D: A former classmate who is going through a mid-life crisis and is desparately trying to reach a former classmate in hopes your life turned out worse then their own.
So fvcking true... I can't count how many people contacted me out of the blue (name and phone number searches) only to find out they are doing worst than me, lol. These were the same popular boys and girls who would not give me the time of day if their life depended on it, then it kills me when they tell me I am so lucky with success. Fvck you! Dumbass! Should have gone to college or not knockup your girlfriend during/right after high school.
All of this is familiar and expected from men with big dreams... Could it be the beginning of something more unbearable???
Star Wars Episode 3 -
The Emperor: [to the Senate] In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years. [Senate fills with enormous applause] Padmé: [to Bail Organa] So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.
Imperial troops/US Solders take over the boarders...
Maybe that wont be such a bad idea, the problem I see with PC gaming right now is that you will have to satisfy a full compliment of hardware, cards and software drivers just to play a 40+-dollar PC game. Miss any of the recommended requirements and the game just doesn't work (as advertised) and become a waste of money.
That is one of the reasons why I gave up on PC gaming and purchased an XBOX 360. The damn console just works... Now it took some time to get accustom to wireless controller to play these games, but in defense of it, if they could add a keyboard and mouse to the system and some Internet surfing software and a word processor it would replace my obsolete model PC as daily internet surfing system and allow me the joy of playing HD games on the console with a keyboard and mouse (XBOX360 looks great on my HD 37inch LCD TV)
Also, I think that will go along way to getting families without PC's to adopt PC functions and knowledge without buying a full fledge PC. *Without learning to configure, maintain and worrying about backing up their data...
Note: Commodore style gaming PC's are still loved by many including myself for years, because they were simple PC's and game machines. XBOX 360 with suggested improvements would just bring this to another level and allow people to learn basic PC funtions in their spare time.
[quote] NEW YORK - Along a gritty stretch of street in Brooklyn, police this month quietly launched an ambitious plan to combat street crime and terrorism. But instead of cops on the beat, wireless video cameras peer down from lamp posts about 30 feet above the sidewalk.
They were the first installment of a program to place 500 cameras throughout the city at a cost of $9 million. Hundreds of additional cameras could follow if the city receives $81.5 million in federal grants it has requested to safeguard Lower Manhattan and parts of midtown with a surveillance "ring of steel" modeled after security measures in London's financial district. [blockquote]
Not only that, but they all learn to speak English (Some with British accents) and conduct themselves as human as possible (they mimic all human traits and mannerisms).
Can Microsoft make a Commodore 64/Amiga 500 type gaming system that runs on Windows CE or full Windows Vista software? They would just have to emulate PC hardware to run Windows.
X-Box 360 Live would work wonderfully if it had a keyboard and mouse (wireless or not) for high speed web exploring... add office/HTML software and bingo a new generation of kids using Microsoft products (Brand names do matter you kids).
With Myspace and you tube dominating online media these days, wouldn't it be nice if they used Microsoft products...
[quote]I know schools here in the US who can't even put a computer on the desk of any of the kids; many share 5 crummy machines between two (or more) classes. There are many places here that could use these things; I don't understand why there is no interest in marketing them right here. It seems like having electronic books would be cheaper/easier too [/quote]
Forgive me for saying this, but: b/c those same kids have PSP's, Ipods and cell phones... If their parents wont buy them a computer why should the public give them one for free.
I do realize musicians; record companies and record stores should make money... But, it should just be a small additional fee to convert a PAID copy of a song or movie to another medium or format. I have for some time converted all my original records to CD quality discs and then to mp3... And it should be a fee based service to help listeners/owners to convert their PAID for songs to another format.
[quote]Babylon 5: In the Beginning--no real surprises (shucks, even reuses footage) but a prequel that was up to the standards and feel of its "parent". They're not all bad (although I did have to think for awhile to come up with that example). [/quote]
Actually, the Babylon 5: In the Beginning prequel IMHO is the way prequels should be made. It was obvious to the writers that a main character should explain the past and tell the story of prequel events from their point of view...
Just think: If Star Wars (episode 1, 2 and 3) had that kind of introduction with Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford telling the story from some time after the events of "Return of the Jedi" I think fans young and old would have not complained as much as they did.
Any who? This is why it doesn't pay to go to the movies and support crappy movies.
Actually, from a non-technical point of view... I am in favor of a modern and separate web base terminal with USB, Fire wire and/or a CD/DVD writer for home use. Memory sticks, CF cards and USB 2.0 hard drives are selling faster than lumber jacks eats hot cakes. So it would not be too much of a burden if I purchased a Linux terminal for surfing and keep my primary PC for work then that would make me happy. At this time I have a dedicated PC for web browsing and a dedicated PC for projects. This sucks, but this is what I have to do to keep the spy ware and viruses to a minimum.
Titled:
Where Is the Digital Highway Really Heading?
Quote:By mechanism and by policy, networks will be much more closed than open, the pessimist would say. Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. Content will be supplied only by a carefully chosen set of providers, barriers to entry will be created for everyone else. Programming will still seek the least common denominator, and the population will be divided by income into information haves and have-nots...
When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop. If cable companies can offer local phone service, the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) will be hit where it hurts. As the public policy continues to enable more and more competition, the regulatory barriers that have kept cable and telephone companies out of each other's base businesses are surely going to fall...
Let's assume all the technology and all the alliances shake out in unpredictable ways by the end of the decade. Attention is likely to focus on the winners and the losers, among businesses and in technologies. While the outcome of battles between cable and telephone superpowers is going to make a difference to the consumer, more important are the design principles (both in technical architecture and public policy) under which the winning entry or entries operate...
Who has access to the network? Is it affordable? Many basic human services transactions - in health care and social welfare for example - could be handled far more easily over a ubiquitous voice, data, and video network, saving the elderly, the infirm, and young mothers with small children a trip on public transportation downtown to municipal, state, and federal office buildings. But unless there is a safety net that guarantees an affordable connection, the network will further stratify society, not bring it together...
Cut and paste
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.03/kapor.on .n ii.html?topic=&topic_set=
While everyone here can argue about web content and physical restrictions concerning the Internet. The Quote: "In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies' two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found" obviously states that there are fewer Internet Providers then there were two years ago. By this statement alone the question now is instead of the non-sense being talked about now, should be: How many providers will be around in the next two years? The next five? Etc. Utility companies have been regulated for this reason... They are the only game in town. How would you feel if your Internet service provider acted like you gas or your electric company? Miss a bill and get cut off. While most people consider $21.95 a month to access the web a nominal fee, consider the amount it will be once unfair competition eliminates the other services and your left with as many providers you can count with your hand (not to mention bad customer service). So the claim that Internet, for what it is worth, is still free commercialized or not... what bothers me is the fee-based route I would have to pay just to get there.
If you think AOL, Time Warner and Microsoft doesn't rule you wait a couple of more years and then try using equipment not supported by these companies and see what happens. Nothing! Exactly.
Online users time is the deciding factor in this equation. If I can't find a cheap subscription rate to fully use this feature, then by all means I wont use it. Then only corporations and government agencies will have access to this medium and the poor souls who created it wont be given a chance.
What will become of the disabled, forgotten and unwanted children associated with creating the perfect child? The right to live is a huge discussion now and if you don't fit a particular description will you be carted away and reprogrammed (whether you are black, white, and antisocial or have a clue)?
Question: What will become of the disabled, forgotten and unwanted children associated with creating the perfect child? The right to live is a huge discussion now and if you don't fit a particular description will you be carted away and reprogrammed (whether you are black, white, and antisocial or have a clue)?
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D: A former classmate who is going through a mid-life crisis and is desparately trying to reach a former classmate in hopes your life turned out worse then their own.
So fvcking true... I can't count how many people contacted me out of the blue (name and phone number searches) only to find out they are doing worst than me, lol. These were the same popular boys and girls who would not give me the time of day if their life depended on it, then it kills me when they tell me I am so lucky with success. Fvck you! Dumbass! Should have gone to college or not knockup your girlfriend during/right after high school.
28,000 pictures at 25 frames per second. Movie standards.
And the mega pixel resolution up to 261
All of this is familiar and expected from men with big dreams... Could it be the beginning of something more unbearable???
Star Wars Episode 3 -
The Emperor: [to the Senate] In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.
[Senate fills with enormous applause]
Padmé: [to Bail Organa] So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.
Imperial troops/US Solders take over the boarders...
Maybe that wont be such a bad idea, the problem I see with PC gaming right now is that you will have to satisfy a full compliment of hardware, cards and software drivers just to play a 40+-dollar PC game. Miss any of the recommended requirements and the game just doesn't work (as advertised) and become a waste of money.
That is one of the reasons why I gave up on PC gaming and purchased an XBOX 360. The damn console just works... Now it took some time to get accustom to wireless controller to play these games, but in defense of it, if they could add a keyboard and mouse to the system and some Internet surfing software and a word processor it would replace my obsolete model PC as daily internet surfing system and allow me the joy of playing HD games on the console with a keyboard and mouse (XBOX360 looks great on my HD 37inch LCD TV)
Also, I think that will go along way to getting families without PC's to adopt PC functions and knowledge without buying a full fledge PC. *Without learning to configure, maintain and worrying about backing up their data...
Note: Commodore style gaming PC's are still loved by many including myself for years, because they were simple PC's and game machines. XBOX 360 with suggested improvements would just bring this to another level and allow people to learn basic PC funtions in their spare time.
[quote]
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NEW YORK - Along a gritty stretch of street in Brooklyn, police this month quietly launched an ambitious plan to combat street crime and terrorism.
But instead of cops on the beat, wireless video cameras peer down from lamp posts about 30 feet above the sidewalk.
They were the first installment of a program to place 500 cameras throughout the city at a cost of $9 million. Hundreds of additional cameras could follow if the city receives $81.5 million in federal grants it has requested to safeguard Lower Manhattan and parts of midtown with a surveillance "ring of steel" modeled after security measures in London's financial district.
[blockquote]
For more read: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/16
Then watch as the lack of police presence attracts criminals to the open:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqNfXg1nE3k
But of course, if this system where to be fool proof, crime would have be enforced.
Not only that, but they all learn to speak English (Some with British accents) and conduct themselves as human as possible (they mimic all human traits and mannerisms).
[quote]I can see the awesome retro mods dancing through my head already... [/quote]
Already done with a Mini-itx pc. Nice machine if it could get mass produced, but???
Wishfull thinking!
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/c64/
Namely letting Babylon 5 take the lead...
Got to get started on Jump gate technology... Can't travel to the Rim in regular space...
Can Microsoft make a Commodore 64/Amiga 500 type gaming system that runs on Windows CE or full Windows Vista software? They would just have to emulate PC hardware to run Windows.
X-Box 360 Live would work wonderfully if it had a keyboard and mouse (wireless or not) for high speed web exploring... add office/HTML software and bingo a new generation of kids using Microsoft products (Brand names do matter you kids).
With Myspace and you tube dominating online media these days, wouldn't it be nice if they used Microsoft products...
Just my 2cents.
[quote]I know schools here in the US who can't even put a computer on the desk of any of the kids; many share 5 crummy machines between two (or more) classes. There are many places here that could use these things; I don't understand why there is no interest in marketing them right here. It seems like having electronic books would be cheaper/easier too [/quote]
Forgive me for saying this, but:
b/c those same kids have PSP's, Ipods and cell phones... If their parents wont buy them a computer why should the public give them one for free.
I do realize musicians; record companies and record stores should make money... But, it should just be a small additional fee to convert a PAID copy of a song or movie to another medium or format. I have for some time converted all my original records to CD quality discs and then to mp3... And it should be a fee based service to help listeners/owners to convert their PAID for songs to another format.
[quote]Babylon 5: In the Beginning--no real surprises (shucks, even reuses footage) but a prequel that was up to the standards and feel of its "parent". They're not all bad (although I did have to think for awhile to come up with that example). [/quote]
Actually, the Babylon 5: In the Beginning prequel IMHO is the way prequels should be made. It was obvious to the writers that a main character should explain the past and tell the story of prequel events from their point of view...
Just think: If Star Wars (episode 1, 2 and 3) had that kind of introduction with Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford telling the story from some time after the events of "Return of the Jedi" I think fans young and old would have not complained as much as they did.
Any who? This is why it doesn't pay to go to the movies and support crappy movies.
Actually, from a non-technical point of view... I am in favor of a modern and separate web base terminal with USB, Fire wire and/or a CD/DVD writer for home use. Memory sticks, CF cards and USB 2.0 hard drives are selling faster than lumber jacks eats hot cakes. So it would not be too much of a burden if I purchased a Linux terminal for surfing and keep my primary PC for work then that would make me happy. At this time I have a dedicated PC for web browsing and a dedicated PC for projects. This sucks, but this is what I have to do to keep the spy ware and viruses to a minimum.
Titled:
n .n ii.html?topic=&topic_set=
Where Is the Digital Highway Really Heading?
Quote:By mechanism and by policy, networks will be much more closed than open, the pessimist would say. Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. Content will be supplied only by a carefully chosen set of providers, barriers to entry will be created for everyone else. Programming will still seek the least common denominator, and the population will be divided by income into information haves and have-nots...
When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop. If cable companies can offer local phone service, the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) will be hit where it hurts. As the public policy continues to enable more and more competition, the regulatory barriers that have kept cable and telephone companies out of each other's base businesses are surely going to fall...
Let's assume all the technology and all the alliances shake out in unpredictable ways by the end of the decade. Attention is likely to focus on the winners and the losers, among businesses and in technologies. While the outcome of battles between cable and telephone superpowers is going to make a difference to the consumer, more important are the design principles (both in technical architecture and public policy) under which the winning entry or entries operate...
Who has access to the network? Is it affordable? Many basic human services transactions - in health care and social welfare for example - could be handled far more easily over a ubiquitous voice, data, and video network, saving the elderly, the infirm, and young mothers with small children a trip on public transportation downtown to municipal, state, and federal office buildings. But unless there is a safety net that guarantees an affordable connection, the network will further stratify society, not bring it together...
Cut and paste
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.03/kapor.o
While everyone here can argue about web content and physical restrictions concerning the Internet. The Quote: "In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies' two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found" obviously states that there are fewer Internet Providers then there were two years ago. By this statement alone the question now is instead of the non-sense being talked about now, should be: How many providers will be around in the next two years? The next five? Etc. Utility companies have been regulated for this reason... They are the only game in town. How would you feel if your Internet service provider acted like you gas or your electric company? Miss a bill and get cut off. While most people consider $21.95 a month to access the web a nominal fee, consider the amount it will be once unfair competition eliminates the other services and your left with as many providers you can count with your hand (not to mention bad customer service). So the claim that Internet, for what it is worth, is still free commercialized or not... what bothers me is the fee-based route I would have to pay just to get there.
If you think AOL, Time Warner and Microsoft doesn't rule you wait a couple of more years and then try using equipment not supported by these companies and see what happens. Nothing! Exactly.
Online users time is the deciding factor in this equation. If I can't find a cheap subscription rate to fully use this feature, then by all means I wont use it. Then only corporations and government agencies will have access to this medium and the poor souls who created it wont be given a chance.
What will become of the disabled, forgotten and unwanted children associated with creating the perfect child? The right to live is a huge discussion now and if you don't fit a particular description will you be carted away and reprogrammed (whether you are black, white, and antisocial or have a clue)?
Question: What will become of the disabled, forgotten and unwanted children associated with creating the perfect child? The right to live is a huge discussion now and if you don't fit a particular description will you be carted away and reprogrammed (whether you are black, white, and antisocial or have a clue)?