The HAL 9000 used holographic memory, didn't it? Too bad about that problem on the way to Jupiter, though. I wonder what really happened out there. Maybe we'll figure it out in a few years.
Oil prices went up because oil futures are currently in the midst of a speculation bubble. Eventually the bubble will burst. Grab some popcorn and watch the prices fall back significantly a few months from now.
You forgot to mention how coal fired plants output much more radioactive pollution than nuclear plants simply because there are no standards to limit them.
Funny story with that. My friend used to get craploads of credit cards in the mail. Almost every time I'd see him he'd have a new one on the desk, unopened, unactivated, unused.
Was this in the United States? I'm pretty sure there's a law that says you can't be sent unsolicited credit cards. Offers are fine, it's just the cards (when they haven't been requested by applying for them) that are not allowed.
I am tired of paying for 50 channels of cable when I only watch 5 of them and one of my other favorite channels I can only get by paying another $25 a month for an extended plan.
Isn't $25 a month what Giganews now charges for unlimited downloading? Drop the crappy cable, and learn how to download binaries and watch.AVI files. Get a nice TV with a VGA input (even 640x480 VGA is a vast improvement over S-video), and let other people be your Tivo. I haven't had cable for four years now (and the last year I did have it, it was free with my apartment rent), and I'm quite happy with watching the local stations (especially PBS) on HDTV.
The best part is how you can watch stuff which would be impossible to get through cable (or even satellite) TV, such as Japanese drama shows. For instance, Densha Otoko is highly recommended as a story about a nerdy guy who gets lucky in love, and has a whole webboard cheering him on and giving advice, currently on its eighth of eleven episodes.
And of course the new season of Dr. Who when it appears a few months from now.
If the cable companies don't consider you a target audience, then to hell with them. The broadcast TV rippers do consider you as a target audience. Not only that, but a DVD-R full of AVI files of shows not on cable can easily be shared with like-minded friends.
Prosecutors allege Smith had Mach issue about 72,000 prescriptions from July 2004 to about May 2005.
Would't someone have gotten a touch suspicious that this guy was writing them out at a rate of 1 prescription every 7 seconds?
Ummm, you might want to check your math. That's only 240 a day, which is 10 per hour or one every six minutes or so. Or maybe one every 2 minutes or so if you consider that he probably wasn't doing it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
70-80% of my spam used to come from this guy. It seems every time one of these weasels gets hauled in there's a dip in spam. In the past two days my spammage has dropped to a trickle.
Wow, and I thought it was just me... the past two days I was wondering if my e-mail server was broken! I run my own domain, and have port 25 blocked from all Chinese and Korean netblocks, but I still get a few a day. Almost none got through the past two days.
Maybe the writers should be getting a bigger piece of the pie.
You've heard of "studio accounting", right? The same accounting that means long after a movie has grossed many times its production costs, it is still somehow still in the red, and has no "profits" to pay people a percentage of? And both the MPAA and RIAA companies do this.
Most movies out there that aren't any good don't come from crummy special effects or even bad acting, but bad writing.
I agree with you 100% there. These days the studio formula seems to be so tied to special effects that some movies are little more than special effects demos. Remember (I know it's hard because you've repressed it) Wild Wild West starring Will Smith? When I saw the trailer for it, I knew it was not only going to be a total suck-fest, but a total suck-fest with really shiny special effects.
It's simple. Hollywood can't write their way out of a wet paper bag. Nor do they seem to be interested in anyone who can, except grudgingly after the fact when one slips through to the theatre screens. Then they try to copy it in every way other than good writing because there must be some "formula" that made it a success.
They make money with the outrageous ticket prices but they really make bank by selling you $.50 worth of soda for $2.50 and $.10 worth of popcorn for $5.
So when will they go after people like me who come in to watch a movie, and neither buy nor sneak any food or drink whatsoever? (I also pay off my credit card bills each month, and supposedly the credit card companies call folks like me "deadbeats".)
I avoid having drinks because the last thing I want is to have to run to the bathroom in the middle of the movie.
I gave up on drinks during a movie when I was watching E.T. (yes, that long ago), and had to go. Well, I sat it out, but I made a dash for it the moment the movie was over. I've never had to go during a movie since. Not even the three LoTR movies.
Can anyone figure out what the hell Microsoft Marketing was thinking when they selected this song?
Why? Because of that stupid Start button (which logically you had to click on to shut the computer down) that they based half of their marketing on.
Of course whenever they used that song, they made especially sure to remove the offending line from it. Which of course was immediately noticed and siezed upon by Mac-lovers like me, and harnessed as the obvious anti-slogan: "Windows 95 - It Makes A Grown Man Cry"
I never tried it myself, but I've heard of someone who stuck a VGA card into a W98 computer and saw "found new hardware" on the display. Maybe your BIOS wasn't quite hot-swap compatible?
But really, is there any problem with using spellcheck as a tool to learn proper spelling?
Yes. Because they don't grammar check, so they don't complain when you misspell a word that is a valid spelling of a different word. That's why we have so many "loosers" who write "loose" when they should write "lose", and similar problems with "principal" vs "principle", "affect" vs "effect", and "populous" vs "populace".
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I saw those in Tron, right?
The HAL 9000 used holographic memory, didn't it? Too bad about that problem on the way to Jupiter, though. I wonder what really happened out there. Maybe we'll figure it out in a few years.
Oil prices went up because oil futures are currently in the midst of a speculation bubble. Eventually the bubble will burst. Grab some popcorn and watch the prices fall back significantly a few months from now.
You forgot to mention how coal fired plants output much more radioactive pollution than nuclear plants simply because there are no standards to limit them.
This was already posted -3295 days ago!
Was this in the United States? I'm pretty sure there's a law that says you can't be sent unsolicited credit cards. Offers are fine, it's just the cards (when they haven't been requested by applying for them) that are not allowed.
Isn't $25 a month what Giganews now charges for unlimited downloading? Drop the crappy cable, and learn how to download binaries and watch .AVI files. Get a nice TV with a VGA input (even 640x480 VGA is a vast improvement over S-video), and let other people be your Tivo. I haven't had cable for four years now (and the last year I did have it, it was free with my apartment rent), and I'm quite happy with watching the local stations (especially PBS) on HDTV.
The best part is how you can watch stuff which would be impossible to get through cable (or even satellite) TV, such as Japanese drama shows. For instance, Densha Otoko is highly recommended as a story about a nerdy guy who gets lucky in love, and has a whole webboard cheering him on and giving advice, currently on its eighth of eleven episodes.
And of course the new season of Dr. Who when it appears a few months from now.
If the cable companies don't consider you a target audience, then to hell with them. The broadcast TV rippers do consider you as a target audience. Not only that, but a DVD-R full of AVI files of shows not on cable can easily be shared with like-minded friends.
That's not quite cool enough. They need to make it 'oogle.com', then they could replace the "oo" with a pair of breasts.
Of course that domain is probably already taken up by a typosquatter... with porn all over the site. (No, I'm not going to try it to see for myself.)
Would't someone have gotten a touch suspicious that this guy was writing them out at a rate of 1 prescription every 7 seconds?
Ummm, you might want to check your math. That's only 240 a day, which is 10 per hour or one every six minutes or so. Or maybe one every 2 minutes or so if you consider that he probably wasn't doing it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Wow, and I thought it was just me... the past two days I was wondering if my e-mail server was broken! I run my own domain, and have port 25 blocked from all Chinese and Korean netblocks, but I still get a few a day. Almost none got through the past two days.
Just checking.
You've heard of "studio accounting", right? The same accounting that means long after a movie has grossed many times its production costs, it is still somehow still in the red, and has no "profits" to pay people a percentage of? And both the MPAA and RIAA companies do this.
Most movies out there that aren't any good don't come from crummy special effects or even bad acting, but bad writing.
I agree with you 100% there. These days the studio formula seems to be so tied to special effects that some movies are little more than special effects demos. Remember (I know it's hard because you've repressed it) Wild Wild West starring Will Smith? When I saw the trailer for it, I knew it was not only going to be a total suck-fest, but a total suck-fest with really shiny special effects.
It's simple. Hollywood can't write their way out of a wet paper bag. Nor do they seem to be interested in anyone who can, except grudgingly after the fact when one slips through to the theatre screens. Then they try to copy it in every way other than good writing because there must be some "formula" that made it a success.
So when will they go after people like me who come in to watch a movie, and neither buy nor sneak any food or drink whatsoever? (I also pay off my credit card bills each month, and supposedly the credit card companies call folks like me "deadbeats".)
I gave up on drinks during a movie when I was watching E.T. (yes, that long ago), and had to go. Well, I sat it out, but I made a dash for it the moment the movie was over. I've never had to go during a movie since. Not even the three LoTR movies.
Supporting Windows 95 was a mixed bad.
Typos... or Freudian slips?
Why? Because of that stupid Start button (which logically you had to click on to shut the computer down) that they based half of their marketing on.
Of course whenever they used that song, they made especially sure to remove the offending line from it. Which of course was immediately noticed and siezed upon by Mac-lovers like me, and harnessed as the obvious anti-slogan: "Windows 95 - It Makes A Grown Man Cry"
I never tried it myself, but I've heard of someone who stuck a VGA card into a W98 computer and saw "found new hardware" on the display. Maybe your BIOS wasn't quite hot-swap compatible?
Just what is it about theses that inspires people to never back them up? The Murphy Field around those things must be tremendous!
Fortunately, for me, my father had backup of his thesis in floppy disks ...
Wow. He must be the only one to ever do that. I'm impressed.
Yes. I believe they call them "editors".
Then maybe the Church of the Subgenius should give him a special lifetime (deathtime?) achievement award for amassing so much Slack?
Can I patent hilighting numbers by circling them?
That's the fourth bug in 512 bytes of code.
Or you could just rub Beggin' Strips on the shrink wrap, and your dog would still open it because he can't tell it isn't bacon!
"I told you I was hardcore."
Yes. Because they don't grammar check, so they don't complain when you misspell a word that is a valid spelling of a different word. That's why we have so many "loosers" who write "loose" when they should write "lose", and similar problems with "principal" vs "principle", "affect" vs "effect", and "populous" vs "populace".