I kind of find it interesting to see when a show/movie comes up with its own brands, it can make the world seem much more realized. They have products that suit their universe. For example, in "The Simpsons", they have many Krusty branded items, or Duff or Laramie, etc. Or in "Star Wars", I would never want to see a Coke or Doritos, or whatever, that's a different universe! Product placements would usually go to the highest bidder, would something like that belong in a show like Roseanne where the family can't typically afford anything but generic/store brands?
Also, don't you find it more entertaining when the writers come up with parodies of actual products, or create brands that only exist in their world? Usually they are comical, satirical, or just creative. I find that more interesting that repeats of the crap that is offensively blasted at you all day. I have a negative feeling associated with seeing real-world brands in TV shows for that reason, and find it very refreshing when I don't notice real-world brands out of the corner of my eye every time I am watching a show or movie. They're distracting no matter how much they try to make them blend in with the scene.
The "hack" is doing it under an hour. He used a different PC to install it onto the IDE disk and afterwards put it back into the laptop. It's a little more convoluted than you thought, but still kinda boring.
You can command a robot to do something, and it will respond. If you tell a human to do something, it might respond or it might do something completely different.
You can make that argument for just about any proprietary platform. Schools should just use an OSS stack. If it doesn't include what they want, teach their kids to develop it.
If this is anything like in-game tutorials on how to play, it's going to be really tedious.
Anyway, as long as they include a PDF of the real manual on a CD that comes with the car, I'm ok with this. I don't want to spend 15 minutes yelling at an avatar to get information that takes me 5 seconds to look up in an index, or better yet "Find" in a PDF.
Thanks for this post. I'm one of those guys who always starts the video at the 50% point to skip the pointless preamble. If you want some great still shots, check here.
Broadband is a utility that is necessary every day tasks. $9.95 should be the average plan price. You can get $100 computers, why should you have to pay more than that per year to keep it connected?
If software titles were platform independent then people wouldn't get locked in to a certain platform, and wouldn't care about buying what their friends have in order to have apps/games that talk to each other nicely. More people probably would be buying HP (or other) tablets if it weren't for this. Funny, because Apple originally wanted only web-clips and not native apps, it's the users and developers that were screaming for that. It's like they walked right into a cage and demanded for a padlock. Of course then devices probably could not run any apps locally.
Why doesn't it dynamically adjust as usage varies? Plug in at the right time and you lock in the price for a determined time (which is shown to you on said smart meter). Problem solved.
I don't shout my name and wear it on my shirt everywhere I go IRL, neither do I let people track where I go and where I came from, why should I do any of this crap online?
Nobody prints out their pictures anymore, they stick them on [social_network], and they're happy if their images are crappy quality because that means they don't have to resize them to make them small for such purposes, and for email as well.
I know someone that takes all of their digital camera pictures, makes them 640x480, fiddles with the contrast/brightness/saturation until it looks nice on their screen, saves it as a JPG @ "85% quality", and then DELETES THE ORIGINALS. Sorry for caps.
Once we get high DPI screens on the desktop, they'll be wondering why their pictures look so fuzzy.
Buy gift credit cards and use those online, they have a set limit. That's what I do. They have an activation fee and depreciate in value, but consider that the cost of insurance I guess.
The PS3 has been able to match the 360 closely even considering purchases spurred by the "Read Ring of Death", as well as those wanting to buy a Slim just to get away from all of that. Also the Kinect launch which was heavily marketed and designed to expand the 360's demographic significantly.
Actually, you needed a proprietary knife and fork to eat the cake, so the penguin just took the cake inside to reverse engineer it so their own knife and fork could be used. And then it exploded.
This same argument has been made time and again, but the only thing I find myself forgetting is trivia. As for facts, I used to know a lot of methods, words, etc by rote, or I my recollection would be derived from things I had heard, but now it's so easy to satisfy my curiosity from multiple sources. I know more and it is better reinforced. I do use the internet for reference, but it is not on hand every moment of the day, nor is it always opportune when it is available. Maybe if you need to look up a detail for one time and you never use it again, you'll forget that, but I don't really find myself running to a search box every five minutes because I can't remember anything anymore. Now when I don't know something, I write it down, and when I am bored I look these things up. I watch videos with closed captioning on because I can easily look up the words I am unsure about. I've been able to volunteer information more often than before, and if others can't remember something, I've been able to fill in the gaps. But I really can't say I find myself forgetting anything.
I think the RIAA/MPAA's rampant lawsuits against citizens shows that they would rather have false positives than false negatives. They're not concerned with your "end user experience." They would rather you have to fight to get the service you paid for* than for them to fight to prove you wrong. In essence, it's "guilty before proven innocent" except not in a court of law -- just on their say-so.
* So the ISP can kick you off and still keep your money. This also means they'll be more inclined to kick users off than to improve their network and add bandwidth.
If they deprecated the format then why not open it up? They're not using it anymore. At least let people build their own tools to interpret their own data.
So it seems that Mozilla and Google are the ones that don't understand version numbers... Of course people will have the wrong idea if you go against versioning conventions. Why are they trying to defy them? There is no improvement, it's not a better way of doing it. So why?
Why are the extensions considered outdated when Firefox 4 is largely the same as Firefox 5? Did they remove/replace enough functionality such that most of the extensions are now broken, or should the extensions be updated to take into account rapidly changing version numbers?
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I kind of find it interesting to see when a show/movie comes up with its own brands, it can make the world seem much more realized. They have products that suit their universe. For example, in "The Simpsons", they have many Krusty branded items, or Duff or Laramie, etc. Or in "Star Wars", I would never want to see a Coke or Doritos, or whatever, that's a different universe! Product placements would usually go to the highest bidder, would something like that belong in a show like Roseanne where the family can't typically afford anything but generic/store brands?
Also, don't you find it more entertaining when the writers come up with parodies of actual products, or create brands that only exist in their world? Usually they are comical, satirical, or just creative. I find that more interesting that repeats of the crap that is offensively blasted at you all day. I have a negative feeling associated with seeing real-world brands in TV shows for that reason, and find it very refreshing when I don't notice real-world brands out of the corner of my eye every time I am watching a show or movie. They're distracting no matter how much they try to make them blend in with the scene.
The "hack" is doing it under an hour. He used a different PC to install it onto the IDE disk and afterwards put it back into the laptop. It's a little more convoluted than you thought, but still kinda boring.
You can command a robot to do something, and it will respond. If you tell a human to do something, it might respond or it might do something completely different.
So if something can be used for ill, we just shouldn't have it at all? Say goodbye to everything you can't take on a plane...
If you make me work to get something out of your attempt at marketing/advertising, you've effectively made me ignore you.
You can make that argument for just about any proprietary platform. Schools should just use an OSS stack. If it doesn't include what they want, teach their kids to develop it.
If this is anything like in-game tutorials on how to play, it's going to be really tedious.
Anyway, as long as they include a PDF of the real manual on a CD that comes with the car, I'm ok with this. I don't want to spend 15 minutes yelling at an avatar to get information that takes me 5 seconds to look up in an index, or better yet "Find" in a PDF.
Aw, fuck me. I fucked up the link. here
Thanks for this post. I'm one of those guys who always starts the video at the 50% point to skip the pointless preamble. If you want some great still shots, check here.
Broadband is a utility that is necessary every day tasks. $9.95 should be the average plan price. You can get $100 computers, why should you have to pay more than that per year to keep it connected?
If software titles were platform independent then people wouldn't get locked in to a certain platform, and wouldn't care about buying what their friends have in order to have apps/games that talk to each other nicely. More people probably would be buying HP (or other) tablets if it weren't for this. Funny, because Apple originally wanted only web-clips and not native apps, it's the users and developers that were screaming for that. It's like they walked right into a cage and demanded for a padlock. Of course then devices probably could not run any apps locally.
Why doesn't it dynamically adjust as usage varies? Plug in at the right time and you lock in the price for a determined time (which is shown to you on said smart meter). Problem solved.
I don't shout my name and wear it on my shirt everywhere I go IRL, neither do I let people track where I go and where I came from, why should I do any of this crap online?
Pretty simple. I mean unless you're immune to cancer and don't like anyone else on the planet.
It starts with Robotech, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Akira...
Nobody prints out their pictures anymore, they stick them on [social_network], and they're happy if their images are crappy quality because that means they don't have to resize them to make them small for such purposes, and for email as well.
I know someone that takes all of their digital camera pictures, makes them 640x480, fiddles with the contrast/brightness/saturation until it looks nice on their screen, saves it as a JPG @ "85% quality", and then DELETES THE ORIGINALS. Sorry for caps.
Once we get high DPI screens on the desktop, they'll be wondering why their pictures look so fuzzy.
Buy gift credit cards and use those online, they have a set limit. That's what I do. They have an activation fee and depreciate in value, but consider that the cost of insurance I guess.
The PS3 has been able to match the 360 closely even considering purchases spurred by the "Read Ring of Death", as well as those wanting to buy a Slim just to get away from all of that. Also the Kinect launch which was heavily marketed and designed to expand the 360's demographic significantly.
All this just because KDE wouldn't be able to call it Kontrol Kenter
Actually, you needed a proprietary knife and fork to eat the cake, so the penguin just took the cake inside to reverse engineer it so their own knife and fork could be used. And then it exploded.
This same argument has been made time and again, but the only thing I find myself forgetting is trivia. As for facts, I used to know a lot of methods, words, etc by rote, or I my recollection would be derived from things I had heard, but now it's so easy to satisfy my curiosity from multiple sources. I know more and it is better reinforced. I do use the internet for reference, but it is not on hand every moment of the day, nor is it always opportune when it is available. Maybe if you need to look up a detail for one time and you never use it again, you'll forget that, but I don't really find myself running to a search box every five minutes because I can't remember anything anymore. Now when I don't know something, I write it down, and when I am bored I look these things up. I watch videos with closed captioning on because I can easily look up the words I am unsure about. I've been able to volunteer information more often than before, and if others can't remember something, I've been able to fill in the gaps. But I really can't say I find myself forgetting anything.
I think the RIAA/MPAA's rampant lawsuits against citizens shows that they would rather have false positives than false negatives. They're not concerned with your "end user experience." They would rather you have to fight to get the service you paid for* than for them to fight to prove you wrong. In essence, it's "guilty before proven innocent" except not in a court of law -- just on their say-so.
* So the ISP can kick you off and still keep your money. This also means they'll be more inclined to kick users off than to improve their network and add bandwidth.
If they deprecated the format then why not open it up? They're not using it anymore. At least let people build their own tools to interpret their own data.
So it seems that Mozilla and Google are the ones that don't understand version numbers... Of course people will have the wrong idea if you go against versioning conventions. Why are they trying to defy them? There is no improvement, it's not a better way of doing it. So why?
Why are the extensions considered outdated when Firefox 4 is largely the same as Firefox 5? Did they remove/replace enough functionality such that most of the extensions are now broken, or should the extensions be updated to take into account rapidly changing version numbers?