Last week I dropped the $90 I had waiting for a decent MP3 CD player (I couldn't find one up to my standards) on the "Dvorty" keyboard that I'm cutting my teeth on now.
If an OGG CD player was out there, I would have given it a very hard look.
Repeat after me: "Is there a doctor in the house?"
Now get rid of that damn status-toy and start re-evaluating your priorities.
I don't own a cell phone. I actually hate them to death because I can never reach their users, and the sound quality is poop at best (and when the signal cuts out it gets better, no MPEG glitching). And they're the source of many stupid TV commercials, its almost as bad as cars that way.
You can't expect a medical practitioner to be in attendance of all the movies you go to though.
Ramdisks.. Takes me back to the days of my Amiga. I always thought the ramdisk on that was a great boost.. Made a lot of things a hell of a lot easier.
I know, like the time I reformatted my harddrive. I moved my OS into RAM (I had more RAM than harddrive at the time) reformatted, put it back.
So nobody is acknoledging that 30 seconds (or a bit more) of leaping over people, running around hallways, looking for a phone that works (after a few seconds lost figuring out the one on hand has been sabotaged), is an acceptable time loss for someone thats convulsing their way to death?
"Hello, operator, I'm at blahenblah theater and some old man was dying somehow."
"Can you tell if hes breathing?"
"No! I had to leave the area and go down a floor just to call, a goddamn demon could have popped out of him and started eating the other attendees for all I know!"
This sorta scenario sucks. If the guy gets any lifesaving tips he has to waste lots of time going back, and then if he needs to reach the phone again to update them so they can know "Crystal Meth" or "insulin" or "epilepsy" and save more time.
Once again, how about making it legal to hurl massive unfluffy objects at blatant abusers of cellphones and let some people take advantage of the 2 minutes extra response time to keep some convulsing old man who might have had aids from puking blood up on the nearest ten people?
I would never buy a whole CD because one single tune is good.
Especially since they usually put a semidecent tune in track one and then junk in the rest.
Of course at which point a 5 CD changer is worth less than a half hour, and then big ole MPAA starts complaining about people ripping CDs to cut the cruft out and keep the decent stuff on hand (after buying it like you suggest you'd do).
If the Hoover Dam was opened fully, then the effects wouldn't just be noticeable for the next kilometer.... We're talking several hundreds of kilometers that will be flooded.
Yeah, believe it or not, rivers are often more than a kilometer long!:-)
Hey, encoding programs on a baseball bat, that would be a tough copy. Would likely break off my CD-ROM tray...
I guess bat-drives will start appearing now, maybe they can capitalize on confusion by releasing flying-mammal bat drives to throw evil h4x0rz off the trail.
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Sit in the corner for five minutes!
Reading all oe this makes me want to HACF.
Actually, I don't recall anyone authorizing monitors to reproduce any sort of copyrighted materials in the first place. :-)
Last week I dropped the $90 I had waiting for a decent MP3 CD player (I couldn't find one up to my standards) on the "Dvorty" keyboard that I'm cutting my teeth on now.
If an OGG CD player was out there, I would have given it a very hard look.
Ooooooooooh!
/. responsible for that?
:-)
Is
Got enough donations to streamline Tarkin development yet?
Monty has gone karma whore on us.
Oh well, he can puree kittens as long as Vorbis sees progress (just my oppinion).
If that is a tactic on the part of the Xiph guys, I'd say its not needed, as ogg is clearly better IMO.
Yeah, but Vorbis clearly needs some portable players IMO.
Or you could even have it where the lights turned on when you enter the room.
Bleh, I demand the right to stumble around my rooms in darkness!
Screw touch screens for light control. I want one of them thingies I can just wave my hand in front of to turn the light on/off.
(remember the day the earth stood still? yeah, an invincible robot that conveniently melts tanks would be nice too)
He didn't say fix the worlds problems. He just said change the world. Big difference.
:-)
Oh, changing the world is relatively easy. Lob an ICBM shell from your back yard in the states towards China.
Its M.A.D.!!!
Repeat after me: "Is there a doctor in the house?"
Now get rid of that damn status-toy and start re-evaluating your priorities.
I don't own a cell phone. I actually hate them to death because I can never reach their users, and the sound quality is poop at best (and when the signal cuts out it gets better, no MPEG glitching). And they're the source of many stupid TV commercials, its almost as bad as cars that way.
You can't expect a medical practitioner to be in attendance of all the movies you go to though.
you are obviously not talking about the original atari 2600 pitfall. cause it did not have music.
Atari this Atari that.
Commodore!
First person who mentions the Apple ][ recieves a brick.
Ramdisks.. Takes me back to the days of my Amiga. I always thought the ramdisk on that was a great boost.. Made a lot of things a hell of a lot easier.
:-)
I know, like the time I reformatted my harddrive. I moved my OS into RAM (I had more RAM than harddrive at the time) reformatted, put it back.
I didn't even need a reboot.
So nobody is acknoledging that 30 seconds (or a bit more) of leaping over people, running around hallways, looking for a phone that works (after a few seconds lost figuring out the one on hand has been sabotaged), is an acceptable time loss for someone thats convulsing their way to death?
"Hello, operator, I'm at blahenblah theater and some old man was dying somehow."
"Can you tell if hes breathing?"
"No! I had to leave the area and go down a floor just to call, a goddamn demon could have popped out of him and started eating the other attendees for all I know!"
This sorta scenario sucks. If the guy gets any lifesaving tips he has to waste lots of time going back, and then if he needs to reach the phone again to update them so they can know "Crystal Meth" or "insulin" or "epilepsy" and save more time.
Once again, how about making it legal to hurl massive unfluffy objects at blatant abusers of cellphones and let some people take advantage of the 2 minutes extra response time to keep some convulsing old man who might have had aids from puking blood up on the nearest ten people?
(yeah, extreme case)
Oh, and ban cellphones too ;)
Okay, so Sauron has a booger hanging out and hes acting all serious and stuff and some old guy laughs himself into a heart attack.
Everyone spends his lifetime trying to call for help, oops, blocked.
Just make it legal to throw heavy un-soft items at anyone who makes beeping noises and be happy.
Who the hell would like to view an unfinished, probably mostly-SFX-free, score-free, unperfect version of the Two Towers?
The first one had the lamest rock falling CGI I've seen in a while.
You can't tell me its is that hard to make a falling chunk of rock on a movie budget.
If they were doing all their yapping and fleeing on a green background I'd find it more believable.
Maybe I'll just read the books instead. No CGI for them to flub up.
I would never buy a whole CD because one single tune is good.
Especially since they usually put a semidecent tune in track one and then junk in the rest.
Of course at which point a 5 CD changer is worth less than a half hour, and then big ole MPAA starts complaining about people ripping CDs to cut the cruft out and keep the decent stuff on hand (after buying it like you suggest you'd do).
Poor taste. However, it is worth noting that they considered changing the name of the film in light of September 11th.
Oddly enough I was expecting the next story to be "Two planes hit the net."
It is a much larger target you know. Even people who flunked the landing part of their airschool can hit it.
If the Hoover Dam was opened fully, then the effects wouldn't just be noticeable for the next kilometer.... We're talking several hundreds of kilometers that will be flooded.
:-)
Yeah, believe it or not, rivers are often more than a kilometer long!
I mean, a group of minds is not the same thing as a group mind.
Getting into a barfight dosn't seem like something the borg would do.
Even of they assimilate the vodka?
If some e-terrorist was to take control of a dam near you and decided to open all the flood gates, don't you think that would inevitably kill people?
I think anybody who lives under a dam is a fool.
Would you build a normal house on(under) a river?
My guess would be "Peacock"
I wonder how many places have dirty word filters on their password system...
They could just mount the laser onto the r/w head.
Because every HAMR-head deserves a warm meal.
Don't you think?
I thought the advantage to regular phones was that you can talk to people while lounging in your underwear and such.
Huh, do video-phone cameras tend to take crotch shots?
Here I figured half a shirt and pulled back hair would suffice. (you think Max Headroom wears clothes below the monitor??)
They call it... The baseball bat.
Hey, encoding programs on a baseball bat, that would be a tough copy. Would likely break off my CD-ROM tray...
I guess bat-drives will start appearing now, maybe they can capitalize on confusion by releasing flying-mammal bat drives to throw evil h4x0rz off the trail.