I've been using these thousands of pages of free paper as fireplace kindling every year. Just tear out a few pages, twist them up, light them, and you're good to go. It's thin and dry and burns nice and hot - it's hard to find better paper for starting fires.
I haven't actually looked up a number in the yellow pages since, well, since I got the internets. I've got no nostalgia for a useless old inefficient waste of resources.
Who cares? Anyone from the younger generation who likes the Beatles downloaded their discography years ago. The older generation likely first bought their records, then their tapes, then their CDs. Who is the target market here? I don't know of a single person who was clamoring for this to happen. It's definitely not the epic event Steve Jobs would make it out to be.
Not true. I feed my snakes frozen mice all the time and it doesn't bother them one bit. They don't even have to be moving - just drop it in on the warming rock and the snakes notice right away.
This is also the preferred method for squeamish snake owners. Baby mice tend to, uh, shriek, when the snake latches onto their head. Dead mice offer no such complaints.
Interesting point. I believe this recycling of this video gives credibility to the accusation that this is an entirely canned demo. If this was something they could easily produce on demand, they could slap together a new video in a couple of hours. Apparently choreographing both sides of a canned conversation, planning Milo's actions, and then synchronizing the actress into the demo was a bit too much effort for someone to go through again.
You know what else uses high pressure sodium lamps? Indoor greenhouses and grow rooms. One of your neighbors might have a 1000w HPS light on a timer to grow some medicinal herbs. Just sayin...
They do, in fact, print the serial number of the console on the receipt. With the 360, they even designed a window into the packaging so you can see the serial number of the console contained within, without the need to remove it from the packaging.
However, situations like this simply require a little social engineering. Go to Sam's Club or Wal-Mart or some other huge store where the workers are understaffed, underpaid, and minimally technical. Buy a new console, place the old one in the box, and return it. Do your return near the end of the day when the employee is tired and just wants to go home. Chances are, nobody will notice the mismatched serial number and you will walk out with a brand new console. If they catch you, just play dumb. Employees at these stores are used to dealing with idiots as well.
Also, Prodigy was a popular, GUI-based dial-up content provider that got pretty popular in the early 90's. I can't call it an ISP because (at the time I was using it anyway) they did not really offer internet access. It was a big online community with chat rooms, forums, news, weather, and email...with a catch. You could send messages to other Prodigy members free of charge, but you were limited to 25 "internet" emails per month. And 5 hours of dial-up access. Thinking about it now makes me chuckle, but that's the way it was. No web or telnet or ftp or gopher. Just the content they provide, like the BBS's of old.
Another benefit of AquaPEX over copper would be that you needn't worry about the copper contacting the steel reinforcing bar in your slab. Metal to metal contact like that causes all sorts of problems without some sort of dielectric union. The AquaPEX doesn't have the heat transfer capability of copper, true, but what it lacks in thermal conduction could be made up for by simply increasing the amount of linear feet you bury.
And also, as parent has noted, concrete is corrosive. Corrosion is bad.
I used to be a big fan of the clicky M keyboards. Something about the tactile feel of actually pressing down on a key, yadda yadda, see the previous 500 posts for plenty of click love.
However, I'm a convert. Born-again, if you will. I love laptop-style keyboards now. After a few years of laptop ownership, I bought myself a nice flat EluminX keyboard and haven't looked back since. The keys are easier to press, they have less "travel" so you spend less time mashing buttons down and more time making words appear on the screen. Ergonomics aside, it's simply no contest. I'm a decent touch typist and can push 100wpm on a good day. A familiar short-stroke keyboard only improves my speed.
Plus, think about it. Flat keyboard are just way more futuristic. On Star Trek, you don't see the Data banging away on a Model M making all sorts of comforting klangy noises. No way Jose. He's got a big friggin iPod touch screen in front of him, totally flat, and he can make that thing scream. Wesley, too. Wil Wheaton don't use no klacky keyboards.
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I've been using these thousands of pages of free paper as fireplace kindling every year. Just tear out a few pages, twist them up, light them, and you're good to go. It's thin and dry and burns nice and hot - it's hard to find better paper for starting fires.
I haven't actually looked up a number in the yellow pages since, well, since I got the internets. I've got no nostalgia for a useless old inefficient waste of resources.
Unless you meant en masse.
Unless of course they are counting on all of these boomers to pony up the cash to buy these albums yet again. In which case it's a genius move.
Who cares? Anyone from the younger generation who likes the Beatles downloaded their discography years ago. The older generation likely first bought their records, then their tapes, then their CDs. Who is the target market here? I don't know of a single person who was clamoring for this to happen. It's definitely not the epic event Steve Jobs would make it out to be.
This is also the preferred method for squeamish snake owners. Baby mice tend to, uh, shriek, when the snake latches onto their head. Dead mice offer no such complaints.
. They call them 2-by-4s, but then they try to get out of delivering that by using technical terms like kiln, moisture, and shrinkage. .
You didn't know about shrinkage? Do nerds know about shrinkage?
Interesting point. I believe this recycling of this video gives credibility to the accusation that this is an entirely canned demo. If this was something they could easily produce on demand, they could slap together a new video in a couple of hours. Apparently choreographing both sides of a canned conversation, planning Milo's actions, and then synchronizing the actress into the demo was a bit too much effort for someone to go through again.
+1 irony?
You know what else uses high pressure sodium lamps? Indoor greenhouses and grow rooms. One of your neighbors might have a 1000w HPS light on a timer to grow some medicinal herbs. Just sayin...
Jesus Rambo? I love that guy!
Dude, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Don't be mean. He's a passable actor as long as you keep him in the correct characters.
I suggest:
- Robot from space.
- Tree.
- Brick.
- Guy in carbonite block (just spray him black)
- Ted "Theodore" Logan
There, fixed that for ya.
In Soviet Russia.... oh wait. Someone else beat me to it. Damn.
Sounds like a sinfully delicious crime.
They do, in fact, print the serial number of the console on the receipt. With the 360, they even designed a window into the packaging so you can see the serial number of the console contained within, without the need to remove it from the packaging.
However, situations like this simply require a little social engineering. Go to Sam's Club or Wal-Mart or some other huge store where the workers are understaffed, underpaid, and minimally technical. Buy a new console, place the old one in the box, and return it. Do your return near the end of the day when the employee is tired and just wants to go home. Chances are, nobody will notice the mismatched serial number and you will walk out with a brand new console. If they catch you, just play dumb. Employees at these stores are used to dealing with idiots as well.
Sorry, but I have the patent on putting my pinky at the corner of my mouth and demanding huge ransoms while laughing in a maniacal way.
Oh, and it's usually 1 million, billion, fufillion, shabidydillion ... yen !!!
In other words, that'll be about $3.50.
Also, Prodigy was a popular, GUI-based dial-up content provider that got pretty popular in the early 90's. I can't call it an ISP because (at the time I was using it anyway) they did not really offer internet access. It was a big online community with chat rooms, forums, news, weather, and email...with a catch. You could send messages to other Prodigy members free of charge, but you were limited to 25 "internet" emails per month. And 5 hours of dial-up access. Thinking about it now makes me chuckle, but that's the way it was. No web or telnet or ftp or gopher. Just the content they provide, like the BBS's of old.
Cheaper and easier to install is also a good argument for PEX, no? :-)
Another benefit of AquaPEX over copper would be that you needn't worry about the copper contacting the steel reinforcing bar in your slab. Metal to metal contact like that causes all sorts of problems without some sort of dielectric union. The AquaPEX doesn't have the heat transfer capability of copper, true, but what it lacks in thermal conduction could be made up for by simply increasing the amount of linear feet you bury.
And also, as parent has noted, concrete is corrosive. Corrosion is bad.
Firefox on Linux:
Edit->Preferences->Security->Saved Passwords
Slightly different, though no less trivial.
I used to be a big fan of the clicky M keyboards. Something about the tactile feel of actually pressing down on a key, yadda yadda, see the previous 500 posts for plenty of click love.
However, I'm a convert. Born-again, if you will. I love laptop-style keyboards now. After a few years of laptop ownership, I bought myself a nice flat EluminX keyboard and haven't looked back since. The keys are easier to press, they have less "travel" so you spend less time mashing buttons down and more time making words appear on the screen. Ergonomics aside, it's simply no contest. I'm a decent touch typist and can push 100wpm on a good day. A familiar short-stroke keyboard only improves my speed.
Plus, think about it. Flat keyboard are just way more futuristic. On Star Trek, you don't see the Data banging away on a Model M making all sorts of comforting klangy noises. No way Jose. He's got a big friggin iPod touch screen in front of him, totally flat, and he can make that thing scream. Wesley, too. Wil Wheaton don't use no klacky keyboards.
No no no, you've got it all wrong. The saying goes "Fool me once, shame ... shame on ... you. Uhh...Fool me, uh, I can't get fooled again!"
Ah fuck. I can't believe you've done this.
I'm calling shenanigans on this story. It might be funny, but I'm calling shenanigans nonetheless.