Impromto Grammer? Wasn't that the agency Christan Bale's Grammaton Cleric character worked for in "Equilibrium"?
Yeah, grammer dont matter cause its the web is alright if know what I mean for it's its anyway! My point is, you dont loose the meaning alot when the words who cares anyway grammer nazi screw you think ur 1337 nookuler unpossible and nobody care you cant no way!!!!!!!!!
Analog IS faster. Reading digits requires cognitive decoding of symbols which, though subconscious, still takes a fraction of a second. With analog, you just need a glimpse of the hands to know, not the precise minute, but "am I late yet? Oh, good, I have a few minutes". On older industrial machinery and in modern racing cars, you'll see clusters of gauges arranged in such a way that, when all parameters are in their normal ranges, all the indicator needles on all the gauges are vertical. The moment something starts to get out of shape, the off-center needle stands out among all the others. Try that with a bank of a hundred digital readouts.
Did this remind anyone else of the last episode of "Seinfeld", what with a trial and a the contrived parade of characters from past episodes? Giddyup! But this wasn't supposed to be funny. I think.
What about books that are Out Of Print? Regardless of how badly I want a new copy, the publisher won't provide one.
Is it ok to sell THOSE books used, or should we not be allowed to have that title until the publisher decides there's enough market demand to make another printing profitable?
Face it, dudes. You can't rule by controlling the physical distribution of junky paper anymore. Publishers should improve the quality of their paper, ink, and binding. Perhaps in-retail-store custom printing/binding on demand. With digital copying and distribution costs heading toward zero, a book's material/build quality will soon be the only way to justify buying retail books.
The profoundly disappinting thing about almost all big Hollywood movies these days is their utter lack of imagination. The marketing department says: slap together a cardboard hero, a good-hearted but basically stupid multiethnic girl for him to save, some flashing lights and explosions, woodenly-animated or rubber-masked mindless (therefore safely killable) monsters that jump out of the screen roaring, and an icky, icky bad guy who doesn't live by the right rules (ours) and so should be killed. Check! Plug them into a two-digit-IQ story devoid of anything remotely insightful or controversial. After all, why risk Johnny waddling home and saying "Hey mommy, I saw a naked butt!" or "Mommy, why do we have to have a war?" It might somehow decrease profits. Check!
It's disturbing and sad that the totality of our mass media is so dumb and getting dumber. The purveyors of this swill say they're only responding to the market and, given low expectations the scarcity of anything better, some people pay. But can this really be what we want to see?
I don't know where you are, geographically speaking, but I ran across a guy at the 23 Feb TRW Ham Radio swap meet in Los Angeles who refurbishes and sells old laptops.
He had five or six different kinds of Toshibas and IBMs at his booth. I didn't try any out functionally, but they all looked near-new cosmetically. We're talking something like 10" diagonal screen, 166MHz, 32M of RAM, etc. for $200 to $300.
I haven't actually dealt with him so I have no idea about his reputability, but he seemed like a nice enough middle-aged guy, possibly a retired engineer or something from the aerospace industry.
All I know is:
His name is Walt.
His phone number is (310)375-3498
Good luck!
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Impromto Grammer? Wasn't that the agency Christan Bale's Grammaton Cleric character worked for in "Equilibrium"?
Yeah, grammer dont matter cause its the web is alright if know what I mean for it's its anyway! My point is, you dont loose the meaning alot when the words who cares anyway grammer nazi screw you think ur 1337 nookuler unpossible and nobody care you cant no way!!!!!!!!!
Analog IS faster. Reading digits requires cognitive decoding of symbols which, though subconscious, still takes a fraction of a second. With analog, you just need a glimpse of the hands to know, not the precise minute, but "am I late yet? Oh, good, I have a few minutes". On older industrial machinery and in modern racing cars, you'll see clusters of gauges arranged in such a way that, when all parameters are in their normal ranges, all the indicator needles on all the gauges are vertical. The moment something starts to get out of shape, the off-center needle stands out among all the others. Try that with a bank of a hundred digital readouts.
Did this remind anyone else of the last episode of "Seinfeld", what with a trial and a the contrived parade of characters from past episodes? Giddyup! But this wasn't supposed to be funny. I think.
What about books that are Out Of Print? Regardless of how badly I want a new copy, the publisher won't provide one.
Is it ok to sell THOSE books used, or should we not be allowed to have that title until the publisher decides there's enough market demand to make another printing profitable?
Face it, dudes. You can't rule by controlling the physical distribution of junky paper anymore. Publishers should improve the quality of their paper, ink, and binding. Perhaps in-retail-store custom printing/binding on demand. With digital copying and distribution costs heading toward zero, a book's material/build quality will soon be the only way to justify buying retail books.
The profoundly disappinting thing about almost all big Hollywood movies these days is their utter lack of imagination. The marketing department says: slap together a cardboard hero, a good-hearted but basically stupid multiethnic girl for him to save, some flashing lights and explosions, woodenly-animated or rubber-masked mindless (therefore safely killable) monsters that jump out of the screen roaring, and an icky, icky bad guy who doesn't live by the right rules (ours) and so should be killed. Check! Plug them into a two-digit-IQ story devoid of anything remotely insightful or controversial. After all, why risk Johnny waddling home and saying "Hey mommy, I saw a naked butt!" or "Mommy, why do we have to have a war?" It might somehow decrease profits. Check! It's disturbing and sad that the totality of our mass media is so dumb and getting dumber. The purveyors of this swill say they're only responding to the market and, given low expectations the scarcity of anything better, some people pay. But can this really be what we want to see?
I don't know where you are, geographically speaking, but I ran across a guy at the 23 Feb TRW Ham Radio swap meet in Los Angeles who refurbishes and sells old laptops. He had five or six different kinds of Toshibas and IBMs at his booth. I didn't try any out functionally, but they all looked near-new cosmetically. We're talking something like 10" diagonal screen, 166MHz, 32M of RAM, etc. for $200 to $300. I haven't actually dealt with him so I have no idea about his reputability, but he seemed like a nice enough middle-aged guy, possibly a retired engineer or something from the aerospace industry. All I know is: His name is Walt. His phone number is (310)375-3498 Good luck!