.. it makes me want to cackle madly and throw a spoon against the wall. A.) If the movie didn't
"stink" then why would people text others to tell them that it does? By making this claim they almost admit that the movies do suck a fat one. and B.) Why is this any different than calling on the phone or telling someone in person that the movie "stinks"? Bottom line, if the movie doesn't "stink" then what difference does it make? What if the movie was really good and people wanted to text their friends to tell them how good it is? Should we credit good movie ticket sales to people who text others to tell them it's a good movie? If we follow this line of logic then we must.
'I'm unaware of any company that would shortchange the customer in their speed to get the software to market,'
Yes, They do actually. At the beginning of last year I found myself a 3 month temp job doing tech support for H&R block's tax cut software. In order to get the software out when people want it they release it at the end of the year, but, it can not be used to file taxes until the final update has been installed. The updates work out the bugs and make sure it's 100% accurate Not only this, but the quality of support was poor. I believe I was the only one in the room with even an A+ certification, let alone a degree. If you passed a little test they gave you 2 weeks of training and put you on a phone. The company which provided tech support for H&R Block also does tech support for Dell, or at least they did at the time. Their standards for new hires were so low that durring the two week training an employee actually broke the pins off the CPU while trying to put it back in. Obviously this person never heard of a ZIF socket, yet this is the person who was elected to tell Joe Blow how to do the same thing over the phone after only 2 weeks of training. This combined with the fact that there was no 1-800 number for H&R Block, they wouldn't pay for one, so you got to call us long distance.
Ever seen the movie AI?
Heck, ever seen a vibrator?
It's definatly possible to make a sex machine that seems lifelike. If you combine modern sex toy technology with robotic technology then there's always a possibility.
It doesn't only effect the large capacity hard drive market. High speed internet, Blank DVD's and CD's, CD and DVD Burners, Portable MP3 Players would also suffer. Why carry an MP3 player around if all you can play on it are MP3's you ripped from your own CD stash? You could just carry a walkman. Why have high speed internet if not to download things at high speed? Just to have a web site load 3 seconds faster? and blank CD's and DVD's just for backing up your hard drive, it'd take a whole pack of em, or for saving your huge folder full of word and excel files from work? Overkill! If that all it took to keep a media format alive we might still see the Zip drive going strong. These technologies are begging to be used for piracy. They thrive on piracy. They're designed to move and record large amounts of data, and who actually pays for this much data? Open source is free, but once you use it to download your favorite flavor of Linux and burn it to CD it'll just sit there until the next version comes out. These technologies thrive on getting large amounts of data at high speeds for free and saving it. If we stop being able to get large amounts of data for free then what else are we going to download at high speeds and save on CD and DVD, or our huge 250GB hard drives?
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<common aol user> You mean, AOL isn't the internet? I'm confused. </common aol user> </sarcasm>
.. Most of the movies I now own on DVD I downloaded first. It's always better on DVD.
If I download it and like it, I'll buy it. If it sucks, it's not worth my money anyway. Most downloadable movies on Kazaa etc are poor camcorder copies split into 2 low quality Divx files. Who wouldn't buy a GOOD movie on DVD after sampling it via this format first? It just makes me want the DVD to see the movie in it's true, crisp, clear, dolby 5.1 original state. And I'm confident that I'll enjoy the movie because I've seen it's low quality sample for free first.
There was a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq. His name was Saddam Hussien. He's killed masses of people and would continue to do so if we hadn't taken him out. A weapon of mass destruction doesn't have to be an atomic missle. On 9/11/2001 a group of men used 3 normal air planes as weapons of mass destruction and thousands of people died. In the 1930's Hitler killed masses of Jews, but with weapons far inferior to today's convetional weapons. Then, Hitler himself was the weapon of mass distruction. My point? An evil mind, given the power to rule, or who has forcefully taken the power to rule, can be a far more dangerous weapon of mass distruction than any Atomic weapon. Our president realized that and acted.
The subspace field necessary to propel a starship across vast interstellar distances is created by a combination of the specific configuration of the starship hull and the warp field coils located in the two warp drive nacelles.
These coils generate an intense, multilayered field surrounding the ship, and it is the manipulation of this field that produces a propulsive effect.
Each nacelle contains a number of warp field coils; when energized, the coils cause an energy shift that actually changes the geometry of space around the starship.
When the coils are fired sequentially, they create warp field layers that press upon each other and cumulatively reduce the apparent mass of the vehicle, allowing the ship to move faster than the speed of light.
This is the second crippled Windows PC turned game console on the market. Why don't we, the geek community, develope a game machine that runs on Linux. And since Linux can be ported to anything, who's to say it has to be a crippled PC?
Anything that will boot Linux will do. And here's the catch. The games.. are open source! We could call it the *nix-Box
... a hacker from writing software to download these games on a regular PC and save / play them? Once they're downloaded on a regular PC they can be distrubuted as easily as an mp3. Why buy the console when in a few months a genious hacker will make the games free to download?
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You can configure them any way you want, they use real athlon processors, desktop RAM, and are full of great features.
They're 60 years too early, The Phoenix doesn't make it's first warp flight until 2063!!!!
...to see how many people noticed that the Venus for women blades fit on a Mach 3 razor!
That's all fine and good, but don't let PETA find out.
.. it makes me want to cackle madly and throw a spoon against the wall. A.) If the movie didn't "stink" then why would people text others to tell them that it does? By making this claim they almost admit that the movies do suck a fat one. and B.) Why is this any different than calling on the phone or telling someone in person that the movie "stinks"? Bottom line, if the movie doesn't "stink" then what difference does it make? What if the movie was really good and people wanted to text their friends to tell them how good it is? Should we credit good movie ticket sales to people who text others to tell them it's a good movie? If we follow this line of logic then we must.
.. will these rabbit-human hybrids be hosting any new MTV shows like "Remember the '80's"?
Try an Advantech 5820 babyboard. Very tiny! You'll have to google for it.
'I'm unaware of any company that would shortchange the customer in their speed to get the software to market,'
Yes, They do actually. At the beginning of last year I found myself a 3 month temp job doing tech support for H&R block's tax cut software. In order to get the software out when people want it they release it at the end of the year, but, it can not be used to file taxes until the final update has been installed. The updates work out the bugs and make sure it's 100% accurate Not only this, but the quality of support was poor. I believe I was the only one in the room with even an A+ certification, let alone a degree. If you passed a little test they gave you 2 weeks of training and put you on a phone. The company which provided tech support for H&R Block also does tech support for Dell, or at least they did at the time. Their standards for new hires were so low that durring the two week training an employee actually broke the pins off the CPU while trying to put it back in. Obviously this person never heard of a ZIF socket, yet this is the person who was elected to tell Joe Blow how to do the same thing over the phone after only 2 weeks of training. This combined with the fact that there was no 1-800 number for H&R Block, they wouldn't pay for one, so you got to call us long distance.
Ever seen the movie AI? Heck, ever seen a vibrator? It's definatly possible to make a sex machine that seems lifelike. If you combine modern sex toy technology with robotic technology then there's always a possibility.
It doesn't only effect the large capacity hard drive market. High speed internet, Blank DVD's and CD's, CD and DVD Burners, Portable MP3 Players would also suffer. Why carry an MP3 player around if all you can play on it are MP3's you ripped from your own CD stash? You could just carry a walkman. Why have high speed internet if not to download things at high speed? Just to have a web site load 3 seconds faster? and blank CD's and DVD's just for backing up your hard drive, it'd take a whole pack of em, or for saving your huge folder full of word and excel files from work? Overkill! If that all it took to keep a media format alive we might still see the Zip drive going strong. These technologies are begging to be used for piracy. They thrive on piracy. They're designed to move and record large amounts of data, and who actually pays for this much data? Open source is free, but once you use it to download your favorite flavor of Linux and burn it to CD it'll just sit there until the next version comes out. These technologies thrive on getting large amounts of data at high speeds for free and saving it. If we stop being able to get large amounts of data for free then what else are we going to download at high speeds and save on CD and DVD, or our huge 250GB hard drives?
<common aol user>
You mean, AOL isn't the internet? I'm confused.
</common aol user>
</sarcasm>
.. Most of the movies I now own on DVD I downloaded first. It's always better on DVD. If I download it and like it, I'll buy it. If it sucks, it's not worth my money anyway. Most downloadable movies on Kazaa etc are poor camcorder copies split into 2 low quality Divx files. Who wouldn't buy a GOOD movie on DVD after sampling it via this format first? It just makes me want the DVD to see the movie in it's true, crisp, clear, dolby 5.1 original state. And I'm confident that I'll enjoy the movie because I've seen it's low quality sample for free first.
So I don't have to pay $6 at blockbuster to rip a dvd and give it back? Sweet!
.. is the game really that good? or is it just programmed that poorly?
This is the senerio we're going to be seeing all over with people who buy into $4.75 dial up:
"Oh boy it's time to talk to my cyber-girlfriend on AIM!"
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
SCREECH SCREECH SCREECH BONG BONG BONG SCREEEEEEEECH
Cybergeek: Hi sweety!
click!
Oh Crap! I lost my connection!
Beep Beep beep beep beep beep beep
SCREECH SCREECH SCREECH BONG BONG BONG SCREEEEEEEECH
Cybergeek: Sorry, Lost my connection
Cybergirl: That's ok, I thought you didn't like me anymore so I made another boyfriend, he lives in europe.
click!
Oh crap not now! Stupid internet
Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
screech screech screech bong bong bong screeeeeeeech
cybergeek: Sorry, lost my connection again.
cybergirl: That's ok, I'm just making wedding plans for me and my new european man!
cybergeek: NoooooO!
(pulls out a gun and puts to his head) BANG! PLOP!
The average AOL user finds the internet confusing. And most shiny objects.
Funny, but true, when the system goes down the line will stop because no one will really know what they're doing.
Where else can you get a PIII-733 with graphics and audio for $180?
Well I can build a 1.3 GHz Duron with graphics and audio for about $200-$300, does that count?
..to jam the satellite and broadcast to the world the signal coming from my NES as I play super mario brothers.
There was a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq. His name was Saddam Hussien. He's killed masses of people and would continue to do so if we hadn't taken him out. A weapon of mass destruction doesn't have to be an atomic missle. On 9/11/2001 a group of men used 3 normal air planes as weapons of mass destruction and thousands of people died. In the 1930's Hitler killed masses of Jews, but with weapons far inferior to today's convetional weapons. Then, Hitler himself was the weapon of mass distruction. My point? An evil mind, given the power to rule, or who has forcefully taken the power to rule, can be a far more dangerous weapon of mass distruction than any Atomic weapon. Our president realized that and acted.
There are more of us here than you think.
I'm not quite sure why you got modded funny for that comment. He was a darn good president.
The subspace field necessary to propel a starship across vast interstellar distances is created by a combination of the specific configuration of the starship hull and the warp field coils located in the two warp drive nacelles.
These coils generate an intense, multilayered field surrounding the ship, and it is the manipulation of this field that produces a propulsive effect.
Each nacelle contains a number of warp field coils; when energized, the coils cause an energy shift that actually changes the geometry of space around the starship.
When the coils are fired sequentially, they create warp field layers that press upon each other and cumulatively reduce the apparent mass of the vehicle, allowing the ship to move faster than the speed of light.
This is the second crippled Windows PC turned game console on the market. Why don't we, the geek community, develope a game machine that runs on Linux. And since Linux can be ported to anything, who's to say it has to be a crippled PC? Anything that will boot Linux will do. And here's the catch. The games.. are open source! We could call it the *nix-Box
... a hacker from writing software to download these games on a regular PC and save / play them? Once they're downloaded on a regular PC they can be distrubuted as easily as an mp3. Why buy the console when in a few months a genious hacker will make the games free to download?