It should be the finale for the next Burning Man... bring out The Man (with a giant grounding rod built into him), then truck over the towers and light him up with lightning!
I have chemical pumps at work that use Tesla Turbines... and magnetic driveshafts (magnet surrounded by another magnet). Pacemaker users beware (they even have warning stickers)!
They're even vernier adjustable down to 1 gram depending on the viscosity and temperature of the chemical.
Now, if Sci-Fi/SyFy could only come up with an original idea for a show instead of ripping off other shows... Warehouse 13 is just a slightly modified version of Fringe, and from the miniscule seconds that I watch of SyFy as I channel surf right past it, it seems pretty much everything on it is a horrible rip-off of some other show.
Yeah... I always liked that I could just add stuff to my DVD queue regardless and if I logged in and saw that it had a 'Play' button, could just watch it instantly. Plus, you could search for a movie/show (let's say 'Lost') and see without going to two sites that all seasons are available on DVD and Seasons 1-5 are available on streaming... that way, you could watch the streaming stuff and queue the 6th season in the meantime (and, if you play your cards right, have the first disc of season 6 in your hands when you get done with season 5).
Now, it's going to be: check Netflix, search for whatever, it's not there, check Qwikster, search for same thing, queue it, lost interest in same thing but gain interest in some random anime on Netflix that you want to copy, go mad from all the switching of windows that this all causes, forget that the first thing is in your Qwikster queue and has now arrived even though you don't want it, and in the turnaround time you develop a branched-off interest in some random Indie movie that's available on both... you get the point.
It's safe to assume that people will eventually figure out how to use copy-paste and Notepad to look up stuff on both, but the hassle that the whole shmeer becomes is going to become too much. What damage would they incur if they integrated both while having seperate websites? Sure, it might take ten lines of code, but then people will stop whining and then searches on one site will return crosslinked results on both. Win-win situation there.
Now, if only they would listen to what they bill-payers are saying... that would really be something there.
As far as the TV/Laptop Frankenstein System... that would be why nerds have regular HTPCs... mine plays Blu-Rays, YouTube, regular DVDs (upconverted to dang near Blu-Ray), has full access to the entire media catalog on this computer (and on the laptop over wireless) over gigabit, crunches SETI, and outputs all that over 720P (1080I makes the letters too small for my 20/400 eyesight to read). No funky PSN or proprietary hardware... if I need RAM or a HDD added, I drop some coin, slap the bugger in and that's that... if I lose media connectivity, it's not because my PSN account was hacked while I was sleeping.
Now... if there only was a viable alternative (DVD-by-mail AND streaming). Looks like people are just gonna have to swamp Amazon's used DVD selections.
And... by having to negotiate two seperate contracts, which means two seperate licensing fees, that way you can double-dip, much the same way they did with the LOTR trilogy.
Sure, there's probably a complete edition out there, but who wants to search that much... just buy each new set of discs that has a little more new content on it and eventually you'll have all the behind-the-scenes content.
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I thought that the moment I saw this headline. Wonder is they'll give it the undercarriage weapons array that the ones in the show had.
It should be the finale for the next Burning Man... bring out The Man (with a giant grounding rod built into him), then truck over the towers and light him up with lightning!
I have chemical pumps at work that use Tesla Turbines... and magnetic driveshafts (magnet surrounded by another magnet). Pacemaker users beware (they even have warning stickers)! They're even vernier adjustable down to 1 gram depending on the viscosity and temperature of the chemical.
Now, if Sci-Fi/SyFy could only come up with an original idea for a show instead of ripping off other shows... Warehouse 13 is just a slightly modified version of Fringe, and from the miniscule seconds that I watch of SyFy as I channel surf right past it, it seems pretty much everything on it is a horrible rip-off of some other show.
Yeah... I always liked that I could just add stuff to my DVD queue regardless and if I logged in and saw that it had a 'Play' button, could just watch it instantly. Plus, you could search for a movie/show (let's say 'Lost') and see without going to two sites that all seasons are available on DVD and Seasons 1-5 are available on streaming... that way, you could watch the streaming stuff and queue the 6th season in the meantime (and, if you play your cards right, have the first disc of season 6 in your hands when you get done with season 5). Now, it's going to be: check Netflix, search for whatever, it's not there, check Qwikster, search for same thing, queue it, lost interest in same thing but gain interest in some random anime on Netflix that you want to copy, go mad from all the switching of windows that this all causes, forget that the first thing is in your Qwikster queue and has now arrived even though you don't want it, and in the turnaround time you develop a branched-off interest in some random Indie movie that's available on both... you get the point. It's safe to assume that people will eventually figure out how to use copy-paste and Notepad to look up stuff on both, but the hassle that the whole shmeer becomes is going to become too much. What damage would they incur if they integrated both while having seperate websites? Sure, it might take ten lines of code, but then people will stop whining and then searches on one site will return crosslinked results on both. Win-win situation there. Now, if only they would listen to what they bill-payers are saying... that would really be something there.
As far as the TV/Laptop Frankenstein System... that would be why nerds have regular HTPCs... mine plays Blu-Rays, YouTube, regular DVDs (upconverted to dang near Blu-Ray), has full access to the entire media catalog on this computer (and on the laptop over wireless) over gigabit, crunches SETI, and outputs all that over 720P (1080I makes the letters too small for my 20/400 eyesight to read). No funky PSN or proprietary hardware... if I need RAM or a HDD added, I drop some coin, slap the bugger in and that's that... if I lose media connectivity, it's not because my PSN account was hacked while I was sleeping.
Now... if there only was a viable alternative (DVD-by-mail AND streaming). Looks like people are just gonna have to swamp Amazon's used DVD selections.
And... by having to negotiate two seperate contracts, which means two seperate licensing fees, that way you can double-dip, much the same way they did with the LOTR trilogy. Sure, there's probably a complete edition out there, but who wants to search that much... just buy each new set of discs that has a little more new content on it and eventually you'll have all the behind-the-scenes content.