Bad technology sometimes beats out good. Consider the triumph of VHS over Beta...
Well, duh--Beta tapes are kind of a lot larger than VHS, and harder to carry around. If I didn't mind carrying around a Beta tape I'd try to find a player for them and I'd use it.
When your neighbor's teenage son is downloading pr0n like crazy and using 95% of the shared bandwidth be sure and DO NOT complain! Do not raise their rates!
Just tell the parents--I'm sure that home's bandwidth use would drop dramatically if you did.
I agree, there is no substitute for a man on the ground. However, an officer on the ground is aided if he has a collapsible airplane that he can send over an enemy position to scout it before he commits his (or now, her) command to that position. Ditto for the Dragon Runner. The Dragon Warrior's uses are scouting (for areas a fixed-wing plane can't enter) and sighting missiles, another job a fixed-wing aircraft can't do. Also, the "RoboLobster" will almost always beat a man at its simple job--find and detect mines. Humans alone only have one way to do this--trial and error--and that can be quite costly for a small unit.
In short, none of these are meant to replace a soldier on the ground--they are merely there to help him.
I agree on Argument 2, but on Argument 1, I believe that you didn't actually pay for that hard drive space--TiVo kept that space reserved for itself to sell to others. If you want that space for yourself, it seems like you should have to pay more for it.
More seriously though, I think networks TV should be like soccer games currently are. In soccer, there are two 45+ minute halves (they usually run over about 3 mins), and you can't have a commercial in the middle of a half--there's simply no time. To counter this flaw in soccer, stations put an advertiser's logo in a corner of the screen (just like most networks do for themselves anyway) and they say something like "This game is brought to you by Pepsi. Pepsi reminds you to feel the joy of cola." That takes about 3 sec, but the Pepsi logo stays on the screen for 7-8 mins (and there aren't any "fake" singers to promote the product!). I wouldn't mind a show pausing for this at all, and it's something that TiVo, Sonicblue, and ReplayTV can't get rid of--as long as networks are smart and don't make the time the logo appears on the screen constant.
I realize that this is much larger than any commercially available removable media, but we have to ask ourselves one question: does size really matter?
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Ok, find the email address of the Judge and of his staff and get it on every spamlist you know of. Ditto once we know who the jurors are.
So Mother Nature doesn't mind refilling her tanks for us. HA, Sierra Club.
So you agree with the people who say she should get a webcam?
But not the "economy" ones..
How about this:
1-1/x
Or, in RPN:
1 1 x / -
I knew it was the Pathfinder or the Global Surveyor (I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Climate Orbiter) and I just guessed--but my point still stands.
...or trained cosmonauts?
Yes, but the Europeans could breathe the air in the "new world". We won't be able to.
Just like a catchphrase of one of my local radio stations: "Earth First! We'll strip mine the other 8 planets later."
There is no evidence that refutes this either. Believe it or not, Big Brother is not watching you.
It could be worse--results could be shown as .pdf's.
Hell, even NASA makes mistakes--they mixed SI and English units on the Mars Pathfinder, and it didn't work.
I'm just thinking of the tapes that networks use--I didn't know there were other kinds of Beta tapes.
Finally, they realize what I've known for years: the only real computer game is Pong--the rest are just updates.
I agree, there is no substitute for a man on the ground. However, an officer on the ground is aided if he has a collapsible airplane that he can send over an enemy position to scout it before he commits his (or now, her) command to that position. Ditto for the Dragon Runner. The Dragon Warrior's uses are scouting (for areas a fixed-wing plane can't enter) and sighting missiles, another job a fixed-wing aircraft can't do. Also, the "RoboLobster" will almost always beat a man at its simple job--find and detect mines. Humans alone only have one way to do this--trial and error--and that can be quite costly for a small unit.
In short, none of these are meant to replace a soldier on the ground--they are merely there to help him.
I agree on Argument 2, but on Argument 1, I believe that you didn't actually pay for that hard drive space--TiVo kept that space reserved for itself to sell to others. If you want that space for yourself, it seems like you should have to pay more for it.
Just like the Truman Show.
More seriously though, I think networks TV should be like soccer games currently are. In soccer, there are two 45+ minute halves (they usually run over about 3 mins), and you can't have a commercial in the middle of a half--there's simply no time. To counter this flaw in soccer, stations put an advertiser's logo in a corner of the screen (just like most networks do for themselves anyway) and they say something like "This game is brought to you by Pepsi. Pepsi reminds you to feel the joy of cola." That takes about 3 sec, but the Pepsi logo stays on the screen for 7-8 mins (and there aren't any "fake" singers to promote the product!). I wouldn't mind a show pausing for this at all, and it's something that TiVo, Sonicblue, and ReplayTV can't get rid of--as long as networks are smart and don't make the time the logo appears on the screen constant.
Now when my parents complain about me playing video games I can truthfully say that it's the army's fault.
See, the entertainment industry isn't all bad :)
The DigitalConsumer.org Bill of Rights seems like a great middle-of-the-road choice.
Private space stations?!?!?! Count me in--just think of what it'd be like to get laid in zero-g!
I realize that this is much larger than any commercially available removable media, but we have to ask ourselves one question: does size really matter?