Not a whole lot of modern phone-phones work as MP3 players. Almost all modern PDA-phones work as MP3 players, however. But then you've got the problem that almost all modern PDA-phones are crap.
If this were an isolated incident, then I would absolutely agree with you. This, however, comes on the heels of many, many other incidents in which PayPal halts accounts on fiat and confiscates the funds. So I think your apology for them in this case is a little off.
I had a geology class in college where we went on a field trip. The instructor kept pointing out benchmarks and commenting about how surveyors would wander around, dropping BMs.
Sure you do. You do it to follow the crowd that appreciates that sort of art. I'm not saying tattoos are bad, I'm just saying that you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking that you're doing something new or venturing into some sort of uncovered territory. And let's not fool ourselves. The majority of people with tattoos now are people that are following a trend. Any girl with a butterfly on her lower back, or anybody with the Chinese character for "strength" is following a trend, plain and simple.
Ummm... out of the box thinking? Tattoos and piercings are considered trendy now. Is Lindsey Lohan "out of the box" for having "la Bella Vita" tattood on her back? Or is she just another girl that's following a trend? I'd hazard a guess and say that the vast majority of those that have tattoos now are just following one trend or another. And following trends is most definitely not out of the box.
That's all well and good, and I like second-run houses too. But completely irrelevant to Star Wars. If you want to see Star Wars in the theater without having to wait four months (which is probably how long this will last in first run), you're going to pay $10 (or, in Seattle, $10.50).
Uhh... the vast--vast--majority of phones on the market are not smartphones. The majority of smartphones sold are not MS-powered. MS actually have a fairly small segment of the cell phone market. Most people use Palm or RIM devices. So you can chill out, dude. It's all okay.
I don't know if I'm alone it this, but I don't find Slashdot useful in the least. I mean, this isn't flamebait, but that's probably what it's going to be seen as. Slashdot is fun, but I mean, really. The news that's posted here is inherently culled from other sites. Maybe it takes a little longer for me to find the tech news I need, but the day Slashdot starts charging me to read/post is the day I stop reading/posting. The fact is that most things that start off free are free for a reason: nobody wants to pay for them. Looking at ads is one thing. Shelling $20 a month is another. Like I said, not flamebait. But go ahead and mod me down if you want.
Having just started seeing a girl who has the Comcast DVR, I can tell you that program quality is just fine and the interface is about as simple as one can wish for. Also, the box itself is fairly attractive.
And yes, I did kind of post this just to be able to say on Slashdot that I've been seeing a girl.
It's endemic to the sci-fi genre, but it's a problem with every genre. When you've got a book with say, a dozen hours of material and you compress it down to two hours, you have to make cuts (ten hours of them in my example). It's just the way it goes. Sometimes you get a great movie like The Andromeda Strain, and sometimes you get Sphere. (Of course, a lot of it comes down to taste. I'm positive that there are those of you out there that Sphere rocked and Strain was crap. That's what makes life fun, right?)
I'm not sure if you're veing serious or not. But I disagree with this on many levels. Offending isn't the role of a curator, I'll grant you that. But ignoring what our science today tells us is likely to be the truth because a minority (a very small minority, despite what they would have you believe) of the populace doesn't want it to be true is ridiculous. Some of those same people don't want to believe in dinosaurs, or the evolution of man. Should a natural history museum get rid of those exhibets? Of course not. The films shouldn't be shown for their controversy value (of which they truly have none, the controversy value is applied by that minority that has nothing better to do than tell us what we ought to do/see/think/believe), they should be shown because they are documentary in nature, and thus well within the scope of a museum.
Actually, it's not the FCC's job either. The FCC's mandate only allows them to issue guidelines (read: censor) on broadcast content (terrestrial broadcast radio and television, CBs, HAM, etc.). Of course, they don't actually issue guidelines. There are many media personalities (see especially Howard Stern) that have complained many times about not being able to get a list of guidelines. Essentially the FCC tells them, "We don't do that. We just wait for someone to complain and then decide if the broadcast was indecent." So, yeah. FCC rant ends.
The Roads Must Roll is a good story. You should also check out the "Dimension X" radio drama adaptation (originally broadcast Sept. 9, 1950). Try searching your favorite filesharing system, especially Gnutella. It's a popular one.
For those of us lucky enough to have Comcast digital cable, the trailer went up on On Demand friday night as well. So there you go. Avoid the download lines.
That's great and all, but what about when you need to change the image? He's asking for a solution that will let him push a new image out to the network, using muliticast. This solution is less-than helpful, to say the least.
Of course I realize that military spending os going to happen. I simply believe that there are other needs, arguably more important. The fact is that the US spends $34 billion a year on K-12 education, $41 billion on childrens' health, and $399 billion on defense. I have to believe that some of that money could be used for better purposes than coming up with better and more efficient ways to kill other people. (I realize that not all defense spending is on ways to kill people. I'm being overly dramatic. But I don't like the whole war for no reason thing. So there.)
I did RTFA. And I don't care what the fuck the military is spending money on, that money could be better spent on education, healthcare, housing, so forth. My point--and his, I suspect--was simply that.
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Not to get pedantic, but that's exactly what I'm going to get. Stereo means multichannel, not just 2.
Not a whole lot of modern phone-phones work as MP3 players. Almost all modern PDA-phones work as MP3 players, however. But then you've got the problem that almost all modern PDA-phones are crap.
If this were an isolated incident, then I would absolutely agree with you. This, however, comes on the heels of many, many other incidents in which PayPal halts accounts on fiat and confiscates the funds. So I think your apology for them in this case is a little off.
I had a geology class in college where we went on a field trip. The instructor kept pointing out benchmarks and commenting about how surveyors would wander around, dropping BMs.
I see a really good reason not to use it: It's overly complicated and incredibly bloated.
Sure you do. You do it to follow the crowd that appreciates that sort of art. I'm not saying tattoos are bad, I'm just saying that you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking that you're doing something new or venturing into some sort of uncovered territory. And let's not fool ourselves. The majority of people with tattoos now are people that are following a trend. Any girl with a butterfly on her lower back, or anybody with the Chinese character for "strength" is following a trend, plain and simple.
Ummm... out of the box thinking? Tattoos and piercings are considered trendy now. Is Lindsey Lohan "out of the box" for having "la Bella Vita" tattood on her back? Or is she just another girl that's following a trend? I'd hazard a guess and say that the vast majority of those that have tattoos now are just following one trend or another. And following trends is most definitely not out of the box.
All right, that was funny. But way too easy. On this world, Bond came before Star Wars. If I'm remembering the order of the films correctly.
Actually it was in Bond before it was in Star Wars.
That's all well and good, and I like second-run houses too. But completely irrelevant to Star Wars. If you want to see Star Wars in the theater without having to wait four months (which is probably how long this will last in first run), you're going to pay $10 (or, in Seattle, $10.50).
If this was sarcasm, please disregard. But they meant smartphone users, not smart users of phones.
Uhh... the vast--vast--majority of phones on the market are not smartphones. The majority of smartphones sold are not MS-powered. MS actually have a fairly small segment of the cell phone market. Most people use Palm or RIM devices. So you can chill out, dude. It's all okay.
I don't know if I'm alone it this, but I don't find Slashdot useful in the least. I mean, this isn't flamebait, but that's probably what it's going to be seen as. Slashdot is fun, but I mean, really. The news that's posted here is inherently culled from other sites. Maybe it takes a little longer for me to find the tech news I need, but the day Slashdot starts charging me to read/post is the day I stop reading/posting. The fact is that most things that start off free are free for a reason: nobody wants to pay for them. Looking at ads is one thing. Shelling $20 a month is another. Like I said, not flamebait. But go ahead and mod me down if you want.
Shows what you know. She lives 40 miles away. I have to drive to her house to peek through the blinds.
Having just started seeing a girl who has the Comcast DVR, I can tell you that program quality is just fine and the interface is about as simple as one can wish for. Also, the box itself is fairly attractive.
And yes, I did kind of post this just to be able to say on Slashdot that I've been seeing a girl.
It's endemic to the sci-fi genre, but it's a problem with every genre. When you've got a book with say, a dozen hours of material and you compress it down to two hours, you have to make cuts (ten hours of them in my example). It's just the way it goes. Sometimes you get a great movie like The Andromeda Strain, and sometimes you get Sphere. (Of course, a lot of it comes down to taste. I'm positive that there are those of you out there that Sphere rocked and Strain was crap. That's what makes life fun, right?)
I'm not sure if you're veing serious or not. But I disagree with this on many levels. Offending isn't the role of a curator, I'll grant you that. But ignoring what our science today tells us is likely to be the truth because a minority (a very small minority, despite what they would have you believe) of the populace doesn't want it to be true is ridiculous. Some of those same people don't want to believe in dinosaurs, or the evolution of man. Should a natural history museum get rid of those exhibets? Of course not. The films shouldn't be shown for their controversy value (of which they truly have none, the controversy value is applied by that minority that has nothing better to do than tell us what we ought to do/see/think/believe), they should be shown because they are documentary in nature, and thus well within the scope of a museum.
Actually, it's not the FCC's job either. The FCC's mandate only allows them to issue guidelines (read: censor) on broadcast content (terrestrial broadcast radio and television, CBs, HAM, etc.). Of course, they don't actually issue guidelines. There are many media personalities (see especially Howard Stern) that have complained many times about not being able to get a list of guidelines. Essentially the FCC tells them, "We don't do that. We just wait for someone to complain and then decide if the broadcast was indecent." So, yeah. FCC rant ends.
The Roads Must Roll is a good story. You should also check out the "Dimension X" radio drama adaptation (originally broadcast Sept. 9, 1950). Try searching your favorite filesharing system, especially Gnutella. It's a popular one.
For those of us lucky enough to have Comcast digital cable, the trailer went up on On Demand friday night as well. So there you go. Avoid the download lines.
That's great and all, but what about when you need to change the image? He's asking for a solution that will let him push a new image out to the network, using muliticast. This solution is less-than helpful, to say the least.
Hands down, the best one i have is "danny gets his enema today kids" although "`powered by gallery` nekkid 2004" is pretty funny, too.
Of course I realize that military spending os going to happen. I simply believe that there are other needs, arguably more important. The fact is that the US spends $34 billion a year on K-12 education, $41 billion on childrens' health, and $399 billion on defense. I have to believe that some of that money could be used for better purposes than coming up with better and more efficient ways to kill other people. (I realize that not all defense spending is on ways to kill people. I'm being overly dramatic. But I don't like the whole war for no reason thing. So there.)
I did RTFA. And I don't care what the fuck the military is spending money on, that money could be better spent on education, healthcare, housing, so forth. My point--and his, I suspect--was simply that.
Flamebait my ass. I'm an American citizen--Washington state, born and raised--and the only reason he got modded flaimbait is that... he's right.