It's easy when you start from nothing. The Eastern bloc had Soviet-era crap (meaning no progress since 1945)
We had a lot of... imported technology.:D The technology side wasn't really that bad, the economics and lack of freedom is what sucked. Not that those areas are perfect now...
Did he read books, magazines and newspapers? The movie penetration these days is very high. It's not that it's impossible to communicate without movies or books, it's just harder to find common ground. IMHO culture is a very powerfull thing, and that so much of it (that would be the last 70 years of most movies, music and books) is controled by a relatively small group of people and corporations (mostly those who have the marketing money to push their works into maintream) does make me worry about the future.
Tell that to the people creating laws for copyright protection...:-D
It's not really about my friends here, it's about culture wich forms the the way people speak and act. Do you really believe movies don't do that? Common culture gives people common ground for communication.
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Stylus fencing! Even misspellings can produce game ideas.
You fail.
I am. :-(
And your memory must be failing in the old age, because they didn't use the ratings back than.
You must be a politican, you sound like one.
Latvian, no electronic here, all hand counted.
How many words are in this sentence?
Paper in one hand, pen in the other. All the voting machine I need and want.
It's the election not some radio receiving test, there should be no anomalies.
Never, but I tried to return the chickens once. :-P
Without early adopters you would be paying more...
Ain't marketing grand?
And the last is worst when used alone and compromised.
Originaly created to take care of the student... errr... physical needs?
6- Wheight. My headphones aren't lightweight as is, adding batteries won't help. The 3m cord is enough for me.
Am I the only one that likes wired peripherals better than the overhead added by wireless?
Not that obscure. Why would you rather have a 256 color bimtmat format (GIF) rather than a complete vector format?
As a content creator I would love to have more public domain material to work with...
It's sealed perfectly safe, perfectly safe!
*waves hands, mutters that cancer will kill him before him knows what hit him*
Did he read books, magazines and newspapers? The movie penetration these days is very high. It's not that it's impossible to communicate without movies or books, it's just harder to find common ground. IMHO culture is a very powerfull thing, and that so much of it (that would be the last 70 years of most movies, music and books) is controled by a relatively small group of people and corporations (mostly those who have the marketing money to push their works into maintream) does make me worry about the future.
It's not really about my friends here, it's about culture wich forms the the way people speak and act. Do you really believe movies don't do that? Common culture gives people common ground for communication.
Don't they both dress in suites? Politicans, lawyers... This isn't such a bad idea afterall!
A gun in a gun safe isn't very useful for self defence, is it?