Good: Size and ability to download your own PDFs via USB. Price is not that outrageous for an early adopter type product. $489 is pretty outrageous for something that Sony's product did from the get go and you can get used for about $100.
Even new, Sony's reader is still cheaper than the Kindle DX.
To change the gear a bit, we're just witnessing the beginning of a new proprietary format war just like Microsoft vs. X in the 90s. I don't want to buy a Sony CD player if I can only play music published by Sony. Amazon did just that from the get go and it looks like they're opening up a bit but $500 is too much for a mostly locked in format reader.
How about they just let the grass grow, dry out, get struck by lightning and cause a massive wildfire then. That won't release any `harmful and poisonous` CO2 will it. I'm sure Google paid a CO2 penance on the goats behalf on one of those ponzi outfits that accept `carbon credits`.
That's exactly my thought. What does it matter if you have a factory or home made cable if the cable run to the switch is hand made anyway? The quality of the connections and the wire is really what matters. Not harmonic frequencies because a cable is 3 inches shorter than it should be.
It appears that the previous replies missed my joke. I think my far fetched point is that if the browser isn't bundled anymore, what method are people going to use to download their favorite browser?
Back when you had to pay for a browser (or download a less featured version for free), I would command line FTP those suckers from the Netscape FTP site across a 28.8k modem line.
The parent assumes that pilots are idiots and in order to become a pilot, the same requirements for driving must be met.
My point, while not stated, is that if you want to operate a Terrafugia, spend the time to become a pilot, not wait for some 'system' to do it for you.
Anti collision and autonomous technology need to be as ubiquitous as laser reading technology for Compact Discs are today for such a system to be viable.
At this stage in the game, it appears that in order to operate this vehicle, a pilots certificate is required. Once some dimwit congressman introduces a bill to remove such requirement, said congressman should be immediately removed from office before the end of the day.
It takes an average of 72 hours for a pilot to gain his/her certificate whilst 40 hours are required. Of that, certain conditions are required like nighttime operation, solo operation, cross country operation, and recovery from certain scenarios. None of those conditions are required for land based motor vehicle operation licensing (i.e., oil level, tire pressure, nighttime, rain, changing a flat tire) except for parallel parking skills.
There ARE air lanes for east bound, west bound, VFR and IFR traffic. Likely, if this vehicle were to be operated in a populous area, it is most likely to be under some Class B or C airspace which means that communication with Air Traffic Control will be required. I'm sure that if these take off;-), the FAA will hire staff to accommodate.
So, for those pilots, is this thing steered with the feet or is it taxied with the hands? Is the throttle/gas controlled by the hand or foot? Does that change for land/air operation?
I'd hate to step on the gas and turn right at the same time while trying to steer and not turn anywhere on land.
The movie (series if it happens) will never be able to compare to the original series. 79 hours of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy (albeit that most of it sucked; the performances were key and carried us through and made it memorable) > 8 hours of new Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
Also, if the trailers and media are an indication of quality of the film, it appears that McCoy is just a bit part and Uhura is part of the new officer triangle; Kirk, Uhura, and Spock.
Rick Berman is the reason Star Trek became Star Twrecked. Let's get positions casted, put putty on someone's nose, rinse and repeat. TNG and DS9 didn't have a token vulcan so Voyager got a black vulcan and Enterprise had a female vulcan. The guy doesn't know how to put a character together. All his movies with the exception of First Contact sucked and got progressively worse.
Part of the charm of TOS was the banter of Kirk, McCoy and Spock. It was 3 guys diametrically opposed at work in different situations. That was the formula that none of the other series had. Enterprise was the closest but didn't know what it had and failed to deliver.
"copies sent by the studio to the Oscars for consideration." and in the before time, copies or 'screeners' sent to video stores to determine if they would purchase them for rent - way before the Blockbuster type of chain.
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That bothers me less than the anti-piracy orange dots. I'm one of the people that can see that shit and it annoys me to no end.
I think Master and Commander was the first time I noticed it during a storm scene with bright flashes. When what was supposed to be a bright blinding flash ended up being a bright flash with a pattern of dots for a split second.
I see them in every tentpole movie now. It's like knowing a dirty secret about a neighbor. You never see your neighbor the same way you did before you knew the secret.
When students use training music that the Beatles wrote to help them learn to play music and musical instruments will the Beatles be as good Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, etc... Other than that, they are pop artists that created sounds that contemporary people liked.
Now that being said, "Yesterday" and "Michelle" are popular piano pieces just as "Fur Elise" is.
If the Beatles wrote any Etudes or Sonatas, I'd like to know.
I had a Sams Club membership some 6 years ago and have been a Costco member for the past 6. At the time, Sams doesn't allow payment from anyone other than the card holder. Costco is the same way going a step further whereas the name on the credit card has to match the card member.
You can buy a cable box off Ebay for a fraction of the cost of rental for a year. I'm reserving that option when the cable co finally decides to be like the satellite companies and force decoder boxes for our 'enhancement of the experience'. I'm on board for satellite companies as their signal is free and 'out there' at a cost. The cable companies pay to have a cable directly wired to my home.
In my market, a standard cable rental runs $5 a month. For HD, it's $10 a month.
I get calls as to why I won't upgrade because upgrading will cost me a rental fee which I won't do. I've had the bare bones basic package of $10 (that I was grandfathered into). They got rid of the bare bones package and raised my rates 120% for their 'standard' package. I cannot just get internet only, I have to get either a phone package or video package or get the business internet package.
I took typing in the early 80s in High School. I was something like 80-90 wpm. When I was in 5th grade, we were introduced to computer theory on the level of garbage in = garbage out. We were taught about loading registers with data and executing instructions. We were also taught about interrupt requests. Imagine 10 year olds being taught rudimentary computer science in a public school system.
What I see today is that critical thinking is thrown out the door in favor of interface navigation; hardly computer science.
I have to say that I am very glad I took typing. My 5th grade computer introduction also helped me tackle assembly in the early 80s.
Oh, and if you want to get in a class full of chicks, try clogging if your university offers it.
It's not necessarily 'shielding' them from the adult crap. It's crappy content to begin with and content they lose interest in. What you don't want is you kid repeating "shit shit shit" in school.
I did the same with Spider-man 3 by removing all dancing sequences and unnecessary love arcs that wasn't spider-man pounding Goblin 2, snadman, or Venom.
Did the same for Indy Jones for Temple of Doom and Raiders. Temple of Doom they like because they identify with Short Round and they like the bugs. There's about 15 minutes I cut out. Raiders has about 20 minutes cut out too but they're bored with it.
The question I have is why is Indy Jones marketed to the under 8 crowd when the content isn't appropriate for it?
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Good: Size and ability to download your own PDFs via USB. Price is not that outrageous for an early adopter type product.
$489 is pretty outrageous for something that Sony's product did from the get go and you can get used for about $100.
Even new, Sony's reader is still cheaper than the Kindle DX.
To change the gear a bit, we're just witnessing the beginning of a new proprietary format war just like Microsoft vs. X in the 90s.
I don't want to buy a Sony CD player if I can only play music published by Sony.
Amazon did just that from the get go and it looks like they're opening up a bit but $500 is too much for a mostly locked in format reader.
How about they just let the grass grow, dry out, get struck by lightning and cause a massive wildfire then. That won't release any `harmful and poisonous` CO2 will it.
I'm sure Google paid a CO2 penance on the goats behalf on one of those ponzi outfits that accept `carbon credits`.
That's exactly my thought. What does it matter if you have a factory or home made cable if the cable run to the switch is hand made anyway?
The quality of the connections and the wire is really what matters. Not harmonic frequencies because a cable is 3 inches shorter than it should be.
Obama hates the Brits. Clean and simple. Started with that bust of Churchill he sent back when he moved in.
My guess (and it's a guess) it has something that the British did to his father in Africa.
It appears that the previous replies missed my joke. I think my far fetched point is that if the browser isn't bundled anymore, what method are people going to use to download their favorite browser?
Back when you had to pay for a browser (or download a less featured version for free), I would command line FTP those suckers from the Netscape FTP site across a 28.8k modem line.
What happened to the days of buying the boxed version of the browser in the store for $39.99?
The parent assumes that pilots are idiots and in order to become a pilot, the same requirements for driving must be met.
My point, while not stated, is that if you want to operate a Terrafugia, spend the time to become a pilot, not wait for some 'system' to do it for you.
Anti collision and autonomous technology need to be as ubiquitous as laser reading technology for Compact Discs are today for such a system to be viable.
There is no night rating but you have to have 3 hours of nighttime flying experience for a basic private certificate.
At this stage in the game, it appears that in order to operate this vehicle, a pilots certificate is required. Once some dimwit congressman introduces a bill to remove such requirement, said congressman should be immediately removed from office before the end of the day.
It takes an average of 72 hours for a pilot to gain his/her certificate whilst 40 hours are required. Of that, certain conditions are required like nighttime operation, solo operation, cross country operation, and recovery from certain scenarios. None of those conditions are required for land based motor vehicle operation licensing (i.e., oil level, tire pressure, nighttime, rain, changing a flat tire) except for parallel parking skills.
There ARE air lanes for east bound, west bound, VFR and IFR traffic. Likely, if this vehicle were to be operated in a populous area, it is most likely to be under some Class B or C airspace which means that communication with Air Traffic Control will be required. I'm sure that if these take off ;-), the FAA will hire staff to accommodate.
So, for those pilots, is this thing steered with the feet or is it taxied with the hands?
Is the throttle/gas controlled by the hand or foot? Does that change for land/air operation?
I'd hate to step on the gas and turn right at the same time while trying to steer and not turn anywhere on land.
The movie (series if it happens) will never be able to compare to the original series. 79 hours of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy (albeit that most of it sucked; the performances were key and carried us through and made it memorable) > 8 hours of new Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
Also, if the trailers and media are an indication of quality of the film, it appears that McCoy is just a bit part and Uhura is part of the new officer triangle; Kirk, Uhura, and Spock.
Rick Berman is the reason Star Trek became Star Twrecked. Let's get positions casted, put putty on someone's nose, rinse and repeat.
TNG and DS9 didn't have a token vulcan so Voyager got a black vulcan and Enterprise had a female vulcan. The guy doesn't know how to put a character together.
All his movies with the exception of First Contact sucked and got progressively worse.
Part of the charm of TOS was the banter of Kirk, McCoy and Spock. It was 3 guys diametrically opposed at work in different situations. That was the formula that none of the other series had. Enterprise was the closest but didn't know what it had and failed to deliver.
What do you think a screener is?
"copies sent by the studio to the Oscars for consideration." and in the before time, copies or 'screeners' sent to video stores to determine if they would purchase them for rent - way before the Blockbuster type of chain.
I've seen plenty of screeners in the 80s.
I'm not talking about the cigarette burns. I'm talking about the 'Coded Anti-Piracy' dots that denote what theatre the cam was used in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_Anti-Piracy
That bothers me less than the anti-piracy orange dots. I'm one of the people that can see that shit and it annoys me to no end.
I think Master and Commander was the first time I noticed it during a storm scene with bright flashes. When what was supposed to be a bright blinding flash ended up being a bright flash with a pattern of dots for a split second.
I see them in every tentpole movie now. It's like knowing a dirty secret about a neighbor. You never see your neighbor the same way you did before you knew the secret.
Business as usual.
The Bell Company does the same thing (or at least used to) by selling law enforcement radar guns and the public radar detectors.
I want to see a cat with wings in active pursuit of prey.
I would also like to see these http://www.genpets.com/index.php
It looks like the designers just watched "The Incredibles"
The chest was not fake. Numerous anecdotes from Nicholas Meyer to Harve Bennet to the makeup guys will vouch for how cut that guy was.
When students use training music that the Beatles wrote to help them learn to play music and musical instruments will the Beatles be as good Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, etc...
Other than that, they are pop artists that created sounds that contemporary people liked.
Now that being said, "Yesterday" and "Michelle" are popular piano pieces just as "Fur Elise" is.
If the Beatles wrote any Etudes or Sonatas, I'd like to know.
I had a Sams Club membership some 6 years ago and have been a Costco member for the past 6.
At the time, Sams doesn't allow payment from anyone other than the card holder.
Costco is the same way going a step further whereas the name on the credit card has to match the card member.
You can buy a cable box off Ebay for a fraction of the cost of rental for a year.
I'm reserving that option when the cable co finally decides to be like the satellite companies and force decoder boxes for our 'enhancement of the experience'.
I'm on board for satellite companies as their signal is free and 'out there' at a cost. The cable companies pay to have a cable directly wired to my home.
In my market, a standard cable rental runs $5 a month.
For HD, it's $10 a month.
I get calls as to why I won't upgrade because upgrading will cost me a rental fee which I won't do.
I've had the bare bones basic package of $10 (that I was grandfathered into). They got rid of the bare bones package and raised my rates 120% for their 'standard' package.
I cannot just get internet only, I have to get either a phone package or video package or get the business internet package.
and this gives them the leverage to 'tax' the internet on purchases.
I took typing in the early 80s in High School. I was something like 80-90 wpm.
When I was in 5th grade, we were introduced to computer theory on the level of garbage in = garbage out.
We were taught about loading registers with data and executing instructions.
We were also taught about interrupt requests. Imagine 10 year olds being taught rudimentary computer science in a public school system.
What I see today is that critical thinking is thrown out the door in favor of interface navigation; hardly computer science.
I have to say that I am very glad I took typing. My 5th grade computer introduction also helped me tackle assembly in the early 80s.
Oh, and if you want to get in a class full of chicks, try clogging if your university offers it.
I'm still running an Abit MB with a P3 for the past 9 years.
It's not necessarily 'shielding' them from the adult crap. It's crappy content to begin with and content they lose interest in.
What you don't want is you kid repeating "shit shit shit" in school.
I did the same with Spider-man 3 by removing all dancing sequences and unnecessary love arcs that wasn't spider-man pounding Goblin 2, snadman, or Venom.
Did the same for Indy Jones for Temple of Doom and Raiders.
Temple of Doom they like because they identify with Short Round and they like the bugs. There's about 15 minutes I cut out.
Raiders has about 20 minutes cut out too but they're bored with it.
The question I have is why is Indy Jones marketed to the under 8 crowd when the content isn't appropriate for it?