It's gotten so bad in the virtual worlds that I've given them up and have been forced to take up exercise and reading. God, I'm getting smarter and healthier, someone help me!
Anyone who smokes who's concerned about the health effects of the habit really should try to quit.
I promised three years ago that after quitting smoking I wouldn't become a preachy ex-smoker, but I don't think anyone would incredulously look upon my claim that my life is much, much better without cigarettes in it. I could go on about it ad nauseum, but I won't.
When Hollywood gets ahold of this idea, they'll have teenagers or terrorists or someone cracking into ATMs and watching the security camera or changing the picture on the currency or some ridiculous thing.
No, it was TWIKI! And there's his picture on twiki.org, just like I remember him. Ah, fond memories of my youth. The only robot I'd ever seen to utter the words, "Eat lead, sucker," when blasting a bad guy during a spaceship dogfight. For a second, I got confused between Twiki, Peepo, and the tiny robot from Jason of Star Command.
Bah, back in my day we didn't have Pascal or Pasquale or whatever you call it. We ran the whole space program using a couple of monkeys, an abacus, and a coat we borrowed from James Dean. We didn't even have spacesuits. All we had was thermal underwear made out of lemon peels, and Vice President Sinatra personally pulled the string that launced us into space. Spacesuits and software, flibby floo!
Wasn't there a supposed hoo-ha a few years back when Bill Gates made some comment about the pace of innovation in the computer industry versus the automtive industry, and the auto industry shot back by listing the quirks that would be evident in a Windows-based automobile? Stuff like "Twice a day the car will crash," and so on.
Thanks to years of inactivity caused by having robots do all our work for us, in the end we'll be carried out of our houses by robot paramedics and taken to the robot hospital to have our clogged-up human hearts removed and replaced with robot hearts by the robot surgeons.
Isn't that kind of how the Cybermen got going? Will the Doctor have to stop us from trying to take over the universe?
The amazing thing is that they all did it from their parents' basements.
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I keep thinking of analogies to what this hip-e computer represents. First thing I thought of is the girl who wants a pair Calvin Klein jeans so her parents take her to Old Navy. Or the boy who really wants a 1969 Mustang so his dad buys him a 1969 Nova. Or the kid who wants Yu-Gi-Oh stuff so his parents buy him Pokemon stuff.
Seriously, what does this computer do, transform into a bug or something? Why does it look like that? It looks like it should be hanging down into the crib of a deranged infant. Or something.
"It's everything you want in a computer..." Huh. Yeah.
I hate the thought that the government might decide to enforce other countries' web content laws when it comes to American websites, but I could see it happening, slowly, bit by bit (no pun intended).
"Sure," they drawl as they handcuff a webmaster and load his computer into the paddy wagon next to him, "Your site is protected Free Speech here in the USA, but we got a complaint from the Saudi Arabian authorities about it, so we have no choice but to take you into custody so that they can press charges against you. Sorry, but in accordance with Saudi Arabian law, you don't get access to a lawyer, your hands will be chopped off, and any women coming to visit you in jail will be enslaved."
Is this going to start happening? Sure would be a great way to keep private citizens off of the web.
I'll tell you what Kirk would do... he'd let Spock & Scotty worry about getting the plasma whoosiwhatsis working while he took off to go seduce the high priestess, that's what Kirk would do.
I'm really good at smashing windows and puncturing tires with icepicks, and that's all I want to do with my time, but no-one will hire me to do that legitimately, so I have to set up shop doing it for for shady, anonymous people. I can't help it, it's the economy. Once things pick up, I hope to reform myself and dedicate my life to morally correct window-smashing and tire-puncturing. So I can certainly understand where the young hacker is coming from.
Yeah, I'm with you on the problem with/. being rendered weird on Firefox.
I've gotten people off of Explorer and onto Firefox, but on a couple of occasions, they've noticed some single feature lacking (or apparently lacking, since some features are just activated differently), and they go right back to Explorer, like a battered wife who goes back to her abusive husband because she misses his famous potato pancakes. And then I have to go back over to their house and try to get the damn spyware and browser hijacks off of their computers again.
This reminds me of a kind of awful movie I saw late at night in a hotel room. The movie, which I think was called X Change, had that blond-haired Baldwin brother in it, and he had this special card that he had to keep in a little pouch or else this tiny little robot airplane would find him and blow him up. He needed the card for ID purposes, so he couldn't ditch it, but every moment he had it out the people who were after him would get one step closer. So the little black pouch was a tinfoil hat for his ID card. As far as RFID driver licenses, I think it's an awful idea. It doesn't even sound good on paper to me, and in reality I think it's going to be a disaster. The fact is that the government people aren't as up on the technology as the criminals are who are waiting in the wings to exploit it, as is often the case, and once people start suffering as a result, all RFID technology will be seen by the general public as questionable, and by the religious nuts as a sign of the End Times.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I still find myself having to explain what a web browser is to 90% of the people I know that use the internet. Many of these people think that their web browser is called "MSN" or "Yahoo." They pull up a portal site as their home page and actually enter URLs into the search window and wait for the portal site to give them the link. I try to tell them about the wonders of Firefox, and they stare at me blankly and say, "But I'm perfectly happy with Yahoo."
The tape deck and radio combo, which I remember so fondly from my youth (oh, those uncensored Canadian radio broadcasts... sigh...) requires the user to actually be there to press the buttons.
This RadioShark thingy will change the station and press the button for you while you're away, as far as I can tell.
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... you have twenty seconds to comply... ... rrrr ... you now have fifteen seconds to comply...
Whoa, slow it down, man, one step at a time, one step at a time!
It's gotten so bad in the virtual worlds that I've given them up and have been forced to take up exercise and reading. God, I'm getting smarter and healthier, someone help me!
Anyone who smokes who's concerned about the health effects of the habit really should try to quit.
I promised three years ago that after quitting smoking I wouldn't become a preachy ex-smoker, but I don't think anyone would incredulously look upon my claim that my life is much, much better without cigarettes in it. I could go on about it ad nauseum, but I won't.
They do cover both sides but the coverage is heavily tilted against Republicans.
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Click on the RealAudio icon in the bluish box entitled In this show, a This American Life Special Report: Vote Fraud.
When Hollywood gets ahold of this idea, they'll have teenagers or terrorists or someone cracking into ATMs and watching the security camera or changing the picture on the currency or some ridiculous thing.
No, Wiki was the tiny robot on Jason of Star Command I've since rediscovered. Go to this page and scroll down: http://www.70slivekidvid.com/jason.htm
I remember it... I was just a lad, but I do remember. Saturday mornings.
No, it was TWIKI! And there's his picture on twiki.org, just like I remember him. Ah, fond memories of my youth. The only robot I'd ever seen to utter the words, "Eat lead, sucker," when blasting a bad guy during a spaceship dogfight. For a second, I got confused between Twiki, Peepo, and the tiny robot from Jason of Star Command.
You mean that robot from Buck Rogers who had Dr. Theopolis hanging around his neck? Wasn't his name Wiki?
The irony is that all the women playing the game were actually guys pretending to be women.
Seriously, though, this guy could end up with a lawsuit on his hands. I think he would be wise to issue a public apology pretty soon.
I am pleasantly surprised to find my school ranked as #13 overall, ahead of Boston University, even!
Bah, back in my day we didn't have Pascal or Pasquale or whatever you call it. We ran the whole space program using a couple of monkeys, an abacus, and a coat we borrowed from James Dean. We didn't even have spacesuits. All we had was thermal underwear made out of lemon peels, and Vice President Sinatra personally pulled the string that launced us into space. Spacesuits and software, flibby floo!
Wasn't there a supposed hoo-ha a few years back when Bill Gates made some comment about the pace of innovation in the computer industry versus the automtive industry, and the auto industry shot back by listing the quirks that would be evident in a Windows-based automobile? Stuff like "Twice a day the car will crash," and so on.
Thanks to years of inactivity caused by having robots do all our work for us, in the end we'll be carried out of our houses by robot paramedics and taken to the robot hospital to have our clogged-up human hearts removed and replaced with robot hearts by the robot surgeons.
Isn't that kind of how the Cybermen got going? Will the Doctor have to stop us from trying to take over the universe?
The amazing thing is that they all did it from their parents' basements.
I keep thinking of analogies to what this hip-e computer represents. First thing I thought of is the girl who wants a pair Calvin Klein jeans so her parents take her to Old Navy. Or the boy who really wants a 1969 Mustang so his dad buys him a 1969 Nova. Or the kid who wants Yu-Gi-Oh stuff so his parents buy him Pokemon stuff.
Seriously, what does this computer do, transform into a bug or something? Why does it look like that? It looks like it should be hanging down into the crib of a deranged infant. Or something.
"It's everything you want in a computer..." Huh. Yeah.
I hate the thought that the government might decide to enforce other countries' web content laws when it comes to American websites, but I could see it happening, slowly, bit by bit (no pun intended).
"Sure," they drawl as they handcuff a webmaster and load his computer into the paddy wagon next to him, "Your site is protected Free Speech here in the USA, but we got a complaint from the Saudi Arabian authorities about it, so we have no choice but to take you into custody so that they can press charges against you. Sorry, but in accordance with Saudi Arabian law, you don't get access to a lawyer, your hands will be chopped off, and any women coming to visit you in jail will be enslaved."
Is this going to start happening? Sure would be a great way to keep private citizens off of the web.
I'm really good at smashing windows and puncturing tires with icepicks, and that's all I want to do with my time, but no-one will hire me to do that legitimately, so I have to set up shop doing it for for shady, anonymous people. I can't help it, it's the economy. Once things pick up, I hope to reform myself and dedicate my life to morally correct window-smashing and tire-puncturing. So I can certainly understand where the young hacker is coming from.
Yeah, I'm with you on the problem with /. being rendered weird on Firefox.
I've gotten people off of Explorer and onto Firefox, but on a couple of occasions, they've noticed some single feature lacking (or apparently lacking, since some features are just activated differently), and they go right back to Explorer, like a battered wife who goes back to her abusive husband because she misses his famous potato pancakes. And then I have to go back over to their house and try to get the damn spyware and browser hijacks off of their computers again.
What to do? What to do?
This reminds me of a kind of awful movie I saw late at night in a hotel room. The movie, which I think was called X Change, had that blond-haired Baldwin brother in it, and he had this special card that he had to keep in a little pouch or else this tiny little robot airplane would find him and blow him up. He needed the card for ID purposes, so he couldn't ditch it, but every moment he had it out the people who were after him would get one step closer. So the little black pouch was a tinfoil hat for his ID card. As far as RFID driver licenses, I think it's an awful idea. It doesn't even sound good on paper to me, and in reality I think it's going to be a disaster. The fact is that the government people aren't as up on the technology as the criminals are who are waiting in the wings to exploit it, as is often the case, and once people start suffering as a result, all RFID technology will be seen by the general public as questionable, and by the religious nuts as a sign of the End Times.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I still find myself having to explain what a web browser is to 90% of the people I know that use the internet. Many of these people think that their web browser is called "MSN" or "Yahoo." They pull up a portal site as their home page and actually enter URLs into the search window and wait for the portal site to give them the link. I try to tell them about the wonders of Firefox, and they stare at me blankly and say, "But I'm perfectly happy with Yahoo."
Once these documents are released, we'll actually know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
The tape deck and radio combo, which I remember so fondly from my youth (oh, those uncensored Canadian radio broadcasts... sigh...) requires the user to actually be there to press the buttons.
This RadioShark thingy will change the station and press the button for you while you're away, as far as I can tell.
Indeed, that show did end. That's sad news. At least the audio archives are still around, but for how long?