I was about to do some research on this subject, but apparently it's been done for me. I feel like the kid in class who put off his homework long enough for the teacher to give away all the answers.:)
I think he understood my joke. He was merely adding to what I said that a PC could do with tangible examples of each. Then he went on to voice a preference to having each device separate.
Personally, I too would like each device to remain separate and thus optimized at its task. My post wasn't so much a jab at that all the functionality could be replaced by a PC, but rather that eventually we'll probably actually SEE someone tout this all-in-one component as the killer app of Home Theater.
Some guy got thrown in jail for taking pictures of his teenage girlfriend with a cell phone camera and posting them on the Internet. His probation will prohibit him from using a cell phone at all. Since when were cameras an integral part of cell phones?:)
You get my drift... my jab at all-in-oneness was basically to wonder what the situation would look like when we merge into one device components that were all spawned from one device.
Innovation: How long before someone releases yet another PC-in-a-home-theater-acceptable-box that can combine the functionality of all the other boxes?
All we need is a single damned box that can work as a DVR, play games on a Microsoft OS, purchase new games over the Internet, and play against other people over the Internet as well.
Whoever can come up with ONE SINGLE DEVICE that can do all these things will be rich! Perhaps we can call it the "Plethora of Consoles" (PC). It'll be like nothing else!
You gotta give credit where credit is due! That lifelike prosthetic head and third arm Zaphod wore around certainly constituted all three of those dollars by themselves!
From the sound of it, there system would have no way of correlating data to a particular person. It would just be a bunch of motion sensors which would log a timestamp whenever something crossed the path. The data would be fairly useless unless you're specifically looking for someone, then you could use it to narrow down the candidate locations in a search/rescue situation.
But if no one happens to need it, does that invalidate its usefulness? People don't like making long-term investments... the same apparently goes with forward thinking.
"What are you doing?" "I'm scaring away the elephants." "But there are no elephants here!" "See? It's working!"
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Okum typed with the right hand would be even simpler.
I was about to do some research on this subject, but apparently it's been done for me. I feel like the kid in class who put off his homework long enough for the teacher to give away all the answers. :)
I thought Ben Stein was AMAZING in 'Toonstruck'.
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You travel north.
The Grue's lair
You are in the lair of a giant grue. It is dark, and you might be eaten by it.
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The grue mauls you with his teeth!
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C:\> ping grue
You attack the grue with a vicious ping!
The grue is incapacitated and will slowly die, if not aided.
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C:\>
The grue is dead! R.I.P.
You receive 500X! You raise a level!
PingMUD. Anyone wanna help?
I think he understood my joke. He was merely adding to what I said that a PC could do with tangible examples of each. Then he went on to voice a preference to having each device separate.
:)
Personally, I too would like each device to remain separate and thus optimized at its task. My post wasn't so much a jab at that all the functionality could be replaced by a PC, but rather that eventually we'll probably actually SEE someone tout this all-in-one component as the killer app of Home Theater.
Some guy got thrown in jail for taking pictures of his teenage girlfriend with a cell phone camera and posting them on the Internet. His probation will prohibit him from using a cell phone at all. Since when were cameras an integral part of cell phones?
You get my drift... my jab at all-in-oneness was basically to wonder what the situation would look like when we merge into one device components that were all spawned from one device.
Innovation: How long before someone releases yet another PC-in-a-home-theater-acceptable-box that can combine the functionality of all the other boxes?
All we need is a single damned box that can work as a DVR, play games on a Microsoft OS, purchase new games over the Internet, and play against other people over the Internet as well.
Whoever can come up with ONE SINGLE DEVICE that can do all these things will be rich! Perhaps we can call it the "Plethora of Consoles" (PC). It'll be like nothing else!
They've jammed our radar, sir!
Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry: Lone Star!
...the first one-and-a-half books, wasn't it? It had some of Restaurant in it.
What will this movie cover?
Easy... all you need is a giant Vogon laser and some really bad explosion special effects. :)
You gotta give credit where credit is due! That lifelike prosthetic head and third arm Zaphod wore around certainly constituted all three of those dollars by themselves!
This is a movie. What you watched was a miniseries.
:)
Presumably you know that it's based off of a book, otherwise you wouldn't be here.
Deep Thought.
All Winston Churchill quotes are 'old'. I'd surely be impressed if he were making any new ones.
Err, bring your hitchhiking thumb. And don't forget your towel.
You could do all that... or you could just replace the car with something that has survival instincts. Like a horse.
From the sound of it, there system would have no way of correlating data to a particular person. It would just be a bunch of motion sensors which would log a timestamp whenever something crossed the path. The data would be fairly useless unless you're specifically looking for someone, then you could use it to narrow down the candidate locations in a search/rescue situation.
I like this idea!
But if no one happens to need it, does that invalidate its usefulness? People don't like making long-term investments... the same apparently goes with forward thinking.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm scaring away the elephants."
"But there are no elephants here!"
"See? It's working!"
Does your product also work as a Cone of Silence? We could use a few of them here at CONTROL.
Throtex's corollary to Godwin's Law:
Any time Godwin's Law is invoked, the discussion will shift focus to Godwin's Law itself.
and TAB.
Don't forget to PEEK before you POKE!
The Sierra adventure games
The Lucas Arts adventure games
Also Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive.
But I digress, adventure games pretty much NEED a good plot to work, I suppose.
Blowing up every vehicle in a five mile radius in GTA 3 is a very artsy move as well.
don't stereotype geeks waa waa waa