It's too many words to fit on a Marquee, and takes too long to say to the ticket vendor. By the time you say "One for The Man who went up a hill and came down a Mountain", the ticket agent has already given you your ticket, change, and is halfway through serving the next person in line.
But that's just where the usefulness ends. Sure, you now appreciate rock music, but can you play it in real life on real instruments? Millions of kids bought Guitar Hero and Rock Band to realize their dreams of actually becoming ROCK MUSICIANS. Sadly, all the games do is to train you to press colored buttons in sequence with colored lights. Those skills are not transferable to real instruments, and in fact, won't even get you an audition.
The games would have been more useful if they were burger flipper simulators.
MS-DOS 6.0 and up have a built-in laplink program called INTERLINK (INTERLNK.EXE). This will require a parallel port on the destination computer.
You can look for some PCMCIA cards that might help. I have seen a PCMCIA SCSI card that could be connected to a JAZ drive (1GB ZIP DISK), but finding that hardware could be difficult.
Does your old laptop have an IRDA port? Almost nobody uses those anymore, but it might still be there....
We're not our worst enemy. We are how we are and it's impossible to change it. Try explaining your mom that she needs to enter an overly complicated password and then receive a code through SMS and then type that code manually in a little text box every time she wants to look at each of her granskid's pictures. Won't work. And it's not because your mom is lazy, but because the perceived need for security for such data is very low.
I don't agree with this. it *IS* possible to change. The internet userbase has already done it!
In the early days of computers, they were difficult to use. They used cryptic commands, offered no gui, and had limited help. But we used them. We made them do amazing things. Then as computers became more powerful, and cheaper, they also came with GUIs and help, making them easier to use.
They didn't have to!
We had already learned how to use the complex computers, so we don't NEED the GUIs.
The same is true for file servers. Up until the mid 2000's, every company that wanted a website had their own web server. Many had internal file servers. They were secure, and they were only accessible by the people who needed to access them. Then, when "the cloud" became a popular buzzword, the companies started relinquishing control of the servers to third parties. THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO! If you want security, keep your servers to yourself!
If ISIS really planned to attack the MOA, why would they give the authorities advance notice? Their primary weapon is FEAR, and they want to use FEAR to prevent people going to the MALL to spend money, thus affecting commerce and the economy. Their rallying cry is "death to America". You don't accomplish that by blowing up America one mall at a time. That would never be effective.
The 9-11 attack was not on a tourist location. it was on the WTC, which is a center of commerce. They don't need to blow up the malls, just threaten to and the shoppers will stop coming.
I would call their bluff, and go shopping anyway. Besides, the Mall of America has an amusement park in it.
Err... Their reputation wasn't based off of THEIR products.... It was based off of the Thinkpad line that IBM sold them several years ago. People trusted the IBM Thinkpads, and Lenovo acquired that trust when they bought the Thinkpads. It was just a matter of time until they ruined the Thinkpad reputation.
In the TOS episode "'The changeling", we follow behind Nomad as it moves down the corridor. You can clearly see that the camera is tilted a little bit, as the camera mount doesn't seem to be able to handle all the weight. At the time, you might have just dismissed it as the crazy 60's camera angle photography that you often see in the old batman shows, but Star Trek never really did that, so it's really out of character. The episode is still one of the best anyway....
Even if voice recognition reaches the quality of Star Trek, we still don't have the AI quality to back it up. Sure your PC can turn your speech to text just as well as the Enterprise computer can, but as we have seen with Cleverbot and the likes, it's still just conversationally a complete idiot!
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OK, that makes sense now. I was wondering who "Quebecker" was. I thought it might have been the name of a famous person.
It's too many words to fit on a Marquee, and takes too long to say to the ticket vendor. By the time you say "One for The Man who went up a hill and came down a Mountain", the ticket agent has already given you your ticket, change, and is halfway through serving the next person in line.
Goodlatte (Starbucks, Washington)
Seriously, is that the guy's REAL name?
GIT=GIT+GIT
One word: Spheres!
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
...and what the hell is a "color scientist"? Is there really a need for them in our society? Do they do anything besides comment on trending photos?
But that's just where the usefulness ends. Sure, you now appreciate rock music, but can you play it in real life on real instruments? Millions of kids bought Guitar Hero and Rock Band to realize their dreams of actually becoming ROCK MUSICIANS. Sadly, all the games do is to train you to press colored buttons in sequence with colored lights. Those skills are not transferable to real instruments, and in fact, won't even get you an audition.
The games would have been more useful if they were burger flipper simulators.
Spock: "I've been dead before."
Instead of taking an entire bottle of sleeping pills, imagine the outcome when they find out it's cialis....
MS-DOS 6.0 and up have a built-in laplink program called INTERLINK (INTERLNK.EXE). This will require a parallel port on the destination computer.
You can look for some PCMCIA cards that might help. I have seen a PCMCIA SCSI card that could be connected to a JAZ drive (1GB ZIP DISK), but finding that hardware could be difficult.
Does your old laptop have an IRDA port? Almost nobody uses those anymore, but it might still be there....
I don't agree with this. it *IS* possible to change. The internet userbase has already done it!
In the early days of computers, they were difficult to use. They used cryptic commands, offered no gui, and had limited help. But we used them. We made them do amazing things. Then as computers became more powerful, and cheaper, they also came with GUIs and help, making them easier to use.
They didn't have to!
We had already learned how to use the complex computers, so we don't NEED the GUIs.
The same is true for file servers. Up until the mid 2000's, every company that wanted a website had their own web server. Many had internal file servers. They were secure, and they were only accessible by the people who needed to access them. Then, when "the cloud" became a popular buzzword, the companies started relinquishing control of the servers to third parties. THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO! If you want security, keep your servers to yourself!
Also, the frequency used in the experiment turns small animals inside-out.
We're waiting for you Valve.... in the test chamberrrr.
Mark it with what?
It's a ruse.
If ISIS really planned to attack the MOA, why would they give the authorities advance notice? Their primary weapon is FEAR, and they want to use FEAR to prevent people going to the MALL to spend money, thus affecting commerce and the economy. Their rallying cry is "death to America". You don't accomplish that by blowing up America one mall at a time. That would never be effective.
The 9-11 attack was not on a tourist location. it was on the WTC, which is a center of commerce. They don't need to blow up the malls, just threaten to and the shoppers will stop coming.
I would call their bluff, and go shopping anyway. Besides, the Mall of America has an amusement park in it.
Err... Their reputation wasn't based off of THEIR products.... It was based off of the Thinkpad line that IBM sold them several years ago. People trusted the IBM Thinkpads, and Lenovo acquired that trust when they bought the Thinkpads. It was just a matter of time until they ruined the Thinkpad reputation.
That's not practical in the age of global commerce.
But they only killed STUPID people. The Gilbert kit could be dangerous to kids interested in science!
In the TOS episode "'The changeling", we follow behind Nomad as it moves down the corridor. You can clearly see that the camera is tilted a little bit, as the camera mount doesn't seem to be able to handle all the weight. At the time, you might have just dismissed it as the crazy 60's camera angle photography that you often see in the old batman shows, but Star Trek never really did that, so it's really out of character. The episode is still one of the best anyway....
Maybe they should have called the patch "ICANN FIXIT".
I heard that he met an alien who gave him some sort of ring, and that he is going to be working with the Justice League....
Even if voice recognition reaches the quality of Star Trek, we still don't have the AI quality to back it up. Sure your PC can turn your speech to text just as well as the Enterprise computer can, but as we have seen with Cleverbot and the likes, it's still just conversationally a complete idiot!
You still need to PAY her!
computer voice recognition just isn't good enough.