He can finally get in more money, and even try to capture some new markets
I can see it now:
Star Wars the Lunch Box, Star Wars the Breakfast Cereal, Star Wars The Coloring Book, Star Wars the Flame Thrower (the kids will love that one), and Lucas' Favorite Star Wars the Talking Doll, George Lucas saying "May the Schwartz",...i mean "...Force be with you." (It will be so adorable).
Who knows...Star Wars the Bed Sheets, Star Wars the Toilet Paper, Star Wars the merchandising ripoff of Spaceballs...The list goes on.
Just remember, Lucas is not an ordinary Genius. His brain doesn't just stop at light speed, It jumps straight to Ludicrous Speed!
What I would lave to se is Microsoft release a version of Linux just so I can see:
a) the Linux fanboys praise Microsoft
or
b) The linux fanboys saying how much linux sucks
I really can't stand how much zealotism there is on here. Windows has some good points, OS X has some good points and so does BSD / Linux. I use all of them. All have their flaws and strengths. They all can learn from each other. People should just use what works for them./* Since when did this stop being a way to run application software on a computer and start being a religion. */
Hey...I Downloaded...er Purchaced Windows 2000 just so I could play the (at the time) new Pinball game...and some other stuff too, I guess.//Still better than Win 98!
... A Star Trek style keyboard. One big touch screen that has the ability to not only map buttons but make them any size, shape, and in any position. Even put video displays and the such. Now THAT would be great, especially for games. Keep weapons and inventory on the keyboard and to switch you could just tap the item itself as opposed to using the on screen menu and weapons groups that can be very inconvenient in the heat of battle.
Better yet keyboard accessories...why clutter up the screen with widgets, gadgets or Desktop accessories? Just send them to the keyboard display. It would be great for things like calculators, toys and meters (Power, CPU, RAM, Network).
I agree, that is what we need, an electronic notebook. A tablet or dual tablet the size of a normal spiral-bound notebook. It would allow you to naturally write your notes that would be transformed to text (handwriting recognition like the Newton) as well as draw pictures or graphs or whatever. It could have some useful popup tools like spell check, grammer check, or calc or whatever. It will have the ability to read docs (PDF, Office, the common formats). If it had a rechargable battery life of 8-10 hours and a screen you could read from without eye-strain, it would be perfect.
One notebook to rule them all. It would sure-as-hell be great for my classes. I would buy one.
I love my Palm. I have been using Palms for years...from my Palm IIIe, Palm IIIxe to currently my Tungsten C. It is a very versitile device, and I love it for it. I too use it with PDF and office files, and just on the 64Mb alone I can fit all my apps, personal information as well as quite a few large PDF eBooks (around 50, mostly reference material as well as quite a bit of fiction including the works of Douglas Adams amoung others)
But when it comes to reading documents (especially long ones) it is for from the best way to read. The small screen (both in height and width) just is too small and the display can be horrible on the eyes after a while.
While the sony device is not the way to go, I would love to see a more specialized device the fixes these problems but keeps the open nature (and maybe even the versatitlty) of the palm
Why? Price, weight, bulkiness and Battery life. I agree if you have the means, Tablets are great. But it is not a good substitute for someone who just wants to read an eBook. It all depends on your situation.
I'd assume that when you develop "true AI", it tells you it's going to make a press release.
It sort of reminds me of Yakkov Smirnov...In Soviet Russia, AI writes YOU!
Hey...put down the crack pipe and listen to yourself. That joke is to geeks as ranting is to Dennis Miller. Mellow out and get used to it or else you are on the way to destruction.
A lot of games end like that...look at Leisure Suit Larry 7...but games get canceled for other things, even great ones...it is sad, but it is true. RTS's just don't seem as popular as they once were. As of now...it seems like a coin toss but my money would be on no.
Buffy, I can understand as Sci-Fi; but all the Superhero shows on the list, really shouldn't count as Scifi. Personally I think that superhero shows are their own genre (yes, even though some involve Scifi elements). Max Headroom should have been on the list. Greatest American Hero and Logans Run (the Series) both sucked.
I am just starting College as well. I used a palm all through high school. I highly recommend a palm over a PPC. I used mine for Assignments (with Four.Zero [commercial] laer to change to DueYesterday [free and better]), Calender (built in) and Games during boring study halls. For just the bare essencials, something like a palm 3xe would be sufficient [My second one]. I later upgraded to a Tungsten T and loved the extra storage space, color screen, rechargable battery and Storage Cards. I could do things like play newer games, edit Office docs, and listen to music. I just upgraded to a Tungsten C with Wifi and even more storage space for college. Even before I get on campus, the features, processing power, and upgraded OS was well worth the purchace. All of the palmtops I mentioned I bought off of ebay for around $100-$150 each, The 3xe and Tungsten T are probably much cheaper now.
In my experience with these, I offer a few suggestions. 1) A palm with a good stow-away keyboard is great for taking notes, and writing while away from your computer. And it is smaller than a laptop. 2) Learn Graffiti enough to write small enteries fast as well as have a decent shorthand. By doing this you can take down notes and assignments as fast as you could write them on paper. 3) Avantgo is a great [free] service that allows you to download webpages to you palm and is useful if you want to have the news or weather (or whatever) to read during freetime (or a boring lecture) 4) Sync EVERY DAY I can not state this enough 5) Carry extra bateries. Or if you have a rechargable device, charge it every day. 6) Get a hard case especially if you keep it in a backpack...I learned this one the hard way, I placed my backpack on the desk (with my palm 3xe inside) it fell off the desk and the screen got smashed 7) Writerights (plastic screen protection overlays) are a good investment...you only get like 6 for $20 but you can leave one on for like 6 months (regardless of the one month recomendation) and they do keep the screen scratch-free
Like most people here, Scotty helped inspire me to go into engineering (Computer Engineering). I just wish to say that he will be missed, both the man and the character. There is little that I can say that hasn't been said already. But he was a great guy both on and off the screen. He is not really dead so long as we remember him. Let us all take a shot of scotch (or Aldebaran Whiskey...it is green!) to honor a great man who was just beamed up to heaven. Godspeed Scotty...may you boldly go where no man...where no one has gone before!
The following Star Wars Quote should be incorperated into Woopie Goldbergs dialog for any Star Trek story with her set in the future. "When 900 years old you reach, look so good you will not."
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He can finally get in more money, and even try to capture some new markets
I can see it now:
Star Wars the Lunch Box, Star Wars the Breakfast Cereal, Star Wars The Coloring Book, Star Wars the Flame Thrower (the kids will love that one), and Lucas' Favorite Star Wars the Talking Doll, George Lucas saying "May the Schwartz",...i mean "...Force be with you." (It will be so adorable).
Who knows...Star Wars the Bed Sheets, Star Wars the Toilet Paper, Star Wars the merchandising ripoff of Spaceballs...The list goes on.
Just remember, Lucas is not an ordinary Genius. His brain doesn't just stop at light speed, It jumps straight to Ludicrous Speed!
What I want to see:
Owen: I want you to clean these droids before supper.
Luke: But I wanted to go the the Toshi station and pick up some power converters.
a brief pause,
SLAP
Owen: If your gonna whine like a bitch, I'm gonna slap you like one. Your Father was an obnoxious little bastard too.
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1999 called, and they would like there VB back.
Unfortunately, It isn't something you can just give back, only give to others
Practicing Unsafe HEX is Temporary
VB is forever
What I would lave to se is Microsoft release a version of Linux just so I can see:
/* Since when did this stop being a way to run application software on a computer and start being a religion. */
a) the Linux fanboys praise Microsoft
or
b) The linux fanboys saying how much linux sucks
I really can't stand how much zealotism there is on here. Windows has some good points, OS X has some good points and so does BSD / Linux. I use all of them. All have their flaws and strengths. They all can learn from each other. People should just use what works for them.
Only Windows 1.0....Steve Balmer REALLY pushed the solitaire in his commercial.
Hey, It was the 80's, and I was drunk, OK.
Won't do THAT again...
You say you want a revolution, talk to Nintendo.
There is the Right way: OS X
The Wrong Way: Vista
and The Max Power's Way [The Wrong way, but Faster!]: Windows XP
Hey...I Downloaded...er Purchaced Windows 2000 just so I could play the (at the time) new Pinball game...and some other stuff too, I guess. //Still better than Win 98!
All flamewars I have encountered have been due to:
1) Very opinionated assholes who just love to bash other people.
2) Two camps filled with said assholes that can not seem to get along (though most people just seem to ask WTF!?)
3) Posting dumb articles to elicit responses of said camps.
Simply put the cause of most flamewars is CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal!
I guess they can be called the not-so-firm web-firms
Sorry, 6 years ago...
I guess if it launched 4 years ago, it could have been called the New-Millenium Falcon
... A Star Trek style keyboard. One big touch screen that has the ability to not only map buttons but make them any size, shape, and in any position. Even put video displays and the such. Now THAT would be great, especially for games. Keep weapons and inventory on the keyboard and to switch you could just tap the item itself as opposed to using the on screen menu and weapons groups that can be very inconvenient in the heat of battle.
Better yet keyboard accessories...why clutter up the screen with widgets, gadgets or Desktop accessories? Just send them to the keyboard display. It would be great for things like calculators, toys and meters (Power, CPU, RAM, Network).
I would buy that! (For a reasonable price)
I would like to drive a tank to work...honestly, who would EVER mess with the psycho who drives a tank on the highway?
I agree, that is what we need, an electronic notebook. A tablet or dual tablet the size of a normal spiral-bound notebook. It would allow you to naturally write your notes that would be transformed to text (handwriting recognition like the Newton) as well as draw pictures or graphs or whatever. It could have some useful popup tools like spell check, grammer check, or calc or whatever. It will have the ability to read docs (PDF, Office, the common formats). If it had a rechargable battery life of 8-10 hours and a screen you could read from without eye-strain, it would be perfect.
One notebook to rule them all. It would sure-as-hell be great for my classes. I would buy one.
I love my Palm. I have been using Palms for years...from my Palm IIIe, Palm IIIxe to currently my Tungsten C. It is a very versitile device, and I love it for it. I too use it with PDF and office files, and just on the 64Mb alone I can fit all my apps, personal information as well as quite a few large PDF eBooks (around 50, mostly reference material as well as quite a bit of fiction including the works of Douglas Adams amoung others)
But when it comes to reading documents (especially long ones) it is for from the best way to read. The small screen (both in height and width) just is too small and the display can be horrible on the eyes after a while.
While the sony device is not the way to go, I would love to see a more specialized device the fixes these problems but keeps the open nature (and maybe even the versatitlty) of the palm
Why? Price, weight, bulkiness and Battery life. I agree if you have the means, Tablets are great. But it is not a good substitute for someone who just wants to read an eBook. It all depends on your situation.
I'd assume that when you develop "true AI", it tells you it's going to make a press release.
It sort of reminds me of Yakkov Smirnov...In Soviet Russia, AI writes YOU!
Hey...put down the crack pipe and listen to yourself. That joke is to geeks as ranting is to Dennis Miller. Mellow out and get used to it or else you are on the way to destruction.
A lot of games end like that...look at Leisure Suit Larry 7...but games get canceled for other things, even great ones...it is sad, but it is true. RTS's just don't seem as popular as they once were. As of now...it seems like a coin toss but my money would be on no.
Buffy, I can understand as Sci-Fi; but all the Superhero shows on the list, really shouldn't count as Scifi. Personally I think that superhero shows are their own genre (yes, even though some involve Scifi elements). Max Headroom should have been on the list. Greatest American Hero and Logans Run (the Series) both sucked.
I am just starting College as well. I used a palm all through high school. I highly recommend a palm over a PPC. I used mine for Assignments (with Four.Zero [commercial] laer to change to DueYesterday [free and better]), Calender (built in) and Games during boring study halls. For just the bare essencials, something like a palm 3xe would be sufficient [My second one]. I later upgraded to a Tungsten T and loved the extra storage space, color screen, rechargable battery and Storage Cards. I could do things like play newer games, edit Office docs, and listen to music. I just upgraded to a Tungsten C with Wifi and even more storage space for college. Even before I get on campus, the features, processing power, and upgraded OS was well worth the purchace. All of the palmtops I mentioned I bought off of ebay for around $100-$150 each, The 3xe and Tungsten T are probably much cheaper now.
In my experience with these, I offer a few suggestions.
1) A palm with a good stow-away keyboard is great for taking notes, and writing while away from your computer. And it is smaller than a laptop.
2) Learn Graffiti enough to write small enteries fast as well as have a decent shorthand. By doing this you can take down notes and assignments as fast as you could write them on paper.
3) Avantgo is a great [free] service that allows you to download webpages to you palm and is useful if you want to have the news or weather (or whatever) to read during freetime (or a boring lecture)
4) Sync EVERY DAY I can not state this enough
5) Carry extra bateries. Or if you have a rechargable device, charge it every day.
6) Get a hard case especially if you keep it in a backpack...I learned this one the hard way, I placed my backpack on the desk (with my palm 3xe inside) it fell off the desk and the screen got smashed
7) Writerights (plastic screen protection overlays) are a good investment...you only get like 6 for $20 but you can leave one on for like 6 months (regardless of the one month recomendation) and they do keep the screen scratch-free
Like most people here, Scotty helped inspire me to go into engineering (Computer Engineering). I just wish to say that he will be missed, both the man and the character. There is little that I can say that hasn't been said already. But he was a great guy both on and off the screen. He is not really dead so long as we remember him. Let us all take a shot of scotch (or Aldebaran Whiskey...it is green!) to honor a great man who was just beamed up to heaven. Godspeed Scotty...may you boldly go where no man...where no one has gone before!
The following Star Wars Quote should be incorperated into Woopie Goldbergs dialog for any Star Trek story with her set in the future. "When 900 years old you reach, look so good you will not."
but it is just a suggestion.
Sorry, My Bad.
-He was a Phreaker not a Phisher.
-Technically he didn't find out that the whistle had the tones, a friend of his showed him how to modify the whistles.
-He built blue boxes as well, along with many other people but Woz and Jobs are probably the most well known.
Sorry, I did the post from memory from what I read a while ago and didn't have time to check everything.