In other words, you just don't like people.
I suggest a lock for your office door. That way neither the robots or the people will be able to bother you. If he's a grumpy old man, that might not be enough. Robots are everywhere- he needs to be prepared if the metal ones come after him.... and they will.
The problem with replacing it yourself is that you get to see the insides of your iPod - and realize that it's just like every other consumer electronic device. To be fair, expecting the iPod to have "inner beauty" is unreasonable; Angelina Jolie's insides probably aren't that attractive either.
You're so petty and vindictive that you need to manufacture an argument to denounce him. [..] Guess what band geek, no one gives a fuck about your opinion, and in this case you're wrong and you know it. Mmm... yeah, I like the way that you backed this up with a convincing and detailed rebuttal explaining just *why* he's wrong. Otherwise I'd suspect that you were trolling.
I know that not even the most sophisticated PC-based flight sims can compare to the real thing. Of course, but how does *this* flight simulator compare to the real thing?
How many AAA batteries would you have run through in the 300-400 charge cycles of the internal battery? 2 or 3 every 10 hours of playback? Do you have any idea how expensive disposable batteries are over time? Are you seriously implying that you've never heard of rechargable AAs and AAAs?
I'm quite happy to accept that there may be good reasons for Apple to go with a non-standard internal Lithium battery instead of an off-the-shelf format (for example, better performance, longer life, etc). But you intentionally made the specific point that using AAAs would force people to waste money on "expensive disposable batteries"- and that's transparently bullshit. Either you're ignorant of the current state of battery technology, or you were making an intentionally misleading (but incompetent) justification of Apple's position. I suspect the latter.
In other words for someone who accuses another of talking "old, clichéd, and well-documented bullshit", "trolling" and most significantly "FUD", you're sailing much closer to the wind yourself.
As long as Apple makes money on the phone (which seems likely), they come out ahead. People who don't want AT&T can now buy the phone. This is a big deal in Europe where AT&T has almost no market. You're assuming that the AT&T deal is worldwide, which isn't the case as far as I know. Last I heard, Apple were in negotiations with the major Euro telcos (Orange, T Mobile, etc).
That having been said, Apple would be better going with the proposed 3G version of the iPhone in Europe for reasons I cover in this comment. (Note that this was written before I was aware that Apple *did* intend launching a 3G version of the iPhone).
there isn't a decent margin selling hard copies of singles. How much are they charging nowadays? Circa 1995 or 1996, the regular price of a CD single in the UK was £4.(*)
In today's money that's over £5!!! (Or US $10 at the current conversion rate (**))
FIVE POUNDS for a single song bloated out with some B-sides or remixes that you probably didn't want. And all wrapped up in a generic, soulless slimline jewel case. Horribly overpriced rubbish, they must have been making *plenty* of money from them until Napster came along.
It's not even like CD singles were convenient, who the hell wants to carry around a separate CD for each song and change them every four minutes?! Glad they're dead.
(*) They'd often sell them for £2 or £2.50 the first week, but not always, and they always jacked up the price the next week once they'd charted.
(**) I'm not sure whether to adjust for UK inflation and then convert to dollars at 2006 rates, or convert to dollars at 1995 rates then adjust for US inflation. Still, the point is that they were damn expensive
Say, for example, a $15 CD gets about an hour's worth of music. Now say a $20 golden hit game gets 100 hours of playtime. Flawed argument- if it *is* a good album, you can (and will) listen to that "hour's worth of music" over and over again. If anything, what you said applies more closely to DVDs; unless it's a film they're *really* keen on, they're not going to want to watch it too frequently.
Probably more likely, but it'd still be an ACER Amiga, by definition. Well, legally that's correct; if Acer had the rights to the Amiga name (*), they could sell grade "B" turnips and other root vegetables as the "ACER Amiga".
After all, when Apple ditched classic MacOS and have gradually moved towards industry standard components, they still kept the "Mac" brand. They were still continuations of the Mac computer line at some level.
Indeed, I'd rather see a new Amiga that was a modern machine branded Amiga, than someone wheeling out a 15-year-old resurrected Amiga. Uh, you do realise that what I was talking about was some company looking to make a quick buck slapping the Amiga name on *any* old piece of hardware, from a generic Windows PC to a cheap USB pen drive. By definition, as you say, these would still be "Amigas" if Acer said they were. However, I don't think that this is what most Amiga fans would be after- and unlike the "new" Macintoshes, they'd be Amiga in name only.
Actually, come to think of it, I think they've already done this. I've asked at least twice, but I still don't know what Amiga Anywhere (some built-on-mobile-Java architecture thing) has to do with the original Amiga beyond the name.
Selective quoting for the lose. Not intentionally- I just wasn't paying enough attention and overlooked the qualifier. On reflection I don't know how though- it's right there in black and white and staring me in the face. My mistake either way, and sorry for picking you up on a mistake you didn't make:-(
Guys don't tend to do much with sexual game mods beyond "Surprise buttsecks!" and other such attempts to humiliate other guys Surprise buttsecks! For those of you who didn't find that funny, here's a picture of a cute cat instead!
But if Isaac Newton died without children (virgin or otherwise), then genetically, he failed. Typical shallow understanding of genetics. If Newton's success- or any of his actions- improved the survival and/or prospects of his close relatives (who obviously share a lot of his genes), then he hasn't "failed" genetically.
The TARDIS's outward appearance is not a payphone. It is, as the sign on it clearly states, a police call box. Ironically, police call boxes were already well on their way towards obsolescence by the time "Doctor Who" started in 1963. I've heard it suggested that this was an oversight on the part of Sydney Newman, who being Canadian was (supposedly) not aware of this when he chose an everyday British object. But that might be apocryphal bollocks; anyway, the first time we see the Tardis it's in a junk yard, so maybe they did know this. Or not, who knows...
One nice thing about 123 is that it's easy to dial using loop-disconnect. You can call it by tapping the receiver with this pattern:
tap, pause, tap-tap, pause, tap-tap-tap. Ah, apparently "loop disconnect" is pulse dialling, right? Does the loud noise get treated as a pulse like the ones generated by the dial?
Anyway, I suppose the equivalent trick with tone dialling would be for two people who have good pitch to dial by singing certain combinations of notes. At least that should work in *theory* (I haven't tried it) since each "tone" in tone dialling is made of two actual musical notes played at the same time. (IIRC, there's a two-dimensional 3x4 matrix that gives the combination of notes for each number/symbol).
My seven-year-old daughter had never heard it. I'm in my early thirties, and whilst I'd heard of the "speaking clock" (which is what we call the UK version), I'm not sure that I've *ever* called it before.
Anyway, I have now; I just called it to test something out.:-) I was slightly disappointed that the current speaking clock voice isn't as "cut glass" as the one at the end of Vangelis's "Pulstar" (recorded in the mid-1970s).
Dammit, I'm paying 30p, I want my "clipped voice" speaking clock!!!
"anxiously awaiting the arrival of its cousin: The Pay-Phone." That's gonna make escaping Agent Smith just THAT much harder. Oh my God... you just put your finger on one of the things that's *really* going to date The Matrix in a few years time.
It's a real shame; The Matrix was a cool film at the time, and still is to a large extent, but even a few years back I knew it was something that wasn't going to stand up so well twenty years after its release. Partly because its originality and freshness would have been copied and assimilated so much that they became normal (I saw an insurance advert recently that *totally* rips off the "endless gun racks" scene).
But also partly because it was built around the technology of the time, and that inevitably will date. People like me will still look upon it fondly, but I doubt that kids watching it for the first time in 2019 will see it as anything more than a period piece- they won't "get" it. Sure, some 14-year olds who are "really into late-90s culture" will enjoy it, but as a retro piece. Regardless of what they think, they won't experience it in the same way.
I'm not even sure if it's possible to view it in the same way nowadays, 8 years after its release. Shame...
The WP article mentions that the FCC forcing manufacturers to include "closed captioning" (audio subtitle) technology made them unwilling to also include Teletext. However, that was in the early 1990s, by which time Teletext was 15 years old anyway, so this must have been merely the final straw and doesn't explain its initial failure there.
This surprises me because (a) It was very successful in Europe, particularly the UK and (b) it's not like it was replaced by a similar rival service. In fact, Teletext was able to support subtitles/captioning- this is how it was done in the UK, so unless the US C.C. service was much cheaper to implement at the time, they could have done it that way.
American who need a time fix can call +44 123, as long as they remember to convert from GMT to their own time zone. Might not work. AFAIK international dialling always requires the UK area code (stripped of its leading "0") after the +44. (I doubt there's a default "local" area).
For example, locals can call the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester on "833 9833", but people elsewhere in the UK would have to prefix it with "0161", and international users would have to dial "+44 161 833 9833".
I had guessed that since you can dial "123" from anywhere within the UK, this might imply that it's treated simply as a local number "123" by the phone system (even though the actual call will probably be routed to a non-local service). If it *were* treated as a "local" number, international users could get it by selecting an arbitrary (but valid) UK area code (e.g. 0161/161 for Manchester), and dialling "+44 161 123" which should access it via a pseudo-Manchester "123" number.
Just one thing- I tried this (within the UK) and it doesn't work!:-(
Maybe your idea does work after all, but I can't confirm that without faffing about and trying to kid the phone system that I'm actually calling from outside the UK. And I can't be arsed with that:-)
You know a game is good when you get scared, even though they only had 17 polygons to draw a person You think that's basic? Ha ha ha ha ha ha.......
I'd be lying if I said I was absolutely ******* terrified after playing 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81... but it certainly did a good job of getting you panicking when you saw Rex coming down the corridor at you. (Shame the guy in that video turns just before he gets eaten, so you don't see Rex close-up).
The ZX81 didn't have "polygons".... it didn't even have colour or high-resolution graphics (and those were the days when 256 x 200 was considered "high resolution"). It didn't even have bloody sound!.... Midi would have been an incredible luxury (seriously). This might sound like the "Three Yorkshiremen sketch", but it's absolutely true.
Future: ACER Amiga More likely; after a couple of years, someone at Acer notices that a small but noticable proportion of questions to their bemused enquiries staff are about these "Amiga" computers. They twig what it's about, and mention it in passing to their boss. Eventually they realise that they have the rights to this "Amiga" thing.
A year or so later, Acer have figured out that the name has some residual nostalgia value. They whore out the Amiga brand to any company willing to pay enough to use it on some random piece of generic computer hardware.
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He needs Old Glory Insurance.
I'm quite happy to accept that there may be good reasons for Apple to go with a non-standard internal Lithium battery instead of an off-the-shelf format (for example, better performance, longer life, etc). But you intentionally made the specific point that using AAAs would force people to waste money on "expensive disposable batteries"- and that's transparently bullshit. Either you're ignorant of the current state of battery technology, or you were making an intentionally misleading (but incompetent) justification of Apple's position. I suspect the latter.
In other words for someone who accuses another of talking "old, clichéd, and well-documented bullshit", "trolling" and most significantly "FUD", you're sailing much closer to the wind yourself.
That having been said, Apple would be better going with the proposed 3G version of the iPhone in Europe for reasons I cover in this comment. (Note that this was written before I was aware that Apple *did* intend launching a 3G version of the iPhone).
In today's money that's over £5!!! (Or US $10 at the current conversion rate (**))
FIVE POUNDS for a single song bloated out with some B-sides or remixes that you probably didn't want. And all wrapped up in a generic, soulless slimline jewel case. Horribly overpriced rubbish, they must have been making *plenty* of money from them until Napster came along.
It's not even like CD singles were convenient, who the hell wants to carry around a separate CD for each song and change them every four minutes?! Glad they're dead.
(*) They'd often sell them for £2 or £2.50 the first week, but not always, and they always jacked up the price the next week once they'd charted.
(**) I'm not sure whether to adjust for UK inflation and then convert to dollars at 2006 rates, or convert to dollars at 1995 rates then adjust for US inflation. Still, the point is that they were damn expensive
Actually, come to think of it, I think they've already done this. I've asked at least twice, but I still don't know what Amiga Anywhere (some built-on-mobile-Java architecture thing) has to do with the original Amiga beyond the name.
Anyway, I suppose the equivalent trick with tone dialling would be for two people who have good pitch to dial by singing certain combinations of notes. At least that should work in *theory* (I haven't tried it) since each "tone" in tone dialling is made of two actual musical notes played at the same time. (IIRC, there's a two-dimensional 3x4 matrix that gives the combination of notes for each number/symbol).
Anyway, I have now; I just called it to test something out.
Dammit, I'm paying 30p, I want my "clipped voice" speaking clock!!!
It's a real shame; The Matrix was a cool film at the time, and still is to a large extent, but even a few years back I knew it was something that wasn't going to stand up so well twenty years after its release. Partly because its originality and freshness would have been copied and assimilated so much that they became normal (I saw an insurance advert recently that *totally* rips off the "endless gun racks" scene).
But also partly because it was built around the technology of the time, and that inevitably will date. People like me will still look upon it fondly, but I doubt that kids watching it for the first time in 2019 will see it as anything more than a period piece- they won't "get" it. Sure, some 14-year olds who are "really into late-90s culture" will enjoy it, but as a retro piece. Regardless of what they think, they won't experience it in the same way.
I'm not even sure if it's possible to view it in the same way nowadays, 8 years after its release. Shame...
The WP article mentions that the FCC forcing manufacturers to include "closed captioning" (audio subtitle) technology made them unwilling to also include Teletext. However, that was in the early 1990s, by which time Teletext was 15 years old anyway, so this must have been merely the final straw and doesn't explain its initial failure there.
This surprises me because (a) It was very successful in Europe, particularly the UK and (b) it's not like it was replaced by a similar rival service. In fact, Teletext was able to support subtitles/captioning- this is how it was done in the UK, so unless the US C.C. service was much cheaper to implement at the time, they could have done it that way.
For example, locals can call the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester on "833 9833", but people elsewhere in the UK would have to prefix it with "0161", and international users would have to dial "+44 161 833 9833".
I had guessed that since you can dial "123" from anywhere within the UK, this might imply that it's treated simply as a local number "123" by the phone system (even though the actual call will probably be routed to a non-local service). If it *were* treated as a "local" number, international users could get it by selecting an arbitrary (but valid) UK area code (e.g. 0161/161 for Manchester), and dialling "+44 161 123" which should access it via a pseudo-Manchester "123" number.
Just one thing- I tried this (within the UK) and it doesn't work!
Maybe your idea does work after all, but I can't confirm that without faffing about and trying to kid the phone system that I'm actually calling from outside the UK. And I can't be arsed with that
I'm sorry, the link to the "3D Monster Maze" video was incorrect; here it is. Don't have nightmares! :-)
I'd be lying if I said I was absolutely ******* terrified after playing 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81... but it certainly did a good job of getting you panicking when you saw Rex coming down the corridor at you. (Shame the guy in that video turns just before he gets eaten, so you don't see Rex close-up).
The ZX81 didn't have "polygons".... it didn't even have colour or high-resolution graphics (and those were the days when 256 x 200 was considered "high resolution"). It didn't even have bloody sound!.... Midi would have been an incredible luxury (seriously). This might sound like the "Three Yorkshiremen sketch", but it's absolutely true.
And I remember my Dad jumping the first time this happened on "Rescue on Fractalus".
They've done blatant ripoffs of the Nintendo DS and the PSP. I'd assume you're looking for a higher quality "clone" than those things
...the only way it will rise again is from the grave, groaning "Brrraaaaiiinnnnsss!"
A year or so later, Acer have figured out that the name has some residual nostalgia value. They whore out the Amiga brand to any company willing to pay enough to use it on some random piece of generic computer hardware.