My cellphone isn't bulky, in fact it's downright tiny. Now I would find that having to hold a brick to my head to make a phone call would be more offensive than just carrying around a cell phone and a PDA, but that's just me.
You're also ignoring the fact that a lot of the time, what you (or at least I) talk about on your cell phone is what's on your PDA. People call me to schedule me for freelance work, and my schedule is, of course, on my PDA. If the PDA was my cell phone, well, that would suck immensely.
Or you can just buy a separate cell phone and PDA. What's wrong with buying individual, specialized devices that are good at what they are specifically designed to do, instead of all-in-one devices that by definition have to be compromises?
As others have mentioned, they make good hardware. I have an Intellimouse Explorer Trackball, probably the best mouse I've ever used. Before that I had a Logitech Trackman Marble FX, but a) the Explorer has more buttons, and b) it broke down and, get this, Logitech doesn't make a version that isn't wireless anymore. How lame is that? Come on, my computer's right here, I don't want to have to broadcast my mouse movements to the world to get to my computer 5 feet away, I don't want the extra lag, and I don't want to replace batteries all the time, especially in the middle of a game.
Maybe you would go through fewer hard drives if you weren't such a pack rat. Delete games when you're not gonna play 'em anymore, delete music you never listen to, delete movies you don't watch, or burn that stuff to CD and store it. It's quite easy to fill a 200 GB drive in three months without trying, just don't delete anything! It takes work to keep your hard drives clean. I guarantee that at least 100 GB of it is stuff you'll never look at ever again. A GB is a LOT of data, no matter how much total capacity you have.
It already does. There's a good 2-10 seconds between when the photons enter the camera and when they come out on your screen, depending on where the original photons are relative to where you are. The video signal path even takes so much longer to get through a production setup than the audio that audio devices in master control have to take this into account and delay the audio slightly before it is broadcast.
Usually, they just make up a network (like "ZNN" in JAG), or just don't show a logo in the corner at all. Yes, I know it's hard to remember, but there was a time when television networks didn't constantly show a big logo in the corner of the screen.
Wait'll you see what it's like for a drummer. Drives the neighbors crazy, it does. Though I've had a suprisingly cool (or at least sonically insulated) collection of neighbors. Only been busted by the police once, and that's just 'cause they were driving by and heard the racket. At 2 am.
Now, when performing the piece if you start out slow and pretty and get the audience to say "Ooooooo," and then play it faster and faster until they say "Ahhhhhh!", that, of course, is the "Fireworks" method of playing.
Also known as the "Drummer could use some work on his time" method of playing. The "Ahhhhhh!" in this case being the screams of the audience at having to listen to another terrible bar band. Used to happen to me quite a bit when I drank a lot of sodas to get some caffeine in me so I could stay awake for sets. Yeah, I was awake. Maybe a little... too awake. Things are better now that I don't have a day job, I work in television and the hours tend to be when people are watching TV, believe it or not.
Say, got any clips of your compositions? I'd love to hear them. I'll show you mine if you show me yours. =D
It was awfully hard to tell, what with the billion product placements for Fox all over the movie. Every single news station they tune to is a Fox station.
Ah, so you're just doing the whole music thing for the chicks. Say no more, say no more.
But yeah, that's pretty much how I approach doing anything artistic. When something just looks or sounds right, just do it, don't try to over-cerebralize it or you'll lose it. From now on, though, I think I'll call it the "Ooh, Shiny" method of composition. =D
That was the best description of the artistic process I've ever seen. I've worked in local theater a couple times and talked to the directors about the symbolism in their work, and the response was usually something like "Well, I didn't put that in there, but hey, that actually works, doesn't it?"
The artists who create the most successful works, in my experience, are the ones who aren't focusing too much on the deeper meaning, they're just doing whatever the equivalent of "ooh, shiny" is for their medium. If there just happens to be a deeper meaning they can ascribe to it when they're done with it, all the better. Thinking too much about your art is a very bad thing, all you end up with is art from the head, not the heart, and it just doesn't come across as well.
As you can probably tell, I am now extremely cynical about anyone talking about the "obvious symbolism" in a work unless what they're talking about serves absolutely no other purpose than to be a blindingly obvious symbol.
I would certainly trust the engineering of someone who's smart enough to get into MIT. Note that they didn't tie into the elevator controls, only the lights that showed what floor the elevator was on.
Dude, these people are students at MIT, probably majoring in engineering. I think they can figure out the safety implications of what they're doing. The people who did that hack are probably out designing things you use today, and you haven't died yet.
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My cellphone isn't bulky, in fact it's downright tiny. Now I would find that having to hold a brick to my head to make a phone call would be more offensive than just carrying around a cell phone and a PDA, but that's just me.
You're also ignoring the fact that a lot of the time, what you (or at least I) talk about on your cell phone is what's on your PDA. People call me to schedule me for freelance work, and my schedule is, of course, on my PDA. If the PDA was my cell phone, well, that would suck immensely.
Or you can just buy a separate cell phone and PDA. What's wrong with buying individual, specialized devices that are good at what they are specifically designed to do, instead of all-in-one devices that by definition have to be compromises?
USians just want phones that are phones.
And the huge popularity of camera phones proves this.
Oh, wait...
But yeah, I agree, I just want a phone that makes calls and doesn't play a stupid song when I get a call.
As others have mentioned, they make good hardware. I have an Intellimouse Explorer Trackball, probably the best mouse I've ever used. Before that I had a Logitech Trackman Marble FX, but a) the Explorer has more buttons, and b) it broke down and, get this, Logitech doesn't make a version that isn't wireless anymore. How lame is that? Come on, my computer's right here, I don't want to have to broadcast my mouse movements to the world to get to my computer 5 feet away, I don't want the extra lag, and I don't want to replace batteries all the time, especially in the middle of a game.
Maybe you would go through fewer hard drives if you weren't such a pack rat. Delete games when you're not gonna play 'em anymore, delete music you never listen to, delete movies you don't watch, or burn that stuff to CD and store it. It's quite easy to fill a 200 GB drive in three months without trying, just don't delete anything! It takes work to keep your hard drives clean. I guarantee that at least 100 GB of it is stuff you'll never look at ever again. A GB is a LOT of data, no matter how much total capacity you have.
They're protecting you from the enormous burden of having all that extra money in your wallet, duh.
WTF are you talking about? I use EAC all the time on Win2K. I've ripped about 15 GB of music with it.
I-35 splits into 35W and 35E in both the Minneapolis/St Paul and Dallas/Ft Worth areas.
It already does. There's a good 2-10 seconds between when the photons enter the camera and when they come out on your screen, depending on where the original photons are relative to where you are. The video signal path even takes so much longer to get through a production setup than the audio that audio devices in master control have to take this into account and delay the audio slightly before it is broadcast.
IIRC, Magrat had zero curves at all and extremely frizzy hair.
For that you should have bought Paint Shop Pro, though admittedly every version since 6.0 has been junk.
Can it suggest an alternate route if the shortest route has heavy traffic?
Cue cards. And being familiar with your copy.
"Dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't have a space program."
Says everything, really.
Usually, they just make up a network (like "ZNN" in JAG), or just don't show a logo in the corner at all. Yes, I know it's hard to remember, but there was a time when television networks didn't constantly show a big logo in the corner of the screen.
Just drives the women crazy, that does.
Wait'll you see what it's like for a drummer. Drives the neighbors crazy, it does. Though I've had a suprisingly cool (or at least sonically insulated) collection of neighbors. Only been busted by the police once, and that's just 'cause they were driving by and heard the racket. At 2 am. Now, when performing the piece if you start out slow and pretty and get the audience to say "Ooooooo," and then play it faster and faster until they say "Ahhhhhh!", that, of course, is the "Fireworks" method of playing.
Also known as the "Drummer could use some work on his time" method of playing. The "Ahhhhhh!" in this case being the screams of the audience at having to listen to another terrible bar band. Used to happen to me quite a bit when I drank a lot of sodas to get some caffeine in me so I could stay awake for sets. Yeah, I was awake. Maybe a little... too awake. Things are better now that I don't have a day job, I work in television and the hours tend to be when people are watching TV, believe it or not.
Say, got any clips of your compositions? I'd love to hear them. I'll show you mine if you show me yours. =D
Wasn't that a FOX picture???
It was awfully hard to tell, what with the billion product placements for Fox all over the movie. Every single news station they tune to is a Fox station.
I hope she likes it.
Ah, so you're just doing the whole music thing for the chicks. Say no more, say no more.
But yeah, that's pretty much how I approach doing anything artistic. When something just looks or sounds right, just do it, don't try to over-cerebralize it or you'll lose it. From now on, though, I think I'll call it the "Ooh, Shiny" method of composition. =D
'cause I want one.
That was the best description of the artistic process I've ever seen. I've worked in local theater a couple times and talked to the directors about the symbolism in their work, and the response was usually something like "Well, I didn't put that in there, but hey, that actually works, doesn't it?"
The artists who create the most successful works, in my experience, are the ones who aren't focusing too much on the deeper meaning, they're just doing whatever the equivalent of "ooh, shiny" is for their medium. If there just happens to be a deeper meaning they can ascribe to it when they're done with it, all the better. Thinking too much about your art is a very bad thing, all you end up with is art from the head, not the heart, and it just doesn't come across as well.
As you can probably tell, I am now extremely cynical about anyone talking about the "obvious symbolism" in a work unless what they're talking about serves absolutely no other purpose than to be a blindingly obvious symbol.
Don't get me wrong, Hacks are definitely illegal in every way. But that doesn't mean you can't appreciate their sheer ingenuity.
I would certainly trust the engineering of someone who's smart enough to get into MIT. Note that they didn't tie into the elevator controls, only the lights that showed what floor the elevator was on.
Dude, these people are students at MIT, probably majoring in engineering. I think they can figure out the safety implications of what they're doing. The people who did that hack are probably out designing things you use today, and you haven't died yet.
We have a ton of air traffic controllers whose job it is to keep the planes 5 miles apart from each other at all times.
Good idea, but how could you sue the theater? You're on private property with a forbidden recording device. Seems pretty clear-cut to me.