"Did anyone else remember Unscrewed with Martin Sargeant ?" my guess is he got caned, as he started to look like Krusty the clown on a meth binge towards the end.
As opposed to the beginning, when he just looked like Ronald McDonald on dope.
Your'e not the only one. I tried and failed multiple times to get into the new Battlestar Galactica. By all accounts a scifi nut like me who was into the original Galactica should go nuts for it, but it just bores the living veins out of me. Same for B5, I never liked it at all even though the early CGI was pretty.
Can costumed fetishist adults sue a 12-year-old girl for describing her pet puppydog as "furry" on her livejournal?
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We all (gasp!) have to step away from the computer now and then. If something demanded your attention, like a new email or IM, this mouse could display the specifics for you while using negligible power. This caller-id-like function could allow you to glance deskward and see the culprit's IM avatar or email address without even breaking the screensaver. It's a phone screen, why not use it like one?
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A combination steering wheel/cell phone that allows you to drive, talk and watch porn at the same time.
I don't see a problem, as long as it's a hands-free device.
My sister and I grew up playing a Monopoly set from the 1960s that was my mom's when she was a kid. (It wasn't a "vintage" thing, we were just shit-poor and couldn't afford new games.) Eventually over the years the board and some of the cash wore out, but by then we were able to buy a new set and throw in the pieces of the old set that were in good condition. Even now, my circa-1997 Monopoly set has a decent amount of 50-year-old wooden houses mixed in with the plastic ones, and enough cash in the stacks for a truly massive game.
Basing the game around a gadget changes all that, though. It takes away the timeless quality of a good board game. How long will the cruddy plastic cards and reader of the sort they'd throw in a modern board game last? However robust they make the things, I highly doubt any kids I may have would be enjoying it as much in 30 years as I do now.
The wishes of what population? Why should California's delegates cast their vote based on what voters from Texas think?
America's delegates should cast their vote based on what America thinks. The whole my-state-vs-your-state thing is an unneccessary barrier to letting the voting public actually elect their own president without worrying about their vote counting for nothing just because of the politics of their neighbors. Koza's plan would be just the first shaky step toward actually letting that happen, which would open up a fair playing field to every candidate to be voted for by every citizen and absolutely terrify those supported by the ostensibly two-party system who don't have to work too hard just as long as more people belong to their same political street gang.
This is a fantastic idea which seems to have the ability to cut down on red tape and electoral disputes while more aaccurately projecting the wishes of the population onto the American government. And that's precisely why it'll never get anywhere close to implementation by the very people kept rich and powerful by the current system.
Still, Professor Koza might as well get something for his troubles. Someone slice up a banana for him, and put his favorite video on.
Thanks to the 30-40 seperate power-chomping ads on each page of Tom's Hardware stories, the lights in my office dim whenever I accidentally hover my cursor over the word "graphics," "Microsoft," or "processor." Thanks, Tom!
I'm not missing the obvious, I was stating that it's just as easy to track down a janitor who signs in to machine X at Y o'clock as it is to track any other rogue employee. It's not any easier for janitors. So they can unlock more doors, big deal. It's still obvious who unlocked that door and when.
Every office I've ever worked in which had card-level access also gave cards to the janitorial staff, and their usage of the cards was logged and tracked just like everyone else.
And what's more, the security system added frequent shopper rewards to their card! Those lucky bastards are going to save so much money on their next purchases of orange juice and cat food.
It was a slight issue in the early days of Walkmen, when they were still a premium item. Soon enough, the price fell and they weren't an automatic "OMG RICH PERSON GADGET!" anymore. Of course, it helped that people had had small cheap transistor radios for decades, so seeing just the headphones on someone didn't guarantee they were connected to a $100 Walkman instead of a $10 radio. It was the same again with the advent of the Discman, but again if you shoved it in an inside pocket your $100 Discman was indistinguishable from a $20 Walkman. The same has happened with cellphones, watches, and any other small, expensive, widespread gadget that lots of people have, and most of the remaining population want. After iPods, it'll be something else.
Not that I disagree with you about how rabid the US otaku-Japanese-fetish crowd can be, but consider the number of them against the number of people buying the yearly installments of Madden. I'd imagine it's miniscule in comparison.
That may be true, but John Madden would be harder to carve katakana into. Not that I wouldn't love the chance to try...
"I don't think that American gamers are enamored [with] Japanese product because it comes from Japan;
When was the last US-based Anime convention this guy went to? You could engrave the katakana for "Super Happy Fun Watermelon Millard Fillmore" on a bologna sandwich, leave it out on the dealers floor, and someone will buy it for $50.
You're trusting the counting ability of the same industry that spawned health insurance and HMOs, and tacks an extre $30 to your bill if you ask for a Tylenol?
Sign me up! This seems like a really sweet gig, especially during lulls in product cycles like we have now. I would love to get paid to point at random companies and say "They're doing something that won't make them as much money as they want it to." The beauty of it is, with that statement I'd always be right!
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Your'e not the only one. I tried and failed multiple times to get into the new Battlestar Galactica. By all accounts a scifi nut like me who was into the original Galactica should go nuts for it, but it just bores the living veins out of me. Same for B5, I never liked it at all even though the early CGI was pretty.
..it will become illegal for members of Congress to use misleading terms like "tubes" to describe worldwide packet-switching networks.
Can costumed fetishist adults sue a 12-year-old girl for describing her pet puppydog as "furry" on her livejournal?
We all (gasp!) have to step away from the computer now and then. If something demanded your attention, like a new email or IM, this mouse could display the specifics for you while using negligible power. This caller-id-like function could allow you to glance deskward and see the culprit's IM avatar or email address without even breaking the screensaver. It's a phone screen, why not use it like one?
My sister and I grew up playing a Monopoly set from the 1960s that was my mom's when she was a kid. (It wasn't a "vintage" thing, we were just shit-poor and couldn't afford new games.) Eventually over the years the board and some of the cash wore out, but by then we were able to buy a new set and throw in the pieces of the old set that were in good condition. Even now, my circa-1997 Monopoly set has a decent amount of 50-year-old wooden houses mixed in with the plastic ones, and enough cash in the stacks for a truly massive game.
Basing the game around a gadget changes all that, though. It takes away the timeless quality of a good board game. How long will the cruddy plastic cards and reader of the sort they'd throw in a modern board game last? However robust they make the things, I highly doubt any kids I may have would be enjoying it as much in 30 years as I do now.
This is a fantastic idea which seems to have the ability to cut down on red tape and electoral disputes while more aaccurately projecting the wishes of the population onto the American government. And that's precisely why it'll never get anywhere close to implementation by the very people kept rich and powerful by the current system.
Still, Professor Koza might as well get something for his troubles. Someone slice up a banana for him, and put his favorite video on.
Thanks to the 30-40 seperate power-chomping ads on each page of Tom's Hardware stories, the lights in my office dim whenever I accidentally hover my cursor over the word "graphics," "Microsoft," or "processor." Thanks, Tom!
To any lawyers on here...what's the appropriate impressive-sounding legal Latin term for "FUCK yeah?"
Whiat's the Hindi word for "w00t?"
I'm not missing the obvious, I was stating that it's just as easy to track down a janitor who signs in to machine X at Y o'clock as it is to track any other rogue employee. It's not any easier for janitors. So they can unlock more doors, big deal. It's still obvious who unlocked that door and when.
Every office I've ever worked in which had card-level access also gave cards to the janitorial staff, and their usage of the cards was logged and tracked just like everyone else.
And what's more, the security system added frequent shopper rewards to their card! Those lucky bastards are going to save so much money on their next purchases of orange juice and cat food.
It was a slight issue in the early days of Walkmen, when they were still a premium item. Soon enough, the price fell and they weren't an automatic "OMG RICH PERSON GADGET!" anymore. Of course, it helped that people had had small cheap transistor radios for decades, so seeing just the headphones on someone didn't guarantee they were connected to a $100 Walkman instead of a $10 radio. It was the same again with the advent of the Discman, but again if you shoved it in an inside pocket your $100 Discman was indistinguishable from a $20 Walkman. The same has happened with cellphones, watches, and any other small, expensive, widespread gadget that lots of people have, and most of the remaining population want. After iPods, it'll be something else.
You're trusting the counting ability of the same industry that spawned health insurance and HMOs, and tacks an extre $30 to your bill if you ask for a Tylenol?
Hah! Awesome post. But, you forgot the part where Sega skips step 2 entirely in exchange for an extra couple of cracks at step 3.
Sign me up! This seems like a really sweet gig, especially during lulls in product cycles like we have now. I would love to get paid to point at random companies and say "They're doing something that won't make them as much money as they want it to." The beauty of it is, with that statement I'd always be right!
At last! Fricken' tweezers with fricken' laser beams attached!
He's my Cyberman and I love him! *snif*