everytime I went to the East Village Grill or Raccoon Lodge(Same Building, different dress and look) I would play pinball. These were the days when I would jump a few feet in the air everytime I hit the flipper buttons. There was no real rhyme or reason to the hitting of the flippers except that I would start banging as soon as the ball got close to me. My pinballing has evolved since then. I now have tricks to hold the ball, bounce it back and forth between flippers, use one to flip the ball into the other tube to gain points, and flip the ball only when It hits my flipper. We could never have had any of this if we didn't have the flipper. Ahh The Flipper, the evolutionary aspect of modern pinball! The thing that brought pinball to the top and kept it there for a while. According to Russ Jenses(whose pinball genius can be found at: http://members.aol.com/rusjensen/index.htm): "There was, however, another pingame from that same year which could even be broadly considered to be "the first flipper game". That game was called DOUBLE SHUFFLE and was released by the Hercules Novelty Company sometime around the Fall of 1932. DOUBLE SHUFFLE had seven ball hitting devices on it's playfield (3 on the left side and 4 on the right)." Thank you Hercules. Once again the strong man brings us victory. Well, even if that is greek mythology, Hercules Novelty Company brought the world something that would entertain it for years. Well, I'm just trying to show that even though there were pinball machines, they were not pupular at all because the user had no control of the ball. Somebody took something boring and uncontrolable and tried, at risk of losing thousands of dollars, and succeeded in enhancing the pinballing experiance of thousands of users..errr...Players. Pinball has never let us down and I don't think any of us will live to see the day it does. Long Live Pinball!
I take offense to this comment. MacOS is a fine operating system, as is Linux. If you are the type of person that likes to do things for themselves then that's ok, but some of us don't have time to learn the entire language to work under Linux. Now, don't get me wrong, Linux is a powerful operating system and I may be a little biased because I have been a mac user all my life but they are both operating systems with their own advantages and disadvanteges. Although I despise microsoft because of their tactics and not necesarily stealing of ideas from apple, but trying to pass them off on their own...Sorry, I went off on a tangent. MacOS and Linux, and Unix, and Unix, and whatnot are trailing behind Windoze and their assorted OS'es in software, but we all still in need of a common bond to bring us together to fight the evil of William Gates III!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.