That's actually a pretty good analogy. To take it one step further, it's not so much your car wont run on the other fuel, but you have a special opening in your tank filler, and you can only fit gas nozzles from one company in, keeping you from filling up at another companay's station.
Kinda like how they made unleaded nozzles are much narrower than "regular" leaded gasoline nozzles, making it much harder to accidentally fill your unleaded only car with leaded gasoline since the nozzle wouldn't fit.
What's wrong with our school system that so many kids prefer working 40 hours a week instead? How can this be fixed?"
Schools don't pay you money to work, you usually find yourself paying them instead. In today's material world the choice is clear to the uneducated youngster.
No doubt there's going to be thousands of consumers with legitimate beef for having their licensed Vista terminated by some hiccup in MS's license system.
There's also thousands of consumers who may someday find their computers disabled through forced obselecence. You can take an original 128K Mac and boot it up and use it today. Will a PC requiring activation be able to get activated in twenty years?
I know what my neighbor looks like. That's what peepholes are for. Viewing real reality from a distance with a barrier between you and it.
You're supposed to be using binoculars, not a peephole. Dilligently watching your neighbors like a hawk, keeping an eye out for signs they might be terrorists.
JERRY: [Elaine enters the living-room] And where were you?
ELAINE: I was at Bloomingdale's...waiting for the shower to heat up.
KRAMER: Look, Jerry, I'm sorry, I'm uh, you have insurance, right buddy?
JERRY: No.
KRAMER: [looks shocked] How can you not have insurance?
JERRY: Because...I spent my money on the Clapgo D. 29, it's the most impenetrable lock on the market today...it has only one design flaw: the door...[shuts the door] must be CLOSED!
This story raises a number of worrying questions: The theft happened three months ago, why has the news only just been made public? Why was it possible (indeed, why was it necessary at all) to put data relating to their entire customer base on an employee's laptop stored at an employee's home? Why was the information on the laptop not encrypted?
I'm so happy my bank uses high-tech data security on it's computer systems: they talk about it in this little pamphlet I got when I opened my checking account... It does so much good when my account information is on a laptop being used as a tray to sort seeds and stems at some employees house!
I'm more interested in how we managed to lose the method in 1750 when we had managed to keep track of it so long up to that point. I mean, 1750 isn't that long ago. You'd think we could keep track of records better in that time period than, say, the dark ages.
As a side note, I don't know who the Sixpacks are, but I'm amazed at the amount of technology that they possess and use in there everyday lives, yet still have such a poor grasp and understanding of the issues.
You should try working in internet technical support. It's amazing all the different technologies consumers use these days they know nothing about. VoIP, VPN, streaming media, some they use because their workplace makes them, some because they're "keeping up with the Joneses" some because the salesmen promised it would save them lots of money.
I have several times talked to people who insist they don't have a wireless router and their computer and modem are the only devices they have, and when I have them actually follow the Ethernet cable out of the back of the modem they suddenly locate some new box they claim they have never seen before!
I fail to understand how people can be so oblivious as to miss an electronic device they don't recognize in their home. Wouldn't one be a little concerned about a box their have never seen hooked up to their PC and their internet service given how paranoid some are about viruses?
Honestly, some people won't be satisfied until the government publishes a 500 page manual on how to wipe your ass and makes it illegal to do it in any other way.
Dear FCC, I just wanted to write and congratulate you on a job well done with your recent endeavor. Sir, I am seated in the smallest room of my house. I have your manual in front of me. Soon it will be behind me. Thank you.
Opening on November 15th, the exhibit will feature a fully functional, 130x scale replica of the 4004 microprocessor running the very first software written for the 4004. To create a giant Busicom 141-PF calculator for the museum, 'digital archaeologists' first had to reverse-engineer the 4004 schematics and the Busicom software.
Well I, for one, welcome our gigantic calculator overlords. And remind them that as an internet personality, I could be useful in rounding up citizen's to slave away in their underground button-pushing dungeons.
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So if I take one of these lasers and swap out the one in my CD player, will all my White Snake albums come out as Black Sabbath?
That's actually a pretty good analogy. To take it one step further, it's not so much your car wont run on the other fuel, but you have a special opening in your tank filler, and you can only fit gas nozzles from one company in, keeping you from filling up at another companay's station.
Kinda like how they made unleaded nozzles are much narrower than "regular" leaded gasoline nozzles, making it much harder to accidentally fill your unleaded only car with leaded gasoline since the nozzle wouldn't fit.
Is that in 1" margins, or those stupid 1.25" margins I keep having to change for my professors preference?
I thought it was filled with grits. Isn't that why Natalie Portman is always covered in them, becuase she's a demon come to Earth?
Well I, for one, welcome our new high-flying drone overlords!
In Soviet Russia, Windows uses YOU!
Schools don't pay you money to work, you usually find yourself paying them instead. In today's material world the choice is clear to the uneducated youngster.
There's also thousands of consumers who may someday find their computers disabled through forced obselecence. You can take an original 128K Mac and boot it up and use it today. Will a PC requiring activation be able to get activated in twenty years?
You're supposed to be using binoculars, not a peephole. Dilligently watching your neighbors like a hawk, keeping an eye out for signs they might be terrorists.
only product. Otherwise they'll be on "the social" soon enough.
Soon they will be changing it to "Goodbye from Seattle".
JERRY: So the door was wide open?
KRAMER: Wide open!
JERRY: [Elaine enters the living-room] And where were you?
ELAINE: I was at Bloomingdale's...waiting for the shower to heat up.
KRAMER: Look, Jerry, I'm sorry, I'm uh, you have insurance, right buddy?
JERRY: No.
KRAMER: [looks shocked] How can you not have insurance?
JERRY: Because...I spent my money on the Clapgo D. 29, it's the most impenetrable lock on the market today...it has only one design flaw: the door...[shuts the door] must be CLOSED!
I'm so happy my bank uses high-tech data security on it's computer systems: they talk about it in this little pamphlet I got when I opened my checking account... It does so much good when my account information is on a laptop being used as a tray to sort seeds and stems at some employees house!
Oh no! We must immediately ban all MP3 players! Terrorists could use them to fund their War Against America.
Isn't that ironic? Every election you hear about dead citizens voting for living candidates!
[cue mental image of game industry folks hand in had singing "Wii are the World"]
I'm more interested in how we managed to lose the method in 1750 when we had managed to keep track of it so long up to that point. I mean, 1750 isn't that long ago. You'd think we could keep track of records better in that time period than, say, the dark ages.
No, didn't you read the summary? New Zealand.
So, in Australian Pacific, icebergs ram YOU!
Is that here or on the Moon? Wait, do we still call it 24lb paper if we're buying it on a lunar base?
But not spelling tests, right?
You should try working in internet technical support. It's amazing all the different technologies consumers use these days they know nothing about. VoIP, VPN, streaming media, some they use because their workplace makes them, some because they're "keeping up with the Joneses" some because the salesmen promised it would save them lots of money.
I have several times talked to people who insist they don't have a wireless router and their computer and modem are the only devices they have, and when I have them actually follow the Ethernet cable out of the back of the modem they suddenly locate some new box they claim they have never seen before!
I fail to understand how people can be so oblivious as to miss an electronic device they don't recognize in their home. Wouldn't one be a little concerned about a box their have never seen hooked up to their PC and their internet service given how paranoid some are about viruses?
It will keep away all the extraterrestrials looking for fried chicken.
My first action will be to tag this article "thinkofthepornography"
Dear FCC, I just wanted to write and congratulate you on a job well done with your recent endeavor. Sir, I am seated in the smallest room of my house. I have your manual in front of me. Soon it will be behind me. Thank you.
--SeaFox
Well I, for one, welcome our gigantic calculator overlords. And remind them that as an internet personality, I could be useful in rounding up citizen's to slave away in their underground button-pushing dungeons.