Boxes of old video tapes (replaced with DVDs), cassettes and LPs (replaced with CDs). Boxes of old 5 1/4 inch and 3 1/2 inch floppies, gathering dust. Think of all the money thrown away on now useless/obsolete media! I for one welcome the day where we don't have to invest in physical media and everything is available on demand.
Its not just DVDs going away - its all removable media. When broadband is fast and ubiquitous and everything is stored on servers (On Demand video, music, data, etc.) there is no need to manufacture, buy and store a bunch of physical records, tapes, CDs, and DVDs. The floppy disk is already gone, the rest is on the way.
I can't see Neo saying "Whoa" about a Matrix that was just 2 by 2. Seriously, am I the only one who thought this was a Matrix Movie related topic at first glance?
fake@fake.com used to be my favourite, but I've recently found that many web sites wont accept input to domains like "fake" and "somewhere". I have resort to using addresses like fake@yahoo.com and the like to get past the validation.
Where I used to work, the went through a number of cute receptionists. They found that the programmers wasted a lot of time by flirting with them during the day, hanging out by the entrance, etc. So they instutitued a new (unofficial) policy - no more good looking, young receptionists. After that, we went thru a slew of 60-somethings, all pleasent, hardworking people, and the productivity of the coders soared! Reverse discrimination?
In the city, people are always reading - primarily on busses and subways, it seems. You cannot read in your car, which tends to limit the reading habits of suburbanites. More people are living in the suburbs now than 50 or even 20 years ago, ergo less people are reading. Time is in shorter supply for everyone, which adds to the trend.
Obviously an over simplification, but just one observation that may help to explain the trend.
Thats unusual - usually they use small paper cups (about 5oz or so, I'm guessing). Still way too big, but I guess that's to accomodate folks that order doubles and triples.
Agreed, although Starbucks usually does have both a "dark" and "light" brew available. One of the local shops will grind you whatever you want and give you a french press, which is definately superior. I would go there more often, but its too darn smokey. Which is another thing in Starbucks favor - they are all non-smoking. (Not an issue, I guess, for folks in no smoking states like CA and NY)
I can't believe I'm defending "The Man", but here goes:
I order a small (tall, ok the naming is stupid) black coffee about 3 times a week from starbucks. For the last 10 years. And I have never once been given any attitude. In fact, a couple times my coffee was free because there was a delay while they made a fresh pot. Oh, and the coffee is not $4.00, it's like $1.35. Four bucks gets you a venti mocha frappa whatsits with whip cream, which I never order. And as others have pointed out, if people didn't go the stores they wouldnt be opening them.
Nope. Look at BatMan and ManBat (for the real comic geeks). The dominant species is second, the first is an adjective. Spider Man is a MAN who has spider-like qualities, so hes a Spider MAN. (Think, what kind of man? A spider-man). The other way around, he would be a spider with man-like qualties, a Man-Spider if you will.
This is just marketing 101 - any organization needs to choose which customers it wants to server, and either try to convert customers that don't meet its desired profile, or not cater to those customers at all. That said, I'm personally boycotting Best Buy for three reasons as it is:
1. Those damn rebate slips!
2. Constant pressure to buy useless extended warrenty, even when I tell them in plain English that I don't want it.
3. After purchasing a washer and dryer at Best Buy and paying to have them installed, after three attempts of coming to my house they were still unable to get the darn thing installed. (First time they broke my exhaust hose then proceded to leave a big stinking dump in my bathroom, second time didnt have necessary parts and didnt know what parts I needed to purchase to make it work, etc). In the end, I installed it myself with a couple friends.
Who points out the mistakes of the mistakes? In come cases I don't agree with those on the list, in others they are flat-out wrong. For example, there is a complaint that when he is getting drunk at the bar, Harry drops and breaks his champaigne glass and is later seen drinking out of a glass. But if you look closely, you can clearly see him reaching for a fresh glass after his first one breaks.
Actually, in a way it seems that the spiderman movie takes place in the 60s (like the comic). The moon reference definately seemed out of place in 2004, but not in the original comic series back when people were going to the moon. Of course, its just a movie, and a comic book movie at that, so it really exists in some sort of timeless, fantasy world anyway.
I was a grad student working in an aerospace engineering lab in 1986. We had what I believe were HP 1000 computers (not sure of the model number) for data collection. These were non-DOS or Unix, proprietaty OS. For some reason the copy command for this OS was actually a "copy and replace" command, so that when I attempted to copy a floppy disk to the hard drive, in fact I replaced the entire contents of the hard drive with the contents of the floppy. Research, software, files...all lost. Hmmm come to think of it, I never DID graduate from that program - maybe now I know why!
Or is there no "preview" mode. I might be tempted to buy a song or two, but I'm only familiar with a couple of TMBG songs, so I would want to hear what I'm getting first.
Problem with the iMac is, you have to change the monitor when you change computers (problem with the original macs too). Wish they would bring back a desktop box (Dual G5 servers too expensive, not for mass consumption) that was affordable. I have an old Mac monitor in my basement gathering dust - no modern screenless macs I would buy to plug it into, though!
Slightly off topic, but is anyone else sick of the "i" prefix yet? iMac, iTunes, iLife, iPod - time to give it a rest.
My first computer was a C64, and I first learned to program in high school on a PET (8k, chicklet keyboard, built-in casette drive) - it seems almost sacreligous to be nameing music players off of great, class computers like the Vic 20 and PET. If they bring those names back, they really should be for full-fledged computers.
I was in Vegas in February and asked my cab driver about the monorail - he said most cabbies were all for it, even the extension to the airport, since it would reduce congestion. The thinking was that people who take cabs now are going to continue to take cabs - they don't want to be inconvenienced by hauling their luggage to a train and crowding in with a bunch of other people. The shuttle bus drivers, though, are the ones that stand to lose business.
And is it just me, or does Dashboard resemble 20-year old technology in the form of the old TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) apps for the PC, like sidekick for DOS . Seems Hardly "revolutionary".
Well, they USED to make great, high quality stuff. I still use my circa 1987 HP calculator, and their lab equipment was second to none. I bought an HP laptop a year ago and havent had any problems yet, but its too soon to tell. So far, so good though.
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Boxes of old video tapes (replaced with DVDs), cassettes and LPs (replaced with CDs). Boxes of old 5 1/4 inch and 3 1/2 inch floppies, gathering dust. Think of all the money thrown away on now useless/obsolete media! I for one welcome the day where we don't have to invest in physical media and everything is available on demand.
Its not just DVDs going away - its all removable media. When broadband is fast and ubiquitous and everything is stored on servers (On Demand video, music, data, etc.) there is no need to manufacture, buy and store a bunch of physical records, tapes, CDs, and DVDs. The floppy disk is already gone, the rest is on the way.
I'd be interested in an SE, SE/30 or Mac Plus - dont see the posting for your site yet?
I can't see Neo saying "Whoa" about a Matrix that was just 2 by 2. Seriously, am I the only one who thought this was a Matrix Movie related topic at first glance?
I would gladly get paid 10 cents for a weeks worth of work, if that was 10 cents from potentially millions of people.
fake@fake.com used to be my favourite, but I've recently found that many web sites wont accept input to domains like "fake" and "somewhere". I have resort to using addresses like fake@yahoo.com and the like to get past the validation.
Where I used to work, the went through a number of cute receptionists. They found that the programmers wasted a lot of time by flirting with them during the day, hanging out by the entrance, etc. So they instutitued a new (unofficial) policy - no more good looking, young receptionists. After that, we went thru a slew of 60-somethings, all pleasent, hardworking people, and the productivity of the coders soared! Reverse discrimination?
Obviously an over simplification, but just one observation that may help to explain the trend.
Thats unusual - usually they use small paper cups (about 5oz or so, I'm guessing). Still way too big, but I guess that's to accomodate folks that order doubles and triples.
Agreed, although Starbucks usually does have both a "dark" and "light" brew available. One of the local shops will grind you whatever you want and give you a french press, which is definately superior. I would go there more often, but its too darn smokey. Which is another thing in Starbucks favor - they are all non-smoking. (Not an issue, I guess, for folks in no smoking states like CA and NY)
I order a small (tall, ok the naming is stupid) black coffee about 3 times a week from starbucks. For the last 10 years. And I have never once been given any attitude. In fact, a couple times my coffee was free because there was a delay while they made a fresh pot. Oh, and the coffee is not $4.00, it's like $1.35. Four bucks gets you a venti mocha frappa whatsits with whip cream, which I never order. And as others have pointed out, if people didn't go the stores they wouldnt be opening them.
easy - many people do their best thinking in the John.
20 million each, if memory serves.
Nope. Look at BatMan and ManBat (for the real comic geeks). The dominant species is second, the first is an adjective. Spider Man is a MAN who has spider-like qualities, so hes a Spider MAN. (Think, what kind of man? A spider-man). The other way around, he would be a spider with man-like qualties, a Man-Spider if you will.
1. Those damn rebate slips!
2. Constant pressure to buy useless extended warrenty, even when I tell them in plain English that I don't want it.
3. After purchasing a washer and dryer at Best Buy and paying to have them installed, after three attempts of coming to my house they were still unable to get the darn thing installed. (First time they broke my exhaust hose then proceded to leave a big stinking dump in my bathroom, second time didnt have necessary parts and didnt know what parts I needed to purchase to make it work, etc). In the end, I installed it myself with a couple friends.
Yes, I have no life.
Actually, in a way it seems that the spiderman movie takes place in the 60s (like the comic). The moon reference definately seemed out of place in 2004, but not in the original comic series back when people were going to the moon. Of course, its just a movie, and a comic book movie at that, so it really exists in some sort of timeless, fantasy world anyway.
I was a grad student working in an aerospace engineering lab in 1986. We had what I believe were HP 1000 computers (not sure of the model number) for data collection. These were non-DOS or Unix, proprietaty OS. For some reason the copy command for this OS was actually a "copy and replace" command, so that when I attempted to copy a floppy disk to the hard drive, in fact I replaced the entire contents of the hard drive with the contents of the floppy. Research, software, files...all lost. Hmmm come to think of it, I never DID graduate from that program - maybe now I know why!
Or is there no "preview" mode. I might be tempted to buy a song or two, but I'm only familiar with a couple of TMBG songs, so I would want to hear what I'm getting first.
Slightly off topic, but is anyone else sick of the "i" prefix yet? iMac, iTunes, iLife, iPod - time to give it a rest.
It was the 2001 PET. Funky rubbery keys that the letters (and cool old PET graphics symbols) would wear off of.
My first computer was a C64, and I first learned to program in high school on a PET (8k, chicklet keyboard, built-in casette drive) - it seems almost sacreligous to be nameing music players off of great, class computers like the Vic 20 and PET. If they bring those names back, they really should be for full-fledged computers.
I was in Vegas in February and asked my cab driver about the monorail - he said most cabbies were all for it, even the extension to the airport, since it would reduce congestion. The thinking was that people who take cabs now are going to continue to take cabs - they don't want to be inconvenienced by hauling their luggage to a train and crowding in with a bunch of other people. The shuttle bus drivers, though, are the ones that stand to lose business.
And is it just me, or does Dashboard resemble 20-year old technology in the form of the old TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) apps for the PC, like sidekick for DOS . Seems Hardly "revolutionary".
Well, they USED to make great, high quality stuff. I still use my circa 1987 HP calculator, and their lab equipment was second to none. I bought an HP laptop a year ago and havent had any problems yet, but its too soon to tell. So far, so good though.