Sure its true, 87% of the people they polled recognized the Network Solutions name...
Network Solutions? Oh yeah, they are the company that used to charge US $150 for a 2 year domain name registration. Now I can get a domain for $12 a year from a decent company.
Actually, before AudioGalaxy got sued into ashes, they had a great feature in their search mechanism that when you searched for an artist or title, it would show what other people who searched for that title had also search for.
I really like the drum n bass duo Lamb and thanks to this feature at audio galaxy I was introduced to the Sneaker Pimps and Hooverphonic.
Err, I mean I rushed right out to my local national chain music store and purchased the CDs.
You kind of get this when you browse through Amazon.com's "other people purchased" links.
That was the ultra computer in Terminator, then of course you have a good selection of names Sara, John, T1000, Arnold, Connor, Terminator, T2, T3 what have you.
Of course, everyone will have to say "I'll be back" when they leave.
It's like the ongoing joke reviews of Family Circus (the Bill Keane Comic Strip), for instance: The Family Circus by Request
This groundbreaking new book is Bill Keane's much-anticipated sequel to last summer's white-knuckle thriller, "Family Circus: Billy and the Chainsaw." As usual, the subtextual dialogue of the novel's villains (or innocent children, as they are metaphorically portrayed) is amply charged with the sort of edgy political rhetoric that Bill Keane (or Bil Keane, as he was known during his revolutionary days at the Sorbonne) is infamous for, bordering on a new breed of fascism unlike anything the world has yet seen.
However, it is the sheer scope of atrocity (e.g., dungeon-like torture chamber scenes, graphic mutilations, mass executions, bioterrorist experimentation, and ritual bludgeoning with Lego pieces) that puts this novel's controversial slant into uncharted territory. Many critics feel that in this latest installation, Mr. Keane has, in fact, gone too far. Indeed, the American Library Association had already banned the book prior to publication. The degree of violence withing this chilling tome's pages goes far beyond that of Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho," the Marquis de Sade's "Misfortunes of Virtue," and Dr. Seuss's spine-tingling "Horton Hears a Who."
I do not recommend this book for the faint of heart. However, if you are prepared to take the plunge into Keane's grotesque world of slaughter and despair, ready yourself for a most gore-ridden experience.
Not exactly a well-scrutinized review by the Amazon staff.
....We use filtering software to stop our employees from wacking off all day to online porn... it's a management issue and they should keep a better eye on their employees so they don't have time to sit around and wank off, but that's not happening. The management is just as lazy as the fucking employees.
how is the management going to be able to spend all day wacking off to porn if they have to go around making sure the employees aren't circumventing the firewall?
but I went to the music store a couple weeks ago, thinking about getting a Bowie CD (like "Low") and noticed there was no official Phillips CD logo. Anyone know if any of his albums have copy-protection?
i have Low on CD and it plays fine in my PC, but I bought mine about 8-9 years ago.
Rykodisc RCD10142. FYI the CD itself has the Compact Disc label, but neither the booklet nor the reverse of the CD case have it.
Am I the only one who finds it interesting that November 12th is the same day book 10 in The Wheel of Time Series is being released?
no... because Robert Jordan began by blatantly ripping off JRRT, and then turned his story into a neverending sequel franchise. Only that not only did he just make his story longwinded, its also boring and shallow.
My big issue is that my wife is from Brazil - a different region. We buy stuff for the kids in portuguese. I have every legal reason to want to buy DVDs from Brazil, play them here, and make a VHS copy for the player in the car on long trips.
if you live near the Mexican border... you may want to consider buying a DVD player on the Mexican side.... I got a Sony DVD/CDR/VCD/MP3 player with no regional settings for about $150 US.
The Extended Edition can be pre-ordered on Amazon for $25.99. So I assume that you'll be able to get four disc sets of each film of the trilogy for a total just under $80.
Of course, if you really, really must have every edition available, you could get the Gift Set version of each film, plus a likely compendium complete trilogy gift pack edition, which at around $60 each for each film and maybe $100 plus for the trilogy could set you back over $300, but I expect there is a lot of repeated footage included and the only possible reason to buy all of them is for collecting and not actual viewing. For example the only additional footage available in the FotR gift set is on the National Geographic DVD which can be bought separately for $21.49 the additional $11.50 cost is for figurines and gift cards. And since the National Geographic disc is in full screen format, I don't think it is for cinemaphiles. Just lots of pics of New Zealand.
Did anyway else find it "hokey" that Boromir's horn was cloven in 2 lengthwise instead of sideways? Also, it certainly seemed that it was neatly cut in half with a skilsaw instead of sword.
For some reason, when watching the movie, that jolted me a bit, otherwise I thought the film was excellent and very realistic... err... considering it was a fantasy movie and all.
As for the joy stick/drive by wire system, I don't think this will ever take off.... Also the problem of what happens when the power dies or the computer crashes is a big issue aswell. The current stearing system seems to work good to me and its one of these if its not broke why fix it things.
well, what happens with a car using current technology has a systems failure? if the power steering locks up, if the brakes fail.
Saying that this new system is terrible because it is unfamiliar seems a little ironic to me.
Why don't you advocate the use of the MS operating system as well, after all, it is "good enough". its the same attitude.
if something new comes about, you don't have to rush out and adopt it, but just because old technology works doesn't mean that it shouldn't be improved upon...
I was reading the bit about having problems with the devices that create hydrogen from water using more energy than the hydrogen they produce creates... but couldn't some rooftop solar powered hydrogen distiller take care of that? I mean who cares if it takes 6 days or whatever to process enough hydrogen to fill your tank?
If it is just passively suckling sunlight anyway, and you have a huge reservoir, say 10 - 20 tanks worth, theoretically, you'd rarely ever use it all up before it could replenish itself.
Or does the process require so much juice that solar is 100% impractical?
well maybe I don't remember basic anymore, but i think that would print out "SEARS SUCKS" over and over again. i don't remember anymore, but perhaps someone with a CS degree could go over the code....;)
reminds me of sears selling computers with basic OS in the mid-80's.... _____
10 PRINT SEARS SUCKS 20 GOTO 10
RUN ______
must be a 14-year-old thing....
It was always good for a laugh to hear them use the intercom to call the (apparently) only person working there who knew how to press ctrl and Del at the same time to stop the program.
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Won't these people learn? Didn't they see the Terminator? Don't they know if they build this it will come back and bite them in the ass? Haven't I asked enough questions for one post?
Hopefully, time travel will have been invented in time for the war against the machines, or else we will be in for some real problems
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I just wanted to thank you for the tips on Mocean Worker and Amon Tobin - I downloaded some, err, provisional samples last night!
I believe this is a reference to the Tom Clancy franchise that has recently taken over your local bookstore.
Actually, before AudioGalaxy got sued into ashes, they had a great feature in their search mechanism that when you searched for an artist or title, it would show what other people who searched for that title had also search for.
I really like the drum n bass duo Lamb and thanks to this feature at audio galaxy I was introduced to the Sneaker Pimps and Hooverphonic.
Err, I mean I rushed right out to my local national chain music store and purchased the CDs.
You kind of get this when you browse through Amazon.com's "other people purchased" links.
Skynet
That was the ultra computer in Terminator, then of course you have a good selection of names Sara, John, T1000, Arnold, Connor, Terminator, T2, T3 what have you.
Of course, everyone will have to say "I'll be back" when they leave.
Not exactly a well-scrutinized review by the Amazon staff.
...For once there's a use for those annoying ringing mobile phones during a concert....
You've got to hand it to them. They actually found something *more* annoying than a ringing cell phone.
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to host this story on one of the linux-on-xbox servers after all. :)
....We use filtering software to stop our employees from wacking off all day to online porn... it's a management issue and they should keep a better eye on their employees so they don't have time to sit around and wank off, but that's not happening. The management is just as lazy as the fucking employees.
how is the management going to be able to spend all day wacking off to porn if they have to go around making sure the employees aren't circumventing the firewall?
I am going to have to invoke my patent for "The Sudden and Unreasonable Invocation of Patent Claims For Essentially Public Domain Technologies (Once They Become The De Facto Standard)"©.
PS I also have a patent for "Living"©, and the "Use of Air By All Living Creatures On Planet Earth And All Other Planets" ©.
but I went to the music store a couple weeks ago, thinking about getting a Bowie CD (like "Low") and noticed there was no official Phillips CD logo. Anyone know if any of his albums have copy-protection?
i have Low on CD and it plays fine in my PC, but I bought mine about 8-9 years ago.
Rykodisc RCD10142. FYI the CD itself has the Compact Disc label, but neither the booklet nor the reverse of the CD case have it.
Plus - it's a reissue isn't it. Surely you can download it already. Or have I missed the point too.
:P
according to the listing, it is:
a) remastered
b) now a 2 disc set, with the 2nd being 12 demo tracks.
it also comes in a special box & schitt.
i will prolly buy it. but i have all his early albums on LP and CD so
Am I the only one who finds it interesting that November 12th is the same day book 10 in The Wheel of Time Series is being released?
no... because Robert Jordan began by blatantly ripping off JRRT, and then turned his story into a neverending sequel franchise. Only that not only did he just make his story longwinded, its also boring and shallow.
lol... kia.com, i thought.... hmm is "killed in action" a movie site i haven't heard of before???
My big issue is that my wife is from Brazil - a different region. We buy stuff for the kids in portuguese. I have every legal reason to want to buy DVDs from Brazil, play them here, and make a VHS copy for the player in the car on long trips.
if you live near the Mexican border... you may want to consider buying a DVD player on the Mexican side.... I got a Sony DVD/CDR/VCD/MP3 player with no regional settings for about $150 US.
The Extended Edition can be pre-ordered on Amazon for $25.99. So I assume that you'll be able to get four disc sets of each film of the trilogy for a total just under $80.
Of course, if you really, really must have every edition available, you could get the Gift Set version of each film, plus a likely compendium complete trilogy gift pack edition, which at around $60 each for each film and maybe $100 plus for the trilogy could set you back over $300, but I expect there is a lot of repeated footage included and the only possible reason to buy all of them is for collecting and not actual viewing. For example the only additional footage available in the FotR gift set is on the National Geographic DVD which can be bought separately for $21.49 the additional $11.50 cost is for
figurines and gift cards. And since the National Geographic disc is in full screen format, I don't think it is for cinemaphiles. Just lots of pics of New Zealand.
I am sending you to my amazon.com affiliate account in order to have your cash.
see you later, thanks.
Did anyway else find it "hokey" that Boromir's horn was cloven in 2 lengthwise instead of sideways? Also, it certainly seemed that it was neatly cut in half with a skilsaw instead of sword.
For some reason, when watching the movie, that jolted me a bit, otherwise I thought the film was excellent and very realistic... err... considering it was a fantasy movie and all.
As for the joy stick/drive by wire system, I don't think this will ever take off.... Also the problem of what happens when the power dies or the computer crashes is a big issue aswell. The current stearing system seems to work good to me and its one of these if its not broke why fix it things.
well, what happens with a car using current technology has a systems failure? if the power steering locks up, if the brakes fail.
Saying that this new system is terrible because it is unfamiliar seems a little ironic to me.
Why don't you advocate the use of the MS operating system as well, after all, it is "good enough". its the same attitude.
if something new comes about, you don't have to rush out and adopt it, but just because old technology works doesn't mean that it shouldn't be improved upon...
I was reading the bit about having problems with the devices that create hydrogen from water using more energy than the hydrogen they produce creates... but couldn't some rooftop solar powered hydrogen distiller take care of that? I mean who cares if it takes 6 days or whatever to process enough hydrogen to fill your tank?
If it is just passively suckling sunlight anyway, and you have a huge reservoir, say 10 - 20 tanks worth, theoretically, you'd rarely ever use it all up before it could replenish itself.
Or does the process require so much juice that solar is 100% impractical?
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Have a mocha, or perhaps medieval is enough for you...
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Have a espresso, or perhaps medireview is enough for you...
well maybe I don't remember basic anymore, but i think that would print out "SEARS SUCKS" over and over again. i don't remember anymore, but perhaps someone with a CS degree could go over the code.... ;)
reminds me of sears selling computers with basic OS in the mid-80's....
_____
10 PRINT SEARS SUCKS
20 GOTO 10
RUN
______
must be a 14-year-old thing....
It was always good for a laugh to hear them use the intercom to call the (apparently) only person working there who knew how to press ctrl and Del at the same time to stop the program.
Heres the page for Walmart's Duron...
Her name was Sarah Connor, though.
doh.
Won't these people learn? Didn't they see the Terminator? Don't they know if they build this it will come back and bite them in the ass? Haven't I asked enough questions for one post?
Hopefully, time travel will have been invented in time for the war against the machines, or else we will be in for some real problems