In Japan's defense, a mass tentacle eradication program has reduced tentacle rapes by over 83% in the last ten years. They're pretty rare now (outside the cyborg quarantine zones anyway).
The tablet is sort of like AppleTV in that it ends up begging the question "Just who exactly is this aimed at?" With netbooks, smartphones, etc. on the low end and full-blown laptops on the high end, I just can't picture a big market for a $1000 tablet PC. Who is going to pay $1000 for an underpowered laptop just because it has a touchscreen? Unless they have some more surprises up their sleeve, I just can't picture the market for this thing.
With all these flamebait mods, I can't help but picture a legion of hipster-wannabe Mac fanboys with mod points glaring at their MacBook screens, caressing their iPhones like rosaries, all mumbling "How DARE they insult Father Steve!!!" in unison in every juice bar in America.
Smart criminals don't rob a place the second they get the key. They plan out how best to use it, the best time to use it, what the most profitable/least noticeable target is, etc. first. These guys just weren't quite smart *enough*.
This is an absurd scenario. Jobs doesn't need to kill anyone. He learned long ago that his fanatical followers will happily kill *themselves* at the slightest hint of his displeasure.
In America, boradband providers only offer additional services if they can charge you for it. This "free" word you speak of will not be recognized by the American cell providers.
Even if Europa does contain such life (and that is still a VERY big "if"), the effort to pinpoint it and drill down to it would be a helluva lot more trouble than sending any little probe to Mars. That's *way* beyond NASA's budget or ambitions. Admittedly, it would be no more or less pointless than any of their other money-sinks, but don't hold your breath.
Last time I played, WoW was NOTHING like you described. It was divided into servers and if you went to the capital city the only people you saw there were the people playing on that one particular server. Eve is *way* more like what you're describing that WoW (unless you're intentionally being sarcastic).
Make sure and try them out in store before you buy them (or commit). I thought I would prefer a real keyboard too, until I tried out one with a real keyboard vs. one with a touch keyboard. I found the touch keyboard on the Eris MUCH easier to use than the slide-out tactile keyboard on the Motorola Droid.
I got an HTC Eris last week. Best Buy had them for free with contract. Verizon coverage blows AT&T out of the water around here. So it was really a no-brainer. The iPhone was hot in its day, but it's nothing particularly special now technology-wise and it's forever hampered by AT&T's notorious network reputation.
Wow, that brings back memories. The last time I was on there, part of the wall was actually still standing. One of the few instances where SL had any sense of history (with the way they have land set up, often whole areas will simply disappear with no indication of what once stood there).
That's all well and good until you run into a particularly desperate or pushy salesman. Then it's not *MY* social skills that are the problem. And, yes I feel sorry for most of the salesmen there (who are forced to ask all this stuff). But it doesn't make it any less annoying (especially when you're in a hurry and just want to buy something and get the hell out there).
I live in a place with no CompUSA, no local computer stores, and no Circuit City (anymore). About the only other place around here you can go for computer parts are OfficeMax and Staples. And their selection isn't as good as Best Buy.
Which is exactly why we should end this "first" bullshit in the first place (no pun intended). The fact is that most great accomplishments in history are the result of the hard work of a lot of people working together, on the backbone of the work of generations of predecessors, spurned by the occasional advances of individual brilliant minds, and rarely limited to any one country. Both the Australian plane and the American one were built on the work of the Wright Brothers, whose three-axis control innovation was also dependent on decades of glider innovations an developments in the internal combustion engine needed to build an actual working plane (developments which spanned the continents).
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Japanese isn't a race.
In Japan's defense, a mass tentacle eradication program has reduced tentacle rapes by over 83% in the last ten years. They're pretty rare now (outside the cyborg quarantine zones anyway).
Hey, I agree with him. We would never tolerate this kind of tomfoolery on the beet farm!
The tablet is sort of like AppleTV in that it ends up begging the question "Just who exactly is this aimed at?" With netbooks, smartphones, etc. on the low end and full-blown laptops on the high end, I just can't picture a big market for a $1000 tablet PC. Who is going to pay $1000 for an underpowered laptop just because it has a touchscreen? Unless they have some more surprises up their sleeve, I just can't picture the market for this thing.
With all these flamebait mods, I can't help but picture a legion of hipster-wannabe Mac fanboys with mod points glaring at their MacBook screens, caressing their iPhones like rosaries, all mumbling "How DARE they insult Father Steve!!!" in unison in every juice bar in America.
Flamebait mods? Cult members are nothing if not humorless.
Smart criminals don't rob a place the second they get the key. They plan out how best to use it, the best time to use it, what the most profitable/least noticeable target is, etc. first. These guys just weren't quite smart *enough*.
This is an absurd scenario. Jobs doesn't need to kill anyone. He learned long ago that his fanatical followers will happily kill *themselves* at the slightest hint of his displeasure.
They should just right to the core of it and produce a show called "I'll Happily Sacrifice My Dignity For Even a Microsecond of Pseudo-Fame."
In America, boradband providers only offer additional services if they can charge you for it. This "free" word you speak of will not be recognized by the American cell providers.
Yeah, and also like the big retarded kid, piss him off too much and he will beat the dogshit out of you.
But what have you done for us LATELY?
Even if Europa does contain such life (and that is still a VERY big "if"), the effort to pinpoint it and drill down to it would be a helluva lot more trouble than sending any little probe to Mars. That's *way* beyond NASA's budget or ambitions. Admittedly, it would be no more or less pointless than any of their other money-sinks, but don't hold your breath.
Last time I played, WoW was NOTHING like you described. It was divided into servers and if you went to the capital city the only people you saw there were the people playing on that one particular server. Eve is *way* more like what you're describing that WoW (unless you're intentionally being sarcastic).
Make sure and try them out in store before you buy them (or commit). I thought I would prefer a real keyboard too, until I tried out one with a real keyboard vs. one with a touch keyboard. I found the touch keyboard on the Eris MUCH easier to use than the slide-out tactile keyboard on the Motorola Droid.
When I recently was looking to buy a new cell, it was three letters that kept me from even considering the iPhone: AT&T.
I got an HTC Eris last week. Best Buy had them for free with contract. Verizon coverage blows AT&T out of the water around here. So it was really a no-brainer. The iPhone was hot in its day, but it's nothing particularly special now technology-wise and it's forever hampered by AT&T's notorious network reputation.
Lucky bastard. Where I work we have to grow our own bushes.
Wow, that brings back memories. The last time I was on there, part of the wall was actually still standing. One of the few instances where SL had any sense of history (with the way they have land set up, often whole areas will simply disappear with no indication of what once stood there).
That's all well and good until you run into a particularly desperate or pushy salesman. Then it's not *MY* social skills that are the problem. And, yes I feel sorry for most of the salesmen there (who are forced to ask all this stuff). But it doesn't make it any less annoying (especially when you're in a hurry and just want to buy something and get the hell out there).
Yeah, I know it's not their fault, and most of them don't like it anymore than I do. But it doesn't make it any less annoying.
I live in a place with no CompUSA, no local computer stores, and no Circuit City (anymore). About the only other place around here you can go for computer parts are OfficeMax and Staples. And their selection isn't as good as Best Buy.
Mawson was also Antarctica's first pimp.
Would you feel better if we parsed it with "between America and *mainland* Europe"?
Which is exactly why we should end this "first" bullshit in the first place (no pun intended). The fact is that most great accomplishments in history are the result of the hard work of a lot of people working together, on the backbone of the work of generations of predecessors, spurned by the occasional advances of individual brilliant minds, and rarely limited to any one country. Both the Australian plane and the American one were built on the work of the Wright Brothers, whose three-axis control innovation was also dependent on decades of glider innovations an developments in the internal combustion engine needed to build an actual working plane (developments which spanned the continents).