Anyone else picturing that 7UP commercial with the machine on the tank treads shooting cans at people? I know I am, I would be happy to buy Pepsi for friends if I'm able to launch the soda at them from the machine.
We stopped using TiVo because we got rid of our land line. No land line no TiVo, at least that how it was four years ago. Perhaps they have made it into the digital age since then. I do miss TiVo just recording things you might find interesting though I wish my cable provider had something like that.
So, instead of having a separate email, IM, facebook, phone number, etc we have one unique number? Great so if we forget our unique number we are totally screwed rather than just a little bit screwed. No thanks, if this is the future I'll just stay in the digital stone age.
If you have a job already I don't think so, although if you are looking for a job having John.Smith@gmail.com as a email address on your resume is way better than having Hotguy81@hotmail.com as a email address on your resume.
Have you ever been to a local used game shop? All they ever have is the sports games they get so much of the sports games I'm rather surprised they don't hold monthly skeet shooting contests just to get rid of all the excess.
Up to a point yes they are, but as Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke so succulently said No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. I can only imagine that if someone tries to predict a battle they are going to be left holding their graph at the end of the battle saying what the hell just happened?
The Italian government has proposed introducing new restrictions on the Internet after a Facebook fan page for the man who allegedly attacked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday drew almost 100,000 users in under 48 hours.
Well that is a rather knee jerk reaction, last I checked Facebook was not for just people from Italy. Besides people will become fans of anything on Facebook, from beer, to Jeffrey Dahmer.
"I mean, if computer games really had any effect on our behavior we would be sitting in some dark room, bobbing our head to monotonous repetitive music while popping pills all night...."
Felton has thrown down the gauntlet asking for a standardized data set from any telco that he can do statistical analysis on that will allow him to find any evidence of a single outlier ruining the experience for everyone else. Unlikely any telco will take him up on that offer but his point still stands."
It's too bad there isn't a freedom of information act for business, that could come in handy for this sort of thing. Although if there was I suppose that would make industrial espionage really easy.
I can only hope that the movie industry reads the history books, for those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Although, I can see a new market opening up, sort of a YouTube for full length movies. I wonder if this is the end of the golden age for Hollywood, I can't see movie producers willing to pay actors millions to act in their movies if their profit margins are falling off the page. I wonder if Bollywood will step in to fill in the gap? I really don't like musicals.
He will look back and think it was the greatest day of his life. Or until the next MMORPG with a insane number of achievements comes out. Then beating that will be the greatest day of his life and so on and so forth ad nauseum.
I wonder why people go through the whole hassle of pirating games, one you might get the ban hammer and two it might ruin your XBOX. Just so you can save a few bucks? Why not just wait for six months or so then hit up eBay or your local used game store. Sure you might not be able to play the latest and greatest game with all your friends online but you also won't get your XBOX banned or ruined.
Just take away, cell phones, the radio, tape player, CD's, and the iPod and have everyone get 8 hours of sleep. No need to waste billions of taxpayer's money, looking for a high-tech cure when a low-tech solution will work just as well.
The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm.
What I want to know is who in their right minds volunteers for this sort of thing? Or are they just all pre-med students and get "volunteered" by their professors?
I think I would rather have a fire department paid for by my taxes than having this sort of thing occur:
Nameless person: Help my house is burning down!
Fire department: We can help we take Visa or Mastercard.
Nameless person: Hands the fire department person a Visa.
Fire department: Sorry, that card was denied.
Nameless person: What about my house?
Fire department: Sorry, no pay no spray.
Nameless person watches their house burn down.
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Anyone else picturing that 7UP commercial with the machine on the tank treads shooting cans at people? I know I am, I would be happy to buy Pepsi for friends if I'm able to launch the soda at them from the machine.
We stopped using TiVo because we got rid of our land line. No land line no TiVo, at least that how it was four years ago. Perhaps they have made it into the digital age since then. I do miss TiVo just recording things you might find interesting though I wish my cable provider had something like that.
So, instead of having a separate email, IM, facebook, phone number, etc we have one unique number? Great so if we forget our unique number we are totally screwed rather than just a little bit screwed. No thanks, if this is the future I'll just stay in the digital stone age.
If you have a job already I don't think so, although if you are looking for a job having John.Smith@gmail.com as a email address on your resume is way better than having Hotguy81@hotmail.com as a email address on your resume.
Obviously it's DNF because they disbarred Jack Thompson. Now he's just a normal pompous windbag with a axe to grind.
Have you ever been to a local used game shop? All they ever have is the sports games they get so much of the sports games I'm rather surprised they don't hold monthly skeet shooting contests just to get rid of all the excess.
Modelers claim wars are predictable
Up to a point yes they are, but as Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke so succulently said No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. I can only imagine that if someone tries to predict a battle they are going to be left holding their graph at the end of the battle saying what the hell just happened?
Are we sure we want to go there? Last thing I need is some demons showing up on my doorstep.
The Italian government has proposed introducing new restrictions on the Internet after a Facebook fan page for the man who allegedly attacked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday drew almost 100,000 users in under 48 hours.
Well that is a rather knee jerk reaction, last I checked Facebook was not for just people from Italy. Besides people will become fans of anything on Facebook, from beer, to Jeffrey Dahmer.
I would think a GH video game stand would be more akin to a DDR arcade game than a jukebox.
"I mean, if computer games really had any effect on our behavior we would be sitting in some dark room, bobbing our head to monotonous repetitive music while popping pills all night. ..."
Felton has thrown down the gauntlet asking for a standardized data set from any telco that he can do statistical analysis on that will allow him to find any evidence of a single outlier ruining the experience for everyone else. Unlikely any telco will take him up on that offer but his point still stands."
It's too bad there isn't a freedom of information act for business, that could come in handy for this sort of thing. Although if there was I suppose that would make industrial espionage really easy.
I can only hope that the movie industry reads the history books, for those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Although, I can see a new market opening up, sort of a YouTube for full length movies. I wonder if this is the end of the golden age for Hollywood, I can't see movie producers willing to pay actors millions to act in their movies if their profit margins are falling off the page. I wonder if Bollywood will step in to fill in the gap? I really don't like musicals.
He will look back and think it was the greatest day of his life. Or until the next MMORPG with a insane number of achievements comes out. Then beating that will be the greatest day of his life and so on and so forth ad nauseum.
With only 60% of the US having access to broadband I'm thinking opposition is going to come from everywhere.
They can if you were to reformat it into 8 bit music score. Although the more complex the music the less likely the chance that it will work well.
Because it's ubercool geekery?
There are likely only about 1,000 Tesla coil hobbyists worldwide.
There are quite a few more of us around as the Pupman mailing list http://www.pupman.com/ and the Geek Group http://www.thegeekgroup.org/ can attest.
I wonder why people go through the whole hassle of pirating games, one you might get the ban hammer and two it might ruin your XBOX. Just so you can save a few bucks? Why not just wait for six months or so then hit up eBay or your local used game store. Sure you might not be able to play the latest and greatest game with all your friends online but you also won't get your XBOX banned or ruined.
Just take away, cell phones, the radio, tape player, CD's, and the iPod and have everyone get 8 hours of sleep. No need to waste billions of taxpayer's money, looking for a high-tech cure when a low-tech solution will work just as well.
The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm.
What I want to know is who in their right minds volunteers for this sort of thing? Or are they just all pre-med students and get "volunteered" by their professors?
The government is starting to sound like Britney Spears.
I think they were trying to invoke an image of a trashcan but had a epic fail moment.
I think I would rather have a fire department paid for by my taxes than having this sort of thing occur:
Nameless person: Help my house is burning down!
Fire department: We can help we take Visa or Mastercard.
Nameless person: Hands the fire department person a Visa.
Fire department: Sorry, that card was denied.
Nameless person: What about my house?
Fire department: Sorry, no pay no spray.
Nameless person watches their house burn down.
So, I can now get my Engrish in real time I'm so excited!