how long it's going to take before all you need is a mobile phone? I hope not before my mom finally figures out how to check her "missed calls" on her current phone.
I personally don't need my phone to do any more than take/make calls and maybe show me the current time. I still take photos w/ a dedicated camera, since photos from a cellphone camera still look pretty crap to me. (Although w/o them, we wouldn't have all those videos of kids kicking each other in the balls for fun on YouTube. What's up with that..?)
Where was I? Oh, yeah, I'll never paying $499 for a phone, unless that's adjusted for inflation in the future.
A long time ago..? I remember going to the Borders website, found which store location had the DVD I was looking for in stock, went and bought it.
Different customers have different needs, but for me, the ability to search a store's inventory is more useful than being able to place a mail-order an item over the web. I can order something from a gazillion places, but if a store nearby physically has it, I'll swing by and pick it up.
I'm always a little surprised that not all stores w/ web presence do this. The inventory search doesn't even have to be that current -- at least narrow down the availability for me, and I can call the store and double check.
Sometimes work is pleasure. I know someone who works long hours at Google, and she claims that she LOVES her work. Not sure if she was just trying to justify her long hours, but I'm sure it happens in the general population. Hell, I occasionally feel like I'm not completely whoring myself for my work.:P...But only occasionally.
Viacom is suing YouTube for infringing on Viacom's copyright. Viacom is not infringing on its own rights on iFilm. If other people aren't happy w/ iFilm's infringing contents, let them sue Viacom. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I don't own an iPod and have never used iTunes, so I'm obviously talking out of my ass, but I thought iTunes Store sells AAC. Even if there's no DRM, most of your MP3 players aren't going to play them, anyway, right? Huh?
Somebody must have figured out how to tinker w/ whatever you buy from iTunes Store so you can get an MP3 player-playable file out of it? Anyway, I avoid the whole iTunes/iPod craze all together...
I mean, really. Who would know more about astronomy? Astronomists? Or Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez, Landscape Architect? Let's just let her and her colleagues sort out stem cell research and evolution and global warming and blah blah.. I don't want to have to think about it.:P
There probably are movies that committed these physics faux pas for narrative, but while reading the article, I immediately think of two or three recent movies that did "do it right" for most of the things on the list, and the list falls flat.
I've seen lists like this before that were a lot more amusing in presentation..
Is the Vista delivered on floppies? Did he mean "disc" or do the British spell "Digital Versatile Disc" differently from the people ruled by a king who can't pronounce "nuclear"? (Oh, I'm so mean.. He's just folksy!:P )
..but when will fashion catch up w/ Star Trek? It's not enough that Trekkers wear Star Trek uniforms in public. We cannot rest until they sport those giant Guinan hats that Whoopie so boldly wore in the TNG episodes.
after reading the summary, I was expecting it to be pushed while it was walking. Instead it was standing around like a little punk while the other robot was trying to pick a fight or something.. "Yeah, biatch. What you gonna do about it, huh? Huh?"
Pretty cool video, though.
Most people's lives just aren't that interesting. If someone wants to do this for their own amusement, like keeping a diary, that's cool. But I really have neither the time nor the inclination to read the blogs of people I personally know -- I usually make passing glances out of politeness -- never mind great swaths of their lives in digital form.
Not saying it's a game for kids. I'm just saying it's probably the parents job of being mindful of what their kids are playing, rather than leaving it up to some retailer.
I agree w/ this up to a point -- parents don't seem to accept enough responsibility for their children; however, parents can't keep an eye on their children 24/7. The game rating is a system that's created to help parents control what games their children are playing, and that only really works if game retailers help make the system work. Otherwise the rating system is just for show and a way to dump all the responsibility back on the parents again. We may as well throw away the rating system, then, and just go back to "buyer's parents beware."
These are just concessions the business world has to make when it wants to earn a buck off of kids. Somebody has think of the children!;)
To my eyes the CG in "Flushed Away" wasn't convincing clay at all.
When I saw the commercial for "Flushed Away" for the first time, my immediate thought was, "Hey, some CG company stole the Aardman's design!"
I even told this to a friend who's a huge W&G fan. I found out later that Aardman's gone CG.
There's something about the texture and the lighting in "Flushed Away" (and other CG stuff) that immediately screams "CG!!"
Having said that, the CG in "Wererabbit" was very well mixed in and difficult to pick out. I actually wondered how they made the little rabbits float in the air by claymation..
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how long it's going to take before all you need is a mobile phone? I hope not before my mom finally figures out how to check her "missed calls" on her current phone.
I personally don't need my phone to do any more than take/make calls and maybe show me the current time. I still take photos w/ a dedicated camera, since photos from a cellphone camera still look pretty crap to me. (Although w/o them, we wouldn't have all those videos of kids kicking each other in the balls for fun on YouTube. What's up with that..?)
Where was I? Oh, yeah, I'll never paying $499 for a phone, unless that's adjusted for inflation in the future.
A long time ago..? I remember going to the Borders website, found which store location had the DVD I was looking for in stock, went and bought it.
Different customers have different needs, but for me, the ability to search a store's inventory is more useful than being able to place a mail-order an item over the web. I can order something from a gazillion places, but if a store nearby physically has it, I'll swing by and pick it up.
I'm always a little surprised that not all stores w/ web presence do this. The inventory search doesn't even have to be that current -- at least narrow down the availability for me, and I can call the store and double check.
Sometimes work is pleasure. I know someone who works long hours at Google, and she claims that she LOVES her work. Not sure if she was just trying to justify her long hours, but I'm sure it happens in the general population. Hell, I occasionally feel like I'm not completely whoring myself for my work. :P ...But only occasionally.
Viacom is suing YouTube for infringing on Viacom's copyright. Viacom is not infringing on its own rights on iFilm. If other people aren't happy w/ iFilm's infringing contents, let them sue Viacom. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I don't own an iPod and have never used iTunes, so I'm obviously talking out of my ass, but I thought iTunes Store sells AAC. Even if there's no DRM, most of your MP3 players aren't going to play them, anyway, right? Huh?
Somebody must have figured out how to tinker w/ whatever you buy from iTunes Store so you can get an MP3 player-playable file out of it? Anyway, I avoid the whole iTunes/iPod craze all together...
Not literally YOU, right..? Or is there a "simple" way of scanning yourself that I don't know about?
I mean, really. Who would know more about astronomy? Astronomists? Or Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez, Landscape Architect? Let's just let her and her colleagues sort out stem cell research and evolution and global warming and blah blah.. I don't want to have to think about it. :P
There probably are movies that committed these physics faux pas for narrative, but while reading the article, I immediately think of two or three recent movies that did "do it right" for most of the things on the list, and the list falls flat.
I've seen lists like this before that were a lot more amusing in presentation..
Is the Vista delivered on floppies? Did he mean "disc" or do the British spell "Digital Versatile Disc" differently from the people ruled by a king who can't pronounce "nuclear"? (Oh, I'm so mean.. He's just folksy! :P )
..but when will fashion catch up w/ Star Trek? It's not enough that Trekkers wear Star Trek uniforms in public. We cannot rest until they sport those giant Guinan hats that Whoopie so boldly wore in the TNG episodes.
after reading the summary, I was expecting it to be pushed while it was walking. Instead it was standing around like a little punk while the other robot was trying to pick a fight or something.. "Yeah, biatch. What you gonna do about it, huh? Huh?" Pretty cool video, though.
Most people's lives just aren't that interesting. If someone wants to do this for their own amusement, like keeping a diary, that's cool. But I really have neither the time nor the inclination to read the blogs of people I personally know -- I usually make passing glances out of politeness -- never mind great swaths of their lives in digital form.
These are just concessions the business world has to make when it wants to earn a buck off of kids. Somebody has think of the children! ;)
To my eyes the CG in "Flushed Away" wasn't convincing clay at all. When I saw the commercial for "Flushed Away" for the first time, my immediate thought was, "Hey, some CG company stole the Aardman's design!" I even told this to a friend who's a huge W&G fan. I found out later that Aardman's gone CG. There's something about the texture and the lighting in "Flushed Away" (and other CG stuff) that immediately screams "CG!!" Having said that, the CG in "Wererabbit" was very well mixed in and difficult to pick out. I actually wondered how they made the little rabbits float in the air by claymation..