A computer doesn't really count as a "Set-top box". It's far more complicated and expensive then a set-top box is designed to be. (Note: I'm probably going to build a living room PC this year, with one of those cards, so I can receive OTA DTV broadcasts).
There aren't many HDTV Tuners around. I remember going to the store and shopping for an analog set-top box in the late eighties-- the boxes cost around $50. Now it's $150 for a refurbished set-top box. I feel like I'm getting ripped off.
I've asked the guys at Good Guys, Circuit City, and Best Buy-- 90% of the salespeople told me I couldn't receive DTV over the air. That's the sort of ignorance some of us are running into.
And also remember, Budweiser (Budvar) started out as a european beer, way back when.
Right, but they taste very different-- Budvar from eské Budjovice is very bitter compared to American Budweiser.
But hey, check it out-- Budvar is apparently now marketed in the States under the name Czechvar!. I wonder if it travels well. I'll keep my eyes open next time I'm at the store.
American beer, for similar reasons, is best served in small glasses, and chilled to the extreme to kill the taste.
Bah, you haven't been to the US in quite a while or take it. Either that or you come to the US and drink Budweiser, Coors or some other crap. Don't DO that!
Many of our locally crafted beers are quite tasty, but are never shipped to Europe. I'm a big fan of the amber beers from the American West Coast (Mostly around Seattle, Portland and San Francisco)-- it's hard to get anything like that in Western Europe or the UK, although I've had some small batches of great amber brews in the Czech Republic and Austria.
1. You are taking my numbers too literally. This is what we DISCUSSED, but what we discussed wasn't always factually acturate.
2. Again, I said "The Reagan Era". There are far fewer nuclear weapons today then in the mid-80s, when there were 85,000 nuclear weapons in the world.
I lived near some missle silos. While in Boy Scouts, we used to go to the military base and they would talk about the nuclear weapons program (among other things) and show us some of the non-commissioned, unarmed, unfueled missles. We got a 50-page book which tries to justify the US nuclear program-- pretty facinating book. It says the Soviets have 40,000 nuclear warheads-- I don't know if that was true or not, but it's an impressive number. And then they show the blast radius of a 1-megaton bomb over certain American cities, the threat posed by the mobile missle launching platforms on the back of a truck and train cars.
Right! And we could honor an important part of the browser, such as the the Layout Engine. We could model him after the Geico mascot, which is a lizard or an iguana or something... and then we could give him a name, like the "Geico Layout Engine".
Of course, saying "Layout", "Engine" and the name of an auto insurance company brings up some wierd images.
No, I think that people are under the conception that the 100,000 1-Megaton nukes shared between the former-USSR and the US could take out wide swaths of the world.
You are probably too young to remember much about the Cold War, but I grew up in the Reagan Era, and yeah we did have incredibly paranoid discussions like "Well the Soviets are targetting the nearby airforce base but luckily we are greater then 11.7 Kilometers from ground zero."... Seriously!
Sort of silly, but why consider just Americans as being addicted to technology? What about people in Japan or Hong Kong (I know it's a City)? Net cafes in Seoul? Super Hi-NRG Euro Techno?
I suppose America is the land of $150 monthly Cable TV bills-- that probably has alot to do with it?
It would be more interesting if Slashdot actually linked to a Blog article that contained some sort of content. Instead, you link to an empty blog article, which means I need to hunt around on the site to find all articles by This guy and scroll down his list of recent entries....
Sorta silly, dontcha think? Trying to generate more pageviews or something?
Well, ID is still taught in Kansas, Ohio and Georgia.
I think the real winner of this in 2006 is the people who need a cheap labor source. After all,if you get a crap-ass education in one of these misguided school districts, it's going to be hard to get a job that pays more then minimum wage.
Some of the backers of ID are really just aiming to keep people uneducated and within control. Liberty will eventually win out-- the Catholics tried to control education and discourse 500 years ago, and they eventually lost. Hopefully the promoters won't get as violent as the Catholics did. Somehow I don't think that Jesus would approve of torture and burning people at the stake.
So where do the Dinosaurs come into all of this? Or are they just a joke that we human's haven't gotten around to understanding yet?
If any one decided to have a look at ALL the facts, and come in with no presumptions then the only result would be to admit that Evolution is simply not possible
When you find scientific facts to support Creationism, like the location of Eden, proof that Humans once lived for hundreds of years, etc. come and talk to us.
There are many times when I am working, but not at my keyboard mouse. Perhaps I am in the server room. Perhaps I am at my desk reading or writing notes (on paper!!!).
As fucked as it seems, many people seem to think that if my status is "Idle" I am not working. That's why I turn it off.
I use an Away message, but Gaim doesn't always send your Away message when people write to you on the AIM protocol. So they write, get no response, and think you're goofing off.
When I move to Gaim 2, I'll probably check out one of the plugins.
Personally, I'm disturbed that the "Live Action"-actress had hair, whereas in the cartoon it was straight-black in some scenes. I mean, they tried to replicate it with hair-mousse, but I could still tell it was real hair on Theron's head. Not cartoon hair. That sucks!
And there was some character who had a tounge which was frighteningly long...
If you think that Charlize Theron is "Fat", you are one warped motherfucker. Perhaps you should spend less time looking at cartoon images of women and spending time with real, actual women.
I'm not a fan really, but Charlize Theron is thin by any stretch of the imagination.
Amazingly enough, those are rough estimates. In reality, there were probably far more pedestrians and far less rainstorms. I lost count of the rainstorms after 3.
Additionally, The grafiti didn't really go away on it's own. The concrete sidewalks were redone during some road construction.
Yeah, but do the Xbox guys have anything to do with the executives at Microsoft who try to squeeze out the competition? Chances are, they just want to build a nice box.
Sony and Microsoft are both about the same. Feel free to buy the system of your choice, but don't fool yourself into thinking one company is signifigantly better then the other. Either way you're money is feeding the beast.
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A computer doesn't really count as a "Set-top box". It's far more complicated and expensive then a set-top box is designed to be. (Note: I'm probably going to build a living room PC this year, with one of those cards, so I can receive OTA DTV broadcasts).
There aren't many HDTV Tuners around. I remember going to the store and shopping for an analog set-top box in the late eighties-- the boxes cost around $50. Now it's $150 for a refurbished set-top box. I feel like I'm getting ripped off.
I've asked the guys at Good Guys, Circuit City, and Best Buy-- 90% of the salespeople told me I couldn't receive DTV over the air. That's the sort of ignorance some of us are running into.
No genius! Bicycles are not required to grow crops. Crops do not require bicycles!
But America DOES require more exercise and less dependency on fossil fuels. It's not something we've tried lately.
Why not grow corn, eat the corn, and then ride your bike.
It's easier then an Alcohol OR a Hydrogen economy.
His true name is Ned Flanders.
Would you look at those morons... I paid my taxes over a year ago!
And also remember, Budweiser (Budvar) started out as a european beer, way back when.
Right, but they taste very different-- Budvar from eské Budjovice is very bitter compared to American Budweiser.
But hey, check it out-- Budvar is apparently now marketed in the States under the name Czechvar!. I wonder if it travels well. I'll keep my eyes open next time I'm at the store.
American beer, for similar reasons, is best served in small glasses, and chilled to the extreme to kill the taste.
Bah, you haven't been to the US in quite a while or take it. Either that or you come to the US and drink Budweiser, Coors or some other crap. Don't DO that!
Many of our locally crafted beers are quite tasty, but are never shipped to Europe. I'm a big fan of the amber beers from the American West Coast (Mostly around Seattle, Portland and San Francisco)-- it's hard to get anything like that in Western Europe or the UK, although I've had some small batches of great amber brews in the Czech Republic and Austria.
And I'll admit that I've never been to Belgium.
1. You are taking my numbers too literally. This is what we DISCUSSED, but what we discussed wasn't always factually acturate.
2. Again, I said "The Reagan Era". There are far fewer nuclear weapons today then in the mid-80s, when there were 85,000 nuclear weapons in the world.
I lived near some missle silos. While in Boy Scouts, we used to go to the military base and they would talk about the nuclear weapons program (among other things) and show us some of the non-commissioned, unarmed, unfueled missles. We got a 50-page book which tries to justify the US nuclear program-- pretty facinating book. It says the Soviets have 40,000 nuclear warheads-- I don't know if that was true or not, but it's an impressive number. And then they show the blast radius of a 1-megaton bomb over certain American cities, the threat posed by the mobile missle launching platforms on the back of a truck and train cars.
I think his question is more like "Are ringtones, iPods and Digital Cable making us more productive?"
Right! And we could honor an important part of the browser, such as the the Layout Engine. We could model him after the Geico mascot, which is a lizard or an iguana or something... and then we could give him a name, like the "Geico Layout Engine".
Of course, saying "Layout", "Engine" and the name of an auto insurance company brings up some wierd images.
No, I think that people are under the conception that the 100,000 1-Megaton nukes shared between the former-USSR and the US could take out wide swaths of the world.
... Seriously!
You are probably too young to remember much about the Cold War, but I grew up in the Reagan Era, and yeah we did have incredibly paranoid discussions like "Well the Soviets are targetting the nearby airforce base but luckily we are greater then 11.7 Kilometers from ground zero."
Sort of silly, but why consider just Americans as being addicted to technology? What about people in Japan or Hong Kong (I know it's a City)? Net cafes in Seoul? Super Hi-NRG Euro Techno?
I suppose America is the land of $150 monthly Cable TV bills-- that probably has alot to do with it?
Nope! Uranus was discovered by William Herschel.
Uranus was an early Greek God of the Sky, Son of Gaia. The word predates the english use of "Your Anus" by a couple thousand years.
Well, they could just pronounce it UrUnus, which is what most astronomy folks do anyways...
It would be more interesting if Slashdot actually linked to a Blog article that contained some sort of content. Instead, you link to an empty blog article, which means I need to hunt around on the site to find all articles by This guy and scroll down his list of recent entries....
Sorta silly, dontcha think? Trying to generate more pageviews or something?
Well, ID is still taught in Kansas, Ohio and Georgia.
I think the real winner of this in 2006 is the people who need a cheap labor source. After all,if you get a crap-ass education in one of these misguided school districts, it's going to be hard to get a job that pays more then minimum wage.
Some of the backers of ID are really just aiming to keep people uneducated and within control. Liberty will eventually win out-- the Catholics tried to control education and discourse 500 years ago, and they eventually lost. Hopefully the promoters won't get as violent as the Catholics did. Somehow I don't think that Jesus would approve of torture and burning people at the stake.
So where do the Dinosaurs come into all of this? Or are they just a joke that we human's haven't gotten around to understanding yet?
If any one decided to have a look at ALL the facts, and come in with no presumptions then the only result would be to admit that Evolution is simply not possible
When you find scientific facts to support Creationism, like the location of Eden, proof that Humans once lived for hundreds of years, etc. come and talk to us.
There are many times when I am working, but not at my keyboard mouse. Perhaps I am in the server room. Perhaps I am at my desk reading or writing notes (on paper!!!).
As fucked as it seems, many people seem to think that if my status is "Idle" I am not working. That's why I turn it off.
I use an Away message, but Gaim doesn't always send your Away message when people write to you on the AIM protocol. So they write, get no response, and think you're goofing off.
When I move to Gaim 2, I'll probably check out one of the plugins.
And they are looking for god. Deep in the center of the Earth!
Then go watch the cartoon.
Personally, I'm disturbed that the "Live Action"-actress had hair, whereas in the cartoon it was straight-black in some scenes. I mean, they tried to replicate it with hair-mousse, but I could still tell it was real hair on Theron's head. Not cartoon hair. That sucks!
And there was some character who had a tounge which was frighteningly long...
If you think that Charlize Theron is "Fat", you are one warped motherfucker. Perhaps you should spend less time looking at cartoon images of women and spending time with real, actual women.
I'm not a fan really, but Charlize Theron is thin by any stretch of the imagination.
Amazingly enough, those are rough estimates. In reality, there were probably far more pedestrians and far less rainstorms. I lost count of the rainstorms after 3.
Additionally, The grafiti didn't really go away on it's own. The concrete sidewalks were redone during some road construction.
Some of those IBM/Linux sprays are still there, 4.5 years, 300,000 pedestrians and 150 rainstorms later.
I'm so glad it was "biodegradable chalk".
Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses.
Somehow I missed the whole point of the movie until I rewatched the remastered DVD version. And then I felt funny about buying remastered DVD.
Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.
Cool, thanks! That's probably what I'll get then.
They still offer the K9 for $25. We're just looking for a cheap second phone.
Website's a little cheezy though...
Yeah, but do the Xbox guys have anything to do with the executives at Microsoft who try to squeeze out the competition? Chances are, they just want to build a nice box.
Sony and Microsoft are both about the same. Feel free to buy the system of your choice, but don't fool yourself into thinking one company is signifigantly better then the other. Either way you're money is feeding the beast.