I think we should have a war with homocidal robots, then a cultural backlash against technology. Everyone would use analog dials, doors with hinges, phones with cords, and graphic firewalls that turn red when cylons hack ports.
There's one episode from this regrettable sequel that I like.
The Return of Starbuck. He is stranded on this planet, repairs then makes friends with a centurion, gives his life up to save an annoying kid, and is judged worthy by a goddess.
The part where he puts his arm around the cylon is quite moving to me. I've formed attachments to machines myself.
Plus, you get to see Adama with a biblical beard! And none of the annoying regular cast from Galactica 1980 are in it at all!
True, MAME is a delight. It reminded me that when I was a kid we'd go up to a new machine, watch the demo, drop a quarter and start playing. There aren't many games like that anymore. I'd like to see more games again that are simple yet addictive. Jardinains! is a good one.
Up until recently it was socially OK to beat your wife.
It still happens a lot more than I'd expect. I'd say our genetic nature cannot have a protect women feature. An impregnate women feature, sure. Sometimes I'm glad we don't have to live purely on our instincts.
ah, a rio? I waited until I could get a knockoff 64MB one for under $60, but I was an early adopter too. Everyone asked "what's an mp3 player?" and seemed interested in it.
There just isn't the payoff with HD. With my mp3 player I could have 8 hours of music on a single AAA battery. I could change the selection without burning cds or making tapes. I could move files around on it. All very cool compared to a walkman.
You're right. It's funny, my cheapo Packard Bell 166MMX from 11(?) years ago cost $2k, but that was when 166 was as fast as you could go and MMX was cutting-edge.
That vast hd is now less than 1/2 a $.20 dvd. Probably slower too.
I think some old games have lasting value. Do you think your grandchildren will live in a world with checkers, chess, card games? A well-designed game can have endless capability for entertainment despite simple rules, low-tech graphics and no sequel recognition or movie tie-ins.
It's sad that nothing today fires my imagination as much as M.U.L.E. and galaga did back in the day.
I think the easiest way to fraudmod someone down over a difference of opinion and get away with it re metamods is to use "redundant". If a dozen people have brought up a point and someone comes along with yet another comment that adds nothing "redundant" is a fair mod.
If I'm in a hurry metamodding sometimes I'll mark that fair if I remember having seen a lot of similar comments. I don't always check to see if this particular post was the earliest one.
I had this watch with lcd "hands" - 60 short lcd segments oriented radially with 60 long segments to indicate the minute hand. When it broke it was never right again. It'll be right when time ends, I suppose. I liked that watch.
Sir, Your "Webster's Dictionary" comment only applies online if you have licensed the "Web-Speek" addition, which includes common mispellings, abbreviations, 1337isms, etc, barf. Only $19.95!
I haven't seen much in the way of google image ads, and never seen a flash one. Part of that is due to flash/adblocking possibly.
Doubleclick just rubbed me wrong. I don't know how rational it is to not care about google very much, but at least they've never installed adware on my machine. I've never been stuck in an infinite popup hell thanks to google. I've never even been asked to do something annoying for a free ipod thanks to google.
I think people don't care so much about google because they haven't been actively and blatantly acting against the user's interests, or with a visible lack of respect for the user.
I think they'll turn evil eventually, and boy will that be a fine mess.
The big winner are people who don't vote. They sure didn't throw their vote away! My big question, if such an overwhelming majority don't want any government, why do we have one? Why are we governed by a small minority of the populace?
Well, my IP address (here at work) is in another state. I wasn't logged in to google or anything, I often use a fresh machine. I'd done a bit of browsing, and I think I tracked a UPS package. I was impressed/scared that they could localize me.
Doubleclick was an irritation. I think they were the reason I started using a homemade proxy blocker. I had written them off for their irritation factor alone.
I don't get the attitude about google. The minute they bother me, I'll stop dealing with google. I just hope there's some alternative left when/if that happens.
Aluminum costs 15kwh/kg to refine from bauxite. It can be recycled after the windmill dies, although I think many parts of a windmill could be reused. Recycling uses 5% of the energy to refine from ore.
A regular turbine makes 1.5MW, so it generates 100kg aluminum from ore per hour.
or 2000kg/hr recycled aluminum. They're rated in terms of decades, so that'd be 17,520,000 kg aluminum in 20 years. From ore.
Aluminum is recycled like crazy since it saves so much energy.
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I think we should have a war with homocidal robots, then a cultural backlash against technology. Everyone would use analog dials, doors with hinges, phones with cords, and graphic firewalls that turn red when cylons hack ports.
That'd be Fassbinder.
The Return of Starbuck. He is stranded on this planet, repairs then makes friends with a centurion, gives his life up to save an annoying kid, and is judged worthy by a goddess.
The part where he puts his arm around the cylon is quite moving to me. I've formed attachments to machines myself.
Plus, you get to see Adama with a biblical beard! And none of the annoying regular cast from Galactica 1980 are in it at all!
We throw away millions of computers every year. China sends us new stuff and the boats go home empty.
Why don't we send them our old computers for $10 each?
True, MAME is a delight. It reminded me that when I was a kid we'd go up to a new machine, watch the demo, drop a quarter and start playing. There aren't many games like that anymore. I'd like to see more games again that are simple yet addictive. Jardinains! is a good one.
It still happens a lot more than I'd expect. I'd say our genetic nature cannot have a protect women feature. An impregnate women feature, sure. Sometimes I'm glad we don't have to live purely on our instincts.
Time to trademark Blu-Rimmer
There just isn't the payoff with HD. With my mp3 player I could have 8 hours of music on a single AAA battery. I could change the selection without burning cds or making tapes. I could move files around on it. All very cool compared to a walkman.
It wasn't pretty. By 1995 the AOLers had overrun things so completely I stopped using it regularly.
I'll never forgive AOL for ruining something so nice. That reminds me, now that AOL removed that service I've been meaning to poke around again.
That vast hd is now less than 1/2 a $.20 dvd. Probably slower too.
Failing that, I hope they both survive, ending up as +/- did for dvd. There's really no reason we can't have $50 dual format burners in 5 years.
It's sad that nothing today fires my imagination as much as M.U.L.E. and galaga did back in the day.
If I'm in a hurry metamodding sometimes I'll mark that fair if I remember having seen a lot of similar comments. I don't always check to see if this particular post was the earliest one.
I don't know who made it or why.
TFA states that the hologram selectively routes heat away from the cell.
Mark McCahill. Also responsible for gopher. Not yet!
< 1.3 is to avoid people using something 4.5 x 4.51 and claiming "it isn't square"
You don't understand GPs point that this bill could lead to less privacy AND less safety for children.
A valid point.
Sir, Your "Webster's Dictionary" comment only applies online if you have licensed the "Web-Speek" addition, which includes common mispellings, abbreviations, 1337isms, etc, barf. Only $19.95!
Out of curiosity, what was the specific problem they had? Imagine if the Eiffel Tower or the Great Pyramids demanded license fees!
Doubleclick just rubbed me wrong. I don't know how rational it is to not care about google very much, but at least they've never installed adware on my machine. I've never been stuck in an infinite popup hell thanks to google. I've never even been asked to do something annoying for a free ipod thanks to google.
I think people don't care so much about google because they haven't been actively and blatantly acting against the user's interests, or with a visible lack of respect for the user.
I think they'll turn evil eventually, and boy will that be a fine mess.
The big winner are people who don't vote. They sure didn't throw their vote away! My big question, if such an overwhelming majority don't want any government, why do we have one? Why are we governed by a small minority of the populace?
No matter who we vote for, the government wins.
Items that contain human hair (such as lockets) as well as skulls and skeletons that are used for medical purposes may be listed on eBay.
Doubleclick was an irritation. I think they were the reason I started using a homemade proxy blocker. I had written them off for their irritation factor alone.
I don't get the attitude about google. The minute they bother me, I'll stop dealing with google. I just hope there's some alternative left when/if that happens.
Aluminum costs 15kwh/kg to refine from bauxite. It can be recycled after the windmill dies, although I think many parts of a windmill could be reused. Recycling uses 5% of the energy to refine from ore.
A regular turbine makes 1.5MW, so it generates 100kg aluminum from ore per hour.
or 2000kg/hr recycled aluminum. They're rated in terms of decades, so that'd be 17,520,000 kg aluminum in 20 years. From ore.
Aluminum is recycled like crazy since it saves so much energy.