Now all I have to do is get my mother, father, wife, and all of my friends to actually email me instead of sending me messages on Facebook. Except for work, nobody I know uses email anymore to send personal letters.
A fan on the HR Wiki created a Greasemonkey script that adds a pause button, fast forward/rewind functions, subtitles, and a bunch of other goodies to the Homestar Runner cartoons. It makes watching them so much easier. It also makes it much easier to find the easter eggs. I am not involved with this script in any way, I just think it's cool.
The cartoons were all made by Mike and Matt Chapman by themselves in Flash, and Matt and Mike's wife Missy did all of the voices. If they sold off the IP to anyone else, it would be completely different. I don't think it would be Homestar at all.
Ask yourself: What is seen much more now in your culture? What makes you think you have any choice but to latch onto any thoughts but those which come to mind from within? What makes you think society can choose from among the roiling themes anything other than what pattern is most apt?
Judging from the large amount of post-apocalyptic movies and books that are currently popular, I'd say the end of the world is fast approaching.
The baristas at Silicon Valley Starbucks usually commute long distances from lower-income and even more crime-ridden areas such as Stockton and Merced. No telecommute option for them.
No problem! All they need to do is release some of their Virtual Console NES games onto the Wii disk format, and then the retro nerds will buy them all over again! It has so far worked for Sega, who I think has now put their Genesis back catalog on every device known to existence.
My 386 back in the day booted to an OS (albeit MS-DOS) in about ten seconds, had an excellent (IBM Model M) input device, and ran numerous productivity and games software pretty quickly and seldom ever crashed. And the only virus it got, I think, was that stupid prank that turned your screen upside down. I think I wouldn't mind an ARM tablet with similar qualifications:)
I dunno, it took me three tries to get my license in California, and I'd been playing racing games for most of my childhood. Maybe it had something to do with trying to parallel park via drifting...
In my experience, if you were to put the Windows 7 task bar on the left side of the screen, color everything purple and orange, and replace the Start Menu with a script that sends all of your search results to Amazon.com, it would look an awful lot like Ubuntu Unity.
I'm hearing this a lot from a lot of the people about my age (early 30's) who graduated high school in the mid-90s. In elementary school in the 80's there was a lot more interest in teaching programming (BASIC, LOGO, HyperCard, etc.), but then as the 90's went on "computer classes" became dumbed down to the point where they were just teaching typing and office software, and programming was an elective if it was even offered at all. This was my experience in school. Why do you think this was? Was it because schools wanted to churn out secretaries, because Microsoft and Apple stopped bundling free programming software (GW-BASIC, HyperCard, etc.) with their operating systems, because the computer market was heading more towards "information appliances" than "general-purpose computers", or because there just weren't enough teachers or enough demand for programming classes?
I don't know; on my Droid X I have silk-screened logos for Motorola, Verizon (twice!) and Google(TM). Intel's "Intel Inside" logo would not be too out of place.
Larger screens, more legible text, better wifi features... perhaps Nintendo is trying to break into the e-book reader market with this device. After all, e-book readers are popular in the DS homebrew scene, which Nintendo is not totally unaware of, and a company with Nintendo's clout could arrange a deal with Amazon for a Kindle app. I have limited pocket space, and when I'm on the go, I know I'd rather carry around a sightly larger DS than a DS and a Kindle...
Actually, when Mac OS X was first released with its dock, there was quite a bit of uproar from fans of Mac OS 9 because they were used to hunting around the sides of the Menu Bar, launching apps from the Apple Menu and switching apps with the Application Menu. A number of third-party hacks came along to restore the "lost functionality." They were also upset that application windows rolled into the Dock when minimized instead of into their own title bars, so they came up with a third-party windowshading hack. A few of these hacks are described on Low End Mac's website. However, users eventually got used to the Dock, and personally, when I go back to Mac OS 9 I use a third-party hack that replicates the Mac OS X Dock, unsurprisingly called A-Dock, to make the app switching experience more consistent. The Dock was a good UI decision, and has lasted the test of time. As for this new Firefox ribbon thing, if they do it right, we'll grumble for a bit but eventually it will become as natural as using the traditional menu bar. If they don't do it right, they'll switch it back in the next release.
That might also void the warranty too, for those who worry about such things. But that is a legitimate point: why does a MP3 player need a video camera? I can somewhat see the use for a camera on a cellphone, as a means of visual communication (I'm still waiting for Dick Tracy-esque video chat on my phone) but my iPod nano is stuffed in my pocket pretty much all the time, and I only use it when I am exercising or on the bus. I don't take it places I want to record video of. For the price of an iPod, you can get a digital camera that takes much better pictures and video (and these days, probably plays MP3s too.)
I downloaded Lotus Symphony for free off of their website. I had to give them my email address, but it didn't cost me money. It is definitely proprietary, however, and in my experience it really doesn't do anything that OpenOffice.org doesn't already do. But it does support open formats, and if enough big companies like IBM promote ODF and things like that, it might make it easier for non-Microsoft office suites to compete in the market and share data with each other.
I really hope they aren't being charged at the $0.10 to $0.20 per message rate that US carriers usually charge for SMS. If that is the case, I'd really hate to be the one who has to pay that kid's phone bill.
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But if they kill Flash, how will we get our fill of Newgrounds and Homestar Runner?
Now all I have to do is get my mother, father, wife, and all of my friends to actually email me instead of sending me messages on Facebook. Except for work, nobody I know uses email anymore to send personal letters.
A fan on the HR Wiki created a Greasemonkey script that adds a pause button, fast forward/rewind functions, subtitles, and a bunch of other goodies to the Homestar Runner cartoons. It makes watching them so much easier. It also makes it much easier to find the easter eggs. I am not involved with this script in any way, I just think it's cool.
The cartoons were all made by Mike and Matt Chapman by themselves in Flash, and Matt and Mike's wife Missy did all of the voices. If they sold off the IP to anyone else, it would be completely different. I don't think it would be Homestar at all.
Just so long as they don't bring Homestar Runner back as a gritty reboot
I agree, Little Snitch is an awesome program, but sadly, it's for Mac OS X only. Not very helpful to the original poster, who is running Linux.
Ask yourself: What is seen much more now in your culture? What makes you think you have any choice but to latch onto any thoughts but those which come to mind from within? What makes you think society can choose from among the roiling themes anything other than what pattern is most apt?
Judging from the large amount of post-apocalyptic movies and books that are currently popular, I'd say the end of the world is fast approaching.
The baristas at Silicon Valley Starbucks usually commute long distances from lower-income and even more crime-ridden areas such as Stockton and Merced. No telecommute option for them.
Only a matter of time before RMS browbeats them into calling it "GNU/Linux Format"...
No problem! All they need to do is release some of their Virtual Console NES games onto the Wii disk format, and then the retro nerds will buy them all over again! It has so far worked for Sega, who I think has now put their Genesis back catalog on every device known to existence.
I don't know; I think Mr. Harley and Mr. Davidson did pretty well by that concept.
My 386 back in the day booted to an OS (albeit MS-DOS) in about ten seconds, had an excellent (IBM Model M) input device, and ran numerous productivity and games software pretty quickly and seldom ever crashed. And the only virus it got, I think, was that stupid prank that turned your screen upside down. I think I wouldn't mind an ARM tablet with similar qualifications :)
I dunno, it took me three tries to get my license in California, and I'd been playing racing games for most of my childhood. Maybe it had something to do with trying to parallel park via drifting...
I just wish Microsoft would listen to consumer complaints that quickly regarding their other big turd, Windows 8...
In my experience, if you were to put the Windows 7 task bar on the left side of the screen, color everything purple and orange, and replace the Start Menu with a script that sends all of your search results to Amazon.com, it would look an awful lot like Ubuntu Unity.
Wow... perhaps there is some hope for Doom 2600 after all...
I'm hearing this a lot from a lot of the people about my age (early 30's) who graduated high school in the mid-90s. In elementary school in the 80's there was a lot more interest in teaching programming (BASIC, LOGO, HyperCard, etc.), but then as the 90's went on "computer classes" became dumbed down to the point where they were just teaching typing and office software, and programming was an elective if it was even offered at all. This was my experience in school. Why do you think this was? Was it because schools wanted to churn out secretaries, because Microsoft and Apple stopped bundling free programming software (GW-BASIC, HyperCard, etc.) with their operating systems, because the computer market was heading more towards "information appliances" than "general-purpose computers", or because there just weren't enough teachers or enough demand for programming classes?
I don't know; on my Droid X I have silk-screened logos for Motorola, Verizon (twice!) and Google(TM). Intel's "Intel Inside" logo would not be too out of place.
Larger screens, more legible text, better wifi features... perhaps Nintendo is trying to break into the e-book reader market with this device. After all, e-book readers are popular in the DS homebrew scene, which Nintendo is not totally unaware of, and a company with Nintendo's clout could arrange a deal with Amazon for a Kindle app. I have limited pocket space, and when I'm on the go, I know I'd rather carry around a sightly larger DS than a DS and a Kindle...
Actually, when Mac OS X was first released with its dock, there was quite a bit of uproar from fans of Mac OS 9 because they were used to hunting around the sides of the Menu Bar, launching apps from the Apple Menu and switching apps with the Application Menu. A number of third-party hacks came along to restore the "lost functionality." They were also upset that application windows rolled into the Dock when minimized instead of into their own title bars, so they came up with a third-party windowshading hack. A few of these hacks are described on Low End Mac's website. However, users eventually got used to the Dock, and personally, when I go back to Mac OS 9 I use a third-party hack that replicates the Mac OS X Dock, unsurprisingly called A-Dock, to make the app switching experience more consistent. The Dock was a good UI decision, and has lasted the test of time. As for this new Firefox ribbon thing, if they do it right, we'll grumble for a bit but eventually it will become as natural as using the traditional menu bar. If they don't do it right, they'll switch it back in the next release.
That might also void the warranty too, for those who worry about such things. But that is a legitimate point: why does a MP3 player need a video camera? I can somewhat see the use for a camera on a cellphone, as a means of visual communication (I'm still waiting for Dick Tracy-esque video chat on my phone) but my iPod nano is stuffed in my pocket pretty much all the time, and I only use it when I am exercising or on the bus. I don't take it places I want to record video of. For the price of an iPod, you can get a digital camera that takes much better pictures and video (and these days, probably plays MP3s too.)
I downloaded Lotus Symphony for free off of their website. I had to give them my email address, but it didn't cost me money. It is definitely proprietary, however, and in my experience it really doesn't do anything that OpenOffice.org doesn't already do. But it does support open formats, and if enough big companies like IBM promote ODF and things like that, it might make it easier for non-Microsoft office suites to compete in the market and share data with each other.
The only thing on AM radio these days is conservative talk--hmmmmmmm....
I really hope they aren't being charged at the $0.10 to $0.20 per message rate that US carriers usually charge for SMS. If that is the case, I'd really hate to be the one who has to pay that kid's phone bill.