Frankly, I've always thought that our brain completes visual information with what it expects to see, and that different people will have different (and often contradictory!) recollections of the same event are both well established in psychology/neuroscience/etc. As evidenced on all those "judging" shows; People's Court, Judge Judy, Judge Alex, etc.
Well, when you put it that way... I was worried about having to move 10 pounds. But 4.5 kg I can manage fine. Thanks! I'd rather just lift 10 pounds of feathers.......
Well duh, if you don't like that idea, we can make it so the foot pedal actually sets off a small explosive charge, rocketing the weights up to the top. Exhaust could be a problem, and we'd have to make sure it could handle the stress of an explosion, but it would look wicked cool. I like it. Great idea!!!:)
Are you, by any chance, familiar with the Gnomes in the Dragonlance saga? If not, I'm sure we can put together a committee for Gnome Awareness.
Having the closet suggest alternative places based on how I am dressed wouldn't hurt at all. It would be nice if it could take other input too, like my mood etc. Even nicer to send the suggestions to my cellphone. Closet: I see you are both lazy and bored enough to just grab cheap jeans and a t-shirt. Might I suggest the LAN party down the street? You aren't in the position to be picking up a date at the local club.
My mom also made me an Atari birthday cake with the "ET" cartridge set in the middle... It's completely understandable that a birthday cake decoration was probably the part of the game's playability.
I remain unconvinced that I want to urinate on a plasma screen, given the voltage that they run at... You may be OK, unless you normally stand on the wet floors of a public restroom in your bare feet.
Gasoline and groceries are commodities that you can buy wherever you like, with or without the BS. The point is that people _choose_ to buy them from places like I mentioned because they PREFER to be bombarded with advertising and promos. I just usually say I left my shopper's card at home. The cashier simply scans a "store card" and I get the benefits. However, I do lose the ten cents per gallon gas discount I get for every $50 spent. It's not hard for a family of four to generate $500 of grocery spending in a short time and get $1 off per gallon of gas on their next fill-up.
As for advertising, the grocery story sends all sorts of stuff to "resident" in this area, anyway. The only difference would be I get my name on the To: address.
hey, I've heard that car without gas can actually be useful for some thing called 'sex'? In that case, it's just like your credit. One mistake, and you lose financial freedom and are paying for it for the next 18 years or so.
They no longer enjoy the absurd position of being able to charge a lot of money for whatever they wanted to sell. The whole industry was designed to take advantage of young people who "needed" to have whatever is cool more than they needed the hundreds of dollars a year buying it. As much as I'd like to see the RIAA model burn to ashes, I still have take note that the War on Drugs is working, too......
I understand what you are saying and can see your point. However, when it comes to entertainment, I'm a consumer. I find what I like and I stick with it until I don't like it anymore, or cannot trust the product or service anymore. I'm not loyal to too many brand names. If Hess has cheaper gas than the Mobil down the road, guess where I'm going. Same for the next day if the pricing switches. I prefer to buy generic brands in the stores. Even manufacturer coupons aren't enough incentive to buy their products because it usually costs more than generics after the discount. I generally go to the same restaurants, until they provide less service or value than they've provided in the past.
On the same note, I'm not loyal to too many band names. It's the genre I go for. I have found artists, both major label and indie, that play the music I like. The few bands I'm loyal to have consistently given me good music for my money. The variety in indie music is a shopper's dream for me. Especially with easy access to it via the Internet. I've found a few artists who make music I enjoy. I've bought their albums. I'll continue to check out their future albums and buy the ones I like. I tend to spend my money on an artist who puts full album samples online (short clips or low quality). Unlike a laundry detergent that I can get a refund for if it doesn't work to my satisfaction, I prefer to sample at least a portion of all tracks on an album, not just a few songs from the album, before I buy them. They're much harder to return.
It's a safe bet that there will be future Timbaland and Britney and Justin Timberlake albums I think this is hidden in one of the Seven Seals in The Book of Revelations
If you're up on the latest Britney, there are a lot of people you can talk to about it. ....and the good ones charge $150/hour plus medication costs.
your best hope is that the other person is open-minded enough to consider something non-mainstream I still hold out for a slimmer of hope for mankind......
I don't really blame people who are afraid to try it, though, especially those people who care a little more than you do about not sticking out from the crowd. Maybe I'll read this again tomorrow after my morning coffee. Right now, in mid afternoon, it kind of looks like a backhanded slap.
Anyhow. Thanks for the link. There's some really good Prog Rock there.
Some people are addicted to their music, and can't live without their occasional fix. Some people are addicted to their RIAA label branded music, can't live without their occasional fix, and are too narrow minded to learn of alternatives from independent artists.
Fixed that for you.....
I thought I was the only one who, since the Internet made finding independent artists easier, actually enjoyed finding such hidden gems of music. After discovering indie bands, I learned it was cool to listen to something that most others don't know about. There are plenty of people at work that ask me who I'm listening to at any given time. By now, they can guess it's an "indie" artist. Most say it sounds good. I do my best to let them know where to find such music in their favorite genre.
Although a couple long time favorite artists of mine are published only on RIAA labels, I generally gave up on everything but independents. At the risk of a mild superiority complex, I feel great knowing I'm not an RIAA music buying drone.
It's like an old friend that never pisses you off and when you sit down with him with a beer you can chat hours long I can't remember how many times I SPILLED beer on mine. Small desk, late night COMPUTE! Gazette typing, beer can on top edge of the C64 near the 1541 drive lever. My C= worked better when it was drunk anyway.
Though not quite the same as programming your own C64 games, my son uses Scratch to learn programming concepts with fun graphics and sound. He's only 9 years old (younger than I was when I got my first computer) and he's taken off with it. To me, it represents a twist on "the old days" of computing with a modern arsenal of features.
The row/column checksum program was a most welcome addition to my software library. The Automatic Proofreader and MLX were a godsend for those type in programs.
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I'll hold on to Imagine for my Amiga until it's pried from my cold, dead hands.
34.2 minutes per rendered frame gives me plenty of time to do other things around the house.
Actually, I would have mentioned Turbo Silver instead if there were any good links for it.
Lets make them better and cheaper. The spirit of Jack Tramiel might be living on in ASUS
- I have a wife.....
- She prefers CZ over real diamonds any day
Screw you, DeBeers........Don't forget to add, "Reproduction should be banned because it can create killers"
....and find out your disease du jour.
Is there a prize for guessing correctly, first? Like a reduction on your future insurance premiums?
Actually, these lamps would be a great place to put a Christmas fruit cake to good use.
Are you, by any chance, familiar with the Gnomes in the Dragonlance saga? If not, I'm sure we can put together a committee for Gnome Awareness.
be nice if it could take other input too, like my mood etc. Even nicer to send the suggestions to my cellphone. Closet: I see you are both lazy and bored enough to just grab cheap jeans and a t-shirt. Might I suggest the LAN party down the street? You aren't in the position to be picking up a date at the local club.
As for advertising, the grocery story sends all sorts of stuff to "resident" in this area, anyway. The only difference would be I get my name on the To: address.
People should really give up on that and start using D
...where clicking the button rejecting the Read Receipt request is considered "fleeing" and makes you a flight risk.
I understand what you are saying and can see your point. However, when it comes to entertainment, I'm a consumer. I find what I like and I stick with it until I don't like it anymore, or cannot trust the product or service anymore. I'm not loyal to too many brand names. If Hess has cheaper gas than the Mobil down the road, guess where I'm going. Same for the next day if the pricing switches. I prefer to buy generic brands in the stores. Even manufacturer coupons aren't enough incentive to buy their products because it usually costs more than generics after the discount. I generally go to the same restaurants, until they provide less service or value than they've provided in the past.
On the same note, I'm not loyal to too many band names. It's the genre I go for. I have found artists, both major label and indie, that play the music I like. The few bands I'm loyal to have consistently given me good music for my money. The variety in indie music is a shopper's dream for me. Especially with easy access to it via the Internet. I've found a few artists who make music I enjoy. I've bought their albums. I'll continue to check out their future albums and buy the ones I like. I tend to spend my money on an artist who puts full album samples online (short clips or low quality). Unlike a laundry detergent that I can get a refund for if it doesn't work to my satisfaction, I prefer to sample at least a portion of all tracks on an album, not just a few songs from the album, before I buy them. They're much harder to return.
Anyhow. Thanks for the link. There's some really good Prog Rock there.
Fixed that for you.....
I thought I was the only one who, since the Internet made finding independent artists easier, actually enjoyed finding such hidden gems of music. After discovering indie bands, I learned it was cool to listen to something that most others don't know about. There are plenty of people at work that ask me who I'm listening to at any given time. By now, they can guess it's an "indie" artist. Most say it sounds good. I do my best to let them know where to find such music in their favorite genre.
Although a couple long time favorite artists of mine are published only on RIAA labels, I generally gave up on everything but independents. At the risk of a mild superiority complex, I feel great knowing I'm not an RIAA music buying drone.
Though not quite the same as programming your own C64 games, my son uses Scratch to learn programming concepts with fun graphics and sound. He's only 9 years old (younger than I was when I got my first computer) and he's taken off with it. To me, it represents a twist on "the old days" of computing with a modern arsenal of features.
It didn't take long for a C= vs. Speccy war to spawn on this thread.