Lets face it, only Earth people get to use the internet so it won't be getting bogged down anytime soon. It's when aliens start tapping into it that we're screwed.
"So the security will be even more relaxed on the third day because Ubuntu and Vista survived the first two days without a hack. The Mac finished last and is out of the race."
The Mac actually won because it was the first one to be exploited.
We turned our cable service off and returned the DVR at the end of last years Formula 1 season because that was pretty much all we watched on TV (all the kids stuff we buy on DVD or get from iTunes) but I'll tell ya, watching the European races live really hurts when you're on Pacific Time:
1. Set the alarm for 3:30AM
2. Cook full English breakfast
3. Start drinking beer if Kimi is winning.
4. Go to sleep ready for normal life
With the 2008 season a week away from firing back into action I'm seriously considering staying TV/Cable free, not just because of sleep disorientation every two weeks but because the channel that carries it - SpeedTV - sucks so bad. They push ads for NASCAR and crummy Reality TV shows down your eyes constantly.
As soon as the F1 folks realize there's a market for live streaming and/or downloadable HD F1 races the better.
It's all well and good being all bubbly about how cool it is to get computing down to the atomic scale, but what happens when we get a little too close and the big one, nature, stops working?
When I were a lad we'd have to pile huge rocks on top of each other until we got ten of them stacked up, then double that until we got to twenty, and all the way up to a thousand.
Then we'd have to climb to the top, all seventy of us in our classroom, and sing the lords prayer a million times.
After that we'd stand on each others shoulders until the top one was all the way up into the clouds, and then we'd do a controlled fall.
The last one down had to pack all the rocks away until lunchtime when we'd do it all over again.
We had to do that until the age of twenty one months old.
You missed the sarcastic not-getting-it response."
WHOOOOSH.
You missed the five O's:
Two O's = poster at least indicating to readers that parent didn't see through gp's sarcasm, but fails to describe sound of something flying over ones head.
Three O's = poster hip to concept of whooooshing but in a rush to post before the boss walks in the door.
Four O's = poster correctly indicating to readers that parent didn't see through gp's sarcasm
Five O's = poster knows parent was faking not-getting-it but merely laying a trap for reader who thinks they fucked up.
Six O's = poster responding to parent who not only didn't see through gp's sarcasm but makes a reeeely lame comment about how dumb the gp is for not-getting-it.
Seven O's = The ultimate smackdown. The whole world will laugh at the parent for not-getting-it.
Oh...wait. You used five O's as well. Did you mean to?
So if I was to build a bigger version of this and stick in in my car, in the space where my engine would normally go, and get it up to speed by peddling frantically for about ten minutes, you're saying there isn't enough torque to actually make the car go forwards?
Seems to me that the device is running on it's own, speeding up in fact, so maybe turn the acceleration into torque. Use a gearing system to keep it running at the same speed while producing usable energy.
Or is that where things break down. If it isn't able to accelerate it stops working?
McDonalds, and the trash their crappy products are wrapped in that their obese clients like to throw out of SUV windows when they've finished getting their daily fix, is always good camping fodder - but difficult to get hot under the collar about because it's a no-brainer. And I'm guessing the Real vs Apple thing will be a non-event as well seeing as we're both pretty deep into our respective evils.
The big one will be HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray, then roll over into Xbox 360 vs PS3 (no doubt it's obvious I'm in the latter camp on both counts). Should be easier than last year that one for sure.
Thanks for the product upgrade thought provoker btw. I'll bring that one up.
FWIW I think there's should be an official "end of life" clearly stated at the time of purchase, separate from a guarantee which is all about fixing it if it goes wrong. The end of life period gives you updates and keeps the company liable for the "life" of the product. An independent standards institute of some kind can track it all, but not sure if it should be a govt. body.
"So do you see the merits in having cable TV at home or do you buy every thing individually that you watch?"
I see you're not going to be very helpful in my quest for campfire argument winning.
FWIW the adults in the household don't watch any TV and haven't for years now, and I mean zip, nada, zero TV. We do have a basic service turned on to keep the cost of our cable internet down, but if we turned TV service off completely our internet would go up more than the $9 basic TV costs.
Just to keep things scientifically accurate I just asked the kids when the last time they watched TV was and they couldn't remember. The oldest said the Superbowl, but I doubt it's been a whole year. I haven't seen them watching TV for a long time though, and even way back when we did have expanded digital cable it was never on. That's why we took the box back.
I guess we just don't have the urge to stay on the entertainment cutting edge like you guys. Maybe we're of Amish ancestry, although that wouldn't explain why we all have iPods of one kind or another and a desktop or laptop in pretty much every room.
I was intrigued by your closing comments btw:
"I don't care what you like better, I know what I like better. Why do you even care what your friend is doing anyway?"
Don't forget to bring your camping chair this time:-)
Speaking of Rhapsody, I remember a conversation three years ago with a friend who thought Rhapsody's subscription model was the way to go. I, on the other hand, argued that Apple's buy-to-own model was the way to go.
So here we are three years later.
My friend has been paying $14.99 per month for a grand total of $539.64 and doesn't own any of the music he's been listening to, and I've spent around the same and bought approx thirty albums and lots of individual songs.
We both started off with quite large libraries to begin with, after ripping all our CD's, so it's really down to new music. I listen to internet radio pretty much exclusively, primarily because I wouldn't know what to choose if I saw a long list of new bands. My friend, on the other hand, can listen to a whole album by a new band if he hears a single he likes, but never own the album (unless he want's to take advantage of the 10% off thing that Rhapsody offers for album purchases).
In the three years he's been using Rhapsody he hasn't bought an album because, well, what's the point. He can listen to anything he wants whenever he wants so long as he pays the monthly subscription.
If I hear band I like on the radio I can listen to about half a minute of each track, to make sure the single wasn't a fluke, and buy the album for $10.
Needless to say the pros and cons go on and on forever, and seeing as we're going camping in a couple of weeks I was wondering if there are any definitive world shattering arguments for or against either model?
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thorough
It wouldn't be so bad if it ended with them fisting each other.
The drummer of a band I was in used to call various members of the road crew, management and our bassist "shit for brains" on a regular basis.
Seeing as there wasn't ever a HR person or supervisor handy it was up to me or the singer to call him a fucking idiot every time he said it.
Lets face it, only Earth people get to use the internet so it won't be getting bogged down anytime soon. It's when aliens start tapping into it that we're screwed.
That's why they should use another part of the body as an identifier, such as the penis for example?
Senior public officials could slide their penis into the reader at checkpoints and a reading quickly and easily taken.
Females could be fitted with a custom made prosthetic of some kind.
"So the security will be even more relaxed on the third day because Ubuntu and Vista survived the first two days without a hack. The Mac finished last and is out of the race."
The Mac actually won because it was the first one to be exploited.
FWIW I felt pretty bad about the blind reference. It's like the old "are you deaf" thing. Not cool, but wtff.
How could you miss a typo like that. Are you blindd?
We turned our cable service off and returned the DVR at the end of last years Formula 1 season because that was pretty much all we watched on TV (all the kids stuff we buy on DVD or get from iTunes) but I'll tell ya, watching the European races live really hurts when you're on Pacific Time:
1. Set the alarm for 3:30AM
2. Cook full English breakfast
3. Start drinking beer if Kimi is winning.
4. Go to sleep ready for normal life
With the 2008 season a week away from firing back into action I'm seriously considering staying TV/Cable free, not just because of sleep disorientation every two weeks but because the channel that carries it - SpeedTV - sucks so bad. They push ads for NASCAR and crummy Reality TV shows down your eyes constantly.
As soon as the F1 folks realize there's a market for live streaming and/or downloadable HD F1 races the better.
AMD sponsors the Ferrari Formula 1 cars but no sign of Acer on their 2008 entry. It's a mystery to me too.
It's all well and good being all bubbly about how cool it is to get computing down to the atomic scale, but what happens when we get a little too close and the big one, nature, stops working?
Ugh
Put it away Balmer...it's over
How about a conveyor belt with a monkey chasing a hamster. Enclose the whole thing in a soundproof case and shazam - let there be light.
You were lucky.
When I were a lad we'd have to pile huge rocks on top of each other until we got ten of them stacked up, then double that until we got to twenty, and all the way up to a thousand.
Then we'd have to climb to the top, all seventy of us in our classroom, and sing the lords prayer a million times.
After that we'd stand on each others shoulders until the top one was all the way up into the clouds, and then we'd do a controlled fall.
The last one down had to pack all the rocks away until lunchtime when we'd do it all over again.
We had to do that until the age of twenty one months old.
"images of this kind can help scientists in many fields get a better handle on their subjects"
Say no more!
"WHOOOOOSH.
You missed the sarcastic not-getting-it response."
WHOOOOSH.
You missed the five O's:
Two O's = poster at least indicating to readers that parent didn't see through gp's sarcasm, but fails to describe sound of something flying over ones head.
Three O's = poster hip to concept of whooooshing but in a rush to post before the boss walks in the door.
Four O's = poster correctly indicating to readers that parent didn't see through gp's sarcasm
Five O's = poster knows parent was faking not-getting-it but merely laying a trap for reader who thinks they fucked up.
Six O's = poster responding to parent who not only didn't see through gp's sarcasm but makes a reeeely lame comment about how dumb the gp is for not-getting-it.
Seven O's = The ultimate smackdown. The whole world will laugh at the parent for not-getting-it.
Oh...wait. You used five O's as well. Did you mean to?
Don't forget the "Social" room where you and your friends can squirt tunez at each other. Wow, groovy daddyo. The future is ZUNE!!!!!
Ever tried looking at porn on a Library PC?
So if I was to build a bigger version of this and stick in in my car, in the space where my engine would normally go, and get it up to speed by peddling frantically for about ten minutes, you're saying there isn't enough torque to actually make the car go forwards?
Seems to me that the device is running on it's own, speeding up in fact, so maybe turn the acceleration into torque. Use a gearing system to keep it running at the same speed while producing usable energy.
Or is that where things break down. If it isn't able to accelerate it stops working?
McDonalds, and the trash their crappy products are wrapped in that their obese clients like to throw out of SUV windows when they've finished getting their daily fix, is always good camping fodder - but difficult to get hot under the collar about because it's a no-brainer. And I'm guessing the Real vs Apple thing will be a non-event as well seeing as we're both pretty deep into our respective evils.
The big one will be HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray, then roll over into Xbox 360 vs PS3 (no doubt it's obvious I'm in the latter camp on both counts). Should be easier than last year that one for sure.
Thanks for the product upgrade thought provoker btw. I'll bring that one up.
FWIW I think there's should be an official "end of life" clearly stated at the time of purchase, separate from a guarantee which is all about fixing it if it goes wrong. The end of life period gives you updates and keeps the company liable for the "life" of the product. An independent standards institute of some kind can track it all, but not sure if it should be a govt. body.
"So do you see the merits in having cable TV at home or do you buy every thing individually that you watch?"
:-)
I see you're not going to be very helpful in my quest for campfire argument winning.
FWIW the adults in the household don't watch any TV and haven't for years now, and I mean zip, nada, zero TV. We do have a basic service turned on to keep the cost of our cable internet down, but if we turned TV service off completely our internet would go up more than the $9 basic TV costs.
Just to keep things scientifically accurate I just asked the kids when the last time they watched TV was and they couldn't remember. The oldest said the Superbowl, but I doubt it's been a whole year. I haven't seen them watching TV for a long time though, and even way back when we did have expanded digital cable it was never on. That's why we took the box back.
I guess we just don't have the urge to stay on the entertainment cutting edge like you guys. Maybe we're of Amish ancestry, although that wouldn't explain why we all have iPods of one kind or another and a desktop or laptop in pretty much every room.
I was intrigued by your closing comments btw:
"I don't care what you like better, I know what I like better. Why do you even care what your friend is doing anyway?"
Don't forget to bring your camping chair this time
If someone wrote that shit about me I'd want to know wtf they were talking about!
Speaking of Rhapsody, I remember a conversation three years ago with a friend who thought Rhapsody's subscription model was the way to go. I, on the other hand, argued that Apple's buy-to-own model was the way to go.
So here we are three years later.
My friend has been paying $14.99 per month for a grand total of $539.64 and doesn't own any of the music he's been listening to, and I've spent around the same and bought approx thirty albums and lots of individual songs.
We both started off with quite large libraries to begin with, after ripping all our CD's, so it's really down to new music. I listen to internet radio pretty much exclusively, primarily because I wouldn't know what to choose if I saw a long list of new bands. My friend, on the other hand, can listen to a whole album by a new band if he hears a single he likes, but never own the album (unless he want's to take advantage of the 10% off thing that Rhapsody offers for album purchases).
In the three years he's been using Rhapsody he hasn't bought an album because, well, what's the point. He can listen to anything he wants whenever he wants so long as he pays the monthly subscription.
If I hear band I like on the radio I can listen to about half a minute of each track, to make sure the single wasn't a fluke, and buy the album for $10.
Needless to say the pros and cons go on and on forever, and seeing as we're going camping in a couple of weeks I was wondering if there are any definitive world shattering arguments for or against either model?
Can I win the argument this time?
"I know, I know, the myspace demographic doesn't know any better."
They've got more important things to do, like buy $150 HD-DVD players from Wal-Mart.