How long is it going to take for the public to finally realize that the RIAA is everything that represents soulless and wrong in music today?
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...state that your invention can be something new, a new use, or an improvement on a previous invention or patent. Instant Messaging is certainly an improvement on any messaging system that everyone is bitching about predating IM's.
It sucked. My grandparents got one as a gift from my aunt and uncle for the purpose of e-mail and to get pictures of their new grandson at the time. I used it once when I was there and it was a pain to do anything. It was impossible to navigate pages, download times were slow, and there was no flexibility to add something like an external drive for pictures. There were only one or two choices for printers for it as well. I hope that things have changed on both of those fronts...
You're wrong on that one. It was launched by M$ originally. It was originally called Microsoft WebTV. It has only just recently been re-marketed as MSN TV to most likely compete with the rarely heard of AOL TV.
A friend of the family goes to Rose-Hullman University in Terre Haute, Indiana. One of the things that they get upon admission is they are issued a PC laptop with a lot of the necessary software installed (office, outlook, etc.). Are there any other colleges that anyone else can think of that issues laptops other than mentioned in the article?
Does anyone remember the bug in the thesarus for Word 6.0? You would type in "I'd like to see Bill Gates dead." and the thesarus would recommend "I'll drink to that." as an alternative. Am I the only one who remembers this?
Why would you bother with building a totally new infrastructure along the already crowded coast of California and build a MagLev track from L.A.-S.F. when you can improve on the existing railroad tracks, achieve fast speeds and allow for competitive times with airplanes. High-speed rail is faster than flying on the east coast with a similar distance. Why isn't it feasible on the west coast?
is that it's still tape. Tape still deteriorates over the years. You might want to convert it all to Video CD. You can get help to convert this lossless video to MPEG compressed video here.
This is very old news. I remember this being in all the car mags and Popular Mechanics at least a year ago. The only difference between the BMW skateboard and the Porsche laptop is that the BMW's suspension was heavily based on it's world-reknowned 3-series suspension geometry. Can Porsche say that they're using any of their automotive technology in their laptop, or is it just another thing to slap the Porsche crest on?
BMW Hasn't just been "working" on these cars--they've been publicizing the living hell out of them. BMW was one of the first car companies to flaunt their engineering in providing a hydrogen fuel cell car all over the world. To top it all off, they showed this technology off through an existing car (last generation 7-series). If you've seen the last 7-series, you'll find that it's not the most aerodynamic car in the world. Nice try.
I was watching Fresh Gear over the summer, and they had a piece on a hotel in San Francisco (the name of the hotel escaps me) where they had a room where there were i think 5 or 6 plasma screens standing vertically with paintings on them. The cool thing about them is that not only would the paintings move, but they would "interact" with each other. That has to be the greatest idea for multimedia art I've ever seen.
My aunt used to be head of PR @ Oracle in San Fran, and one time she went to a costume party and this guy was there dressed as a cop. He stopped off somewhere at a convenience store to get a doughnut, a cup of coffee, and a pack of cigarettes. The clerk behind the counter looked at him rather oddly and said to him, "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to charge you for the cigarettes."
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How long is it going to take for the public to finally realize that the RIAA is everything that represents soulless and wrong in music today?
...state that your invention can be something new, a new use, or an improvement on a previous invention or patent. Instant Messaging is certainly an improvement on any messaging system that everyone is bitching about predating IM's.
It sucked. My grandparents got one as a gift from my aunt and uncle for the purpose of e-mail and to get pictures of their new grandson at the time. I used it once when I was there and it was a pain to do anything. It was impossible to navigate pages, download times were slow, and there was no flexibility to add something like an external drive for pictures. There were only one or two choices for printers for it as well. I hope that things have changed on both of those fronts...
You're wrong on that one. It was launched by M$ originally. It was originally called Microsoft WebTV. It has only just recently been re-marketed as MSN TV to most likely compete with the rarely heard of AOL TV.
A friend of the family goes to Rose-Hullman University in Terre Haute, Indiana. One of the things that they get upon admission is they are issued a PC laptop with a lot of the necessary software installed (office, outlook, etc.). Are there any other colleges that anyone else can think of that issues laptops other than mentioned in the article?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't DirecTV run an ad for their DSL service with that same principal?
Does anyone remember the bug in the thesarus for Word 6.0? You would type in "I'd like to see Bill Gates dead." and the thesarus would recommend "I'll drink to that." as an alternative. Am I the only one who remembers this?
Why would you bother with building a totally new infrastructure along the already crowded coast of California and build a MagLev track from L.A.-S.F. when you can improve on the existing railroad tracks, achieve fast speeds and allow for competitive times with airplanes. High-speed rail is faster than flying on the east coast with a similar distance. Why isn't it feasible on the west coast?
is that it's still tape. Tape still deteriorates over the years. You might want to convert it all to Video CD. You can get help to convert this lossless video to MPEG compressed video here.
Shouldn't ants be infesting machines running Win XP. That surely has more bugs than OS X.
Setting up a P2P Network within the LAN? That way, bandwith costs aren't an issue and the student union can still trade files amongst themselves.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but isn't AOL is the only e-mail service used predominantly by consumers that doesn't have a low space limit.
What it comes down to is plain and simple greed. The record companies and artists want to be compensated for doing nothing.
That's the American way. Look at welfare, social security, etc. Getting paid for doing nothing. This is no different.
They would be advertising M$ products quite well: Lots and lots of crashes...
This is very old news. I remember this being in all the car mags and Popular Mechanics at least a year ago. The only difference between the BMW skateboard and the Porsche laptop is that the BMW's suspension was heavily based on it's world-reknowned 3-series suspension geometry. Can Porsche say that they're using any of their automotive technology in their laptop, or is it just another thing to slap the Porsche crest on?
Of course every user has a need for a 2.8GHz processor. Everyone runs SETI, right?
Bringing them out to a desolate pond and dropping about 5 pounds of pure sodium in there?
Only I was on AOL...Strange...
Did you rip all of those Bob & Tom CD's to MP3 before you sold them?
BMW Hasn't just been "working" on these cars--they've been publicizing the living hell out of them. BMW was one of the first car companies to flaunt their engineering in providing a hydrogen fuel cell car all over the world. To top it all off, they showed this technology off through an existing car (last generation 7-series). If you've seen the last 7-series, you'll find that it's not the most aerodynamic car in the world. Nice try.
I was watching Fresh Gear over the summer, and they had a piece on a hotel in San Francisco (the name of the hotel escaps me) where they had a room where there were i think 5 or 6 plasma screens standing vertically with paintings on them. The cool thing about them is that not only would the paintings move, but they would "interact" with each other. That has to be the greatest idea for multimedia art I've ever seen.
Someone listens to the Arrogant Worms...
Is this a great country or what?