...we'll see people outfitting themselves with USB-enabled, reinforced combination arm/hard drives in some decades that can also make batting easier. Enhancements, I think, will be a fact of life. We scoff at steroids, IQ pills, and cyborgs now, but I think it will be sports that'll be obsolesced in the long term, not the 'roids; things like baseball, basketball and track require a large amount of fairness and we are tempted (as sex-crazed people who want to succeed in life) to gain an advantage in life by any means. It will soon be impossible to keep sports fair, I believe.
I've already seen compression artifacts in cable TV channels. I watched VH1 and MTV2 (analog cable I believe, but I guess they're converted from digital) and VH1 has some small bits of JPEGish fuzziness, while I noticed MTV2 had some speed problems once (it kept getting blocky and odd-colored during one video, and going black, looking far worse than the former). Digital video for the US sounds cool, but I hope it won't be low-quality video like that.
What are theaters and the MPAA waiting for? If they're afraid of people outside of the theater/MPAA circle downloading the movies, they can just build their own download network and assign a few trusted people to do that specific job? Or do they all already use digital that I haven't heard of?* If they can spend $200 million on movies, why can't they do this and save their own budgets and the theaters'?
*I do know that IMAX uses digital sound, but it still uses film. The theaters I've been in, last I checked, definitely still use analog and it shows. Is it a matter of spreading the word?
Because they feel if they're not getting money from something, it becomes a bastard product. Microsoft doesn't want to do extra work if they already told the people to use teh XP for critical updates. They think Windows 2000 is nearly dead, though many around me think 2000 is better because it doesn't use the "jellybean Start button" visual styles (though of course they can be switched off in XP too).
Imagine the Stone Cold Stunners he can do after that surg--[remembers Six Million Dollar Man] Oh, wrong one, nevermind... [grabs gun and goes to WWE headquarters to settle confusion]
The admin team of the BBS of Nanjing University has refused to obey the order and has been dismissed.
"miss". So that's how they're spelling "appear" these days. Man, these kids and their SMS/TXT speak.
Yes. It is scary how easily a government can just snuff dissent out like that. Stories like the ones of these "Disappeared" people invariably frighten me, and this and China's are just few of many.
My sig's advice might save them. I sure hope so, because I can't stand China's compulsion to be bullies, both in and (depending on what you consider Taiwan/Chinese Taipei) out of their country.
"people" tends to be replaced with "candidates", "links" with "voters" and "search engines" with "elections". *sigh* sick money-whoring bastards. I hate "optimized" search results; their writers ought to die and die again, like that bitch who stole my HTML.
We should allow that. Then again I think we (New York at least) should allow people to choose service from different cable companies (you know to get some competition and lower prices, maybe) but then I guess that is impossible and too much to ask. I doubt they'd like the idea of cable they've strewn through the streets being used by competitors.
Cable companies (both service and channel providers) think that their programming is an *ahem*intellectual property asset. The last words they'd like to hear are open and competition: it makes companies *coughCablevisionEtAlcough* cringe. They're already concerned about not being the only stadium in Manhattan.* They'll try to delay this as long as corporately possible**.
*of course, so are people here who think we'd spend >$600,000,000 in taxes on the new center...but I'm straying from point here.
**I'd say humanly but what's so human about having a cable monopoly? I seriously wonder.
They are taking over the world. They plan on taking over the world by not taking over the world. "Hey, Google is nice....they aren't taking over the world" Then before you know it you page ranking what to eat, who your friends are, what car to buy, where to live, where to work.
Yeah, they're much like one of those nice girls in high school. They're friendly, and mean to do good, but you end up obsessing over them 'cause they're so blatantly hot. They take over your mind with their curves intelligence and self-confidence...and of course that keeps a man from ever getting some real (for lack of a better term) knowledge.
Google is the hot, slimmed-down, super-smart chick of the Internet; if it was a girl, it'd be that rare case of someone who wouldn't spoon-feed you with gossip unless you want her to, would be there for you the moment you need her, would help you with research, and would even get the mail for you. She'd even let you see others. Sounds like a supermodel to me.
Considering the first place they ask when they have a problem (if they aren't as informed as we are;) ) is the guys they got the system from--either the OEM, or Microsoft if they bought the Starter Edition separately somehow. The last thing they want people who can barely stomach--much less use a PC--to do is call them because they ran a ton of progs and suddenly crashed the compy, possibly thanks to bad advice from a "friend" or just curiosity.
I like chicks with glasses and suits. Anything over Jessica Simpson*, that's my motto. Though I am scared that they might, uh, overtax my accounts.
*fully realizing she has some amazing [ahem]assets herself, but the chicken-tuna-fish thing destroyed almost every blonde singer's chance of my looking their way. I still like Ashlee though...
Absolutely; it's too easy to fool someone to do something like make someone change their password this way, simply because people are nervous aout their computers and they'd obey anyone who sounds technical enough. It's like people need a minimum Bachelor's in CS* to live in this age.
*not that said degrees are/are not useful, just that lots of people need to learn a lot about computers and scams like this. Now.
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...we'll see people outfitting themselves with USB-enabled, reinforced combination arm/hard drives in some decades that can also make batting easier. Enhancements, I think, will be a fact of life. We scoff at steroids, IQ pills, and cyborgs now, but I think it will be sports that'll be obsolesced in the long term, not the 'roids; things like baseball, basketball and track require a large amount of fairness and we are tempted (as sex-crazed people who want to succeed in life) to gain an advantage in life by any means. It will soon be impossible to keep sports fair, I believe.
I've already seen compression artifacts in cable TV channels. I watched VH1 and MTV2 (analog cable I believe, but I guess they're converted from digital) and VH1 has some small bits of JPEGish fuzziness, while I noticed MTV2 had some speed problems once (it kept getting blocky and odd-colored during one video, and going black, looking far worse than the former). Digital video for the US sounds cool, but I hope it won't be low-quality video like that.
What are theaters and the MPAA waiting for? If they're afraid of people outside of the theater/MPAA circle downloading the movies, they can just build their own download network and assign a few trusted people to do that specific job? Or do they all already use digital that I haven't heard of?* If they can spend $200 million on movies, why can't they do this and save their own budgets and the theaters'?
*I do know that IMAX uses digital sound, but it still uses film. The theaters I've been in, last I checked, definitely still use analog and it shows. Is it a matter of spreading the word?
...from what I see this would then be World War 0. Multiple battle theatres, boatloads of deaths...sounds like a World War(TM) to me.
Because they feel if they're not getting money from something, it becomes a bastard product. Microsoft doesn't want to do extra work if they already told the people to use teh XP for critical updates. They think Windows 2000 is nearly dead, though many around me think 2000 is better because it doesn't use the "jellybean Start button" visual styles (though of course they can be switched off in XP too).
She (her head, at least) was forever immortalized long ago. This time they just cloned Rikishi.
4.3x10^-2 picoCartmans So that means they have the face of Cartman, the width of Calista Flockhart and the vocal cords of Kenny?
Imagine the Stone Cold Stunners he can do after that surg--[remembers Six Million Dollar Man] Oh, wrong one, nevermind... [grabs gun and goes to WWE headquarters to settle confusion]
"They've got Fibonacci. FIBONACCIIII! "--what, Fettucine? Damn, I gotta take a break from that math course...
Isn't beer free? (Oh wait, it isn't. Nevermind.)
Yes. It is scary how easily a government can just snuff dissent out like that. Stories like the ones of these "Disappeared" people invariably frighten me, and this and China's are just few of many.
My sig's advice might save them. I sure hope so, because I can't stand China's compulsion to be bullies, both in and (depending on what you consider Taiwan/Chinese Taipei) out of their country.
"people" tends to be replaced with "candidates", "links" with "voters" and "search engines" with "elections". *sigh* sick money-whoring bastards. I hate "optimized" search results; their writers ought to die and die again, like that bitch who stole my HTML.
You can be moved around your rooms.
You can be wheeled to a vault.
You can hide in Faraday cages and curl under tin foil blankets, disconnected from all forms of Gigabit Ethernet.
But wherever you go, you won't escape the clutches of... GOOGLEBOTS! (B-movie horror music plays in background)
We should allow that. Then again I think we (New York at least) should allow people to choose service from different cable companies (you know to get some competition and lower prices, maybe) but then I guess that is impossible and too much to ask. I doubt they'd like the idea of cable they've strewn through the streets being used by competitors.
Cable companies (both service and channel providers) think that their programming is an *ahem*intellectual property asset. The last words they'd like to hear are open and competition: it makes companies *coughCablevisionEtAlcough* cringe. They're already concerned about not being the only stadium in Manhattan.* They'll try to delay this as long as corporately possible**.
*of course, so are people here who think we'd spend >$600,000,000 in taxes on the new center...but I'm straying from point here.
**I'd say humanly but what's so human about having a cable monopoly? I seriously wonder.
I've always got crunk to his albu--what? That's Lil Jon? Nevermind...
In that case, Google must have already pwned us.
Yeah, they're much like one of those nice girls in high school. They're friendly, and mean to do good, but you end up obsessing over them 'cause they're so blatantly hot. They take over your mind with their curves intelligence and self-confidence...and of course that keeps a man from ever getting some real (for lack of a better term) knowledge.
Google is the hot, slimmed-down, super-smart chick of the Internet; if it was a girl, it'd be that rare case of someone who wouldn't spoon-feed you with gossip unless you want her to, would be there for you the moment you need her, would help you with research, and would even get the mail for you. She'd even let you see others. Sounds like a supermodel to me.
Considering the first place they ask when they have a problem (if they aren't as informed as we are ;) ) is the guys they got the system from--either the OEM, or Microsoft if they bought the Starter Edition separately somehow. The last thing they want people who can barely stomach--much less use a PC--to do is call them because they ran a ton of progs and suddenly crashed the compy, possibly thanks to bad advice from a "friend" or just curiosity.
At least, if you don't believe it was faked or something.
Side note: It alarms me how "natural" racism was back then. (Just read items 23 and 24 the bottom.)
"XML what?"
I might be using a voice-browsing-enabled PDA without a keyboard you insensitive clod!
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Somebody set up Taco the complaint.
I like chicks with glasses and suits. Anything over Jessica Simpson*, that's my motto. Though I am scared that they might, uh, overtax my accounts.
*fully realizing she has some amazing [ahem]assets herself, but the chicken-tuna-fish thing destroyed almost every blonde singer's chance of my looking their way. I still like Ashlee though...
He was a genius! (Though I hear he=teh sux in math...)
Absolutely; it's too easy to fool someone to do something like make someone change their password this way, simply because people are nervous aout their computers and they'd obey anyone who sounds technical enough. It's like people need a minimum Bachelor's in CS* to live in this age.
*not that said degrees are/are not useful, just that lots of people need to learn a lot about computers and scams like this. Now.