All the better for preparing for the inevitable scrootch-gun battles with Gidney and Cloyd and their army of Monstrous Mechanical Metal-Munching Moon Mice.
"I used to be concerned and nervous about the future. Sometimes I'd get scared before an important event, such as childbirth, or a family funeral. Hey, sometimes you need a little help navigating life's trouble spots. That's when I discovered Equanox."
"After the divorce and losing little Tommy, life was getting me down. I couldn't focus on anything at work. After trying Equanox, I've been employee of the month three times in a row!"
"I used to fall unconscious for hours at a time, but now with Equanox, I never need to sleep!"
"Equanox is new, from Zaibatsu Pharmaceuticals. Ask your doctor about Equanox... today."
But the law was talking about electronic messages sent to a particular person. That definition includes IMs. I don't see that as much of a stretch myself.
the discovery that dark energy, or antigravity, was present at the formation of the universe. "...[T]he source of cosmic antigravity is the cosmological constant, a sort of fudge factor that Einstein inserted into his cosmological equations in 1917 to represent a cosmic repulsion embedded in space."
Revised: Nature has a love-hate relationship with vaccum.
I haven't followed this advice myself lately, but at times it has been recommended that one also watch the weekend repeat which is usually more polished. Compare the infamous episode alternately titled "Cartman Says..." or "It Hits the Fan" where sound effects were missing in the original airing, some prop continuity problems (the plate of cookies disappearing), some blocking corrections so Cartman wasn't obscured by the counter, and changing where background characters were looking, but then overall the lighting was darker, like it suffered generation loss in making the new version.
Another episode changed the music used, as if they used a song without permission in the first airing and they had to replace it for the later airdates (I think it was the one done as a skiing movie).
This is also why in seasons past the first airing date lacked closed captions.
Except that "its" is the possesive, because "it's" was already taken as the contraction for "it is". Arguing back grammar points without first checking is kind of silly.
You're silly! That's not why. No pronoun in this language takes an apostrophe to form a possessive. Not one.
An optical disk is a moving part! Or do you only listen to them by holding them up to your ear?
It's that it is a single part, readily separable from the hardware required to play it, that you should have emphasized. And still they can develop cracks at the spindle hole that get longer the more they're played, eventually extending past the hub and ruining the table of contents or CSS key making the rest of the disk inaccessible.
I still don't see the appeal of watching a movie on a screen that small.
No one wants to hold even a small device to their face for the duration of a long-format video. Even a 22-minute sitcom is pushing people's endurance. Maybe you could endure a 10-minute Adult Swim cartoon. If UMDs had been re-recordable by the end user, kids would be playing clips back for each other.
I'll do you one better. I have a VideoDisc player and three movies for it (it was the vinyl version of LaserDisc). Never used it as I received it in a non-working state (dead motor).
No matter how much training you took to build up your muscles, you'd run slower and slower every year, while requiring more and more food and health-care upgrades.
I could buy the DVDs, buy a portable hard drive and still have ~$150 to spare.
I've considered retrofitting a DVD player whose drive failed with a removable hard drive bay, formatted to look like a very high capacity DVD, containing ripped tracks from an entire series accessible through remastered menus.
Are there any rippers that can deconstruct a DVD into a DVD Studio Pro project file and assets?
"In a few years, you'll buy every episode of The West Wing on a drive the size of a deck of cards rather than on 45 DVDs in a box the size of your microwave oven."
Where can one find these microwave ovens that are only 3" x 7.5" x 11" (the dimensions of The West Wing complete series boxset)?
Indeed. However, a co-worker wanted his kids to see them in I-VI order, so he rented I-III and watched them before my remastered IV-VI set. (We didn't include Clone Wars either, nor the other earlier spinoffs (Droids, Ewoks, Wookie Christmas).) I thought it was a mistake. I think he really wanted to experience the movies in that order for the first time vicariously through them. (We did not watch them back-to-back on the same day!)
Compare subjecting a Star Trek virgin to Enterprise first. Or Back to the Future with the third movie's scenes set in 1885 first! Or even recutting Memento? Chronological order isn't necessarily the best way to watch anything.
The best part of episode V was the parentage revelation, and IV is just creepy with that Luke-Leia kiss.
Objects should have known their manufacturer and value. Then any copying of it with the CopyBot would deduct the value from the user of the CopyBot and credit the manufacturer. Copying does not change the manufacturer. And possibly an additional fee credited to the possessor of the object being copied, settable by that possessor. Thus the manufacturer could make unlimited copies as he'd be transferring Lindens to himself, and he reduces the need to maintain a point of vending as each customer becomes another point of sale. The purchasers would also have a motive for becoming points of sale (franchises?).
All such values would be non-negative and with protections in place to prevent overflow into negative value.
That's how I'd do it if I controlled the game environment.
The next question is should the manufacturer be able to change an object's value after sale, or should the first sale effective fix the maximum price of the object, unable to be increased to increase profit from demand?
Also necessary would be the inability of creating a device that can reverse engineer an object, thus remanufacturing it rather than copying it. Perhaps CopyBot is technically a reverse engineering and remanufacturing tool. But then, they should have enough control over the world to destroy all CopyBots too.
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All the better for preparing for the inevitable scrootch-gun battles with Gidney and Cloyd and their army of Monstrous Mechanical Metal-Munching Moon Mice.
"I used to be concerned and nervous about the future. Sometimes I'd get scared before an important event, such as childbirth, or a family funeral. Hey, sometimes you need a little help navigating life's trouble spots. That's when I discovered Equanox."
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"After the divorce and losing little Tommy, life was getting me down. I couldn't focus on anything at work. After trying Equanox, I've been employee of the month three times in a row!"
"I used to fall unconscious for hours at a time, but now with Equanox, I never need to sleep!"
"Equanox is new, from Zaibatsu Pharmaceuticals. Ask your doctor about Equanox... today."
"Equanoxmaycausenausea lossofsleep blurredvision leakage kidneyproblemsandbreathingirregularities. DonottakeEquanoxifyouareoperatinganymachinery drivingacar pregnant achildoflowage unhappyorifyourfamilyhasahistoryofmentaldisorders
"Equanox. Softening life's harsh realities."
My grandfather failed out of school because he preferred to go hunting over going to class.
Kids these days find ways to co[lu]mbine the two.
"Try a Tube Shot!"
But the law was talking about electronic messages sent to a particular person. That definition includes IMs. I don't see that as much of a stretch myself.
Except that it doesn't say "electronic messages", it literally says "electronic mail". RTFS (Read The F*#king Statute)!
from the like-our-shiny-new-icon? dept.
Yes. Nice Wiicon.
the discovery that dark energy, or antigravity, was present at the formation of the universe. "...[T]he source of cosmic antigravity is the cosmological constant, a sort of fudge factor that Einstein inserted into his cosmological equations in 1917 to represent a cosmic repulsion embedded in space."
Revised: Nature has a love-hate relationship with vaccum.
I haven't followed this advice myself lately, but at times it has been recommended that one also watch the weekend repeat which is usually more polished. Compare the infamous episode alternately titled "Cartman Says..." or "It Hits the Fan" where sound effects were missing in the original airing, some prop continuity problems (the plate of cookies disappearing), some blocking corrections so Cartman wasn't obscured by the counter, and changing where background characters were looking, but then overall the lighting was darker, like it suffered generation loss in making the new version.
Another episode changed the music used, as if they used a song without permission in the first airing and they had to replace it for the later airdates (I think it was the one done as a skiing movie).
This is also why in seasons past the first airing date lacked closed captions.
Spinning gold rings began to appear in the air and on the ground, and as users interacted with them they began to chase and replicate.
Any chance this was accompanied by a sound, something akin to sharpening knives?
How on earth is this story anything like 1984?
We have always been at war with the RIAA.
Except that "its" is the possesive, because "it's" was already taken as the contraction for "it is". Arguing back grammar points without first checking is kind of silly.
You're silly! That's not why. No pronoun in this language takes an apostrophe to form a possessive. Not one.
Hard Drives have moving parts
Optical Disks don't
An optical disk is a moving part! Or do you only listen to them by holding them up to your ear?
It's that it is a single part, readily separable from the hardware required to play it, that you should have emphasized. And still they can develop cracks at the spindle hole that get longer the more they're played, eventually extending past the hub and ruining the table of contents or CSS key making the rest of the disk inaccessible.
I still don't see the appeal of watching a movie on a screen that small.
No one wants to hold even a small device to their face for the duration of a long-format video. Even a 22-minute sitcom is pushing people's endurance. Maybe you could endure a 10-minute Adult Swim cartoon. If UMDs had been re-recordable by the end user, kids would be playing clips back for each other.
I'll do you one better. I have a VideoDisc player and three movies for it (it was the vinyl version of LaserDisc). Never used it as I received it in a non-working state (dead motor).
Minidisc was meant to replace audio cassettes and nothing more. It was never, ever intended to replace audio CDs.
Doubly stupid then. Audio CDs replaced both vinyl and audio cassettes, especially once CD-Rs became plentiful and cheap.
Post up anyone who buys RIAA-tariffed Music CD-R media.
No matter how much training you took to build up your muscles, you'd run slower and slower every year, while requiring more and more food and health-care upgrades.
So, no different than it is now, huh?
I could buy the DVDs, buy a portable hard drive and still have ~$150 to spare.
I've considered retrofitting a DVD player whose drive failed with a removable hard drive bay, formatted to look like a very high capacity DVD, containing ripped tracks from an entire series accessible through remastered menus.
Are there any rippers that can deconstruct a DVD into a DVD Studio Pro project file and assets?
One word for this guy: Portability
"Why would I want to drink my videos?"
"That's potability, Caboose!"
Marketing is like a joke. If you have to explain it to your audience, it's failed.
There's having to explain it to your audience and then there's your audience desiring an explanation.
It's the difference between approaching marketing as presenting a joke and approaching it as presenting a puzzle or unsolved mystery.
The ad works when it leaves the audience wanting to know more, which leads to them coming to you to find out more. You've drawn them in.
Indeed. However, a co-worker wanted his kids to see them in I-VI order, so he rented I-III and watched them before my remastered IV-VI set. (We didn't include Clone Wars either, nor the other earlier spinoffs (Droids, Ewoks, Wookie Christmas).) I thought it was a mistake. I think he really wanted to experience the movies in that order for the first time vicariously through them. (We did not watch them back-to-back on the same day!)
Compare subjecting a Star Trek virgin to Enterprise first. Or Back to the Future with the third movie's scenes set in 1885 first! Or even recutting Memento? Chronological order isn't necessarily the best way to watch anything.
The best part of episode V was the parentage revelation, and IV is just creepy with that Luke-Leia kiss.
Objects should have known their manufacturer and value. Then any copying of it with the CopyBot would deduct the value from the user of the CopyBot and credit the manufacturer. Copying does not change the manufacturer. And possibly an additional fee credited to the possessor of the object being copied, settable by that possessor. Thus the manufacturer could make unlimited copies as he'd be transferring Lindens to himself, and he reduces the need to maintain a point of vending as each customer becomes another point of sale. The purchasers would also have a motive for becoming points of sale (franchises?).
All such values would be non-negative and with protections in place to prevent overflow into negative value.
That's how I'd do it if I controlled the game environment.
The next question is should the manufacturer be able to change an object's value after sale, or should the first sale effective fix the maximum price of the object, unable to be increased to increase profit from demand?
Also necessary would be the inability of creating a device that can reverse engineer an object, thus remanufacturing it rather than copying it. Perhaps CopyBot is technically a reverse engineering and remanufacturing tool. But then, they should have enough control over the world to destroy all CopyBots too.
When I read "community-developed artwork" I thought, "Snakes on a PC".
These are quite nice.
It seems like every time someone mentions keyboardless computing I have ten more web forms with required text fields to type into.
Or they're asking for food: "Na-na na-na na-na na-na, fish me..."