I have a smallish (400 titles) collection of DVDs and BluRays. Some of it is obscure stuff. But for me a DVD pays for itself if it includes great bonus materials, specifically documentaries. Most of it you canâ(TM)t even find on YouTube. And best of all no one has come into my home and taken them. In fact I sold over 100 of them some year ago, something I you canâ(TM)t do with digital copies.
Well I'm talking about both. In my own visualization of the book I substitute William Sylvester, who played Floyd in 2001 with Roy Scheider, who played him in 2010. It's mostly because outside of 2001 I had never seen William Sylvester before. I had to check IMDB just to get his name as opposed to Roy who I've saw in everything from Jaws to SeaQuest.
I remember the first time I saw 2001. I was at my grandmothers place and it was on cable. I didn't see it from the begining, I came in on the star gate scene. I was sitting there thinking WTF am I watching? I liked it. Then came the hotel scene, then the star child scene. Even eventually after watching the whole movie I still didn't get it. It wasn't until I read the book that it made any sense. When ever I read 2001 I visualize it as the movie because I can't think of anything better. I even imagine Heywood Floyd portrayed by Roy Scheider.
That term "killer" has always baffled me since the game Doom and all of the "Doom-killers." I heard the term Doom-killer before the term "first person shooters." Suffice it to say none of them "killed" Doom. Nor did all "iPod-killers" kill the iPod. I recognize "killer app" as a more useful term.
I remember watching a Subway commercial years ago where Jared was comparing their chicken sandwich to KFC's. He said that they used "real" chicken. So I decided to buy a chicken sub just to confirm what I already know. Their chicken was just a gaint chicken nugget. If KFC is fake there's more convincing.
Rather than working on ways to continue the level of waste we produce, why not make more products refillable? Toothpaste, lotion, ointments, whatever. Instead of putting them in the same old plastic squeeze tubes put them in serine-like tubes than can be opened, cleaned out and refilled. The was a high end toothpaste called Rembrandt that came in an upright bottle that when you push down on it the paste would dispense from the top. The bottle was hard plastic that was made of two parts. It wasn't refillable but it didn't seem like a stretch to make it so. I can see taking the empty container back to the store to be refilled for less then the full price. Reduce and save money.
Does this take account of ad ridden free apps. Certainly those seem generate money too. I myself have spemy roughly 40 bucks on Android apps or the past 5 years. I tend not to pack my devices with apps I'll only use once. I've even bought Palm and Window Mobile apps.
People seem to say that as if it were a bad thing. Personally I'd rather have solutions to problems I've yet to have. Inversely, I wouldn't mind having all of my future problems solved using only existing solutions. A win-win in my book.
I never really understood this line of thinking, that if one is living an uninteresting, unimportant life they shouldn't care if they're being spayed upon? Privacy is only for people of interest. Everyone else is fair game? I thought it was the famous people who were exempt from having private lives. Personally I think that even if all you do is go home to an empty house and stare at the walls all day you should still do it without, frankly high-tech peeping toms. Buy you should be free to choose whatever you want.
I'm guessing that this is more of a problem for skinny folks who wear tight jeans. If they put a phablet in their front pockets the sides will jut out leaving gaps between the phone and thigh. A curved phone, one that's curved side to side as opposed to top to bottom, will lay close to there thighs taking up less space than the smallest, thinnest phone. But that's just my theory. I couldn't care less about curved phone or displays.
I had an original 8GB iPhone in 2008 and it would crash, not often, but in a way where the touch wouldn't work. Everything else worked, the display, the buttons, but it didn't react to touch. Couldn't hard reset without sliding that icon on screen, unless there was some other way to do it which didn't involve going home and doing a factory reset through iTunes. Apple didn't seem to anticipate the touchscreen being unresponsive in a crash.
I never had to buy a blank floppy disk during high school in the 90s. I used to send out for them, every computer mag had at least two fill in card for them. I filled a shoe box with them and ever DOS game demos I could get through the mail. The AOL CD were junk. You couldn't reuse them.
If I was richer and didn't care about gaming I'd be on this. But it has one flaw that don't manifest until years later when you might want to upgrade. I bought a tablet PC 10 years ago andI loved it for painting in Photoshop, but as I tried to do more layered work it couldn't keep up. I really wish I could take the display off and plug it into my desktop.
Back in 2000 I had one of those AOL CD's that they liked to shove into everyone's mailbox. The would give you so many free hours, but you still needed a credit card. I remember going through the motions of signing up but stopping short of inputting my CC info, as I didn't have one at the time. There was a part of the sign up that searched for a list of local phone numbers. During that time you were connected to the net.I would switch to a real browser, Netscape at the time, and sure enough I was surfing a 56k. The connection would usually time out a about 20 to 30 minutes and I would have to try again, but it still worked.
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You think spreadsheet software is the geekiest thing you can collect? What about Star Wars memorabilia? Video games and video game consoles. Playboy.
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I have a smallish (400 titles) collection of DVDs and BluRays. Some of it is obscure stuff. But for me a DVD pays for itself if it includes great bonus materials, specifically documentaries. Most of it you canâ(TM)t even find on YouTube. And best of all no one has come into my home and taken them. In fact I sold over 100 of them some year ago, something I you canâ(TM)t do with digital copies.
Associated Television, a British music publishing company. It was bought by Michael Jackson in 1985 and sold to CBS records which was bought by Sony.
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Well I'm talking about both. In my own visualization of the book I substitute William Sylvester, who played Floyd in 2001 with Roy Scheider, who played him in 2010. It's mostly because outside of 2001 I had never seen William Sylvester before. I had to check IMDB just to get his name as opposed to Roy who I've saw in everything from Jaws to SeaQuest.
I remember the first time I saw 2001. I was at my grandmothers place and it was on cable. I didn't see it from the begining, I came in on the star gate scene. I was sitting there thinking WTF am I watching? I liked it. Then came the hotel scene, then the star child scene. Even eventually after watching the whole movie I still didn't get it. It wasn't until I read the book that it made any sense. When ever I read 2001 I visualize it as the movie because I can't think of anything better. I even imagine Heywood Floyd portrayed by Roy Scheider.
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That term "killer" has always baffled me since the game Doom and all of the "Doom-killers." I heard the term Doom-killer before the term "first person shooters." Suffice it to say none of them "killed" Doom. Nor did all "iPod-killers" kill the iPod. I recognize "killer app" as a more useful term.
I remember watching a Subway commercial years ago where Jared was comparing their chicken sandwich to KFC's. He said that they used "real" chicken. So I decided to buy a chicken sub just to confirm what I already know. Their chicken was just a gaint chicken nugget. If KFC is fake there's more convincing.
Rather than working on ways to continue the level of waste we produce, why not make more products refillable? Toothpaste, lotion, ointments, whatever. Instead of putting them in the same old plastic squeeze tubes put them in serine-like tubes than can be opened, cleaned out and refilled. The was a high end toothpaste called Rembrandt that came in an upright bottle that when you push down on it the paste would dispense from the top. The bottle was hard plastic that was made of two parts. It wasn't refillable but it didn't seem like a stretch to make it so. I can see taking the empty container back to the store to be refilled for less then the full price. Reduce and save money.
Does this take account of ad ridden free apps. Certainly those seem generate money too. I myself have spemy roughly 40 bucks on Android apps or the past 5 years. I tend not to pack my devices with apps I'll only use once. I've even bought Palm and Window Mobile apps.
The word video didn't derive from video cassette any more that audio came from audio cassette.
People seem to say that as if it were a bad thing. Personally I'd rather have solutions to problems I've yet to have. Inversely, I wouldn't mind having all of my future problems solved using only existing solutions. A win-win in my book.
I never really understood this line of thinking, that if one is living an uninteresting, unimportant life they shouldn't care if they're being spayed upon? Privacy is only for people of interest. Everyone else is fair game? I thought it was the famous people who were exempt from having private lives. Personally I think that even if all you do is go home to an empty house and stare at the walls all day you should still do it without, frankly high-tech peeping toms. Buy you should be free to choose whatever you want.
Flash wasn't created by Macromedia either. It was created by FutureWave to complete against Macromedia's Shockwave. Macromedia bought FutureWave.
I'm guessing that this is more of a problem for skinny folks who wear tight jeans. If they put a phablet in their front pockets the sides will jut out leaving gaps between the phone and thigh. A curved phone, one that's curved side to side as opposed to top to bottom, will lay close to there thighs taking up less space than the smallest, thinnest phone. But that's just my theory. I couldn't care less about curved phone or displays.
I had an original 8GB iPhone in 2008 and it would crash, not often, but in a way where the touch wouldn't work. Everything else worked, the display, the buttons, but it didn't react to touch. Couldn't hard reset without sliding that icon on screen, unless there was some other way to do it which didn't involve going home and doing a factory reset through iTunes. Apple didn't seem to anticipate the touchscreen being unresponsive in a crash.
Can't wait for the three seashells, eh?
I never had to buy a blank floppy disk during high school in the 90s. I used to send out for them, every computer mag had at least two fill in card for them. I filled a shoe box with them and ever DOS game demos I could get through the mail. The AOL CD were junk. You couldn't reuse them.
If I was richer and didn't care about gaming I'd be on this. But it has one flaw that don't manifest until years later when you might want to upgrade. I bought a tablet PC 10 years ago andI loved it for painting in Photoshop, but as I tried to do more layered work it couldn't keep up. I really wish I could take the display off and plug it into my desktop.
Back in 2000 I had one of those AOL CD's that they liked to shove into everyone's mailbox. The would give you so many free hours, but you still needed a credit card. I remember going through the motions of signing up but stopping short of inputting my CC info, as I didn't have one at the time. There was a part of the sign up that searched for a list of local phone numbers. During that time you were connected to the net.I would switch to a real browser, Netscape at the time, and sure enough I was surfing a 56k. The connection would usually time out a about 20 to 30 minutes and I would have to try again, but it still worked.
Can someone please tell me which one of these candidates is the lesser evil?