I think a main reason why people who aren't "into" cars get their oil changed at all is because the Jiffy Lube Man on TV tells them that they have to.
Also, PCs that do the internet thing and the email thing and the IM thing are getting ridiculously cheap. All of a sudden it is more favorable to buy a new one than to invite over that scrawny neighbor kid with the poor hygene.
You wouldn't know unless you were working in japan or if your remote came within 3 channels of the Discovery Channel, because they have a few specials about it and they have been advertising the living Hirohito out of them.
The difference in this case being, of course, that there won't be HD-DVD and Blu-Ray PS3 versions. I am referring to games only, not the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray Predictions Flamefest Pick-a-side-o-rama 2005.
Also, has everyone forgotten what a jumpstart for DVD the PS2 was? At least from my experience it has been. I would guess that the PS2 would be the first DVD player in many people's homes.
FINALLY. Boy will I be glad when CRT technology becomes cheap enough to replace those dinky, thin, horridly outdated panel displays. Then we can fully realize the classic sci-fi television wet dream of dozens of small egg-shaped monitors placed mere fractions of feet apart to simulate a single, moderate-sized screen!
I don't know if you're joking or not, but the entire premise is ridiculous.
Lightning can't strike underwater! I feel I'm as good as safe in my home on the atlantic shore. But then with those electric eels... I take it back, I'm moving to a bomb shelter in Wyoming.
I'm pretty sure the male seahorse fertilizes then carries the eggs until they are ready to hatch. Someone correct me if I'm wrong (as if that needs to be said)
I think it may be that tech geeks simply enjoy communicating at their leisures in a language that will not present them with a compile error for every typo.
Still, logical errors abound in all languages it seems.
On a related note, I've often wondered what it was like to live in the time before color. Can you imagine the FIRST DAY of color? I bet no one's clothes matched.
I absolutely agree. I get much more enjoyment from a good game or especially a well-produced DVD-A than from most (but certainly not all) movies. 5.1 speaker channels, usb sound blaster. Also, the extra component I get from the extra 3 speakers is only marginally better than my original setup, a really good, accurate set of bookshelf speakers and a moderately sized sub. The only differences are better dialog in movies (center channel) and I can't play Half Life 2 in the dark anymore;)
Surround sound music, on the other hand, varies quite a bit between well implemented surrouond and surround as a "parlor trick" in which case I find it better to stick to the stereo track. This is especially the case in classic recordings that are ingrained into our memories in that original stereo track we've heard so many times. In this case there are basically two types of surround implementations as far as I am concerned. First there is the new rendering of the track (even if by the same producer) where the surround changes the song, even if it was created using those original master tapes or what have you. The second type of recording relates this whole rambling tale back to the topic at hand. In this production, you instead are immersed into the original material, which really should be the goal of surround sound anyway.
Of course I don't have to tell you that most surround systems are built, advertized, and purchased as simply the next new thing. (example - the above article) This is why 300 buck all in one systems sell so well where a similarly priced stereo system would have given a better sound.
Slashdot Mirror
Riddle: How do you get Apple on a PC?
Answer: Read the above posts while eating an apple.
Still cleaning off the monitor from that one!
And here I thought I'd have to wait until the 31st century to see Nixon in office.
Aaand instead you got the General Lee revitalized in 2005.
I think a main reason why people who aren't "into" cars get their oil changed at all is because the Jiffy Lube Man on TV tells them that they have to.
Also, PCs that do the internet thing and the email thing and the IM thing are getting ridiculously cheap. All of a sudden it is more favorable to buy a new one than to invite over that scrawny neighbor kid with the poor hygene.
There was a documentary a few years back about this very problem with dead native creatures.
I think it was called Something Something The Spirits Within.
Better yet
1. get a job at one,
2. quit, work at another,
3. continue being brilliant,
4. ???
5. lawyers profit!
You wouldn't know unless you were working in japan or if your remote came within 3 channels of the Discovery Channel, because they have a few specials about it and they have been advertising the living Hirohito out of them.
Obviously did it for the naming possibilities.
Sextel?
Blu-Ray could be Sony's next BetaMax.
The difference in this case being, of course, that there won't be HD-DVD and Blu-Ray PS3 versions. I am referring to games only, not the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray Predictions Flamefest Pick-a-side-o-rama 2005.
Also, has everyone forgotten what a jumpstart for DVD the PS2 was? At least from my experience it has been. I would guess that the PS2 would be the first DVD player in many people's homes.
he/she/they Wumbo
Wumbology - the study of Wumbo
And think of all of those poor advertisers, with starving children at home to feed.
...to their bloodthirsty attack dogs.
FINALLY. Boy will I be glad when CRT technology becomes cheap enough to replace those dinky, thin, horridly outdated panel displays. Then we can fully realize the classic sci-fi television wet dream of dozens of small egg-shaped monitors placed mere fractions of feet apart to simulate a single, moderate-sized screen!
The flurry of "-1, incoherent" mods at the moment of its introduction would inevitably slashdot Slashdot.
When masochism's lost its fun... run Windows?
Could this be part of their anti-Linux Crusade!?
I don't know if you're joking or not, but the entire premise is ridiculous. Lightning can't strike underwater! I feel I'm as good as safe in my home on the atlantic shore. But then with those electric eels... I take it back, I'm moving to a bomb shelter in Wyoming.
Since when have SUVs been affordable or safe?
Amen! We can call it the Internet Movie Database!
Brannigan's Law
"Brannigan's Law is like Brannigan's Love - hard and fast!"
So now my data could be corrupted by a virus or a fungus.
Fantastic.
In Other News, McAfee trademarks the name FungusScan.
One would think, but in this case there is more than meets the eye.
I'm pretty sure the male seahorse fertilizes then carries the eggs until they are ready to hatch. Someone correct me if I'm wrong (as if that needs to be said)
I think it may be that tech geeks simply enjoy communicating at their leisures in a language that will not present them with a compile error for every typo. Still, logical errors abound in all languages it seems.
On a related note, I've often wondered what it was like to live in the time before color. Can you imagine the FIRST DAY of color? I bet no one's clothes matched.
they've been duped
I absolutely agree. I get much more enjoyment from a good game or especially a well-produced DVD-A than from most (but certainly not all) movies. 5.1 speaker channels, usb sound blaster. Also, the extra component I get from the extra 3 speakers is only marginally better than my original setup, a really good, accurate set of bookshelf speakers and a moderately sized sub. The only differences are better dialog in movies (center channel) and I can't play Half Life 2 in the dark anymore ;)
Surround sound music, on the other hand, varies quite a bit between well implemented surrouond and surround as a "parlor trick" in which case I find it better to stick to the stereo track. This is especially the case in classic recordings that are ingrained into our memories in that original stereo track we've heard so many times. In this case there are basically two types of surround implementations as far as I am concerned. First there is the new rendering of the track (even if by the same producer) where the surround changes the song, even if it was created using those original master tapes or what have you. The second type of recording relates this whole rambling tale back to the topic at hand. In this production, you instead are immersed into the original material, which really should be the goal of surround sound anyway.
Of course I don't have to tell you that most surround systems are built, advertized, and purchased as simply the next new thing. (example - the above article) This is why 300 buck all in one systems sell so well where a similarly priced stereo system would have given a better sound.