My numbers were merely for example. Notice I never said that I would rather buy the RCA for $600 dollars. I merely stated that I would rather pay twice as much and never again than have to pay for a guide.
I can't believe no one else has thought of this. I would certainly be much more interested in a $200 PVR with a free guide than a $100 that I have to pay monthly for. In the long run it just becomes cheaper. Granted, however, I probably never will because our digital cable gives me all the guide action that I need.
Who goes to a search engine to search for other search engines anyway? That's like me training a dog to find other dogs that are trained to find dogs. I don't see how search king could possibly even claim to have a case here.
Ahh yes, read as Oliver Sack recall's the time when his uncle Tungsten got drunk and savagely beat him with a large steal rod. Who can forget the time when uncle Tungsten got angry after the football game and made Oliver try his new "magic potion" consisting of grain alcohol and arsenic designed to turn the drinker into a supreme being.
Who leaves a job like this up to college kids. I can just see a post-apocolyptic era in which the statue of liberty is a girl in a bikini waving a sign that says "Texas A&M blows" on it.
Sure, it's certainly nothing compared to google, but if you're asking a common question it serves up the answer much faster than google will. Also, google's great for techies like us, but some people can be confused by the way it just rattles off a bunch of sites and it's easier for them to just get an answer strait from Jeeves. Jeeves also gives you a list of other related searches on the right-hand side of the screen that I find very usefull when I'm trying to get just the right word combination in order to get some good results.
My idea for a new tech show is one that is an Iron Chef/Junk Yard wars cross. You put a team of engineers together and give them an electrical component that they have to build something with like in Iron Chef. The teams would have electronics labs with wires, circuit boards, etc. and they would make whatever they could in a certain amount of time. Then there would be a panel of judges that rates the usefulness of the item built and whoever wins over the most judges wins.
Children will build up fleets of paper tie-fighters to play with only to have them go up in flames as soon as a jedi with a lightsaber challenges them.
Do not get me wrong, while I agree to that phrase to an extent, there is certainly a point in which it goes to far. From what I've learned about the Homeland Security act, I don't think I'll mind. As long as only government officials can see my info, and I don't notice that I'm being watched I really don't mind if it means I'm going to be more secure.
If you've got nothing to hide does it matter? Also for this to be a truly Orwellian and "Big Brother" type system, we won't even know we're being watched.
Seriously, if I'm ever so desperate for an engineering job that I have to go into a field called imagineering I think I'll just take up being a street bum.
Those of you who see this and start yelling "lets outlaw SPAM it's bad!" might want to sit back and think for it. Sure, an anti-SPAM law would be great, however, it could open the floodgates to other laws relating to the internet that would not be so great. Once the law makers get into our realm, they're not gonna leave until they've changed the internet completely.
Since people can sue McDonalds because they say that their food made them fat, I am not going to sue Windows because their media player has allowed me to listen to all this music that is damaging to my ears.
What can one excpect the ISPs to do now that the record companies are getting on their asses about this file swapping. Granted, I don't agree with Road Runner (which just so happens to be my current ISP and one I would recomend to anyone because I have had absolutely no problems with) blocking the use of certain peer to peer software, however, I cannot blame them in light of recent events.
I agree it seems as if they're just telling the ISP's "hey, these people are causing us trouble, we want you to take care of them." I think that the record labels are doing this to make the ISP's the bad guy instead of them. If you think about it, there's nothing worse for publicity than a multi-billion dollar industry suing Timmy, the 13 year old whose only crime was downloading a few hundred songs. By placing all the action on the ISP's the record companies succesfully evade most of the "bad guy" part of the job.
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My numbers were merely for example. Notice I never said that I would rather buy the RCA for $600 dollars. I merely stated that I would rather pay twice as much and never again than have to pay for a guide.
I can't believe no one else has thought of this. I would certainly be much more interested in a $200 PVR with a free guide than a $100 that I have to pay monthly for. In the long run it just becomes cheaper. Granted, however, I probably never will because our digital cable gives me all the guide action that I need.
Who goes to a search engine to search for other search engines anyway? That's like me training a dog to find other dogs that are trained to find dogs. I don't see how search king could possibly even claim to have a case here.
Ahh yes, read as Oliver Sack recall's the time when his uncle Tungsten got drunk and savagely beat him with a large steal rod. Who can forget the time when uncle Tungsten got angry after the football game and made Oliver try his new "magic potion" consisting of grain alcohol and arsenic designed to turn the drinker into a supreme being.
Who leaves a job like this up to college kids. I can just see a post-apocolyptic era in which the statue of liberty is a girl in a bikini waving a sign that says "Texas A&M blows" on it.
Sure, it's certainly nothing compared to google, but if you're asking a common question it serves up the answer much faster than google will. Also, google's great for techies like us, but some people can be confused by the way it just rattles off a bunch of sites and it's easier for them to just get an answer strait from Jeeves. Jeeves also gives you a list of other related searches on the right-hand side of the screen that I find very usefull when I'm trying to get just the right word combination in order to get some good results.
My idea for a new tech show is one that is an Iron Chef/Junk Yard wars cross. You put a team of engineers together and give them an electrical component that they have to build something with like in Iron Chef. The teams would have electronics labs with wires, circuit boards, etc. and they would make whatever they could in a certain amount of time. Then there would be a panel of judges that rates the usefulness of the item built and whoever wins over the most judges wins.
Children will build up fleets of paper tie-fighters to play with only to have them go up in flames as soon as a jedi with a lightsaber challenges them.
I new robotics company entitled "Cyberdyne Systems" has announced that it will provide the United States with a fleet of drones to patrol the nation.
Do not get me wrong, while I agree to that phrase to an extent, there is certainly a point in which it goes to far. From what I've learned about the Homeland Security act, I don't think I'll mind. As long as only government officials can see my info, and I don't notice that I'm being watched I really don't mind if it means I'm going to be more secure.
If you've got nothing to hide does it matter? Also for this to be a truly Orwellian and "Big Brother" type system, we won't even know we're being watched.
Seriously, if I'm ever so desperate for an engineering job that I have to go into a field called imagineering I think I'll just take up being a street bum.
"Through the most advanced technology in the world today,we can pinpoint the precise location that Lewis and Clark got down with Sacajaweya"
Those of you who see this and start yelling "lets outlaw SPAM it's bad!" might want to sit back and think for it. Sure, an anti-SPAM law would be great, however, it could open the floodgates to other laws relating to the internet that would not be so great. Once the law makers get into our realm, they're not gonna leave until they've changed the internet completely.
Since people can sue McDonalds because they say that their food made them fat, I am not going to sue Windows because their media player has allowed me to listen to all this music that is damaging to my ears.
This new technology will come available with a $10 spooge guard to protect the LCD screen from any bodily fluids.
appears to be /.'ed already. any way this sounds like some good stuff goin down. If i only had the means to duplicate...
Excuse the "Office Space" Rip off be here goes: "For every descision you make you have to ask yourself 'Is this good for Intel?'"
What can one excpect the ISPs to do now that the record companies are getting on their asses about this file swapping. Granted, I don't agree with Road Runner (which just so happens to be my current ISP and one I would recomend to anyone because I have had absolutely no problems with) blocking the use of certain peer to peer software, however, I cannot blame them in light of recent events.
I agree it seems as if they're just telling the ISP's "hey, these people are causing us trouble, we want you to take care of them." I think that the record labels are doing this to make the ISP's the bad guy instead of them. If you think about it, there's nothing worse for publicity than a multi-billion dollar industry suing Timmy, the 13 year old whose only crime was downloading a few hundred songs. By placing all the action on the ISP's the record companies succesfully evade most of the "bad guy" part of the job.