I wonder if it has an "I am too stupid to use my phones Keygaurd feature and called you from my pocket" mode where it just plays various sounds of fabric Swooshing around that annoying crackly wind sound. That would be more realistic. lmao.
I agree to a point. Being an avid (addictive) internet user, I have not watched my television in months, probably almost a year. Sometimes someone will be at my house and want to watch something so it gets turned on, or if I play Xbox Live I use it, but for actual television it hasn't been on in almost a year.
In my area (Minneapolis and burbs) Comcast charges about 70 bucks if you only want internet, or 55 dollars if you have internet AND cable. Does that make sense...it doesn't seem like it, but after probing the lady on the phone with about 1,000 questions she finally told me that they want to control the cable market, and not give up subscriptions to people like DirecTV and Dish Network, so by chargin a huge rate for internet unless you have cable too, they increase the number of cable subscriptions drastically.
So there are a bunch of people like me who ahve full cable and never turn on the TV.
I have rarely ever found a TV show interesting, but when I have, I think around 30 dollars for a whole season is a really good price. Unfortunately, one of the only shows I have ever liked is the X-Files, and their seasons go fo rabout $119.00 a piece, and there was 9 of them. I am not spending over $1,000.00 dollars to watch the X-Files. lol. Anything over 50.00 a season is out of control.
However, the good thing about this, as mentioned in the above post, is that networks will have people buying the seasons on DVD in mind when thinking of shows, and then want to make them better so that they can make money off of the DVD sets, so it will probably lead to more quality programming in the end.
If I can watch seasons of a good show and own them forever, and have no commercials to watch, I don't mind paying 30 dollars. If they start to overcharge for the DVD's as X-Files has, I will lose interest quickly, and the pirating of them will go up drastically.
As if the long haired guy in the tight tapered stone-washed jeans and the long hair with the polaris or fox racing hat on and the huge old school 80's style reebok's belting out Creed tunes at the top of his lungs wasn't enough to make me drink at the bar, now I have to watch a bunch of drunk a$$holes act out the infamous scene from taxi driver over and over, and a bunch of 23-30 year olds acting out scenes from pulp fiction and reservoir dogs over and over and over.
And what is wrong with some type of crude cryptography while communicating. Like, they should say, "hey man, instead of 'b0mb' when we're on the phone, say skateboard ramp." "hey john, I am going to bring over that skateboard ramp I built so you can look at it." Etc, etc. People are so stupid. You don't communicate any sensitive info about anything, your important financial info, etc, etc. Especially over email, phone, or wireless phone. But I suppose we shouldn't give them ideas, we should let them get caught.
Funny though that they kept buying new phone models thinking it would protect them. HA HA HA.
They didn't even know about PGP or any of that. Too funny.:) Great story to post!
Things wrong with post. "the world the building a house" - the should be than.
"sad if contruction " - wrong spelling of construction.
"How many times has a geek been called at home at 3AM in the morning because the printer wont print?
" Here in MPLS we have a couple of larger companies that do 24/7 on site computer support. See Geek Squad.
"more or less important then what " - Should have used the word 'than' instead.
"Me..I was layed off almost a year ago and I dont EVER plan to work again. " - Awesome goals man!
I wasn't saying that carrying bricks around is less important than coding or anything else computer related. I guess what I was trying to imply, was that it would be sad if a formal college education in a tech field did not pay as much as it does to simply "carry" things. I have a lot of respect for skilled tradesman.
That is very true, a lot of the framing and also a lot of the concrete and roofing jobs are being handed out to illegal immigrants. And I do not just assume they are illegal, I know a lot of people who build or oversee, and they do have illegals working for them. The best idea would be to go into one of the more skilled sections like Plumbing, finish carpentry, or electric.
With the way things are right now hopefully it will be a while before the rates go back up. I know they have raised slightly in the last 9 months to year, but I guess we'll see.
The physical presence required fields will be prison gaurds, to watch all of the people who go to jail for rioting and stealing because they are poor. Ohh, and don't forget the people who get 25 to life for burning a copy of The Incredible Hulk II before it's release date or downloading the new Matchbox 20n track on Kazaa, lmao.
Sometimes I think that the only industry that will not experience a drop is the service industry and the contrustion/physical labor trades. I have friends who are programmers and they make average, and I have other friends with no education past 9th grade who are plumbers and framers and they make 3 times what my programmer friends with multiple degrees make.
They cannot off shore plumbing, or framing. It would be sad if eventually the ability to carry cinder blocks and boards around was more valuable than the ability to code, etc.
We would be the third world labor country, and the other countries would become what we were in the 1990's.
Play through The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind and both expansions without getting outside help, that will keep you busy for about..uhhh.... 5 months. It depends on the type of game, any of the action adventure games are fairly simple nowdays, the RPG's are still pretty intense for the most part, and the FPS games depend on who you play against online.
Personally, I love games that I play against other real people, and am a shooter junky. I haven't even played the one player game in any of the FPS's that I play for hours a day. Real human competition is the best, there is no substitute.
I am thinking of it in slightly more siple terms. Say I stand in this room and flip the coin 10,000 times. And sometimes I use a ton of force, and flip it crazily into the air all over the place, and some times I barely use and force at all, and sometimes I just plain throw it up in the air let it bounce off of my ceiling, etc. Would it have any more likelyhood of landing on one side than the other? And would the results of the test weild anything but circumstance, I don't think so. I understand the article's point, but to be practical it isn't true. True, sometimes it does not actually flip in the air, though it appears to, so that means out of however many flips you do, inevitiably it will land on the side it starts on more often than the other. A good article, I just think they went a little overboard acting like it was true all of the time. Who knows. I appreciate all of the replies though, very good article to post too.
I do not believe this story is true. First of all wouldn't it depend on so many things, like, how hard you flipped it, the wind, etc, etc. Saying that it is more likely to land on one side than the o ther is not true, unless for some reason one side is weighted a little less, like say george washingtons nose and head have.000001 of a lb more material in them than the eagle on the back does or something, lol. It doesn't matter if I am flipping a quarter or a car battery, how it lands still depends on the force used to flip it, and unless a very advanced machine is flipping it, it will be different every time. And saying that it landed a certain way based on a study of 10,000 flips is ridiculous. Even a study of 100,000 flips. It will not come out 50/50 of course. Some people...... Anyone agree with me here?
Have you played the game Planetside? I found that to be a nice blend of MMORPG and FPS. It is massivly online multiplayer. I did not find it "shooter" enough for my tastes. With the big worlds and many many players,, they were not able to focus enough on weapon physics and accuracy. I too felt slightly detatched and delayed from what was going on.
I have also played The Sims Online, and that game I really liked. I played it constantly for about 2 months, maxed all of my skills, had a huge house, etc, and then quit.
Another huge problem for MMORPG's is to keep people wanting to play. I have friends who have been playing DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) for a few years now and have had their skills maxed, and have been basically running around with the same group doing the same thing for 2 years. MMORPG's also need to focus on adding new items, new objects, and new quests, etc, more often. I like the Sims Online idea of only offering certain items for purchase for certain time perionds, so there is only so many of them floating around. It adds to an items appeal when new items are added, and old ones cease production, makes it feel more specialized, and real feeling.
GTA 4 will be a different game completely. I think of Vice City and San Andreas as "Expansion Packs" basically. They already have the game made, they might as well tweak it a little graphically and add some new things to do, move some buildings around and make a few million more right? lol. I get sick of people refering to Vice City as GTA 4. I We have all heard the rumors of GTA4 being a massively multiplayer online game right? I read several articles that hinted at it. I think they should, that would be great. Releasing San Andreas for only Playstation 2 s a dumb move. It will come out at $19.99 for Xbox and computer about 8 months after it's PS2 release.
PC > XBOX > GameCube > PS2, wich is equal to a TI-85 in my book.:)
I know this is brave and bold ot say, and I may get beaten to death with a pillow case full of river rocks for saying it, but...I don't like the LOTR movies or books.
I am no LOTR guru or anything, and my suggestions, if I could change things about the book/movies and or storyline would be.....
If Aragorn and the elf lady are so in love, and everything between them is so magical, then how come in the film at the end he seems as though he has almst forgotten about her until he sees her.
And Frodo and Sam need to just get it out of the way and make out already. So much sexual tension there is is crazy. At the theater I saw ROTK in, when they were laying on the mountain side talking all emotionally, some guy in my theater yelled out "OOHH GOD JUST KISS HIM ALREADY!!!!!" And everyone laughed. And at the end when they are all frolicing in bed in the morning sunlight while more and more men walk into the room to watch and smile....I don't know, call me an idiot and say I don't understand the books or movies, but I don't like them. And I also don't like that everything worked out...NONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS DIES!!!!! My ideal set up would have been golem and frodo fighting and both falling into the lava, sam getting consumed by the mountain and all of the others dying in battle at the mountain base. Would have seemed kind of dark, but also happy that the ring was destroyed. I think frodo should have had to die for it.
It could have beena phone that did not have a very extensive text dictionary to pull from or something. I have the Samsung A660 and it almost always, I would say 98% of the time gets the word right. Plus, most phones have a USER DICTIONARY, where you can customize obscure words that you use commonly. So if I use the name INTERTECHNODRON, all the time, I could add it to my personal T9 dictionary, and the predictive text would recognize it evey time.;)
I think most people are capable of talking on the phone and driving. And talking on the phone and driving is not as bad as putting on make up and driving, or reading directions, or talking to someone who is in the car, or drinking a beverage,or smoking, etc. Can you outlaw all of those things too? Especially with a headset, talking and driving is fine.
The point in that message was that I can do those things without taking my eyes off of the road. And I ALWAYS use a hands free headset in my vehicle. I disagree with the opinion that voice communication while driving poses a huge risk with most drivers. There are a lot of people out there not capable of doing two things at once and end up slamming into the back of a minivan full of kids while trying to play Tetris on their phone I am sure. But, I don't know what is worse, me using my headset and talking on the phone, or some guy drinking his coffee and smoking while he tries to read directions off of his dayplanner that is sitting on his passenger seat.
And as for the T9 specs, I just copy and pasted those features of it for those unfamiliar with it's concept.
Again, to reply to my reply, don't get me wrong, the man did a very bad thing. I am also of the opinion that for him actual time in prison may not be a good thing. I think taking away his acess to computers and putting him on strict house arrest and some type of community work program for a long long time would be adequate. And if he breaks those conditions it should be an instant 10 years.
Parents need to monitor their kids net activities. Would you set your child in front of a TV with every available cable channel on it and then just go do something else and let them fool around with the remote. Of course not. Sure what he did is kind of crude and low, but it is a free country. If someone wants a porno site called www.diseny.com let them have it.
I have used email and text messages to call in sick a few times.:) If I had called and didn't get anyone I will leave a message, and text message my boss's phone, and email, just to make sure.
"I am Sck 2-Day. TTYL. ROTFLMAO."
You think after about 15 years playing console games we'd be that way too. lol. I call it "Nintendo thumb" I can use my thumb on my television and go from channel 2 to about channel 45 in like 2 seconds. Ha ha ha.
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I wonder if it has an "I am too stupid to use my phones Keygaurd feature and called you from my pocket" mode where it just plays various sounds of fabric Swooshing around that annoying crackly wind sound. That would be more realistic. lmao.
In my area (Minneapolis and burbs) Comcast charges about 70 bucks if you only want internet, or 55 dollars if you have internet AND cable. Does that make sense...it doesn't seem like it, but after probing the lady on the phone with about 1,000 questions she finally told me that they want to control the cable market, and not give up subscriptions to people like DirecTV and Dish Network, so by chargin a huge rate for internet unless you have cable too, they increase the number of cable subscriptions drastically.
So there are a bunch of people like me who ahve full cable and never turn on the TV.
I have rarely ever found a TV show interesting, but when I have, I think around 30 dollars for a whole season is a really good price. Unfortunately, one of the only shows I have ever liked is the X-Files, and their seasons go fo rabout $119.00 a piece, and there was 9 of them. I am not spending over $1,000.00 dollars to watch the X-Files. lol. Anything over 50.00 a season is out of control.
However, the good thing about this, as mentioned in the above post, is that networks will have people buying the seasons on DVD in mind when thinking of shows, and then want to make them better so that they can make money off of the DVD sets, so it will probably lead to more quality programming in the end.
If I can watch seasons of a good show and own them forever, and have no commercials to watch, I don't mind paying 30 dollars. If they start to overcharge for the DVD's as X-Files has, I will lose interest quickly, and the pirating of them will go up drastically.
As if the long haired guy in the tight tapered stone-washed jeans and the long hair with the polaris or fox racing hat on and the huge old school 80's style reebok's belting out Creed tunes at the top of his lungs wasn't enough to make me drink at the bar, now I have to watch a bunch of drunk a$$holes act out the infamous scene from taxi driver over and over, and a bunch of 23-30 year olds acting out scenes from pulp fiction and reservoir dogs over and over and over.
I didn't read the entire article, I wasn't aware that the call that did them in was the minute of silence. That is odd. Going to go read it now. :)
Funny though that they kept buying new phone models thinking it would protect them. HA HA HA.
They didn't even know about PGP or any of that. Too funny. :) Great story to post!
"sad if contruction " - wrong spelling of construction.
"How many times has a geek been called at home at 3AM in the morning because the printer wont print? " Here in MPLS we have a couple of larger companies that do 24/7 on site computer support. See Geek Squad.
"more or less important then what " - Should have used the word 'than' instead.
"Me..I was layed off almost a year ago and I dont EVER plan to work again. " - Awesome goals man!
I wasn't saying that carrying bricks around is less important than coding or anything else computer related. I guess what I was trying to imply, was that it would be sad if a formal college education in a tech field did not pay as much as it does to simply "carry" things. I have a lot of respect for skilled tradesman.
That is very true, a lot of the framing and also a lot of the concrete and roofing jobs are being handed out to illegal immigrants. And I do not just assume they are illegal, I know a lot of people who build or oversee, and they do have illegals working for them. The best idea would be to go into one of the more skilled sections like Plumbing, finish carpentry, or electric.
The physical presence required fields will be prison gaurds, to watch all of the people who go to jail for rioting and stealing because they are poor. Ohh, and don't forget the people who get 25 to life for burning a copy of The Incredible Hulk II before it's release date or downloading the new Matchbox 20n track on Kazaa, lmao.
They cannot off shore plumbing, or framing. It would be sad if eventually the ability to carry cinder blocks and boards around was more valuable than the ability to code, etc.
We would be the third world labor country, and the other countries would become what we were in the 1990's.
Personally, I love games that I play against other real people, and am a shooter junky. I haven't even played the one player game in any of the FPS's that I play for hours a day. Real human competition is the best, there is no substitute.
I am thinking of it in slightly more siple terms. Say I stand in this room and flip the coin 10,000 times. And sometimes I use a ton of force, and flip it crazily into the air all over the place, and some times I barely use and force at all, and sometimes I just plain throw it up in the air let it bounce off of my ceiling, etc. Would it have any more likelyhood of landing on one side than the other? And would the results of the test weild anything but circumstance, I don't think so. I understand the article's point, but to be practical it isn't true. True, sometimes it does not actually flip in the air, though it appears to, so that means out of however many flips you do, inevitiably it will land on the side it starts on more often than the other. A good article, I just think they went a little overboard acting like it was true all of the time. Who knows. I appreciate all of the replies though, very good article to post too.
I do not believe this story is true. First of all wouldn't it depend on so many things, like, how hard you flipped it, the wind, etc, etc. Saying that it is more likely to land on one side than the o ther is not true, unless for some reason one side is weighted a little less, like say george washingtons nose and head have .000001 of a lb more material in them than the eagle on the back does or something, lol. It doesn't matter if I am flipping a quarter or a car battery, how it lands still depends on the force used to flip it, and unless a very advanced machine is flipping it, it will be different every time. And saying that it landed a certain way based on a study of 10,000 flips is ridiculous. Even a study of 100,000 flips. It will not come out 50/50 of course. Some people...... Anyone agree with me here?
Max is a German Shepherd, he is a scorpio, he likes to lick and sniff your a$$, long walks on the beach, eating grass, and chewing on a good toy.
Thanks for the links guys. This suject was really interesting to me.
I have also played The Sims Online, and that game I really liked. I played it constantly for about 2 months, maxed all of my skills, had a huge house, etc, and then quit.
Another huge problem for MMORPG's is to keep people wanting to play. I have friends who have been playing DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) for a few years now and have had their skills maxed, and have been basically running around with the same group doing the same thing for 2 years. MMORPG's also need to focus on adding new items, new objects, and new quests, etc, more often. I like the Sims Online idea of only offering certain items for purchase for certain time perionds, so there is only so many of them floating around. It adds to an items appeal when new items are added, and old ones cease production, makes it feel more specialized, and real feeling.
PC > XBOX > GameCube > PS2, wich is equal to a TI-85 in my book. :)
I am no LOTR guru or anything, and my suggestions, if I could change things about the book/movies and or storyline would be.....
If Aragorn and the elf lady are so in love, and everything between them is so magical, then how come in the film at the end he seems as though he has almst forgotten about her until he sees her.
And Frodo and Sam need to just get it out of the way and make out already. So much sexual tension there is is crazy. At the theater I saw ROTK in, when they were laying on the mountain side talking all emotionally, some guy in my theater yelled out "OOHH GOD JUST KISS HIM ALREADY!!!!!" And everyone laughed. And at the end when they are all frolicing in bed in the morning sunlight while more and more men walk into the room to watch and smile....I don't know, call me an idiot and say I don't understand the books or movies, but I don't like them. And I also don't like that everything worked out...NONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS DIES!!!!! My ideal set up would have been golem and frodo fighting and both falling into the lava, sam getting consumed by the mountain and all of the others dying in battle at the mountain base. Would have seemed kind of dark, but also happy that the ring was destroyed. I think frodo should have had to die for it.
It could have beena phone that did not have a very extensive text dictionary to pull from or something. I have the Samsung A660 and it almost always, I would say 98% of the time gets the word right. Plus, most phones have a USER DICTIONARY, where you can customize obscure words that you use commonly. So if I use the name INTERTECHNODRON, all the time, I could add it to my personal T9 dictionary, and the predictive text would recognize it evey time. ;)
I think most people are capable of talking on the phone and driving. And talking on the phone and driving is not as bad as putting on make up and driving, or reading directions, or talking to someone who is in the car, or drinking a beverage,or smoking, etc. Can you outlaw all of those things too? Especially with a headset, talking and driving is fine.
The point in that message was that I can do those things without taking my eyes off of the road. And I ALWAYS use a hands free headset in my vehicle. I disagree with the opinion that voice communication while driving poses a huge risk with most drivers. There are a lot of people out there not capable of doing two things at once and end up slamming into the back of a minivan full of kids while trying to play Tetris on their phone I am sure. But, I don't know what is worse, me using my headset and talking on the phone, or some guy drinking his coffee and smoking while he tries to read directions off of his dayplanner that is sitting on his passenger seat. And as for the T9 specs, I just copy and pasted those features of it for those unfamiliar with it's concept.
Again, to reply to my reply, don't get me wrong, the man did a very bad thing. I am also of the opinion that for him actual time in prison may not be a good thing. I think taking away his acess to computers and putting him on strict house arrest and some type of community work program for a long long time would be adequate. And if he breaks those conditions it should be an instant 10 years.
Parents need to monitor their kids net activities. Would you set your child in front of a TV with every available cable channel on it and then just go do something else and let them fool around with the remote. Of course not. Sure what he did is kind of crude and low, but it is a free country. If someone wants a porno site called www.diseny.com let them have it.
That's not true, I hear Minesweeper is cathing up. lol. What ever happened to the skiing game from Windows 3.1 Ha Ha HA
I have used email and text messages to call in sick a few times. :) If I had called and didn't get anyone I will leave a message, and text message my boss's phone, and email, just to make sure.
"I am Sck 2-Day. TTYL. ROTFLMAO."
You think after about 15 years playing console games we'd be that way too. lol. I call it "Nintendo thumb" I can use my thumb on my television and go from channel 2 to about channel 45 in like 2 seconds. Ha ha ha.