During the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix David Coulthard later acknowledged he was stood on a Lego brick throughout the entire race, yet went on to win it (the race, not the brick).
If that doesn't reek of sheer mastercraft breadmaking I don't what is!
Yes, Roger Moore slipped into 007's shoes very nicely. I really liked Moore as bond. Almost as good as Connery and Brosnan in the ruthless bastard department.
"Star Wars didn't die because Ford wasn't involved with the prequels. Star Wars died because Lucas was involved.;)"
Lucas created Star Wars from the ground up. He made it happen. How could he possibly not be "involved" in the making of his creation?
And as for Ford not being in the prequels, somehow taking 15 or 20 years off his original character and putting him in III would be a stretch (get it) even for ILM;-)
"Do you seriously think that Chinese companies can't make products as good as those made by IBM in America?"
They actually make PC's in America?
They only thing on or around my desk that was made in America is an Ace Cadet Liftop Stapler (Model No 302), made in Chicago, and a Blue Twin Tip Sharpie.
"hmm... someone need to make a mac friendly one of these with an iPod dock to use iPod mini's as the removable hard drive:)"
Yum, dream coming true soon?:
1. Hook iPod up to Canon XL1
2. Go out an shoot some video directly to iPod in MiniDV format.
3. Get back to lab and edit video on G5 directly from iPod.
4. Export from Final Cut to local drive ready for encoding.
The only missing link is a way to connect the iPod to the Canon XL1!
Actually I wasn't. I really don't see how Apple will allow themselves to drown in the sea of WMA powered crap that's currently in a feeding frenzy outside the back door of their Music Store.
Don't get me wrong, I like to watch Nascar from time to time, but the problem is that in the US if you're a motorsports fan it's rammed down your throat. Like that's all there is.
Turn on Speed TV and chances are there'll be some guys driving around a track in Bush country. Occasionally there'll be some other form of motorsport, but 75% of the time it's Nascar or Nascar related
And don't even bother looking for F1 or World Rally on ESPN, it doesn't exist, thanks primarily to the Nascar marketing people!
Maybe that's the whole point. Maybe it's an easy way for some Americans to internalize, look inward all the time by focussing exclusively on homegrown sports instead of taking a look at what's going on out there in the real world.
So, just don't show US only cars please Pixar, OK, jeez:-)
I know the folks in Jesusland will be drooling over the NASCAR and Pickup Truck stuff, but I hope they throw some real race cars (F1, Rally) and Hybrid road cars in there so satiate the NW, NE and the rest of the World.
"I use an iPod and I have spent a good share of money on iTMS but to discount new players because they cannot use iTMS isn't fair let alone brite."
You don't think Apple would let this amazing situation they've worked so hard to create slip through their fingers do you?
Apple only has to flip the switch and open Music Store up to other players, formats and DRM, and the game goes on.
That's the great thing about technology that a lot of people forget...you can do anything.
As for the players themselves, most of the so-called iPod killers are a piece of junk, primarily because they're produced from a set of poorly defined specs faxed over from Albertsons, or whoever wants to put out a player that week.
Trust me, you need a pair of ER-4P Earphones by Etymotic Research. I've been using them since got my iPod and they beat anything else out there. Check out this review.
I remember the first time I saw a company logo on a piece of hardware that was obviously not designed by the same company. It was the Pan Am logo on a pair of those in-flight headphones.
I realized that Pan Am didn't design those headphones because they were a piece of shit, and the Pan Am brand was one of the cooler companies out there at the time (which I why I flew with them and not Braniff). The duh part is that I never questioned that the 747 I was sat in was NOT designed by Pan Am.
The Virgin logo on this player gives me the same feeling. It doesn't fit. Virgin is a really cool brand, yet they're sticking it on something that sucks, and worse they're aligining themselves with the Dell's and WalMart's of the world by making it into just another WMA pimp.
"......As near as I can tell, the only people making a profit from iTMS are the labels......"
I was in a band whose catalog was recently added to the iTunes store and I was wondering if people are actually downloading any of the music? If so, how much money is being made? And who is getting it? Will I get any?
I remember everyone stood around laughing and joking one day back in the 80's after we signed a record deal with Beggars Banquet, and also everyone stood around laughing and joking a few months later when we signed a publishing deal with Warner, but that's about all I rememeber about the business side of things.
Maybe I should have called my lawyer to ask if I would get paid anything when that online music store opened twenty years in the future and the label was able to sell music online for free.
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"10 Miles isn't anything special. We use normal 802.11 b and reach about 10 miles now, we just put a flat panel antenna and a 100mw Cisco 350 / 200mw Engenius bridge / 100 mw Smartbridge bridge at the client location. Simple."
You were lucky.
When I were lad, we'd have to string 10,000 empty baked beans tins together on a single hair, plucked from grandma's head, and forced to transmit the lords prayer a million times a second using nothing but a damp cloth and a broken tube of toothpaste.
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During the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix David Coulthard later acknowledged he was stood on a Lego brick throughout the entire race, yet went on to win it (the race, not the brick). If that doesn't reek of sheer mastercraft breadmaking I don't what is!
Cool - all the folks in Redmond have to do is put Microsoft on the splash screen and that's the end of the problem.
Yes, Roger Moore slipped into 007's shoes very nicely. I really liked Moore as bond. Almost as good as Connery and Brosnan in the ruthless bastard department.
I am worried about the proposed successor to Brosnan though.
"Star Wars didn't die because Ford wasn't involved with the prequels. Star Wars died because Lucas was involved. ;)"
;-)
Lucas created Star Wars from the ground up. He made it happen. How could he possibly not be "involved" in the making of his creation?
And as for Ford not being in the prequels, somehow taking 15 or 20 years off his original character and putting him in III would be a stretch (get it) even for ILM
"What kind of sport would that be - they move slowly and don't hide well. That would kind of be like hunting cattle - in a feed yard."
I think hunting thousand year old people would be quite challenging actually, especially armed ones.
Think of how cunning they would be after a thousand years of playing Half Life, Doom and that other one.
I'd rather hunt an armed thirty year old than an armed thousand year old any day.
Another 960 years of Spam! I don't think I could handle that!
"Do you seriously think that Chinese companies can't make products as good as those made by IBM in America?"
:-)
They actually make PC's in America?
They only thing on or around my desk that was made in America is an Ace Cadet Liftop Stapler (Model No 302), made in Chicago, and a Blue Twin Tip Sharpie.
Even I was made somewhere else
"hmm... someone need to make a mac friendly one of these with an iPod dock to use iPod mini's as the removable hard drive :)"
Yum, dream coming true soon?:
1. Hook iPod up to Canon XL1
2. Go out an shoot some video directly to iPod in MiniDV format.
3. Get back to lab and edit video on G5 directly from iPod.
4. Export from Final Cut to local drive ready for encoding.
The only missing link is a way to connect the iPod to the Canon XL1!
"Hell, I live in Montreal, and i only know one 'household' without broadband."
Who is that?
Sale Srep
Bell Canada
32% of them knew they did, 5% thought they did, 12% really did and the remaining 619% did but didn't.
I think it's cruel for anyone to write a story with percentages in it mere days after a general election.
I read somewhere that 76% of statistics are flawed in some way and that the remaining 39% often contain early returns and hanging chads!
The more I think about it the more I realize linux is the mule
What about the people who pretended to charge a fake paypal account of mine $175 - should they get 9 yrs too?
How about this one:
We will never add a 3% slaes tax
and then, three months later:
We are adding a 3% slaes tax
So I wrote "what the fuck is slaes tax when it's at home?"
"You were being sarcastic, right?"
Actually I wasn't. I really don't see how Apple will allow themselves to drown in the sea of WMA powered crap that's currently in a feeding frenzy outside the back door of their Music Store.
Don't get me wrong, I like to watch Nascar from time to time, but the problem is that in the US if you're a motorsports fan it's rammed down your throat. Like that's all there is.
:-)
Turn on Speed TV and chances are there'll be some guys driving around a track in Bush country. Occasionally there'll be some other form of motorsport, but 75% of the time it's Nascar or Nascar related
And don't even bother looking for F1 or World Rally on ESPN, it doesn't exist, thanks primarily to the Nascar marketing people!
Maybe that's the whole point. Maybe it's an easy way for some Americans to internalize, look inward all the time by focussing exclusively on homegrown sports instead of taking a look at what's going on out there in the real world.
So, just don't show US only cars please Pixar, OK, jeez
I know the folks in Jesusland will be drooling over the NASCAR and Pickup Truck stuff, but I hope they throw some real race cars (F1, Rally) and Hybrid road cars in there so satiate the NW, NE and the rest of the World.
"I use an iPod and I have spent a good share of money on iTMS but to discount new players because they cannot use iTMS isn't fair let alone brite."
You don't think Apple would let this amazing situation they've worked so hard to create slip through their fingers do you?
Apple only has to flip the switch and open Music Store up to other players, formats and DRM, and the game goes on.
That's the great thing about technology that a lot of people forget...you can do anything.
As for the players themselves, most of the so-called iPod killers are a piece of junk, primarily because they're produced from a set of poorly defined specs faxed over from Albertsons, or whoever wants to put out a player that week.
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Trust me, you need a pair of ER-4P Earphones by Etymotic Research. I've been using them since got my iPod and they beat anything else out there. Check out this review.
I remember the first time I saw a company logo on a piece of hardware that was obviously not designed by the same company. It was the Pan Am logo on a pair of those in-flight headphones.
I realized that Pan Am didn't design those headphones because they were a piece of shit, and the Pan Am brand was one of the cooler companies out there at the time (which I why I flew with them and not Braniff). The duh part is that I never questioned that the 747 I was sat in was NOT designed by Pan Am.
The Virgin logo on this player gives me the same feeling. It doesn't fit. Virgin is a really cool brand, yet they're sticking it on something that sucks, and worse they're aligining themselves with the Dell's and WalMart's of the world by making it into just another WMA pimp.
"My Mac connects to the PC internet... I can see PC websites, read PC email, play PC MP3s"
You can't buy music from mycokemusic walmart sympatico real msn napster virgin etc. etc. - you get the picture!
"......As near as I can tell, the only people making a profit from iTMS are the labels......"
I was in a band whose catalog was recently added to the iTunes store and I was wondering if people are actually downloading any of the music? If so, how much money is being made? And who is getting it? Will I get any?
I remember everyone stood around laughing and joking one day back in the 80's after we signed a record deal with Beggars Banquet, and also everyone stood around laughing and joking a few months later when we signed a publishing deal with Warner, but that's about all I rememeber about the business side of things.
Maybe I should have called my lawyer to ask if I would get paid anything when that online music store opened twenty years in the future and the label was able to sell music online for free.
OK, you win!
Screw iPod, I'm getting me a gmini400
"10 Miles isn't anything special. We use normal 802.11 b and reach about 10 miles now, we just put a flat panel antenna and a 100mw Cisco 350 / 200mw Engenius bridge / 100 mw Smartbridge bridge at the client location. Simple."
You were lucky.
When I were lad, we'd have to string 10,000 empty baked beans tins together on a single hair, plucked from grandma's head, and forced to transmit the lords prayer a million times a second using nothing but a damp cloth and a broken tube of toothpaste.