Chickens do have teeth. Does that mean I have to watch out for pig shit falling on me outside, in addition to that of pidgeons? And, with the rate at which kids in the inner cities are having kids of their own, that skateboarding thing might happen, too!
Or, I could be prevented from entering secure facilities (ie factories, certain offices, Acme Supermarkets) with a camera built into my telephone. It would be nice to have a cameraphone, but I don't feel like having two cell phones. If I ever feel the need to take quick 'n dirty snapshots, I'll pick up one of those Phillips USB memory sticks with built-in camera.
Only if you work for assholes does it matter. I work for an old, well-established and well-regarded financial services firm. There are, let's see...only 3 "luxury" cars in the car park, with the rest being mostly domestic sedans and *gasp* pickup trucks. We live in anything from apartments to houses to farms and the dress code is casual (but not slouchy). Everyone is evaluated in terms of the quality of their work and the nature of their character. The point being that the reality of the "professional world" is whatever you make of it.
Produce is often sold by weight...ie I just bought peaches for $0.99/lb. I can also buy cereals and grains from bins which are sold by weight. RFID tech would have to consider the weight of the items.
"Of course it is, Google has stocks now, things have changed, along with Google. You shouldn't act so surprised, what with everyone here saying Google will change once it offers stock."
So really nothing has changed then. Google has always had stock and has always wanted to make money. The only difference is that you and I can buy it now.
What about buying a bag of fruit that I picked from the produce section? The only way I see that working is if there is a weighing station in the produce section that can program an RFID tag on the spot and let you stick it onto the bag. Wegmans does this now with barcode printers in the produce section. You put your fruit on the scale, punch in the 4-digit PLU and a barcode sticker w/price is printed for you to put on the bag.
Yes, that's it....the iPod pwn3d the market and the device you prefer lost because everyone else but you is stupid. You sound like my grandmother for Christ's sake.
This is the typical response of most senior citizens. My typical response is usually, "OK, as soon as I stop paying for your Social Security check, you can stop paying for the schools. And by the way, it was the school taxes you paid that financed my education, which gives me a high paying job, which allows me to pay enough in FICA to cover at least two of you old leeches!":)
Among the few programming languages I studied in high school in the mid 1990s, COBOL, by that time, had the stigma of being like the "funny uncle," something you should know about, but don't get too close:)
And they are: Cable Card. If anyone who wants a serious HTPC is willing to spend the bucks on the gear, then they'll likely be the type of person who wants premium channels and possibly on-demand programming. For a device like those Intel propose with the ViiV chipset, a video-in connection and IR blasters to control the cable box would be unacceptable...the Viiv unit must *be* the cable box and the Cable Card specification allows that. Tivo, for instance, is coming out with a CableCard unit next year that will allow me to get rid of my cable box. With the cable card from my cable company, my HTPC will be able to decode all the premium and HD programming *itself*.
If you update your iPod once per day (for new podcasts mostly and a couple additions to your song collection) and you get 100,000 writes with flash memory (IIRC), then that's about 270 years of use.
"I didn't understand, because PDFs should not have viruses, right?"
Getting a virus by opening an email was just a myth until Microsoft made it a realtiy. Adobe is doing the same with PDF now, by introducing a bunch of javascript/multimedia BS that can be integrated in PDFs.
"It obviously had to be done electronically (Or else he would have had to write an awful lot). How does that work?"
It says the doctor is in New Jersey. In New Jersey, all doctors use state-issued prescription pads, with each individual *sheets* having their own serial numbers.
It's impossible to have a single set of standards since laptops have many specialized purposes. However, the better models have standardized on upgradable video card formats (MXM). I'm hoping to buy a Quanta laptop soon that has an upgradable Nvidia Geforce 6600 Go video card.
Well, the "twenty" is just an update to the old still frame ads you used to see while people were still getting into their seats, so I can tolerate that since it happens before the movie's scheduled time.
Yeah, like vibrate mode is any more silent. From what I've seen and heard, "vibrate" is just the nickname for the "chainsaw sound" ringtone. Honestly, I can hear a phone vibrating from anywhere in a theatre.
The reason you have to draw the calculator is so that you'll go through that expensive Fly Paper much faster and have to buy more. The real purpose of this pen (from Leapfrog's perspective) is to get people to buy more and more of the proprietary paper. To that end, the pen's functions are geared towards using as much paper as possible, not towards using the paper in an efficient manner.
This reminds me of every single inkjet printer commercial. The people in those commercials print shitloads of things in color that 1.) probably didn't have to be printed in the first place or 2.) didn't have to be printed in color. It's all about selling that ink.
"What if you own the cartridge, but download the ROM?"
The actual copyright violation occurs when someone uploads (ie distributes) the ROM. However, you're better off ripping your own ROMs in the event the uploader gets sued and his logs are subpoenaed. Anyway, most old NES carts going for $2-$3 at the game stores nowadays.
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Chickens do have teeth. Does that mean I have to watch out for pig shit falling on me outside, in addition to that of pidgeons? And, with the rate at which kids in the inner cities are having kids of their own, that skateboarding thing might happen, too!
Or, I could be prevented from entering secure facilities (ie factories, certain offices, Acme Supermarkets) with a camera built into my telephone. It would be nice to have a cameraphone, but I don't feel like having two cell phones. If I ever feel the need to take quick 'n dirty snapshots, I'll pick up one of those Phillips USB memory sticks with built-in camera.
Only if you work for assholes does it matter. I work for an old, well-established and well-regarded financial services firm. There are, let's see...only 3 "luxury" cars in the car park, with the rest being mostly domestic sedans and *gasp* pickup trucks. We live in anything from apartments to houses to farms and the dress code is casual (but not slouchy). Everyone is evaluated in terms of the quality of their work and the nature of their character. The point being that the reality of the "professional world" is whatever you make of it.
What the article fails to mention is that in South Korea, only old people are using BT now.
Produce is often sold by weight...ie I just bought peaches for $0.99/lb. I can also buy cereals and grains from bins which are sold by weight. RFID tech would have to consider the weight of the items.
"Of course it is, Google has stocks now, things have changed, along with Google. You shouldn't act so surprised, what with everyone here saying Google will change once it offers stock."
So really nothing has changed then. Google has always had stock and has always wanted to make money. The only difference is that you and I can buy it now.
What about buying a bag of fruit that I picked from the produce section? The only way I see that working is if there is a weighing station in the produce section that can program an RFID tag on the spot and let you stick it onto the bag. Wegmans does this now with barcode printers in the produce section. You put your fruit on the scale, punch in the 4-digit PLU and a barcode sticker w/price is printed for you to put on the bag.
Yes, that's it....the iPod pwn3d the market and the device you prefer lost because everyone else but you is stupid. You sound like my grandmother for Christ's sake.
This is the typical response of most senior citizens. My typical response is usually, "OK, as soon as I stop paying for your Social Security check, you can stop paying for the schools. And by the way, it was the school taxes you paid that financed my education, which gives me a high paying job, which allows me to pay enough in FICA to cover at least two of you old leeches!" :)
"all your bank debts only exist on mainframes. They control your reality. :)"
Well, I for one, welcome the demise of our mainframe, debt-recording overlords!
Among the few programming languages I studied in high school in the mid 1990s, COBOL, by that time, had the stigma of being like the "funny uncle," something you should know about, but don't get too close :)
So does keeping it in your pants. Because god forbid if we exercised any self-control.
And they are: Cable Card. If anyone who wants a serious HTPC is willing to spend the bucks on the gear, then they'll likely be the type of person who wants premium channels and possibly on-demand programming. For a device like those Intel propose with the ViiV chipset, a video-in connection and IR blasters to control the cable box would be unacceptable...the Viiv unit must *be* the cable box and the Cable Card specification allows that. Tivo, for instance, is coming out with a CableCard unit next year that will allow me to get rid of my cable box. With the cable card from my cable company, my HTPC will be able to decode all the premium and HD programming *itself*.
If you update your iPod once per day (for new podcasts mostly and a couple additions to your song collection) and you get 100,000 writes with flash memory (IIRC), then that's about 270 years of use.
I know! I go through about 10 or 20 hard drives per day and have to wear safety goggles because of all the shards of platters flying about!
"I didn't understand, because PDFs should not have viruses, right?"
Getting a virus by opening an email was just a myth until Microsoft made it a realtiy. Adobe is doing the same with PDF now, by introducing a bunch of javascript/multimedia BS that can be integrated in PDFs.
Yeah, only because we secretly made you the 52nd* state last night in anticipation of this new service from Google!
Notes:
* England.
"It obviously had to be done electronically (Or else he would have had to write an awful lot). How does that work?"
It says the doctor is in New Jersey. In New Jersey, all doctors use state-issued prescription pads, with each individual *sheets* having their own serial numbers.
It's impossible to have a single set of standards since laptops have many specialized purposes. However, the better models have standardized on upgradable video card formats (MXM). I'm hoping to buy a Quanta laptop soon that has an upgradable Nvidia Geforce 6600 Go video card.
Well, the "twenty" is just an update to the old still frame ads you used to see while people were still getting into their seats, so I can tolerate that since it happens before the movie's scheduled time.
Yeah, like vibrate mode is any more silent. From what I've seen and heard, "vibrate" is just the nickname for the "chainsaw sound" ringtone. Honestly, I can hear a phone vibrating from anywhere in a theatre.
The reason you have to draw the calculator is so that you'll go through that expensive Fly Paper much faster and have to buy more. The real purpose of this pen (from Leapfrog's perspective) is to get people to buy more and more of the proprietary paper. To that end, the pen's functions are geared towards using as much paper as possible, not towards using the paper in an efficient manner.
This reminds me of every single inkjet printer commercial. The people in those commercials print shitloads of things in color that 1.) probably didn't have to be printed in the first place or 2.) didn't have to be printed in color. It's all about selling that ink.
Let's just hope he doesn't get caught by the VC and has to hide it for a few years, followed by Christopher Walken having to hide it.
"What if you own the cartridge, but download the ROM?"
The actual copyright violation occurs when someone uploads (ie distributes) the ROM. However, you're better off ripping your own ROMs in the event the uploader gets sued and his logs are subpoenaed. Anyway, most old NES carts going for $2-$3 at the game stores nowadays.
Well, if this country is being run on GOTO statements, no wonder all the programming jobs are going offshore!