Americans are so damn greedy they don't understand that driving an economy car and living in a normal house doesn't mean that you are poor.
People have a warped view of things thanks to TV, I think. Saw some cop show last year where they went to a detective's home, and she lived in some palatial apartment with a view that would impress Richard Branson.
I'm doing really well in engineering. I have my little house in a quiet neighborhood. Just bought me one of those new big MINIs. I can flex my time, and have leisure time to do what I want. But to a lot of people, because I don't live by myself in a 4000 sq ft house and have two $100K+ cars, I'm a big loser.
1. Article talks about Project X, the "game changing" new idea 2. Nothing is ever heard about it again 3. Random post to tech site 5 years later asks "whatever happened to Project X"
Actually, I do still have an old cell phone.:-) Old Motorola i5... something. Built to the MIL-SPEC for cell phones. Ten years old and has survived things that would turn an iPhone or Android into their component atoms.
So you'd be content to watch Lawrence Of Arabia or Ben Hur on an old Zenith porthole television?;-) I tease, but, c'mon, man, cinematography is a pretty big part of films. It's why people would never watch "pan and scan" instead of letter boxed.
The streaming is getting very good. I watched both the Spartacus series streamed from Netflix at 720p, and Lucy Lawless' hooters looked fantastic, along with the rest of the show, of course.
I am officially out of touch because "How do you design a form of Twitter, how do you change the retweet system, so that Twitter will end up gathering a body of reasoned debate?" made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Time to set up the rocking chair on the front porch I guess. Anyone got recommendations for a nice cane I can wave at the kids on my lawn?
I do some fairly technically oriented searches at work, and sometimes the first three pages of hits would be [1] sites that sell (or make you register for) copies of otherwise freely available documentation and [2] pages that are just random titles and snippets of other works without links.
Or there's some paragraph on a message board or in an article that has all the key words, but is useless, and all I get is 50 copies of the same article or posting. Some message board sites seem to be just copies of other sites with different CSS skins.
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Americans are so damn greedy they don't understand that driving an economy car and living in a normal house doesn't mean that you are poor.
People have a warped view of things thanks to TV, I think. Saw some cop show last year where they went to a detective's home, and she lived in some palatial apartment with a view that would impress Richard Branson.
I'm doing really well in engineering. I have my little house in a quiet neighborhood. Just bought me one of those new big MINIs. I can flex my time, and have leisure time to do what I want. But to a lot of people, because I don't live by myself in a 4000 sq ft house and have two $100K+ cars, I'm a big loser.
I closing in on $200K, and I'm still doing pure engineering. Might retire by 50. Maybe 55 just to sock away some more funds.
It only took filling in the "a miracle occurs here" box on a flow chart once every couple years or so. ;-)
1. Article talks about Project X, the "game changing" new idea
2. Nothing is ever heard about it again
3. Random post to tech site 5 years later asks "whatever happened to Project X"
Looks like I found people, including mods, who don't know a joke post if it ran them over like a bus. Oh well.
Oh, pffbbbbttttt! Please! You and your... your... FACTS! Get out of here!
That's what the West has become- a bunch of wimpy pushovers for the lean, hungry barbarians from the East.
I wasn't worried at all.
Might have to do with the fact that I don't even own a smart phone, but, you know, maybe not.
Not sure about what Google are looking for.
No one over the age of 21 need apply from what I've heard.
I'm not opposed to the price tag.
And that's why we're eleventy trillion dollars in debt, kids.
Actually, I do still have an old cell phone. :-) Old Motorola i5... something. Built to the MIL-SPEC for cell phones. Ten years old and has survived things that would turn an iPhone or Android into their component atoms.
You fool! This is Slashdot. If we're not seeing the End Of Freedom lurking in every shadow then the terrorists have already won!!1!!2!!
So you'd be content to watch Lawrence Of Arabia or Ben Hur on an old Zenith porthole television? ;-) I tease, but, c'mon, man, cinematography is a pretty big part of films. It's why people would never watch "pan and scan" instead of letter boxed.
FWIW, a decent upconverting DVD player can be had for less then $100, and they look damn good on a large screen. She might like that.
Why we as a nation dont show up at the MPAA headquarters and burn these assholes at the stake I'll never understand.
Well, there's the whole "jail" thing, and the fact that there's about 750,000 more important things in life.
TV resolutions are where they are because of the need to store standardized video format on portable, purchasable media.
That's the advantage of the PS3- the BluRay updates just happen.
*And* I have Infamous 2 and Uncharted 3 coming out later this year.
The streaming is getting very good. I watched both the Spartacus series streamed from Netflix at 720p, and Lucy Lawless' hooters looked fantastic, along with the rest of the show, of course.
They all do! He's the guy that built that baseball diamond in his corn field!
Well, it depends. Is the CIA agent hot, and will she wear leather?
My property should be about 20 times bigger than they show it.
The changes here will be definitive, right?
Happens a lot with gaming sites. I think they share their message board content or something.
I am officially out of touch because "How do you design a form of Twitter, how do you change the retweet system, so that Twitter will end up gathering a body of reasoned debate?" made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Time to set up the rocking chair on the front porch I guess. Anyone got recommendations for a nice cane I can wave at the kids on my lawn?
Ha! I've found "instructional" sites that are akin to Steve Martin's explanation of how to get a million dollars and never pay taxes.
1. Get a million dollars.
2. Don't pay taxes.
I do some fairly technically oriented searches at work, and sometimes the first three pages of hits would be [1] sites that sell (or make you register for) copies of otherwise freely available documentation and [2] pages that are just random titles and snippets of other works without links.
Or there's some paragraph on a message board or in an article that has all the key words, but is useless, and all I get is 50 copies of the same article or posting. Some message board sites seem to be just copies of other sites with different CSS skins.
Aha! And this leads to the deeper truth: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Neither can you make a horse play chess.
At the top controlling everything. This whole "politicians are stupid scum" is just what they love you to think.