I'm one of those people who uses a Palm just for appointments and a few simple apps. I'm still using my US Robotics brand Palm Professional that I bought in 1997. It does what I want except sync with iSync because it's not supported (grrr). So now, just to get everything integrated with the Address Book, I need a new(er) Palm, like a Zire.
I'd also like to have an MP3 player, and a way to transfer geneology files to my aunt's iMac (she doesn't have broadband), like a USB pen drive.
If an iPod came out that would let me do basic text entry -- something as simple as adding my next appointment to the calendar when I'm at the doctor's office -- I'd buy it instead of a Palm, because this single device would do everything I want.
Taipan, McHenry from the Hong Kong shipyards has arrived! He says, 'I see ye've a wee bit of damage to yer ship. Will ye be wanting repairs?
Jesus, I wasted so much of my life playing Taipan.
Unfortunately, I still do. There's a version available for the Palm OS. Best of all, battles don't take all damed day anymore.
In my current game (well, the one I've been playing off and on on my Palm for the last two years), it's December 2153, I have 6.14 Quadrillion in the bank, 1.04 Billion cash. My ship status is Prime (98%) with 227 guns, and my hold, at 16190, is larger than my warehouse. Fear me.
Video on demand won't replace DVDs for the same reason that proprietary (and possibly all) e-books won't replace regular books.
In a similar way in which a regular book gives me the security of knowing that I don't have to worry if the company that published it goes belly up, if I buy the DVD, I own it (for my own use, of course). I can watch it when I want. I can watch it on an airplane, I can take it with me on business trips overseas. It's going to be a long, long time before everyone in coach can watch "on demand" flicks on an airplane.
When you have a DVD, you're not dependent on the whim of a company. Consider shows like The Family Guy or Futurama where Fox never gave them a fair chance, then pulled the plug. They treated these shows like shit the first time; what possible reason do I have to believe that they're be treated any better "on demand?"
What about British shows like I'm Alan Partridge, Good Neighbors, or Father Ted? At best, I can watch them on BBC America or PBS, but unless I buy the DVD (or VHS, or whatever comes next), what are the chances that I *know* I'll be able to see these shows, when I want, here in the USA?
Then there's the content itself. What happens when the company that owns the rights to these shows goes out of business? What happens if a bunch of Jeezoids decided to buy the rights to something just to kill it (for the chillllldren, of course)? Or what if they just decide that something is insensitive and cut it. Jesus, what if they alter the original: Colorizing it or adding those fucking "informational" popups like they do when they show Double Indemnity on the Lifetime network?
What happens when some soulless bean counter decides that since I'm the only one who wants to watch Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?, they should just save the server space and dump it? You already see this sort of thing in video stores, when they decide how many foreign films can fit in that little section. The Internet Movie Database lists 268,836 movies released theatrically, 35,200 made-for-TV movies, 23,625, TV series, 21,420 direct-to-video movies, and 3,081 mini series. How many of these are going to make the cut? Which do you think will come first, some of those films, or "on demand" sports, so folks can have "Classic Games of when the Red Sox blew the World Series" nights?
Finally, why should I keep paying for the content through a subscription or a download fee each time? Compare the price of DVDs with rentals and pay-per-view -- if I think I might watch it three times in the rest of my life (or I might want to loan it to a friend) why not buy it outright for the extra ten bucks?
[In the gnome's cave] Gnome 1: This is where all our work is done. Kyle: So what are you gonna do with all these underpants you steal? Gnome 1: Collecting underpants is just phase one. Phase one: collect underpants. Kyle: So what's phase two? [Silence] Gnome 1: Hey, what's phase two?! Gnome 2: Phase one: we collect underpants. Gnome 1: Ya, ya, ya. But what about phase two? [Silence] Gnome 2: Well, phase three is profit. Get it? Stan: I don't get it. Gnome 2: (Goes over to a chart on the wall) You see, Phase one: collect underpants, phase two- [Silence] Gnome 2: Phase three: profit. Cartman: Oh I get it. Stan: No you don't. Kyle: Do you guys know anything about corporations? Gnome 2: You bet we do. Gnome 1: Us gnomes are geniuses at corporations.
These features people can easally live without but with them there is makes the application more injoyable to use. I would still like a spell checker feature in the text area box.
I wonder how the bean-counters would reconcile monthly requests for "1 case : spring fresh air freshener : Software Development Dept." Some PHB would probably decide that using Hydra is cheaper.
I'm sure "bean counters" would have it all figured out.
Background: Once upon a time there was a brand of clothes for kids called "Garanimal." There was nothing special about the clothes except that they had tags featuring different animals inside. The ideas was that if you matched a monkey-tagged-shirt with monkey-tagged pants, you'd know that they went together and you were fit to be seen in public.
Obviously, knowing what clothes go together is a useful skill, and the potential for a geekware line of clothes featuring O'Reilly animals would be cool (I'd feel right sexy in vi-guy underwear).
But why settle for an obvious (and potentially embarasing) visible tag when you can have a hidden, electronic tag that does the same thing and requires a (hackable) computing device?
I was in college and having a beer while cleaning my room. I popped the top of my Apple ][e to wipe the dust out, and stupidly rested the bottle on a stack of books nearby. Next thing I knew, I bumped into the desk, the bottle fell into the computer, and dark, sticky beer poured over the 80 column card, the Super Serial card, the super-sexy 1 meg RamWorks card -- everything!
I yanked out the power cord, pulled every card, and stuffed a towel in there. I wiped off every surface on the inside I could reach with a warm, damp cloth and let it dry for a few days with the top open. I washed off the cards and set them aside to dry for a few days.
At the end of the week, I put it all back together and everything worked without a hitch.
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When their computer crashed, they removed the hard drive, froze it, smashed it and rubbed magnets over the surface to erase the data.
Sucks to be them. When my computer crashes, I just press the restart button.
And you don't "dial" a keypad.
I though pos was "point of sale" or "piece of shit," depending on context.
I'd agree, but my mind is too overwhelmed from seeing the 70th Bowflex commercial of the hour.
I'm one of those people who uses a Palm just for appointments and a few simple apps. I'm still using my US Robotics brand Palm Professional that I bought in 1997. It does what I want except sync with iSync because it's not supported (grrr). So now, just to get everything integrated with the Address Book, I need a new(er) Palm, like a Zire.
I'd also like to have an MP3 player, and a way to transfer geneology files to my aunt's iMac (she doesn't have broadband), like a USB pen drive.
If an iPod came out that would let me do basic text entry -- something as simple as adding my next appointment to the calendar when I'm at the doctor's office -- I'd buy it instead of a Palm, because this single device would do everything I want.
Speech interface, huh? Quick, register "uuuuungh.com."
Brings "cybersquatting" to a whole new level.
Taipan, McHenry from the Hong Kong shipyards has arrived! He says, 'I see ye've a wee bit of damage to yer ship. Will ye be wanting repairs?
Jesus, I wasted so much of my life playing Taipan.
Unfortunately, I still do. There's a version available for the Palm OS. Best of all, battles don't take all damed day anymore.
In my current game (well, the one I've been playing off and on on my Palm for the last two years), it's December 2153, I have 6.14 Quadrillion in the bank, 1.04 Billion cash. My ship status is Prime (98%) with 227 guns, and my hold, at 16190, is larger than my warehouse. Fear me.
I thought I would never pay for an mp3. [...] I broke down, gave them my credit card and bought a Massive Attack track.
Just to be pedantic here, you still haven't paid for an MP3 -- you bought an AAC.
Video on demand won't replace DVDs for the same reason that proprietary (and possibly all) e-books won't replace regular books.
In a similar way in which a regular book gives me the security of knowing that I don't have to worry if the company that published it goes belly up, if I buy the DVD, I own it (for my own use, of course). I can watch it when I want. I can watch it on an airplane, I can take it with me on business trips overseas. It's going to be a long, long time before everyone in coach can watch "on demand" flicks on an airplane.
When you have a DVD, you're not dependent on the whim of a company. Consider shows like The Family Guy or Futurama where Fox never gave them a fair chance, then pulled the plug. They treated these shows like shit the first time; what possible reason do I have to believe that they're be treated any better "on demand?"
What about British shows like I'm Alan Partridge, Good Neighbors, or Father Ted? At best, I can watch them on BBC America or PBS, but unless I buy the DVD (or VHS, or whatever comes next), what are the chances that I *know* I'll be able to see these shows, when I want, here in the USA?
Then there's the content itself. What happens when the company that owns the rights to these shows goes out of business? What happens if a bunch of Jeezoids decided to buy the rights to something just to kill it (for the chillllldren, of course)? Or what if they just decide that something is insensitive and cut it. Jesus, what if they alter the original: Colorizing it or adding those fucking "informational" popups like they do when they show Double Indemnity on the Lifetime network?
What happens when some soulless bean counter decides that since I'm the only one who wants to watch Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?, they should just save the server space and dump it? You already see this sort of thing in video stores, when they decide how many foreign films can fit in that little section. The Internet Movie Database lists 268,836 movies released theatrically, 35,200 made-for-TV movies, 23,625, TV series, 21,420 direct-to-video movies, and 3,081 mini series. How many of these are going to make the cut? Which do you think will come first, some of those films, or "on demand" sports, so folks can have "Classic Games of when the Red Sox blew the World Series" nights?
Finally, why should I keep paying for the content through a subscription or a download fee each time? Compare the price of DVDs with rentals and pay-per-view -- if I think I might watch it three times in the rest of my life (or I might want to loan it to a friend) why not buy it outright for the extra ten bucks?
Haven't they suffered enough?
Scary.
The underpants gnomes of South Park
[In the gnome's cave]
Gnome 1: This is where all our work is done.
Kyle: So what are you gonna do with all these underpants you steal?
Gnome 1: Collecting underpants is just phase one. Phase one: collect underpants.
Kyle: So what's phase two?
[Silence]
Gnome 1: Hey, what's phase two?!
Gnome 2: Phase one: we collect underpants.
Gnome 1: Ya, ya, ya. But what about phase two?
[Silence]
Gnome 2: Well, phase three is profit. Get it?
Stan: I don't get it.
Gnome 2: (Goes over to a chart on the wall) You see, Phase one: collect underpants, phase two-
[Silence]
Gnome 2: Phase three: profit.
Cartman: Oh I get it.
Stan: No you don't.
Kyle: Do you guys know anything about corporations?
Gnome 2: You bet we do.
Gnome 1: Us gnomes are geniuses at corporations.
4. Profit!
These features people can easally live without but with them there is makes the application more injoyable to use. I would still like a spell checker feature in the text area box.
I can see why.
Nuclear barnacles. Angry ones.
You've been warned.
Four Palms!? Who are you, Kali?
I wonder how the bean-counters would reconcile monthly requests for "1 case : spring fresh air freshener : Software Development Dept." Some PHB would probably decide that using Hydra is cheaper.
I'm sure "bean counters" would have it all figured out.
Also of note is that the #4 prank, Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota, was created in part by Jim Mallon (executive producer of MST3K and voice of Gypsy).
However, organs tend to be juicier with pulp exploding in your mouth.
That's not pulp.
Yeah, unlike IIS, the goatse man only has one wide-open hole.
President Bush will be presenting a lecture series on international diplomacy and domestic economic policy.
Oh totally. My wife and I race to see who can yell "BowFlex!" first when the commercial invariably flicks by.
The last person I heard say "dub dub dub" also used to refer to a site's "Ural."
Background: Once upon a time there was a brand of clothes for kids called "Garanimal." There was nothing special about the clothes except that they had tags featuring different animals inside. The ideas was that if you matched a monkey-tagged-shirt with monkey-tagged pants, you'd know that they went together and you were fit to be seen in public.
Obviously, knowing what clothes go together is a useful skill, and the potential for a geekware line of clothes featuring O'Reilly animals would be cool (I'd feel right sexy in vi-guy underwear).
But why settle for an obvious (and potentially embarasing) visible tag when you can have a hidden, electronic tag that does the same thing and requires a (hackable) computing device?
I was in college and having a beer while cleaning my room. I popped the top of my Apple ][e to wipe the dust out, and stupidly rested the bottle on a stack of books nearby. Next thing I knew, I bumped into the desk, the bottle fell into the computer, and dark, sticky beer poured over the 80 column card, the Super Serial card, the super-sexy 1 meg RamWorks card -- everything!
I yanked out the power cord, pulled every card, and stuffed a towel in there. I wiped off every surface on the inside I could reach with a warm, damp cloth and let it dry for a few days with the top open. I washed off the cards and set them aside to dry for a few days.
At the end of the week, I put it all back together and everything worked without a hitch.