Many movies featuring computers revolve around floppy disks being stolen or being used to transport stolen data. Well, not so much anymore.
It's amazing that scripts are not vetted for technical plausibility. It shouldn't cost much to get a techie to read them, and many movies these days are made to appeal to geeks, or at least folks who fancy themselves computer literate.
Update: After talking to an Improv Electronics representative, we’ve confirmed that they are indeed working on a recordable Boogie Board tablet that would utilize flash memory and a USB connection to save and download your work. It would be the size and model, just with added storage and USB connection. They anticipate having this new version available for sale within the year but will still sell the current base version. Price on this new recordable model would be around $50.
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Heh. Yeah. Those studies they used to do where they'd ask ppl to keep a journal of everything they had eaten for a week were notoriously inaccurate. People simply "forgot" about the dozen Fig Newtons that scarfed down each night.
Your sig tells me you're semiliterate, therefore I'm less likely to be influenced by anything you post.
Learning how to use punctuation will not make you less cool.
I agree 1000%. I'm sure plenty of employers would overlook a DUI conviction discovered in a background check but would reject a candidate with a misdemeanor battery conviction. The DUI guy could easily have killed someone. The batterer (could have been self defense) just wrestled his attacker to the ground. The DUI guy has a "disease." The batterer is considered a violent criminal.
Just because driving is such a humdrum, everyday chore does not prevent it from being the most dangerous activity we engage in.
I get tired of being forced to make way for self-absorbed clods attempting to walk down crowded sidewalks while shouting into their phones. They keep their heads down while having their ever-so-important conversations about who texted who last night. They do this partly to announce just how overwhelmingly great their social life is. Sometimes I deliberately block their path so as to force them to pay attention. Sometimes they walk straight into me, assuming I will clear a path for them. I expect to see one of them be run over by a bus one of these days and no, I am not looking forward to it.
Or perhaps roblarky could be more vague. Perhaps you could divine what he means by, "many".
You seem to imply that some preternaturally clever IT dept could make the right decision at every stage, and never be forced to do the dumb things the non-technical managers (business owners) always insist upon and never have to deal with ancient, legacy crap.
Universities, not University's. And it should not be capitalized. Also it should be 90s or nineties.
The apostrophe is about possession. "The fish's bicycle ran over the dog's tail."
So eastern Oklahoma is random and CA is "real?" I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV but seriously, you're an insensitive clod.
Just kidding. Heh.
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Since I'm a Mac, I'll prolly get the Apple tablet. Good luck to any tablet manufacturer going up against that.
Many movies featuring computers revolve around floppy disks being stolen or being used to transport stolen data.
Well, not so much anymore.
It's amazing that scripts are not vetted for technical plausibility. It shouldn't cost much to get a techie to read them, and many movies these days are made to appeal to geeks, or at least folks who fancy themselves computer literate.
They damn well should seem magical. They are in the future, after all.
Update: After talking to an Improv Electronics representative, we’ve confirmed that they are indeed working on a recordable Boogie Board tablet that would utilize flash memory and a USB connection to save and download your work. It would be the size and model, just with added storage and USB connection. They anticipate having this new version available for sale within the year but will still sell the current base version. Price on this new recordable model would be around $50. Read more: http://besttabletreview.com/the-boogie-board-paperless-lcd-writing-tablet-very-cool-and-only-30/#ixzz0dYELgHng
Winos of the world, rejoice! I suppose there are plenty of arthritic old folk who might benefit from owning such a device.
You think the NYC subway is bad? Come ride the MBTA in Boston.
In Boston, subway rides YOU!
and they want to take away our Medicare!
Heh. Yeah. Those studies they used to do where they'd ask ppl to keep a journal of everything they had eaten for a week were notoriously inaccurate. People simply "forgot" about the dozen Fig Newtons that scarfed down each night.
Your sig tells me you're semiliterate, therefore I'm less likely to be influenced by anything you post. Learning how to use punctuation will not make you less cool.
I agree 1000%. I'm sure plenty of employers would overlook a DUI conviction discovered in a background check but would reject a candidate with a misdemeanor battery conviction. The DUI guy could easily have killed someone. The batterer (could have been self defense) just wrestled his attacker to the ground. The DUI guy has a "disease." The batterer is considered a violent criminal.
Just because driving is such a humdrum, everyday chore does not prevent it from being the most dangerous activity we engage in.
There are bearfuckers at that bar.
The plural of Swede is Swedes. The plural of dynamo is dynamos.
Duh.
GOLD!
I challenge the veracity of your assumption. Truckers are not allowed to make right turns over crosswalks in Danmark?
I get tired of being forced to make way for self-absorbed clods attempting to walk down crowded sidewalks while shouting into their phones. They keep their heads down while having their ever-so-important conversations about who texted who last night. They do this partly to announce just how overwhelmingly great their social life is. Sometimes I deliberately block their path so as to force them to pay attention. Sometimes they walk straight into me, assuming I will clear a path for them. I expect to see one of them be run over by a bus one of these days and no, I am not looking forward to it.
I think it's mostly our debt they underwrite, and I think it's prolly over a TRILLION dollars now since in May 2009 it was $772 billion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
I'm not trolling, honestly.
Can you name some of these apps?
hahaha
"By many he probably meant the standard definition as used by the English language."
By many what? Heh.
Or perhaps roblarky could be more vague. Perhaps you could divine what he means by, "many".
You seem to imply that some preternaturally clever IT dept could make the right decision at every stage, and never be forced to do the dumb things the non-technical managers (business owners) always insist upon and never have to deal with ancient, legacy crap.
Right. Computers, especially Windows computers, are completely self sufficient.
YA TROLL!
Users will whine. Then they will go home and drink WINE.
Universities, not University's. And it should not be capitalized. Also it should be 90s or nineties. The apostrophe is about possession. "The fish's bicycle ran over the dog's tail."
"Down in Texas where I come from, we just go out and get a man and string him up."
So eastern Oklahoma is random and CA is "real?" I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV but seriously, you're an insensitive clod. Just kidding. Heh.