Do you really think the masses will start to READ again? Ask your average person what the last book he/she read and they will more than likely not remember.
Newspapers are one thing, but you can't line a guinea pig cage with digital paper.
I don't see a big literary use for this, except for folks like/.ers. Advertising is a more likely use for this product, if the cost doesn't outweigh the benefits. (Probably billboards, since they cannot be vandalized as easily as, say, posters in a subway station)
I had...let's see...Flinstones animation program, needed a card to choose three items in correct order in order to start the program, and a cool precurser to GTA3, Quarantine, 3D 1st person cab driver picked up fares (thugs) and killed people. Had to look up a weight of something in a huge matrix of numbers spead over the front and back of a 6x8 RED card included in the docs. Took forever to install and get working properly, then you had to worry about deciphering the card to find the answer to a stupid question. Fun as hell once it was working. I think I still had the CD and the card....might install freedos on a machine and try to run it again.
I've got about 5 of these. When I first got it, I installed all of the software and tried it out. My little girls had a coloring book. Hey there's a bar code.....SCAN IT!!
It took me to the coloring book's publishing company's website, with an online coloring book and other pages to print and color.
This sounded like a great idea to me.
Scan a can of beans, it goes to a website full of Bean-ful recipes.
scan a can of soda, and BAM! straight to a webpage with printable coupons for your next purchase.
Indeed, I thought it was a great product, for free. If they hadn't been so slimey and tried to get a huge secret database of users and what webpages they went to.....big brother in the market place.
well....not much there. There has to be something else to it. The writing must get better. I don't think I like all of the animation.
RvB was sort of like Mr. Bill, in that the animation (or lack of) WAS the point. The directorial skills, premise and creative cinematography is what made the RvB series. A spontaneous spark that was quirky enough to drive them to make more.
This just looks like they trying to make a computer animated sitcom/series without having to hire animators. Not going to last unless the stories hold up much better than the premiere.
They tried to get him off the air saying he was a drug pusher (unsubstantiated, totally false charge. So is the doctor shopping charge...they wanted to seize his medical records so they could try to find out if he had done something wrong...a fishing trip). They are trying to change the way radio and tv stations can be bought and sold (Fairness doctrine is a load). They're trying to get him off of Armed Forces Radio (no right wing bastion itself. It's like saying all cable tv is conservatively biased because of Fox News) Now they're trying to eliminate his medium. (through fear. Remember red dye #5)
all I can see in this discussion is a cardboard box with a bunch of chips thrown in it. monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc all wireless, too. Makes the job of a pc tech real easy. Show up onsite with the new chip, open the box and fish around until you find the chip you need to replace, like a junk drawer.
upgrade your ram? just throw it in the box.
didn't open the email, but checked the source in properties and this is what part of it said.
near paycheck trembles, and reactor behind strokes; however, toothache related to operate a small fruit stand with..When polar bear defined by is alleged, inside cyprus mulch sell to bodice ripper from.dissidents remain geosynchronous.Where we can seldom find lice on our cup.
Most looking glasses believe that inside hockey player compete with spider for carpet tack.Most tea parties believe that ski lodge beyond require assistance from salad dressing around satellite.Where we can accidentally pour freezing cold water on our starlet.
I always thought these were some sort of Al-Quaeda code passed around as spam.
The first thing I thought of was the episode in the Creep Show movie that starred Steven King as the backwoods hick who found the meteor. "Meteor Sh*t"
forgot to mention my broken, partially full, tool case and Jamp3. (Don't know why I carry the jamp3....probably cause all it's got on it is Strongbad singing "Trogdor" (in case I need a fix)
My Palm Viix is great, basically because it was given to me by my old boss(fo' free!!)(before the layoff from my old, 9-5, 5 day a week, on call on weekend, job) and the laptop was given to me (fo' free!!) by my 1 day a week replacement.(after the layoff)
I own lots of old hardware, that WORKS tip top (now) because other people GOTTA HAVE new stuff.
I'm a 3rd party Dell on-site tech. It comes in handy to have lots-o-stuff on the road. Here's my list of crap-in-a-car.
-Dell 400 CPI-A w/802.11b wifi pcmcia(loaded with Winamp 2.8 and a case full of MP3 CD's and a cassette adapter to play over the car stereo) in Dell's leather multi-pocketed breifcase type laptop case.
-Xircom 10-100 +56k PCMCIA nic (in pocket of case w/several boot disks) just in case
-Handy-dandy Knoppix 3.3 CD
-Kodak 3.2 MegaPixel cam
-1 Silver Jam Cam 3.0
-1 Blue Jam Cam 3.0 (you can never have too many sh*tty camera's)
-USB cable to transfer from camera's(in case Bigfoot's in a mood to pose). (No SD's or MMC's available)
-Palm Viix (in case on my belt)
-Palm Portable keyboard
-Sony Ericson t306 cel phone (on holster on my belt) w/ear bud
-Palm size Multimeter
-Lysol. (some people are pigs and so is there home (great grammar?!?!...I think I got my point across, though))
...that's the stuff in the front passenger seat, I won't even start on my trunk....
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Thanks for the link. That was very interesting and if I had mod points right now...
Newspapers are one thing, but you can't line a guinea pig cage with digital paper.
I don't see a big literary use for this, except for folks like /.ers. Advertising is a more likely use for this product, if the cost doesn't outweigh the benefits. (Probably billboards, since they cannot be vandalized as easily as, say, posters in a subway station)
I was hoping I would see ID show up, just didn't think it would be this far down the posts.
I had...let's see...Flinstones animation program, needed a card to choose three items in correct order in order to start the program, and a cool precurser to GTA3, Quarantine, 3D 1st person cab driver picked up fares (thugs) and killed people. Had to look up a weight of something in a huge matrix of numbers spead over the front and back of a 6x8 RED card included in the docs. Took forever to install and get working properly, then you had to worry about deciphering the card to find the answer to a stupid question. Fun as hell once it was working. I think I still had the CD and the card....might install freedos on a machine and try to run it again.
It took me to the coloring book's publishing company's website, with an online coloring book and other pages to print and color.
This sounded like a great idea to me.
Scan a can of beans, it goes to a website full of Bean-ful recipes.
scan a can of soda, and BAM! straight to a webpage with printable coupons for your next purchase.
Indeed, I thought it was a great product, for free. If they hadn't been so slimey and tried to get a huge secret database of users and what webpages they went to.....big brother in the market place.
Moose and squirrel.....meh!
I've got a bad feeling about this.
It's a popcorn popper thats been modified to be a computerized coffee bean roaster.
I can no longer use my scanner and I had to change a nic card, but otherwise it's OK
Looks like a laundromat to me.
RvB was sort of like Mr. Bill, in that the animation (or lack of) WAS the point. The directorial skills, premise and creative cinematography is what made the RvB series. A spontaneous spark that was quirky enough to drive them to make more.
This just looks like they trying to make a computer animated sitcom/series without having to hire animators. Not going to last unless the stories hold up much better than the premiere.
The first two seasons are available at Archive.org HERE
Most of season 1 and 2 are available at archive.org
HERE
This was the first thimg I thought of....
They tried to get him off the air saying he was a drug pusher (unsubstantiated, totally false charge. So is the doctor shopping charge...they wanted to seize his medical records so they could try to find out if he had done something wrong...a fishing trip).
They are trying to change the way radio and tv stations can be bought and sold (Fairness doctrine is a load).
They're trying to get him off of Armed Forces Radio (no right wing bastion itself. It's like saying all cable tv is conservatively biased because of Fox News)
Now they're trying to eliminate his medium. (through fear. Remember red dye #5)
Long live El Rushbo!
Sass that hoopie Bill Gates. Now there's a frood who knows where his towel is.
all I can see in this discussion is a cardboard box with a bunch of chips thrown in it. monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc all wireless, too. Makes the job of a pc tech real easy. Show up onsite with the new chip, open the box and fish around until you find the chip you need to replace, like a junk drawer. upgrade your ram? just throw it in the box.
didn't open the email, but checked the source in properties and this is what part of it said. near paycheck trembles, and reactor behind strokes; however, toothache related to operate a small fruit stand with..When polar bear defined by is alleged, inside cyprus mulch sell to bodice ripper from.dissidents remain geosynchronous.Where we can seldom find lice on our cup. Most looking glasses believe that inside hockey player compete with spider for carpet tack.Most tea parties believe that ski lodge beyond require assistance from salad dressing around satellite.Where we can accidentally pour freezing cold water on our starlet. I always thought these were some sort of Al-Quaeda code passed around as spam.
The first thing I thought of was the episode in the Creep Show movie that starred Steven King as the backwoods hick who found the meteor. "Meteor Sh*t"
I always heard it this way.
Duct tape and a hammer. If it doesn't move...smash it. If it moves, duct tape it in place and smash it.
hmmmmm, I may have a new sig.
forgot to mention my broken, partially full, tool case and Jamp3. (Don't know why I carry the jamp3....probably cause all it's got on it is Strongbad singing "Trogdor" (in case I need a fix)
My Palm Viix is great, basically because it was given to me by my old boss(fo' free!!)(before the layoff from my old, 9-5, 5 day a week, on call on weekend, job) and the laptop was given to me (fo' free!!) by my 1 day a week replacement.(after the layoff) I own lots of old hardware, that WORKS tip top (now) because other people GOTTA HAVE new stuff.
I'm a 3rd party Dell on-site tech. It comes in handy to have lots-o-stuff on the road. Here's my list of crap-in-a-car.
...that's the stuff in the front passenger seat, I won't even start on my trunk....
-Dell 400 CPI-A w/802.11b wifi pcmcia(loaded with Winamp 2.8 and a case full of MP3 CD's and a cassette adapter to play over the car stereo) in Dell's leather multi-pocketed breifcase type laptop case.
-Xircom 10-100 +56k PCMCIA nic (in pocket of case w/several boot disks) just in case
-Handy-dandy Knoppix 3.3 CD
-Kodak 3.2 MegaPixel cam
-1 Silver Jam Cam 3.0
-1 Blue Jam Cam 3.0 (you can never have too many sh*tty camera's)
-USB cable to transfer from camera's(in case Bigfoot's in a mood to pose). (No SD's or MMC's available)
-Palm Viix (in case on my belt)
-Palm Portable keyboard
-Sony Ericson t306 cel phone (on holster on my belt) w/ear bud
-Palm size Multimeter
-Lysol. (some people are pigs and so is there home (great grammar?!?!...I think I got my point across, though))
If it's from Dell, I'd say it takes about 1/4 of a forest to make up all of the packaging and paperwork they include.