Theaters have their place for movies with large images like LOTR and Star Wars. These are the only movies I will go to the theater for, and I do so with great trepidation that some lackwit will ruin the experience by being loud and rude. I actually will take off work during the week a few weeks after release for the chance at an empty theater during a matinee. If a bunch of lackwits show up, I leave and try again the next show. I value the immersion that much.
The cost doesnt keep me away...there are plenty of movies I'd like to see, and do, at home...its the rude people that keep me away.
...for different applications, but after this, I'm dropping DirectX, and I will not be deploying Vista ANYWHERE. Fuck MS. Business reality and market share be damned, I will no longer be a participant in the quiet strangulation of any software that isn't Microsoft.
Sooner or later they will have killed off the medium guys and come for us little guys. I won't give them the rope to hang me with. I'd rather go broke now than get fucked over later with the lube I provided.
Until this, I was fairly platform agnostic, and I will remain so, with the exception that MS Software is NEVER an option.
An rf tag doesnt hold records...it just holds a uniquely identifiable number that is used to look up electronic records stored someplace else...just like an SSN. A medalert bracelet could server the purpose as well. Those of us that don't have medical allergies dont need either.
I really don't see how rf tags in humans are all that usefull for anything. The tags can be fairly easily removed or inserted, which means they don't really serve as unimpeachable identification. All they could do is save you whipping out your ID or saying your social security number.
...maybe it's time to put NASA down. The old dog just can't hunt no more.
I still believe that space exploration should be the number one priority of the human race, but it's starting to look like NASA may be hindering that more than helping. The money would probably be better spent sponsoring things like the X-Prize.
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It takes about 30 seconds to load on my 3gz pentium...but that just annoys the heck out of me. Office apps (with the preloader disabled) take about 5 seconds. In the grand scheme, 25 seconds isn't a big deal, but it is a major annoyance to most folks. Users are SUCH a pain in the ass.
As for the $130 price, thats about what it costs to have office standard pre-installed on a new computer.
...as I came to realize at about age 14, but I love it anyway (the original, the movies, and TNG, anyhow). Must be due to some kind of early conditioning, or something, but I will ALWAYS watch it if its available.
One thing Mr. Card fails to note when he puts Harlan Ellison (rightfully, imho) at the top of his list of kickass writers of the 60's, is that Mr. Ellison actually wrote the teleplay for 'The City at the Edge of Forever' episode....one of the few that didn't have a COMPLETELY moronic plot.
I think it's a great loss that the people producing television at that time were too feeble to do justice to any of the great stuff that was being written back then. Then again, maybe they weren't moronic...maybe they just knew their audience.
...with 150lbs of subwoofers, NOS, lowering, and hair dryers forcing air into the intake.
However, the hardware installation on a car is fixed (within paramters) whereas today's general purpose PCs are not.
Aids patients? If they're running around having unprotected sex, yes.
Alcoholics? If they're getting hammered and driving around, yes.
The elderly? WTF are you TALKING about?
I think the correct solution is to keep Anonymous Cowards locked up, or painlessly execute them. They're sick, the sickness makes them dangerous, and we don't know how to cure them. Until we can cure them, we can't have them running loose. It's harsh, but I think doing that would free up resources we could devote to figuring out how to identify and cure these people.
...but I worry that it would be the thin edge of the wedge. I'm sure there are many in law enforcement that salivate at the idea of every traffic offender waddling around with a GPS clenched in his buttocks.
I think the correct solution is to keep molesters locked up, or painlessly execute them. They're sick, the sickness makes them dangerous, and we don't know how to cure them. Until we can cure them, we can't have them running loose. It's harsh, but I think doing that would free up resources we could devote to figuring out how to identify and cure these people.
...over here that keep everything legal for MS. Funny how their problems went away after they started donating to political campaigns.
We are truly an Ownership Democracy.
I don't have or want kids, but I know lots of people that have 'em and really don't want 'em. They got through the legal period for putting them up for adoption becase they were whacked on post-natal hormones, and now they're stuck.
These parents are doing their best, given the situation, but I could see as how having a creepy robot bear for the little monsters to dribble on would be helpful to parent's sanity...and maybe spare the kid some parental freak outs. Interacting through a bear would insulate the kid from the "I really want to throw you off a bridge, but I'm doing the best I can not to, because none of this is your fault" vibe.
It's no worse than putting the kid in the wind up swing in front of the tv. Maybe even better. I hear those girls-gone-wild ads cause overating in nursing children.
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...our new gorgonzola overlords!
I suspect I'm not alone in making the decision that I will never give another dime to the recording industry.
Way to increase revenue....
Spy Hunter 1 and 2 on xbox are pretty damn good. They hosed the control scheme, but it has all the things you require.
Hang on to your face, eh?
Theaters have their place for movies with large images like LOTR and Star Wars. These are the only movies I will go to the theater for, and I do so with great trepidation that some lackwit will ruin the experience by being loud and rude. I actually will take off work during the week a few weeks after release for the chance at an empty theater during a matinee. If a bunch of lackwits show up, I leave and try again the next show. I value the immersion that much.
The cost doesnt keep me away...there are plenty of movies I'd like to see, and do, at home...its the rude people that keep me away.
...the Eludium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator!
And the secret location of your hidden lair?
...for different applications, but after this, I'm dropping DirectX, and I will not be deploying Vista ANYWHERE. Fuck MS. Business reality and market share be damned, I will no longer be a participant in the quiet strangulation of any software that isn't Microsoft.
Sooner or later they will have killed off the medium guys and come for us little guys. I won't give them the rope to hang me with. I'd rather go broke now than get fucked over later with the lube I provided.
Until this, I was fairly platform agnostic, and I will remain so, with the exception that MS Software is NEVER an option.
Meet a newly-minted anti-MS zealot.
An rf tag doesnt hold records...it just holds a uniquely identifiable number that is used to look up electronic records stored someplace else...just like an SSN. A medalert bracelet could server the purpose as well. Those of us that don't have medical allergies dont need either.
I really don't see how rf tags in humans are all that usefull for anything. The tags can be fairly easily removed or inserted, which means they don't really serve as unimpeachable identification. All they could do is save you whipping out your ID or saying your social security number.
...after seeing Wierd Science. Strangely, I still have little interest in actual science.
(paraphrased from the Bob and Tom show)
...maybe it's time to put NASA down. The old dog just can't hunt no more. I still believe that space exploration should be the number one priority of the human race, but it's starting to look like NASA may be hindering that more than helping. The money would probably be better spent sponsoring things like the X-Prize.
Unfortunately, home tends to be in India.
It takes about 30 seconds to load on my 3gz pentium...but that just annoys the heck out of me. Office apps (with the preloader disabled) take about 5 seconds. In the grand scheme, 25 seconds isn't a big deal, but it is a major annoyance to most folks. Users are SUCH a pain in the ass. As for the $130 price, thats about what it costs to have office standard pre-installed on a new computer.
...but that abysmal load time makes me willing to pay $130 for MS office. OO loads up like...well...a big fat Java app.
...as I came to realize at about age 14, but I love it anyway (the original, the movies, and TNG, anyhow). Must be due to some kind of early conditioning, or something, but I will ALWAYS watch it if its available.
One thing Mr. Card fails to note when he puts Harlan Ellison (rightfully, imho) at the top of his list of kickass writers of the 60's, is that Mr. Ellison actually wrote the teleplay for 'The City at the Edge of Forever' episode....one of the few that didn't have a COMPLETELY moronic plot.
I think it's a great loss that the people producing television at that time were too feeble to do justice to any of the great stuff that was being written back then. Then again, maybe they weren't moronic...maybe they just knew their audience.
...with 150lbs of subwoofers, NOS, lowering, and hair dryers forcing air into the intake.
However, the hardware installation on a car is fixed (within paramters) whereas today's general purpose PCs are not.
Aids patients? If they're running around having unprotected sex, yes.
Alcoholics? If they're getting hammered and driving around, yes.
The elderly? WTF are you TALKING about?
I think the correct solution is to keep Anonymous Cowards locked up, or painlessly execute them. They're sick, the sickness makes them dangerous, and we don't know how to cure them. Until we can cure them, we can't have them running loose. It's harsh, but I think doing that would free up resources we could devote to figuring out how to identify and cure these people.
...but I worry that it would be the thin edge of the wedge. I'm sure there are many in law enforcement that salivate at the idea of every traffic offender waddling around with a GPS clenched in his buttocks.
I think the correct solution is to keep molesters locked up, or painlessly execute them. They're sick, the sickness makes them dangerous, and we don't know how to cure them. Until we can cure them, we can't have them running loose. It's harsh, but I think doing that would free up resources we could devote to figuring out how to identify and cure these people.
...over here that keep everything legal for MS. Funny how their problems went away after they started donating to political campaigns. We are truly an Ownership Democracy.
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I don't have or want kids, but I know lots of people that have 'em and really don't want 'em. They got through the legal period for putting them up for adoption becase they were whacked on post-natal hormones, and now they're stuck. These parents are doing their best, given the situation, but I could see as how having a creepy robot bear for the little monsters to dribble on would be helpful to parent's sanity...and maybe spare the kid some parental freak outs. Interacting through a bear would insulate the kid from the "I really want to throw you off a bridge, but I'm doing the best I can not to, because none of this is your fault" vibe. It's no worse than putting the kid in the wind up swing in front of the tv. Maybe even better. I hear those girls-gone-wild ads cause overating in nursing children.
...so Oregonians are transparent? I'm kind of pinkish myself.
Are brown, black, and yellow such horrible words?
I always knew in my heart that Lynx' inability to render tables was a mark of Satan. Someday I simply MUST put xwindows on this box...
...which is why I type any personal information in pig-latin, and I always wear a ski mask whenever I surf the internets.
...and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman KNOWS when he's lying to you.