Flight 235, we have your GPS signal. Please adjust your flight path 35 degrees northeast. Hold on one second, we're picking up an unidentified GPS signal. They're heading right for you! Emergency maneuver 15 degrees east! --- Ground control, it's a clear sunny day. I don't see any other planes in my flight path. --- Hold on Flight 235, we've received new information. We've identified the rogue GPS signal. Continue on course. It was only a migrating manatee with one of those older GPS tags.
When I first looked at that, I thought we were suggesting a 'social networking console'. That would certainly be interesting. Buy a console to socialize on just like we buy a console to play games on. It might be a possible way to break into the market, but I'm sure Facebook and everyone else already have plans for social hardware. Google Wave and Android are good examples of that happening soon.
Actually, the press release came out today when they reach 3.5 TeV, which is when they actually breached the space-time continuum, thus sending their PR department back in time one week resulting in this back-dated press release.
I'm pretty sure this is only because Opera is based in Norway. Now that they see the choice, of course they'll pick Opera. Hey, Opera is made in Europe, so why not use that?
Wake me from my nap when the boss announces a 20% XP bonus week. I'll work harder that week. Also, do you have any XP bonus items a guy can wear? Girls and their short skirts always get more XP than me.
First, I thought they were mentioning the iCartel accessory for the iPhone. I always wanted a device I could attach to my iPhone to go around using anti-competitive measures to regulate store prices. RFID reader? Not quite as exciting.
So, 46% of MMO players are paying $15.10 for an MMO, which comes to $319,516,000. That means the other 54% of MMO players are letting their parents foot $140 bills for the other $3,480,484,000. Ah, statistics. Journalists make it up, and we can only make up weird estimates to see how their number can work.
When I think of vaporware, I think of software that has vaporized; not software that's still being worked on. A good example of vaporware is Duke Nukem Forever. This is where a company promises a product, teases the public and then cancels the project. I can even go as far as software that was scrapped and then restarted from scratch after being cancelled. Microsoft may have had their own doubts about Windows coming to fruition, but they still had people working on it and I'm sure those people didn't have doubts about it aside from heading upper management grumbling about being embarrassed by the public for the delays.
I've heard that bank robbers are typically disgruntled customers (either because of their money situation or their bank relationship), therefore we have a group of traditional robbers stealing from banks that don't have money thanks to the bail-out economy. Remember, when robbers want to case the place they visit days ahead to study the layout and camera locations, and when they do the stealing, sometimes they bring in their legitimate checkbooks as a disguise. Cyber-criminals on the other hand are non-bias; they steal from any sucker who accidentally gives them their private information; the more desperate people get, the more they'll fall into the traps.
vaporware it certainly was not. Did the subby not read the article? Vaporware means there is speculation or announcement of a product that is never released to the public. I have a copy of Windows 1 laying around that my father purchased for business use. We don't have Windows 2.0 or 2.1, and we do have 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11 and 3.11 for workgroups. I'm thinking 2.0 had a fallout in the business world or something like that.
Ah, good point. I have heard that Apple's been stepping on peoples patents lately.
So do we go with an Apple logo with a borg-like worm running through it, or a Steve Jobs mug like we have of Bill Gates? I would go with the former myself.
But has Apple stooped to assimilating other people's technology? Consider this quote:
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. - The Borg, "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996)
I guess, if you consider the app store as a method of assimilating other people's technology, then it would make some sense.
Yes, so instead of having a laptop, we will have a crotch rocket. Furthering the cause of geeks everywhere as we can impress the ladies by confusing them into thinking we ride motorbikes.
But in all seriousness, if it produces 100x time energy, then it equates to a lighter, 30 kelvin thermowave battery in the end.
Exactly my thoughts. And also keep in mind that this could be a feature addition masquerading as a bug fix. The car never gave precedence to the brake pedal before, so did they add a feature to provide precedence, or did they swap their if/else statements? As for when I might go for the update (considering insurance and warranty concerns), I may just do it at my next service coming up. Give everyone a month or so to die before get the mostly unneeded fix.
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You leave Michael Dell out of this, sir. Eliminating customers is not part of the Dell 2.0 initiative. That's Dell 3.0.
Flight 235, we have your GPS signal. Please adjust your flight path 35 degrees northeast. Hold on one second, we're picking up an unidentified GPS signal. They're heading right for you! Emergency maneuver 15 degrees east! --- Ground control, it's a clear sunny day. I don't see any other planes in my flight path. --- Hold on Flight 235, we've received new information. We've identified the rogue GPS signal. Continue on course. It was only a migrating manatee with one of those older GPS tags.
This is good news for fans of Star Trek food replicators. Print me out a nice filet mignon, medium well.
Facebook would be betrayed by a mafia boss.
When I first looked at that, I thought we were suggesting a 'social networking console'. That would certainly be interesting. Buy a console to socialize on just like we buy a console to play games on. It might be a possible way to break into the market, but I'm sure Facebook and everyone else already have plans for social hardware. Google Wave and Android are good examples of that happening soon.
Actually, the press release came out today when they reach 3.5 TeV, which is when they actually breached the space-time continuum, thus sending their PR department back in time one week resulting in this back-dated press release.
Could you blow that picture up for me? All I see are LCD cells and not the surface which the device resides on.
I'm pretty sure this is only because Opera is based in Norway. Now that they see the choice, of course they'll pick Opera. Hey, Opera is made in Europe, so why not use that?
I know it's nighttime, but let me just put my sunglasses on to view my ultraviolet HUD.
Wake me from my nap when the boss announces a 20% XP bonus week. I'll work harder that week. Also, do you have any XP bonus items a guy can wear? Girls and their short skirts always get more XP than me.
that you must be gathering your information from Wikipedia. I'm pretty sure that's what that Wikipedia article is saying.
I'm still waiting for a commercially available supersonic commuter car. With the Bloodhound, I could get to work in 1.5 minutes.
You ARE the weakest link. Goodbye.
I really enjoyed that episode of Doctor Who. Now I'm a little scared.
First, I thought they were mentioning the iCartel accessory for the iPhone. I always wanted a device I could attach to my iPhone to go around using anti-competitive measures to regulate store prices. RFID reader? Not quite as exciting.
My Laptop purchase was delayed so long because of Chinese labor shortages that I won't have a laptop until the end of the regular college school year.
So, 46% of MMO players are paying $15.10 for an MMO, which comes to $319,516,000. That means the other 54% of MMO players are letting their parents foot $140 bills for the other $3,480,484,000. Ah, statistics. Journalists make it up, and we can only make up weird estimates to see how their number can work.
When I think of vaporware, I think of software that has vaporized; not software that's still being worked on. A good example of vaporware is Duke Nukem Forever. This is where a company promises a product, teases the public and then cancels the project. I can even go as far as software that was scrapped and then restarted from scratch after being cancelled. Microsoft may have had their own doubts about Windows coming to fruition, but they still had people working on it and I'm sure those people didn't have doubts about it aside from heading upper management grumbling about being embarrassed by the public for the delays.
I've heard that bank robbers are typically disgruntled customers (either because of their money situation or their bank relationship), therefore we have a group of traditional robbers stealing from banks that don't have money thanks to the bail-out economy. Remember, when robbers want to case the place they visit days ahead to study the layout and camera locations, and when they do the stealing, sometimes they bring in their legitimate checkbooks as a disguise. Cyber-criminals on the other hand are non-bias; they steal from any sucker who accidentally gives them their private information; the more desperate people get, the more they'll fall into the traps.
vaporware it certainly was not. Did the subby not read the article? Vaporware means there is speculation or announcement of a product that is never released to the public. I have a copy of Windows 1 laying around that my father purchased for business use. We don't have Windows 2.0 or 2.1, and we do have 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11 and 3.11 for workgroups. I'm thinking 2.0 had a fallout in the business world or something like that.
Ah, good point. I have heard that Apple's been stepping on peoples patents lately.
So do we go with an Apple logo with a borg-like worm running through it, or a Steve Jobs mug like we have of Bill Gates? I would go with the former myself.
But has Apple stooped to assimilating other people's technology? Consider this quote:
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. - The Borg, "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996)
I guess, if you consider the app store as a method of assimilating other people's technology, then it would make some sense.
Yes, so instead of having a laptop, we will have a crotch rocket. Furthering the cause of geeks everywhere as we can impress the ladies by confusing them into thinking we ride motorbikes.
But in all seriousness, if it produces 100x time energy, then it equates to a lighter, 30 kelvin thermowave battery in the end.
did Mark Zuckerberg hack into /. and post a news article to plug Facebook and its many uses?
Exactly my thoughts. And also keep in mind that this could be a feature addition masquerading as a bug fix. The car never gave precedence to the brake pedal before, so did they add a feature to provide precedence, or did they swap their if/else statements? As for when I might go for the update (considering insurance and warranty concerns), I may just do it at my next service coming up. Give everyone a month or so to die before get the mostly unneeded fix.
Now don't go assuming we're talking about Microsoft developers. See what you've done now? You've started another Microsoft flame war.