...until some brave independent slips an amendment about terrorism, abortion, gay marriage, gun control, or some other hotbutton issue onto an unrelated bill, so that congress as a whole will wake up, get pissed, and make this sort of bill amending illegal?
Heck, why not use this unrelated amendment attaching tactic to pass the no-unrelated-amendment-attaching law itself?
Yeah, I know it will never work. Congress doesn't give their power tools away. Unless corporations ask for them.
"...if it weren't for one (amazingly stupid) thing: a lot of people, for whatever reason, hate to read subtitles."
The fact that I like to enjoy the artwork instead of spending half the time reading the text on the bottom of the screen is "amazingly stupid"?
Also, it takes a lot of the suspense out of the show when some words or speech-cutoffs are displayed on the screen 3 or 4 seconds before the event that triggers them, you know.:p
Subtitled is better than nothing, but, imho (good) dubbing is better still.
Sadly, e-ink (Eink? E Ink?) has only two states: positive or negative, white or black (or possibly two other colors of your choice). Any e-paper/e-ink displays would have to be monochrome.:(
Note: I would love to be demonstrated incorrect. I was excited by this technology before its restrictions hit me like a two-by-four covered in used gum.
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Heck, why not use this unrelated amendment attaching tactic to pass the no-unrelated-amendment-attaching law itself?
Yeah, I know it will never work. Congress doesn't give their power tools away. Unless corporations ask for them.
A copy of every OS you work with plus keys.
A coffee/tea mug and coaster.
OS CDs? Coaster? Aren't those one and the same?
So this undoubtably-expensive robot is a substitute for... multiple motion-sensing cameras? And a fire alarm?
What's the point in making it a robot? Why not just add the radio alert feature to the already-existing security systems and add a few more cameras?
And we'd also want a mirror of Mirrordot at http://omg.wtf/
That's how I was about to phrase my comment, but you beat me. :p
New London should also elect new committee which would then sieze the homes of the former one. >:)
"...if it weren't for one (amazingly stupid) thing: a lot of people, for whatever reason, hate to read subtitles." The fact that I like to enjoy the artwork instead of spending half the time reading the text on the bottom of the screen is "amazingly stupid"? Also, it takes a lot of the suspense out of the show when some words or speech-cutoffs are displayed on the screen 3 or 4 seconds before the event that triggers them, you know. :p
Subtitled is better than nothing, but, imho (good) dubbing is better still.
I was either thinking of e-paper only, and/or still living in 2001.
r _Datasheet_May04.pdf); and a 12-bit color display (July 2002: http://www.eink.com/news/releases/pr62.html). However, the press release states the 12-bit displays were "...targeted for commercialization in 2004." Anyone know what became of it?
We see a 2-bit grayscale display (May 2004: http://eink.com/pdf/Philips_E_Ink_Electronic_Pape
Sadly, e-ink (Eink? E Ink?) has only two states: positive or negative, white or black (or possibly two other colors of your choice). Any e-paper/e-ink displays would have to be monochrome. :(
Note: I would love to be demonstrated incorrect. I was excited by this technology before its restrictions hit me like a two-by-four covered in used gum.