Wasn't there a TV series or movie, where the Green Hornet had a green AMC Hornet?
My father had an AMC Hornet station wagon.
That would certainly be a large step down from what the Black Beauty was all about. I've seen AMC Hornets. It may have been tongue-in-cheek advertising.
With the pending release of the Green Hornet we get a new Black Beauty. Where once the Green Hornet and Kato tore about the city in the sleek, supercharged car, which must have turned a bit over 100 HP, we're in for something which will have to make even the Batmobile look like yesterday's Fiero.
And in about 2 more years Green Hornet Returns will have yet-another iteration of the famous Black Beauty.
Honestly, where do you park a car like that while you're in the building fighting with gangsters, where nobody's going to notice it?
if there was something to test for, then ghosts would have been "found" by now. Things like "change in temperature" are only useful if a study has conclusively proven that ghosts can cause such a thing. Had that happened, you could measure for otherwise unexplained temperature changes and then have that as potential evidence.
It's a problem of there not having been a studied, known-good. IE, a situation where we almost all scientists could agree a ghost existed in a particular place, and that said ghost caused a particular list of manifestations/effects. Until such a thing happens, there's absolutely no reason to think a change in temperature isn't due to a gap in the floorboard that is letting air in from outside, which you're just not seeing; being cold, doesn't mean there is a ghost.
Here's the thing I find so fascinating - the better technology evolves to detect ghosts, the more clever they are at evading being detected, recorded, trapped, etc. They're not just supernatural, they're superdupernatural!
They'll never believe anything that doesn't support their position anyway, and you can't prove something that can vanish at any moment isn't there...
Sounds like you are a post grad from the Thelma & Scooby Doo school of "There's probably a rational reason behind these things."
I'm mystified how many people can get caught up in these sorts of things, but can't for the life of them get past simple facts like the US having a huge deficit and Democrats having very little to do with it.
When I hit a jackpot in Las Vegas the machine didn't pay out. When I complained about it they said they didn't have any (Ha!) control over it not paying out, must have not tripped something in there, even though I should have been bathed in cash.
So much trading is done by program these days - in the big sell off of stock in the banking crisis, if you bought Ford at $0.89 per share OR Dow at ~ $5 per share you'd be sitting pretty right now.
Curse the holidays! If I hadn't been spending money on gifts and travel I could have made a killing!
Every time I've got a new computer at a job I've had them order a Key Tronic Lifetime Series KB. Very much like the original PC-XT keyboard of yore and hold up extremely well. I can code like a fiend on one of these! =)
Add to that, the best device for avoiding RSI has a large amount of travel and a gradual resistance in the keys. A touchscreen has no travel and a very sudden resistance. Try spending five hours typing on one and see how much your fingers hurt.
They're fine for consumer devices (i.e. devices for consuming), but not for devices people use to create anything involving text.
I forget the name of the Repetitive Stress of fingers, usually felt in the digit itself rather than wrist, but agree. Without that tactile feel of a keyboard I tend to press harder than necessary.
My immediate concern, however, is typing speed and the number of typos I make on touch sensitive screens - far slower speed and with more errors than on a keyboard. I'm certain it can be improved, but will I ever type 60 WPM with fewer than 10 errors per minute on a touch screen? Doubtful.
Touch screens also wear out where a good KB can last for years. A small device I have with touch screen is less than a year old and already quite scratched. Also has readability issues when I'm in the field and get mist, perspiration or dust on it and then smear it by touching the screen.
I've found CutePDF bundled with a few other packages that seemed extremely odd, perhaps you installed it without noticing that you didn't uncheck a box on some stupid installer? It seems to be the next big thing for shoveling crapware (not that I think CutePDF is crapware, I actually like it) on people without them consenting. I say without consent not because they never give you the option to not install it (some do) but because they intentionally obscure the option or wording so you don't realize that its going to install something, or the make it an opt out, where you have to check to box to not install it rather than the natural assumption of checking it too install it.
Second thing I did was look through all installed software - no CutePDF anywhere. I found a CutePDF.tmp running when checking tasks. It's highly unusual.
A co-worker and I have witnessed multiple attempts by CutePDF Writer to install itself, unbidden. I haven't ever used it, as far as I know and haven't been to any pages I can think of which would require me to save something in PDF. As a wary user I don't trust anything which just pops up without my asking, particularly to install software. Could this be the result of accessing a web page which is retrieving content from a compromised site? Seems such that the CutePDF install request could really be a spoof trying install malware.
Considering news presented by a business requires bearing in mind at all times their main focus isn't to inform you, but to profit from your buying their advertisers product.
FTFY
Not necessarily so. Advertising income isn't driven by sales, except for some of those "As Seen On TV" things, but by selling the advertising time slots of shows based upon viewer share.
I could be an advertiser attempting to sell barbwire underwear and paying big zorkmids for the air time, but not reaping many sales. When I'm broke and gone some other concern will step up to buy that air time.
It's in the best interests of broadcasters to prop up their ratings by whatever means possible to increase their revenues. Of course if I sell a lot of the Marquis De Sade model boxers, I'll be back to buy more air time for my wares.
I really love how their interviewers mix it up with interviewees, no matter the position in government, business or society of the interviewee.
Some very heated exchanges as these reporters try to drag the truth, kicking and screaming from someone most viewers would be under the strong impression is not telling the full truth.
In American news I feel probing questions are often deemed off-limits by some unwritten decorum agreement ('Of course I'll consent to be interviewed, as long as your reporter stays away from certain allegations which are highly interesting and relevant to the questioning of my character.' 'Oh, certainly Mr. Korruptmann.') So all we get is bland, we-already-knew-this news.
Plenty of stupid people watch MSNBC. CBS. ABC. CNN. And so on and so forth.
Relying on any ONE news source is a great way to be uninformed.
Considering news presented by a business requires bearing in mind at all times their main focus isn't to inform you, but to profit from your viewing/listening/reading their product.
They're all trying to pull the strings of their viewers in order to maximize their profits through advertising and growing their audience. This is why there's so much sensationalism in the news.
"Tonight on 5 - House fire, school shooting, 10 car pile-up on Route 44 and in the weather Art has news on the big storm heading our way."
Meanwhile, the city council has decided to cut some spending, by removing services you actually will feel the impact of, but hey, it's not on the News, so tough beans!
You are right, of course. It's not that Fox News makes people stupid, it's that stupid people watch Fox News.
In my experience (and observed in a recent conversation with a conspiracy theorist who blames everything on lawyers and/or Obama) some people gravitate towards information sources which reinforce their own present views.
If your only source of information is one with a certain bent or otherwise narrowed view, that could become your view as well. It's best to seek out differing opinions and evaluate each on the strength of its case, rather than whether or not those views agree with your own or not. Changing your mind is exercising your liberty.
Critical Thinking is an important skill best developed early.
Actually, dinner time has become my only TV time. It's when I catch up on shows, but I watch Netflix DVDs 95% of the time, so does that count as internet?:-)
Where do video games land here? My HDTV shows more video games than TV or movies.
Games are all part of whatever interaction is taking place on the device - 1.3 million (IIRC) copies of some MMORPG iteration sold the other day - how many hours does it take to get anywhere in one of these games - 70, 150, 300 or more? That time isn't spent watching ads for the new Ford, Revlon products or what Bernie Madoff & Son can do for your portfolio.
I know people who sit around texting all the time while eating. It's so weird at work to enter the break room and see everyone on a device of some kind.
Like TV displaced radio, mobile interaction is displacing TV (not that I'm too surprised, I watch TV for a few minutes and have the instant urge to turn on the (already on) TV on to see if there's anything more interesting. What does that say about it?
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Wasn't there a TV series or movie, where the Green Hornet had a green AMC Hornet?
My father had an AMC Hornet station wagon.
That would certainly be a large step down from what the Black Beauty was all about. I've seen AMC Hornets. It may have been tongue-in-cheek advertising.
With the pending release of the Green Hornet we get a new Black Beauty. Where once the Green Hornet and Kato tore about the city in the sleek, supercharged car, which must have turned a bit over 100 HP, we're in for something which will have to make even the Batmobile look like yesterday's Fiero.
And in about 2 more years Green Hornet Returns will have yet-another iteration of the famous Black Beauty.
Honestly, where do you park a car like that while you're in the building fighting with gangsters, where nobody's going to notice it?
And I think I need to patent that before all you cheese weasels cheat me out of my due lucre.
if there was something to test for, then ghosts would have been "found" by now. Things like "change in temperature" are only useful if a study has conclusively proven that ghosts can cause such a thing. Had that happened, you could measure for otherwise unexplained temperature changes and then have that as potential evidence.
It's a problem of there not having been a studied, known-good. IE, a situation where we almost all scientists could agree a ghost existed in a particular place, and that said ghost caused a particular list of manifestations/effects. Until such a thing happens, there's absolutely no reason to think a change in temperature isn't due to a gap in the floorboard that is letting air in from outside, which you're just not seeing; being cold, doesn't mean there is a ghost.
Here's the thing I find so fascinating - the better technology evolves to detect ghosts, the more clever they are at evading being detected, recorded, trapped, etc. They're not just supernatural, they're superdupernatural!
They'll never believe anything that doesn't support their position anyway, and you can't prove something that can vanish at any moment isn't there...
Sounds like you are a post grad from the Thelma & Scooby Doo school of "There's probably a rational reason behind these things."
I'm mystified how many people can get caught up in these sorts of things, but can't for the life of them get past simple facts like the US having a huge deficit and Democrats having very little to do with it.
wouldn't be easier just to change both friends and family?
Take them for some money first - It's immoral to let suckers keep theirs.
Gullibility,
Not sure who sells that online....
Look up the Amityville Horror some time. Load of con artists out to make a buck.
While I'm a firm skeptic, I will concede they make for good stories.
With the billions of people who have by now inhabited Earth and died here, we'd by up to our armpits in protoplasm if they really did exist.
When I hit a jackpot in Las Vegas the machine didn't pay out. When I complained about it they said they didn't have any (Ha!) control over it not paying out, must have not tripped something in there, even though I should have been bathed in cash.
So much trading is done by program these days - in the big sell off of stock in the banking crisis, if you bought Ford at $0.89 per share OR Dow at ~ $5 per share you'd be sitting pretty right now.
Curse the holidays! If I hadn't been spending money on gifts and travel I could have made a killing!
Every time I've got a new computer at a job I've had them order a Key Tronic Lifetime Series KB. Very much like the original PC-XT keyboard of yore and hold up extremely well. I can code like a fiend on one of these! =)
Big media: quit saying "XYZ is dead" every time you're starved for attention.
Are breathless claims that some ubiquitous technology is dead dead? We spread a short article over twenty pages for you to find out!
Eye sight is dead, brace yourself for the onset of 3D Smell-O-Vision!
Add to that, the best device for avoiding RSI has a large amount of travel and a gradual resistance in the keys. A touchscreen has no travel and a very sudden resistance. Try spending five hours typing on one and see how much your fingers hurt.
They're fine for consumer devices (i.e. devices for consuming), but not for devices people use to create anything involving text.
I forget the name of the Repetitive Stress of fingers, usually felt in the digit itself rather than wrist, but agree. Without that tactile feel of a keyboard I tend to press harder than necessary.
My immediate concern, however, is typing speed and the number of typos I make on touch sensitive screens - far slower speed and with more errors than on a keyboard. I'm certain it can be improved, but will I ever type 60 WPM with fewer than 10 errors per minute on a touch screen? Doubtful.
Touch screens also wear out where a good KB can last for years. A small device I have with touch screen is less than a year old and already quite scratched. Also has readability issues when I'm in the field and get mist, perspiration or dust on it and then smear it by touching the screen.
I've found CutePDF bundled with a few other packages that seemed extremely odd, perhaps you installed it without noticing that you didn't uncheck a box on some stupid installer? It seems to be the next big thing for shoveling crapware (not that I think CutePDF is crapware, I actually like it) on people without them consenting. I say without consent not because they never give you the option to not install it (some do) but because they intentionally obscure the option or wording so you don't realize that its going to install something, or the make it an opt out, where you have to check to box to not install it rather than the natural assumption of checking it too install it.
Second thing I did was look through all installed software - no CutePDF anywhere. I found a CutePDF.tmp running when checking tasks. It's highly unusual.
A co-worker and I have witnessed multiple attempts by CutePDF Writer to install itself, unbidden. I haven't ever used it, as far as I know and haven't been to any pages I can think of which would require me to save something in PDF. As a wary user I don't trust anything which just pops up without my asking, particularly to install software. Could this be the result of accessing a web page which is retrieving content from a compromised site? Seems such that the CutePDF install request could really be a spoof trying install malware.
Some of the 600 cut from Yahoo, I guess. Not too surprises how many bookmarking/aggregating sites do you need?
Best of luck to them, tough economy out there.
To my TI-80?
Oh, what. I could already play Pong on it (c=
Considering news presented by a business requires bearing in mind at all times their main focus isn't to inform you, but to profit from your buying their advertisers product.
FTFY
Not necessarily so. Advertising income isn't driven by sales, except for some of those "As Seen On TV" things, but by selling the advertising time slots of shows based upon viewer share.
I could be an advertiser attempting to sell barbwire underwear and paying big zorkmids for the air time, but not reaping many sales. When I'm broke and gone some other concern will step up to buy that air time.
It's in the best interests of broadcasters to prop up their ratings by whatever means possible to increase their revenues. Of course if I sell a lot of the Marquis De Sade model boxers, I'll be back to buy more air time for my wares.
I listen to the BBC World Service.
I really love how their interviewers mix it up with interviewees, no matter the position in government, business or society of the interviewee.
Some very heated exchanges as these reporters try to drag the truth, kicking and screaming from someone most viewers would be under the strong impression is not telling the full truth.
In American news I feel probing questions are often deemed off-limits by some unwritten decorum agreement ('Of course I'll consent to be interviewed, as long as your reporter stays away from certain allegations which are highly interesting and relevant to the questioning of my character.' 'Oh, certainly Mr. Korruptmann.') So all we get is bland, we-already-knew-this news.
Plenty of stupid people watch MSNBC. CBS. ABC. CNN. And so on and so forth.
Relying on any ONE news source is a great way to be uninformed.
Considering news presented by a business requires bearing in mind at all times their main focus isn't to inform you, but to profit from your viewing/listening/reading their product.
They're all trying to pull the strings of their viewers in order to maximize their profits through advertising and growing their audience. This is why there's so much sensationalism in the news.
"Tonight on 5 - House fire, school shooting, 10 car pile-up on Route 44 and in the weather Art has news on the big storm heading our way."
Meanwhile, the city council has decided to cut some spending, by removing services you actually will feel the impact of, but hey, it's not on the News, so tough beans!
You are right, of course. It's not that Fox News makes people stupid, it's that stupid people watch Fox News.
In my experience (and observed in a recent conversation with a conspiracy theorist who blames everything on lawyers and/or Obama) some people gravitate towards information sources which reinforce their own present views.
If your only source of information is one with a certain bent or otherwise narrowed view, that could become your view as well. It's best to seek out differing opinions and evaluate each on the strength of its case, rather than whether or not those views agree with your own or not. Changing your mind is exercising your liberty.
Critical Thinking is an important skill best developed early.
Single point of failure - Internet access goes out, start thinking again.
My dinner table holds up my rock collection.
I eat at the computer or while watching DVDs on my mini-DVD player.
Actually, dinner time has become my only TV time. It's when I catch up on shows, but I watch Netflix DVDs 95% of the time, so does that count as internet? :-)
Where do video games land here? My HDTV shows more video games than TV or movies.
Games are all part of whatever interaction is taking place on the device - 1.3 million (IIRC) copies of some MMORPG iteration sold the other day - how many hours does it take to get anywhere in one of these games - 70, 150, 300 or more? That time isn't spent watching ads for the new Ford, Revlon products or what Bernie Madoff & Son can do for your portfolio.
I know people who sit around texting all the time while eating. It's so weird at work to enter the break room and see everyone on a device of some kind.
Like TV displaced radio, mobile interaction is displacing TV (not that I'm too surprised, I watch TV for a few minutes and have the instant urge to turn on the (already on) TV on to see if there's anything more interesting. What does that say about it?
1940's person has dinner with the radio playing Fibber McGee, Jack Benny or Fred Allen
1970's person has TV dinner, Pizza, etc., while watching Television
2000's person has dinner at their personal computer.
2010's person has dinner at their mobile laptop/device/tablet
FWIW, I stopped watching TV actively about 10 years ago (excepting World Cups) The internet is far more entertaining that TV.