Its a little time consuming, but i put all my discs (CDs and DVDs) into my Amazon DB. You log into your account, surf to the item, then click a checkbox "I Own This" then it gives you an option to rate it. I havn't bothered to rate anything, but the "Your Recomendations" page is really usefull now. It'll recomend movies that are already on my list to buy, it'll let me know about new releases from artists i have, and if it reccomends something to me i've never heard of i'll download a few songs or listen to the samples on amazon and a lot of times buy the album. Its really kinda freaky how well it knows my tastes. And a lot of the recomendations are cds and movies that my sister has already that i borrow a lot. Its a little time consuming, but inputing everything to amazon is definitly worth it.
Yeah, my driving instructor always said if theyre not in the crosswalk, theyre fair game. And if you do hit them, as long as you stop, theyll usually let you go without so much as a ticket.
Heh, please try to explain how sneaking in your own food/drink to a movie theatre is morally wrong? If i go see a movie at the mall, they have 12oz (or whatever the small size is) sodas for $2, or, right around the corner, is Sam Goody, that has 20oz bottles of soda for $1 (thats the only think i ever buy there). Also the good movie theatre here, with the Ultrascreen, is a parking lot away from a Target, and the Target has half an aisle of "Movie Theatre Candy" (wink/nudge), for about half what you'd pay at the cinema. I wouldn't mind paying a little more at the concession stand for the convinience and a product of comparable quality. But i'm not paying $10 for a large stale popcorn and a soda thats mixed wrong.
The downside of these interfaces is the ridiculously high processor and memory requirements. All that extra graphic manipulation comes at a price, and I for one don't see any reason to waste processor cycles.
Nope, a 3d GUI would shift the power behind it from the general CPU to the dedicated GPU optimized for that type of work. High end graphics cards, not just for gaming anymore. I bet longhorn will have graphics requirements of at least 128mb along with the gig or ram and 3Ghz cpu reqs...
There's also a second part to it, another round after school at the Brown Deer High (where my mom used to work, dead alewives are local for me) D&D club, one of them brings his girlfriend, hilarity ensues. Its probably avalable on p2p, thats where i got it, the DAs advocated getting their stuff there on their site since most of their cds are out of print.
I've thought about doing a battle room map for UT, but given the game physics it would be hard to do, make it act like water, you cant push off things, but if you do it with.01 gravity or watever, theres still an up/down etc etc... Anyone know of anyone whos gotten this to work somehow?
Why a screen, how about a direct link to our brains! Or something like in the later Ender books, Jane was pretty close to google, an ear-jewel with subvocal input...
Some of these things would be good...
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Google IM, with alerts from Gmail would be great, they could possibly build on the jabber protocol, a big player behind standardization is always good. This might be going a little far, but online currency would also be good, but maybe not for google... We need something to replace paypal, something that could actually be regulated. One of the problems with paypal is that they're not accountable for their actions, because they're not a bank. I dont if google would want to enter this, or if they should, but somebody needs to replace paypal...
One of my favorite books Generation X, by Douglas Coupland, also wrote Microserfs.
"I've also devised a way to get rid of all the world's plutonium - safely and forever. I've been just so clever while everyone was away."... "You take all of the plutonium that's lying around, you know, the big chunks that they use as doorstops at power plants. You take these big doorstop chunks and coat them in steel, just like M&M candies, and then you put them in a rocked and fire them out over land. That way, if the rocket crashes, you just go and pick up the M&M'm and try again. But the rockets won't crash, and the plutonium gets fired right into the sun."
We did something similar in a class. We had to build something to protect an egg from a bowling ball rolling at it with nothing but newspaper and masking tape. We simply made a wedge and deflected the bowling ball. I think its still in a closet somewhere, looks kinda like a star destroyer...
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Its a little time consuming, but i put all my discs (CDs and DVDs) into my Amazon DB. You log into your account, surf to the item, then click a checkbox "I Own This" then it gives you an option to rate it. I havn't bothered to rate anything, but the "Your Recomendations" page is really usefull now. It'll recomend movies that are already on my list to buy, it'll let me know about new releases from artists i have, and if it reccomends something to me i've never heard of i'll download a few songs or listen to the samples on amazon and a lot of times buy the album. Its really kinda freaky how well it knows my tastes. And a lot of the recomendations are cds and movies that my sister has already that i borrow a lot. Its a little time consuming, but inputing everything to amazon is definitly worth it.
I wanna corndog!!!
Yeah, they're so cute.
Hey, I think I hear a dingo eating your baby.
Yeah, my driving instructor always said if theyre not in the crosswalk, theyre fair game. And if you do hit them, as long as you stop, theyll usually let you go without so much as a ticket.
you forgot the cheese and onions...
Yes, and the opposite of PROgress is... ?
Heh, please try to explain how sneaking in your own food/drink to a movie theatre is morally wrong? If i go see a movie at the mall, they have 12oz (or whatever the small size is) sodas for $2, or, right around the corner, is Sam Goody, that has 20oz bottles of soda for $1 (thats the only think i ever buy there). Also the good movie theatre here, with the Ultrascreen, is a parking lot away from a Target, and the Target has half an aisle of "Movie Theatre Candy" (wink/nudge), for about half what you'd pay at the cinema. I wouldn't mind paying a little more at the concession stand for the convinience and a product of comparable quality. But i'm not paying $10 for a large stale popcorn and a soda thats mixed wrong.
I've seen mini vans around with spoilers and air dams. Just as bad if not worse IMO.
Yeah, because that matters to peoples FWD '94 civics...
Reminds me of this.
Amazon sells books now?
There's also a second part to it, another round after school at the Brown Deer High (where my mom used to work, dead alewives are local for me) D&D club, one of them brings his girlfriend, hilarity ensues. Its probably avalable on p2p, thats where i got it, the DAs advocated getting their stuff there on their site since most of their cds are out of print.
Where are the cheetos?
Its easy enough to change a few values in some of AIMs files to strip out the adds.
I've thought about doing a battle room map for UT, but given the game physics it would be hard to do, make it act like water, you cant push off things, but if you do it with .01 gravity or watever, theres still an up/down etc etc... Anyone know of anyone whos gotten this to work somehow?
Why a screen, how about a direct link to our brains! Or something like in the later Ender books, Jane was pretty close to google, an ear-jewel with subvocal input...
Its doable, just might not play games anymore. Fine if your using it as a $150 linux box tho.
Add a google icon.
Google IM, with alerts from Gmail would be great, they could possibly build on the jabber protocol, a big player behind standardization is always good. This might be going a little far, but online currency would also be good, but maybe not for google... We need something to replace paypal, something that could actually be regulated. One of the problems with paypal is that they're not accountable for their actions, because they're not a bank. I dont if google would want to enter this, or if they should, but somebody needs to replace paypal...
Could just be dirty. Try cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol or deoxit. This solves most crackly headphone jack issues.
We did something similar in a class. We had to build something to protect an egg from a bowling ball rolling at it with nothing but newspaper and masking tape. We simply made a wedge and deflected the bowling ball. I think its still in a closet somewhere, looks kinda like a star destroyer...
Hey, you got H2CO3 in my peanut butter!