I wonder what Cingular and Verizon will do with their $2 ring tones now? If Apple makes their DRM lax enough so that songs on a person's Ipod can be both on their computer and cell phone, then we could have our own, free ringtones (if we already own the song). A utility that lets you select where the song should start and end for the ringtone would be nice.
So I'm not worried about it. I don't have any plans to get a Tivo so it doesn't really bother me.
Besides, I think you can get around these by making your own Tivo. Maybe we could route just the video signal from the Tivo/device over to out TV capture card?
I'd like to say "the people" will stand up for their rights when they want to, but "the people" are just too plain stupid. Kinda like the proles, they could get it done if they'd all rise up together, but they're all lazy, stupid, and shallow.
I think this could add a whole new realm to the meaning of "overnight shipping." Or maybe instead of "2 day air" we could have "2 Hour Entry, delivered right to your doorstep."
For cases and monitors they could use a recycleable heatsheild for delivery. GPS systems would find out where you are located and drop it to you. Shipping on some items, like the monitor, would be a bit expensive; but hey, you get it in a few hours. Things like Intel Pentium 4s, however, would have much cheaper shipping; they wouldn't need a heat sheild. Maybe Intel would actually become an option to the informed buyer?
This could work! And while they're at it, any faulty computer components produced could be bundles up, strapped to an orbitting sattelite, and dropped on any misbehaving Arab WoMD production sites or on the French.
to have your kids start playing games from the start, especially if they really want to. I was one of the kind who had always loved playing video games from the beginning. I still liked other things, but if there was a game, I wanted to play that, not play outside. This was simply because I was never allowed to have a game system. So spending time at friend's houses was not productive and rather anti-social. I liked hanging out with them at school, but if I went to their house, playing the game was #1. Maybe I just have a chemical makeup more succeptable to games than others, but I think if I had grown up with them, I would have gotten tired of them a lot faster. But when I finally got my gameboy, I absolutely loved it to death, and wanted to play it all the time. Because I wasn't accustomed to the fun of Super Mario Land, all I could appreciate when I had it was it. Rather an addiction.
It [gaming] really caused problems all through middle school and halfway through highschool. Since I wanted to play games over do homework or do schoolwork, it really made school and chores even worse. When I wasn't playing a new game, I wanted to think about it. But once I had played the best games from all the different genres on the N64 and current gen systems, my gaming time took a plummet. Suddenly I felt games were a waste of time unless I was having a blast every second I was playing.
This realization has been a good thing. Instead of settling for something sorta fun, I have really high tolerance for fun...so if something doesn't entertain me, I move on to something that does. what I'm ultimately finding is that all the things that we usually don't like when we have a good video game are ultimately much more fun and engaging and lasting than a video game....because we put more of ourself into it...not quantity, but quality as well.
If I had had games from the beginning, I think I might have gotten to that realization faster and been much more ok with doing work my sophmore year, like I was my Sr. year (of highschool). Knocking myself out on games helped force me to go for the maximum pleasure/joy/happiness possible...and I simply find that most in _applying myself_ over passivly gaming.
On the other hand, having been through so much gaming during such fundamental developement stages of my life caused me to play with less friends...and thus I am lacking in the social skills department and am left trying to catch up...listening to others, being sensitive, learning to be the leader my wife will want me to be (growing out of passive mode where I let others take the initiative in everything and actively pursuing what the better choice is, like I'm trying do now lol).
So I think games have been good for me in an Anakin->Luke balancing of the force sort of way. But I think if you do intro your kids to them early, you really should limit their time and make them go play outside. But don't get them crap games...get them really high quality games so after they finish those they won't have anywhere to go but working at enjoying other things.
The other day I needed to get to a house for a job...and I thought "hey I'll give that maps.google.com thing try." But it couldn't find either of the roads that would take me to the house. So I tried mapquest and it gave me the directions without a hitch.
Sattelite imagery is cool though.
Funny, its going to cost millions of dollars to put plants up there, millions of dollars to put water up there (unless there really _is_ water on Mars and they aren't just lying to us), and millions of dollars to put the astronauts up there.
All just to do some long distance vegetable growing.
Whats wrong with our earth grown vegetables? People make a living off that. But its going to take 300 people's yearly sallary in taxes to do this.
If they would put this much money towards getting pestecides removed from our own vegetables...now that would be something.
How are these plants going to survive the radiation on the way?
If they put as much effort into writing quality software as they are now putting into DRM, closing off the competition, and locking in the customer and his money....I think we'd have a great operating system.
If they do indeed virtualize all the pre-DRM software, they could throw out the old *Window* and replace it with a brand new sqeaky clean bullet-proof five layer insulating Window.
Then we wouldn't have any Window problems such as *cracks* and leaky drafts that ran up the memory bill. But wait, we can't have that, that would leave the public with too much power! We must do everything we can to take away the public's power, freedom, money, and ability to turn of the costly ACC (Automatic Computer-code Correction) and get some fresh air (Linux). Such is the mind (apartment) of Microsoft. Until you move out, you have to *respect* the [copyright] owner's wishes....
My friend who works at IBM got around getting a new monitor by spending a day (only!) to program a window transparency program that lets him make changes to stuff he's writing and see instant results.
So whats the GUI update "Longhorn" waiting on?
Sure, the CO2 might rize some, but then our trees will grow faster and we'll have more big ones...and then they'll be fussing about not enough C02 in the atmosphere and how we're all going to freeze in 100 years.
I think its just a cycle, we have no evidence to conclusively say "this trend will continue".
Trying to increase energy efficiency has the negative effect of taking more energy. I still think we need to be energy efficient, but we need to find a cheaper way to conserve energy. It shouldn't take more energy to save more energy...that defeats the whole purpose.
I know one of the primary developers of the chemical they used to make it sticky...he was on the original team. And I think I rememeber him telling me that they only gave them a one time 50K bonus. (Might have been 500K, but he said it was pretty small, so I think it was 50K). Thats sad.
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Yo people, all we need to do is start changing the way engines run. Ethanol is THE best alternative. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/automotive/article/0, 20967,1069364,00.html
I wonder what Cingular and Verizon will do with their $2 ring tones now?
If Apple makes their DRM lax enough so that songs on a person's Ipod can be both on their computer and cell phone, then we could have our own, free ringtones (if we already own the song). A utility that lets you select where the song should start and end for the ringtone would be nice.
torrent: http://isohunt.com/release.php?ihq=serenity&id=143 47
Thats something! But I did notice it was slowing down while I was downloading the HD version. Maybe someone should torrent it? I would if I could.
So I'm not worried about it. I don't have any plans to get a Tivo so it doesn't really bother me. Besides, I think you can get around these by making your own Tivo. Maybe we could route just the video signal from the Tivo/device over to out TV capture card? I'd like to say "the people" will stand up for their rights when they want to, but "the people" are just too plain stupid. Kinda like the proles, they could get it done if they'd all rise up together, but they're all lazy, stupid, and shallow.
I think this could add a whole new realm to the meaning of "overnight shipping." Or maybe instead of "2 day air" we could have "2 Hour Entry, delivered right to your doorstep." For cases and monitors they could use a recycleable heatsheild for delivery. GPS systems would find out where you are located and drop it to you. Shipping on some items, like the monitor, would be a bit expensive; but hey, you get it in a few hours. Things like Intel Pentium 4s, however, would have much cheaper shipping; they wouldn't need a heat sheild. Maybe Intel would actually become an option to the informed buyer? This could work! And while they're at it, any faulty computer components produced could be bundles up, strapped to an orbitting sattelite, and dropped on any misbehaving Arab WoMD production sites or on the French.
to have your kids start playing games from the start, especially if they really want to. I was one of the kind who had always loved playing video games from the beginning. I still liked other things, but if there was a game, I wanted to play that, not play outside. This was simply because I was never allowed to have a game system. So spending time at friend's houses was not productive and rather anti-social. I liked hanging out with them at school, but if I went to their house, playing the game was #1. Maybe I just have a chemical makeup more succeptable to games than others, but I think if I had grown up with them, I would have gotten tired of them a lot faster. But when I finally got my gameboy, I absolutely loved it to death, and wanted to play it all the time. Because I wasn't accustomed to the fun of Super Mario Land, all I could appreciate when I had it was it. Rather an addiction. It [gaming] really caused problems all through middle school and halfway through highschool. Since I wanted to play games over do homework or do schoolwork, it really made school and chores even worse. When I wasn't playing a new game, I wanted to think about it. But once I had played the best games from all the different genres on the N64 and current gen systems, my gaming time took a plummet. Suddenly I felt games were a waste of time unless I was having a blast every second I was playing. This realization has been a good thing. Instead of settling for something sorta fun, I have really high tolerance for fun...so if something doesn't entertain me, I move on to something that does. what I'm ultimately finding is that all the things that we usually don't like when we have a good video game are ultimately much more fun and engaging and lasting than a video game....because we put more of ourself into it...not quantity, but quality as well. If I had had games from the beginning, I think I might have gotten to that realization faster and been much more ok with doing work my sophmore year, like I was my Sr. year (of highschool). Knocking myself out on games helped force me to go for the maximum pleasure/joy/happiness possible...and I simply find that most in _applying myself_ over passivly gaming. On the other hand, having been through so much gaming during such fundamental developement stages of my life caused me to play with less friends...and thus I am lacking in the social skills department and am left trying to catch up...listening to others, being sensitive, learning to be the leader my wife will want me to be (growing out of passive mode where I let others take the initiative in everything and actively pursuing what the better choice is, like I'm trying do now lol). So I think games have been good for me in an Anakin->Luke balancing of the force sort of way. But I think if you do intro your kids to them early, you really should limit their time and make them go play outside. But don't get them crap games...get them really high quality games so after they finish those they won't have anywhere to go but working at enjoying other things.
The other day I needed to get to a house for a job...and I thought "hey I'll give that maps.google.com thing try." But it couldn't find either of the roads that would take me to the house. So I tried mapquest and it gave me the directions without a hitch. Sattelite imagery is cool though.
I wonder if we could make them run Linux?
Funny, its going to cost millions of dollars to put plants up there, millions of dollars to put water up there (unless there really _is_ water on Mars and they aren't just lying to us), and millions of dollars to put the astronauts up there. All just to do some long distance vegetable growing. Whats wrong with our earth grown vegetables? People make a living off that. But its going to take 300 people's yearly sallary in taxes to do this. If they would put this much money towards getting pestecides removed from our own vegetables...now that would be something. How are these plants going to survive the radiation on the way?
Government officials are wondering if this can be used to used to discourage street skating...
Yesssss.......
If they put as much effort into writing quality software as they are now putting into DRM, closing off the competition, and locking in the customer and his money....I think we'd have a great operating system.
If they do indeed virtualize all the pre-DRM software, they could throw out the old *Window* and replace it with a brand new sqeaky clean bullet-proof five layer insulating Window.
Then we wouldn't have any Window problems such as *cracks* and leaky drafts that ran up the memory bill. But wait, we can't have that, that would leave the public with too much power! We must do everything we can to take away the public's power, freedom, money, and ability to turn of the costly ACC (Automatic Computer-code Correction) and get some fresh air (Linux). Such is the mind (apartment) of Microsoft. Until you move out, you have to *respect* the [copyright] owner's wishes....
My friend who works at IBM got around getting a new monitor by spending a day (only!) to program a window transparency program that lets him make changes to stuff he's writing and see instant results. So whats the GUI update "Longhorn" waiting on?
Does this mean I can sell my fishy and bowl for $40k?
Its the happy meal toys. :-o
That means more rain for the rest of us....
Sure, the CO2 might rize some, but then our trees will grow faster and we'll have more big ones...and then they'll be fussing about not enough C02 in the atmosphere and how we're all going to freeze in 100 years.
I think its just a cycle, we have no evidence to conclusively say "this trend will continue".
Trying to increase energy efficiency has the negative effect of taking more energy. I still think we need to be energy efficient, but we need to find a cheaper way to conserve energy. It shouldn't take more energy to save more energy...that defeats the whole purpose.
I know one of the primary developers of the chemical they used to make it sticky...he was on the original team. And I think I rememeber him telling me that they only gave them a one time 50K bonus. (Might have been 500K, but he said it was pretty small, so I think it was 50K). Thats sad.