Good points all. Radio Shack's evolution is just one highly visible symptom of the changing role of high-tech gadgetry and hobbyism in society, and I think that's what I'm griping about more than my once-favorite store morphing into a Best Buy clone, with the TiVo deal being just the latest step in that evolution. And if being "everywhere" is a measure of quality and satisfaction, then McDonalds would have to serve the best burgers anywhere, with Coke serving as the celebrated wine of every country.
It wasn't a Zener diode exactly, but my last shipment of miscellaneous components and resistors arrived about a week ago. Convenient as Internet shopping is, I do still pine for the days when this stuff was a ten-minute walk away.
The Radio Shack I frequented in the 1980s was a place with an amazing selection of electronics, hobbyist components, how-to guides, and spare parts, and had knowledgable hackers behind the counter who shared my love of technology and were likely building just as complex gadgets in their own basements as I was.
That place is dead, replaced by a cellphone and set-top-box store with a standard retail drone behind the counter whose blank stare glazes over at the merest mention of a Zener diode or anything else that isn't their newest mobile plan.
Just 74 people watched Thom's first concert on February 24th. The concert on March 2nd drew 62,138 viewers.So, are there 62,064 people now sifting through the piracy sites for a torrent of an Xvid rip of the first one?
Quantum-entangled? Puh-lease. If all goes according to plan on my new Quantum-Leap NIC, I'll be able to connect backwards through time before the bits were even sent!
Think of the possibilities! I can get first-post on this article, for starters...
I used to have an insane collection of strategy guides back in the 8-bit and 16-bit days, which was of course before anything in those books could be found on the Internet. Nowadays, I do still dig the printed book with foldout maps, charts, and such more than looking up a gamefaq, but only for a few titles I collect and immerse myself in like the sad fanboy I am. In those cases I'm also likely to pick up action figures, soundtracks, and junk, so the tie-in aspect is just as much of a selling point for me as the strategic value.
Also appreciated are the sometimes-included DVD-extra style additions to the guide, with the odd interview, concept art, or other behind-the-scenes geek-fodder that make the book more than just a fancy gamefaq.
They just think it's their right to control everything related to music.
I'm not normally one to complain, but this morning I was walking down the street and humming some top 40 hits to myself, when out of nowhere some old guy in a suit leaped out and hit me in the face with a shovel.
There is always the very real danger that a bunch of lawmakers who know no better will pass malformed laws with unforseen consequences. Spreaqding the word about the germination of a potential stupid law in its early phases and causing an uproar among the subset of the population equipped with brains are ocasionally the only things that stand in the way of it being passed.
In legal matters, there is never any such thing as too much information, only too litte.
Testing arm skin isn't all that practical, who keeps a cell phone there?
They should find out how the radiation affects the two bodily areas my phone is usually found, which coincidentally are the two areas I'm most worried about irradiating.
the new accounts were then 'farmed' by low paid workers in Chinese gaming sweatshops to generate 'gold' and other game-world items that could be sold for real world cash.
Wow! The low-paid workers in my country are stuck flipping hamburgers or stocking walmart shelves. In South Korea, they get to play MMOs all day!
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...it's an Evian station!
A few nerdy friends and I have often ended up throwing in together on a digikey order, splitting the shipping.
Bill Gates obviously thinks 64k should be enough for anybody.
I quite appreciated that, I don't get matronly terms of endearment from nearly enough strangers on the Internet.
Good points all. Radio Shack's evolution is just one highly visible symptom of the changing role of high-tech gadgetry and hobbyism in society, and I think that's what I'm griping about more than my once-favorite store morphing into a Best Buy clone, with the TiVo deal being just the latest step in that evolution. And if being "everywhere" is a measure of quality and satisfaction, then McDonalds would have to serve the best burgers anywhere, with Coke serving as the celebrated wine of every country.
It wasn't a Zener diode exactly, but my last shipment of miscellaneous components and resistors arrived about a week ago. Convenient as Internet shopping is, I do still pine for the days when this stuff was a ten-minute walk away.
The Radio Shack I frequented in the 1980s was a place with an amazing selection of electronics, hobbyist components, how-to guides, and spare parts, and had knowledgable hackers behind the counter who shared my love of technology and were likely building just as complex gadgets in their own basements as I was.
That place is dead, replaced by a cellphone and set-top-box store with a standard retail drone behind the counter whose blank stare glazes over at the merest mention of a Zener diode or anything else that isn't their newest mobile plan.
Great, robots have beaten humans to the realisation that it was a bad idea to come down out of the trees in the first place.
Finally! A crustacean I can hug!!!
Take that, all you sad unhealthy coffee-addicts!
/me tosses back the third black tea of the morning in celebration
Just 74 people watched Thom's first concert on February 24th. The concert on March 2nd drew 62,138 viewers.So, are there 62,064 people now sifting through the piracy sites for a torrent of an Xvid rip of the first one?
Quantum-entangled? Puh-lease. If all goes according to plan on my new Quantum-Leap NIC, I'll be able to connect backwards through time before the bits were even sent!
Think of the possibilities! I can get first-post on this article, for starters...
I wonder if these are the same people as the ones behind the magic cellphone boosting sticker.
I bet there's a way to crack your opponents over the head with your paddle, and get all the trophys back you previously lost to them.
I used to have an insane collection of strategy guides back in the 8-bit and 16-bit days, which was of course before anything in those books could be found on the Internet. Nowadays, I do still dig the printed book with foldout maps, charts, and such more than looking up a gamefaq, but only for a few titles I collect and immerse myself in like the sad fanboy I am. In those cases I'm also likely to pick up action figures, soundtracks, and junk, so the tie-in aspect is just as much of a selling point for me as the strategic value.
Also appreciated are the sometimes-included DVD-extra style additions to the guide, with the odd interview, concept art, or other behind-the-scenes geek-fodder that make the book more than just a fancy gamefaq.
Sorry, it's been done.
They just think it's their right to control everything related to music.
I'm not normally one to complain, but this morning I was walking down the street and humming some top 40 hits to myself, when out of nowhere some old guy in a suit leaped out and hit me in the face with a shovel.
This means all my hard work these past 20 years on my pet project, "E.T. II" for the Atari 2600, have not been in vain!!!
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There is always the very real danger that a bunch of lawmakers who know no better will pass malformed laws with unforseen consequences. Spreaqding the word about the germination of a potential stupid law in its early phases and causing an uproar among the subset of the population equipped with brains are ocasionally the only things that stand in the way of it being passed.
In legal matters, there is never any such thing as too much information, only too litte.
Heehee! I use a belt clip.
Testing arm skin isn't all that practical, who keeps a cell phone there?
They should find out how the radiation affects the two bodily areas my phone is usually found, which coincidentally are the two areas I'm most worried about irradiating.
Naming your interest group "The [anything] Alliance" gives it that hardcore "We'll form Voltron and smite you if you look at us wrong" street cred.
the new accounts were then 'farmed' by low paid workers in Chinese gaming sweatshops to generate 'gold' and other game-world items that could be sold for real world cash.
Wow! The low-paid workers in my country are stuck flipping hamburgers or stocking walmart shelves. In South Korea, they get to play MMOs all day!
My lifelong use of a pocket-sized memo pad and a ballpoint pen hasn't once crashed on me yet.