Analog watches rule. I swore off digital watches after years of wearing them because the digital ones all seem to come with useless function buttons that get accidentally bumped all the time so the watch never shows the time when you look at it.
Instead, you look at the watch and find that you are 17 minutes into a stopwatch process, or you see the time in Singapore, or you get numbers blinking meaning your are in the middle of the process of setting Alarm #2. Anything but the actual time, unless you start hitting the buttons to get it to reset itself.
Watching "Dharma and Greg" was like watching a train wreck, except train wrecks overall are funnier. It made "Caroline in the City" seem like "M*A*S*H*" in comparison.
For that matter, the train being wrecked was ABC. Sub-UPN-quality sitcoms like this helped sink that network.
My experience with interactive TV began and ended when I threw a brick through the screen when I found out that "Dharma and Greg" had been renewed for a second season.
"This year, we award the Bill Pullman award to Bill Pullman, for acting and off-screen behavior that best charactarizes what it means to be Bill Pullman."
"I wonder if fans of a show are interested in what their favorite character uses for alergies or what music they listen to, etc"
Back to the Frasier example, I'm sure that NBC is going to seek out opera-selling sponsors. Right.... And if Claritin increases the advertising payment, look for the characters dribbling their noses in every scene.
Switching the channel, let's go to CNN and Larry King. Nothing but 2 or 3 talking heads with a Lite-Brite background. I guess once they run out of advertising money from suspender and microphone companies, there will be logo tattoos on Larry King's cheeks changing every few minutes.
"I look forward to the day that product placement is the only advertising"
I think that would skew content in some cases. For a show like "Friends", there would be less of this: they are in a commercial environment. However, car ads present a problem. These New Yorkers just don't drive. They'd have to change the plots to get cars into the show. No such problem with separated car ads.
Here's another example: "Xena" or "Hercules". There's not much you can advertise with product placement here other than fan swords and leather gear.... or you might be able to stretch one in where they can click on a field and get an ADM agrobusiness ad. Gabrielle sneezes so you can get a click location for a Claratin ad?
Realize that a lot of stuff in the commercials just does not fit into the TV show. Do you really want the Aflack duck wandering into Frasier's apartment?
I remember the big controversy over the Cheerio's box in the first Superman movie.
People should realize that such product placement ads some realism. It looks artificial when you see those "Home Improvement" reruns and the kids are all drinking a vaguely-Coke-looking generic cola.
Remember, in the real world, people actually do drink Snapple, and eat Junior Mints (a couple of examples of name-brand products appearing in "Seinfeld")
As long as they do not go overboard like Dr Tongue in the 3-d House of Pancakes and waggle bottles of Mrs Butterworth in your face.
Make that "Tactile Strategery", and you have a game of Presidential caliber, combining the intern management techniques of the previous president with the spelling of the present one.
Nah. Just a mistake. These guys accidentally looked at the C-64 emulator running "7 Cities of Gold" where Jason in the next cubicle had put little missions and forts over the South American interior. They thought it was satellite imagery.
False alarm, folks. Indiana Jones, better stay home this time.
I've not played that many modern/recent videogames to fight that many bosses (I still remember the big thing at the end of Zaxxon!), but I have particular fondness for the third Bowser battle in "Mario 64".
The same criticisms of the Apple propaganda organs that always say that the Macs are faster also applies to the PC propaganda organs saying that PCs are faster.
Can you name the car with four-wheel-drive? Smells like a steak and seats thirty-five! Canyonero! Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down. It's a country-fried truck endorsed by a clown. Canyonero! Canyonero! Twelve yards long and two lanes wide, Sixty-five tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports! Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts. Canyonero! Canyonero! She blinds everybody with her super-high beam. She a squirrel-squishin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine! Canyonero! Canyonero!
Somehow, I think a murderous Pierce Brosnan presence taking over the house (Simpsons: Treehouse of Terror) is a little more likely with home automation under Windows than it is under the Linux OS.
"Local police are following up harassment complaints filed against a large dog in a suit and a rabbity thing with teeth like a SkillSaw noticed in the area."
Damn thing is back again! I knew that as soon as we booked Jimmy Carter as a keynote speaker, ol' Bunnicula be attracted to the event.
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Analog watches rule. I swore off digital watches after years of wearing them because the digital ones all seem to come with useless function buttons that get accidentally bumped all the time so the watch never shows the time when you look at it.
Instead, you look at the watch and find that you are 17 minutes into a stopwatch process, or you see the time in Singapore, or you get numbers blinking meaning your are in the middle of the process of setting Alarm #2. Anything but the actual time, unless you start hitting the buttons to get it to reset itself.
"Built-in 8MB flash memory can hold up to or up to 400 digital still images"
That's 400 pics at 20K each....barely large enough for buttons in web graphics.
In terms of megapixels, that's 0.2 megapixels. In an age where you can get 1 mp cameras for 20 bucks, this is not pushing the envelope for sure.
almost forgot the most expensive geek toy of all.
0. Melinda Gates
10. Colossus: The Forbin Project.
9. The Dobbertin Surface Orbiter. It is still not yet a submarine.
8. "Green Laser Pointer at Think Geek.com"
7. Hey McFly! How much would you sell that Delorean for?
6. Knight Industries 2000
5. Friggin' sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads.
4. That Saturn 5 lying on its side at that space museum. Time for destination moon!
3. "The Jupiter 2". Forget a trek ship: this thing once passed through a galaxy in one night.
2. The Atari 1450XLD. I'm still waiting for one after all these years. If Alan Alda still has his, I bet he won't let it go for cheap.
1. SCO. What geek would not love to buy this company and play with it fo a while? Muhahahaha.
Watching "Dharma and Greg" was like watching a train wreck, except train wrecks overall are funnier. It made "Caroline in the City" seem like "M*A*S*H*" in comparison.
For that matter, the train being wrecked was ABC. Sub-UPN-quality sitcoms like this helped sink that network.
My experience with interactive TV began and ended when I threw a brick through the screen when I found out that "Dharma and Greg" had been renewed for a second season.
"This year, we award the Bill Pullman award to Bill Pullman, for acting and off-screen behavior that best charactarizes what it means to be Bill Pullman."
"I wonder if fans of a show are interested in what their favorite character uses for alergies or what music they listen to, etc"
Back to the Frasier example, I'm sure that NBC is going to seek out opera-selling sponsors. Right.... And if Claritin increases the advertising payment, look for the characters dribbling their noses in every scene.
Switching the channel, let's go to CNN and Larry King. Nothing but 2 or 3 talking heads with a Lite-Brite background. I guess once they run out of advertising money from suspender and microphone companies, there will be logo tattoos on Larry King's cheeks changing every few minutes.
"I look forward to the day that product placement is the only advertising"
I think that would skew content in some cases. For a show like "Friends", there would be less of this: they are in a commercial environment. However, car ads present a problem. These New Yorkers just don't drive. They'd have to change the plots to get cars into the show. No such problem with separated car ads.
Here's another example: "Xena" or "Hercules". There's not much you can advertise with product placement here other than fan swords and leather gear.... or you might be able to stretch one in where they can click on a field and get an ADM agrobusiness ad. Gabrielle sneezes so you can get a click location for a Claratin ad?
Realize that a lot of stuff in the commercials just does not fit into the TV show. Do you really want the Aflack duck wandering into Frasier's apartment?
10. Hey Jeff Bridges: Time to get back to the arcade! It's Tron 2 time, not "The Bigger Lebowski".
9. When that whirling MCP pillar slows down, it looks just like Steve Ballmer.
8. Microsoft brass threatening Apple execs to send them back to the garage they started in.
7. Don't ya just love those little Recognizers moving across the screen stomping worms?
6. Anything that gets Boxleitner and Jurasik acting again brings us closer to that Babylon 5 re-launch.
5. TRON? "Space Paranoids". Microsoft? I'm paranoid just using the 'Net.
4. I can't see enough of the replay of the time when they sent Clippy down to die on the game grid.
3. Microsoft now suing the moribund Star Trek franchise to smithereens for DS9's use of the Solar Sailor in one episode.
2. Wendy Carlos changes back to Walter in honor of the composition of new TRON music.
1. When that whirling MCP pillar slows down, it looks just like Steve Ballmer.
I remember the big controversy over the Cheerio's box in the first Superman movie.
People should realize that such product placement ads some realism. It looks artificial when you see those "Home Improvement" reruns and the kids are all drinking a vaguely-Coke-looking generic cola.
Remember, in the real world, people actually do drink Snapple, and eat Junior Mints (a couple of examples of name-brand products appearing in "Seinfeld")
As long as they do not go overboard like Dr Tongue in the 3-d House of Pancakes and waggle bottles of Mrs Butterworth in your face.
Make that "Tactile Strategery", and you have a game of Presidential caliber, combining the intern management techniques of the previous president with the spelling of the present one.
Nah. Just a mistake. These guys accidentally looked at the C-64 emulator running "7 Cities of Gold" where Jason in the next cubicle had put little missions and forts over the South American interior. They thought it was satellite imagery.
False alarm, folks. Indiana Jones, better stay home this time.
I've not played that many modern/recent videogames to fight that many bosses (I still remember the big thing at the end of Zaxxon!), but I have particular fondness for the third Bowser battle in "Mario 64".
The same criticisms of the Apple propaganda organs that always say that the Macs are faster also applies to the PC propaganda organs saying that PCs are faster.
Objectivity, wherefor art thou?
I don't know about this game, but that Black and White episode of "Star Trek" sure is overrated!
Live free or DIE!!!!!
Perhaps O'Reilly's "No-Spin Zone" could be useful for changing the trajectory of this whirling hunk of rock.
It's not only the astronomers who are worried about one of these things coming, it's Bruce Willis who is worried, too.
He's afraid he's going to have to wear that hideous cordoroy space-suit again and listen to Ben Affleck mope about J.Lo.
I saw the headline and figured "Oh no! Carnie Wilson is off her diet again!"
Long before the Web, I recall looking up hams in those giant Callbooks.
"I, for one, welcome our new Hummer overlords"
"In the Soviet Union, UAZ you!"
"The new Suzuki Goatse. Your gateway to the back country".
"What could you do with a beowulf cluster of VW Touaregs'"
Can you name the car with four-wheel-drive?
Smells like a steak and seats thirty-five!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down.
It's a country-fried truck endorsed by a clown.
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Twelve yards long and two lanes wide,
Sixty-five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports!
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts.
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super-high beam.
She a squirrel-squishin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Somehow, I think a murderous Pierce Brosnan presence taking over the house (Simpsons: Treehouse of Terror) is a little more likely with home automation under Windows than it is under the Linux OS.
"Local police are following up harassment complaints filed against a large dog in a suit and a rabbity thing with teeth like a SkillSaw noticed in the area."
Damn thing is back again! I knew that as soon as we booked Jimmy Carter as a keynote speaker, ol' Bunnicula be attracted to the event.