it's a nice thought. until you realize those enraptured christian fundamentalists would control 10,000 nuclear weapons. and they'd like nothing better than to see the end times.
I used to think "no child left behind" meant a quality world-class education for all american school kids. I've come to realize that "left behind" means something entirely different to those wackjobs.
I'm still trying to figure out how to justify voting against hillary without giving an unintentional leg-up to the party-of-bush.
Yeah. And the Florida parasite (er, woman) was forced to used VoIP because... she couldn't afford regular phone service? Cry me a fucking river. And the day before she was telling all her friends how smart she was getting free long distance.
God I love this brave new Amerika. Now excuse me while I go pray for the phone companies.
I'll reserve judgement on this until the next gen phones come out. If you could fit a mini's harddrive or a gig+ of flash into the phone it might make a good gym/workout/running/beach companion.
Biggest downside would be battery life. If my mini dies mid-workout I'm annoyed. If a cellphone dies because it's been playing tunes all afternoon, that would be a *Problem* for most people.
Having the ability to hear/answer calls while wearing my in-ear buds would be a plus.
I'd still expect to load my songs via my Mac. I can't imagine Verizon wouldn't charge for the time it takes to download wirelessly, even if they were providing a for-pay music download service (cable modem + firewire would probably be quicker; fullscreen music site has to beat a phone display).
As to ease of use... No clickwheel, nogo. I've used a Rio and I won't go back.
Sorry. You'll have to wait for Bush's October Surprise.
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I gave up on Dreamworks' animation after viewing Antz vs. Bug's Life. Two totally different attitudes towards what cartoons should be. DW has always been a Pixar wannabee. Small Soldiers vs. Toy Story. Shrek vs. Monsters, Inc. Instead of playing to the "child" in everyone, they feel it's necessary to insert "adult" asides to keep the parents amused.
Slight topic drift: If you've seen the extra making-of material on the LotR extended disks vs. the new Star Wars, I think it reflects a bit on this. You can feel the love behind Jackson's film; Lucus just comes off as a PHB.
1. ditto to DVDs. But I don't watch TV/don't subscribe to cable (except my cable modem). If I want to escape at home, it's a DVD, not a CD.
2. not in my 20's either, but not buying diapers (thank god).
3. I've replaced what I could, but some albums never made it to CD. Others I've looked at, and decided I'd never listen to them again. iTunes has allowed me to download one or two cuts from otherwise forgetable albums.
4. the number of MASS-MARKETED artists (clearchannel) creating music I enjoy HAS decreased significantly.
I've hit the big 50. I don't particularly care for geezer rock with a very few exceptions (neil young comes to mind). Oldies stations make me puke. The same 50 songs they've been playing to death for the past 30 years.
I am too old/white for hip-hop/gangsta.
I do like techno/industrial/trance (great for coding). Streamed from the web. Try finding most of that on CD.
But the biggest cause of my greatly diminished CD consumption was the great con pulled during the 70's when the record industry's answer to AOL (album oriented rock) was the one hit wonder. One good song with lots of air play imbedded in an album of pure shite. Usually easily spotted (once you became aware of the practice) by the sticker plastered on the CD case: "INCLUDES THE SMASH HIT..."
So fsck the RIAA. They did it to themselves. And judging by the news of per song/album price increases for online downloads, I'd say they haven't learned their lesson yet.
I ordered mine a week before they came out, never thinking they'd be hard to come by. Now I'm glad I ordered early. (Based primarily on a positive review by Walt Mossberg of all people.)
I'd resisted the earlier iPods due to the disk drive ---didn't think it would stand up to daily trips to the gym. It's replacing a flash-based Rio (which served me well for 3 years, and also cost $250 new).
After 2 weeks of use, I'd never go back. The On-the-Go play lists make it easy to pick out an hour's worth of music (enough to get me through my workout without having to fiddle with the dial) and vary it daily (without having to connect to my mac).
Don't get me wrong, I loved the movies, but some of the effects were bogus. Don't know if it was time, money, technology or all three. I don't expect a remake in my lifetime, so how about revisiting it every couple of years to tweek/update as technology evolves.
Having just rewatched the extended TT DVD last night, I couldn't help but cringe at the funhouse ghouls in Frodo's Dead Marshes plunge. What's with the dead/cursed == green glow? (seen again in RotK).
If MS, Adobe, etc. can get away with annual upgrades, why not a franchise like LotR?
It's like crack. It owns you. You spend more time worrying about "time" than time allows. And the funny thing is, the more obsessive watch-watchers in my life are usually the same people that can't get anywhere on time. The OP is right, clocks are everywhere. What's tougher, looking at your cellphone or trying to get your shirt/jacket/sweater sleave up over your wristwatch?
If you know how long it takes to get a task done, look at a clock before starting (1/2 an hour to get to work? the radio will let you know when to leave...) and be done with it. If you don't know how long it will take, your watch won't help you.
And once you've weaned yourself of watches, try dropping the TV...
It's possible that Cheney forgot to tell W that Mars is another planet (assuming that Bush has gotten beyond the flat earth, stars are angels concepts).
And, the Bush space initiative is not likely to any more effective than the $15B he promised for AIDS: Congress has to allocate the money no matter what Bush proposes (not likely with $500B deficit, it's nothing but smoke and mirrors). And our "faith based" president's proposal probably involves giving NASA's budget to churches to promote prayer (let the angels lift them up to the heavens...).
And where is the Johnson Space Center? And which state hosts most of our manned launches? And who's up for re-election? (This is the 'tard that dropped his steel tariffs after the EU threatened equal tariffs on Jeb's oranges.)
That supports multiple devices!? Instead of an 18 inch power strip with widely separated 3 prong recepticles, an 8 inch block with 12+ single hole power plugs.
I'd even stick with one manufacturer if they offered a single power unit across their product line.
4 firewire drives from the same manufacture == 4 fscking bricks on my power strip! Makes baby jeebus cry.
"Doesn't France and Germany have more interest there in that respect?"
Sure wouldn't make any sense to replace them with American companies, would it?
"GWB recently put forth a bill to put money towards fuel cell vehicles"
Ford spent more money developing the Taurus than Bush proposes to spend on fuel cell developement over the next 5 years. Which do you think is the bigger technological leap?
"If we invaded china (this is hypothetical, and I'm using china cause it has the largest army), the US would be outnumbered 10-to-1. But the technological advantage of the US would even the playing field."
Damn it Don, didn't George tell you to quit letting them know what we're up to.
I'd disagree that services are the first to go: low paying jobs in the service sector are the only one's available on this side of the atlantic.
You do provide another angle to the bush war. We've already got oil, family fued, and destruction of the UN. To put my spin on what you're saying: Bush's paymasters, big business, can't compete on quality and price here in the US, so what better solution than a war garanteed to foster anti-american sentiment abroad and a jingoistic reaction to it here at home. Expect the buy American bumper stickers to sprout shortly on SUVs across america, and pleas to open up ANWR to decrease our dependence on foreign oil.
Mossberg wasn't that impressed. They've got lousey battery life. The handwriting recognition software doesn't integrate with MS's standard Office apps. You can search it and file it; but cut and paste from your written notes into Word is, at best, a one way street.
He did say they had their good points. Because of the way the screens are attached (to the models with a keyboard) you can use them in very tight places (commercial airlines were an example). And he liked the ability to read from a screen held at any angle (magazine-like).
The bottom line was, wait for 2.0. His column is availble without a WSJ subscription. You might want to give it a look.
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Just like the a-bomb.
Manhattan project scientist: "but we never thought they'd use it..."
Funking dipsticks.
it's a nice thought. until you realize those enraptured christian fundamentalists would control 10,000 nuclear weapons. and they'd like nothing better than to see the end times.
I used to think "no child left behind" meant a quality world-class education for all american school kids. I've come to realize that "left behind" means something entirely different to those wackjobs.
I'm still trying to figure out how to justify voting against hillary without giving an unintentional leg-up to the party-of-bush.
Yeah. And the Florida parasite (er, woman) was forced to used VoIP because... she couldn't afford regular phone service? Cry me a fucking river. And the day before she was telling all her friends how smart she was getting free long distance.
God I love this brave new Amerika. Now excuse me while I go pray for the phone companies.
VoIP makes baby jesus cry.
I'll reserve judgement on this until the next gen phones come out. If you could fit a mini's harddrive or a gig+ of flash into the phone it might make a good gym/workout/running/beach companion.
Biggest downside would be battery life. If my mini dies mid-workout I'm annoyed. If a cellphone dies because it's been playing tunes all afternoon, that would be a *Problem* for most people.
Having the ability to hear/answer calls while wearing my in-ear buds would be a plus.
I'd still expect to load my songs via my Mac. I can't imagine Verizon wouldn't charge for the time it takes to download wirelessly, even if they were providing a for-pay music download service (cable modem + firewire would probably be quicker; fullscreen music site has to beat a phone display).
As to ease of use... No clickwheel, nogo. I've used a Rio and I won't go back.
I'll see what Apple/Moto come up with.
Er, Bill didn't donate anything. The B&M Gates Foundation did.
You know, that little tax shelter he set up to shield his money from the IRS. After the bad publicity of the MS monopoly trial...
Or perhaps you'd forgotten all that.
I own a TV and its only use is DVD playback. No rabbit ears. No cable.
The hour a day at the gym with 10 sets tuned to 10 channels has done nothing to make me want to hook up either. God bless the iPod.
And since when has watching TV been considered "socializing"? Vegitating would be a better word.
Just to be perfectly clear, PPPoE:
Perpetual Patent Protection over EVERYTHING!
was ABB. currently: ABBB
Any Body But Bush
I'd take a corpse over that Wanker.
Possibly the only movie I've given 1 star to on Netflix. Couldn't make it past the 10 min. mark. Worse than that Benifer abortion: "Gigli."
"Tell me, where's Bin Ladin?"
Sorry. You'll have to wait for Bush's October Surprise.
I gave up on Dreamworks' animation after viewing Antz vs. Bug's Life. Two totally different attitudes towards what cartoons should be. DW has always been a Pixar wannabee. Small Soldiers vs. Toy Story. Shrek vs. Monsters, Inc. Instead of playing to the "child" in everyone, they feel it's necessary to insert "adult" asides to keep the parents amused.
Slight topic drift: If you've seen the extra making-of material on the LotR extended disks vs. the new Star Wars, I think it reflects a bit on this. You can feel the love behind Jackson's film; Lucus just comes off as a PHB.
1. ditto to DVDs. But I don't watch TV/don't subscribe to cable (except my cable modem). If I want to escape at home, it's a DVD, not a CD.
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2. not in my 20's either, but not buying diapers (thank god).
3. I've replaced what I could, but some albums never made it to CD. Others I've looked at, and decided I'd never listen to them again. iTunes has allowed me to download one or two cuts from otherwise forgetable albums.
4. the number of MASS-MARKETED artists (clearchannel) creating music I enjoy HAS decreased significantly.
I've hit the big 50. I don't particularly care for geezer rock with a very few exceptions (neil young comes to mind). Oldies stations make me puke. The same 50 songs they've been playing to death for the past 30 years.
I am too old/white for hip-hop/gangsta.
I do like techno/industrial/trance (great for coding). Streamed from the web. Try finding most of that on CD.
But the biggest cause of my greatly diminished CD consumption was the great con pulled during the 70's when the record industry's answer to AOL (album oriented rock) was the one hit wonder. One good song with lots of air play imbedded in an album of pure shite. Usually easily spotted (once you became aware of the practice) by the sticker plastered on the CD case: "INCLUDES THE SMASH HIT
So fsck the RIAA. They did it to themselves. And judging by the news of per song/album price increases for online downloads, I'd say they haven't learned their lesson yet.
Try to find one online. Back-ordered everywhere.
I ordered mine a week before they came out, never thinking they'd be hard to come by. Now I'm glad I ordered early. (Based primarily on a positive review by Walt Mossberg of all people.)
I'd resisted the earlier iPods due to the disk drive ---didn't think it would stand up to daily trips to the gym. It's replacing a flash-based Rio (which served me well for 3 years, and also cost $250 new).
After 2 weeks of use, I'd never go back. The On-the-Go play lists make it easy to pick out an hour's worth of music (enough to get me through my workout without having to fiddle with the dial) and vary it daily (without having to connect to my mac).
I'd love to see Peter Jackson rework these films.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the movies, but some of the effects were bogus. Don't know if it was time, money, technology or all three. I don't expect a remake in my lifetime, so how about revisiting it every couple of years to tweek/update as technology evolves.
Having just rewatched the extended TT DVD last night, I couldn't help but cringe at the funhouse ghouls in Frodo's Dead Marshes plunge. What's with the dead/cursed == green glow? (seen again in RotK).
If MS, Adobe, etc. can get away with annual upgrades, why not a franchise like LotR?
It's like crack. It owns you. You spend more time worrying about "time" than time allows. And the funny thing is, the more obsessive watch-watchers in my life are usually the same people that can't get anywhere on time. The OP is right, clocks are everywhere. What's tougher, looking at your cellphone or trying to get your shirt/jacket/sweater sleave up over your wristwatch?
If you know how long it takes to get a task done, look at a clock before starting (1/2 an hour to get to work? the radio will let you know when to leave...) and be done with it. If you don't know how long it will take, your watch won't help you.
And once you've weaned yourself of watches, try dropping the TV...
bingo!
If I had mod points...
I was thinking more along the lines of post-Soviet Russia. Firesale on everything. Nat'l resources to the highest bidder. A nice neo-feudal society.
It's possible that Cheney forgot to tell W that Mars is another planet (assuming that Bush has gotten beyond the flat earth, stars are angels concepts).
And, the Bush space initiative is not likely to any more effective than the $15B he promised for AIDS: Congress has to allocate the money no matter what Bush proposes (not likely with $500B deficit, it's nothing but smoke and mirrors). And our "faith based" president's proposal probably involves giving NASA's budget to churches to promote prayer (let the angels lift them up to the heavens...).
And where is the Johnson Space Center? And which state hosts most of our manned launches? And who's up for re-election? (This is the 'tard that dropped his steel tariffs after the EU threatened equal tariffs on Jeb's oranges.)
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Beagle II? Wish they'd sent Tony Poodle.
That supports multiple devices!? Instead of an 18 inch power strip with widely separated 3 prong recepticles, an 8 inch block with 12+ single hole power plugs.
I'd even stick with one manufacturer if they offered a single power unit across their product line.
4 firewire drives from the same manufacture == 4 fscking bricks on my power strip! Makes baby jeebus cry.
"Doesn't France and Germany have more interest there in that respect?"
Sure wouldn't make any sense to replace them with American companies, would it?
"GWB recently put forth a bill to put money towards fuel cell vehicles"
Ford spent more money developing the Taurus than Bush proposes to spend on fuel cell developement over the next 5 years. Which do you think is the bigger technological leap?
"But I doubt that Bush will take over the Iraqi oil operations."
The Iraqi people can only hope not. If his past failures in the oil business are any indication of future performance.
"If we invaded china (this is hypothetical, and I'm using china cause it has the largest army), the US would be outnumbered 10-to-1. But the technological advantage of the US would even the playing field."
Damn it Don, didn't George tell you to quit letting them know what we're up to.
I'd disagree that services are the first to go: low paying jobs in the service sector are the only one's available on this side of the atlantic.
You do provide another angle to the bush war. We've already got oil, family fued, and destruction of the UN. To put my spin on what you're saying: Bush's paymasters, big business, can't compete on quality and price here in the US, so what better solution than a war garanteed to foster anti-american sentiment abroad and a jingoistic reaction to it here at home. Expect the buy American bumper stickers to sprout shortly on SUVs across america, and pleas to open up ANWR to decrease our dependence on foreign oil.
Mossberg wasn't that impressed. They've got lousey battery life. The handwriting recognition software doesn't integrate with MS's standard Office apps. You can search it and file it; but cut and paste from your written notes into Word is, at best, a one way street.
He did say they had their good points. Because of the way the screens are attached (to the models with a keyboard) you can use them in very tight places (commercial airlines were an example). And he liked the ability to read from a screen held at any angle (magazine-like).
The bottom line was, wait for 2.0. His column is availble without a WSJ subscription. You might want to give it a look.