Las Vegas couldn't get more annoying. Everywhere from sidewalks to bathrooms blaring logos at you. Even worse would be the saturation subliminal advetising. "No really honey, the floors and walls told me to gamble more".
The Russian you met was lying to you. It's a good dodge to say americans are behind it but the simple fact is most DVDs, pirate and legit, are made in south east asia. It's cheaper to make there period. The music industry used to be big into pirating as a way to screw the artists out of their royalty but this may have bit them in the ass since piracy now dwarfs legit music and they aren't the ones pirating now. The real truth is profits are dropping and the quality and quantity of what's out there to pirate is going start dropping. The pirates may one day have to offer to pay something for the films and music simply because they won't have enough left to pirate to stay in business.
There are all kinds of bad things posted about me on the web. Who cares?
Apparently the ones that made the Myspace page cares. There is an assumption in most of the posts that the principal was the villian and the ones that made the post were justified. At the very least it has been a major distraction and caused problems with classes and affected computer access. In theory they are there to learn not to prank. The computer classes can potentially get them work but the won't. It may earn them some points with their friends but if they are expelled it could affect their future. I'm not taking either side it's just odd that the fact they used a computer seems to give them a pass. Say the Principal posted disparaging comments about the same students? Maybe they were constantly disrupting classes and he decided to take a little revenge. Would he be in the wrong?
Actually they have reduced the discharge time to milliseconds. That's the good news, the bad news instead of rating the discharge in volts they rate them in megatons.
You forgot one number. Odds of all iPods being filled with music purchased on-line, zero. If Apple iTunes actually sold that much music they wouldn't add one zero to the music sales numbers they'd add two. Obvious few iPods are filled with music but it does indicate the real size of the download community especially when a lot of people would like have a bigger iPod. If the average was just 10% full there's still a big download community. If the number is 50% then it's massive. The other issue is we're just talking iPods. There are other devices and some like me don't own any. On line purchases are dwarfed by over all music downloads.
That particular hack seems ironic. If you bought the music legally it would be worth $50,000 through iTunes. 50 grand in music on a $200 device. Also it'd take you 500 days of continous listening to play it all or two years of every waking hour. If you have to have that many illegal downloads crammed onto an iPod to prove your street creds you might want to actually check out some of those spam enlargement ads. The won't help but it'll be cheaper than the fine for all that music if you get busted.
Don't worry I take there's an upcoming post on a research group's article that claims invisibility when the viewer closes their eyes. While also not true invisibility the technique does work with all light spectrums. The researchers aren't suggesting a method to get the enemy to close their eyes but they do point out that everything has a downside.
My Dad's boss thought that the old keyboards with the pre-xp logo they had wouldn't work with the new XP computers they had just received,so instead of arguing with him, They ended up ordering 200+ new "XP" Keyboards.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to buy 200 XP stickers?
It's bizzare because it really does fit a classic urban myth profile. It obviously happened and the owner was shook up but it shows why urban myths are often believeable. Gotta wonder why no one that stripped the house questioned it. At least the first few to show up it must have looked like a normal house. It got pretty trashed so the later ones at least had an excuse.
After the attempt at Bob and then Clippy I wonder if Douglas Adams predicted where Microsoft will be 200 years from now? Are they the real Sirius Cybernetics? If so how long do I have to wait for my very own Marvin?...........Now that I think about it hopefully a very very long time.
The red headed Neaderthal theory has been around for a while but there's still no evidence genetic or physical. That said my exwife was a redhead so I personally am a true believer.
We finally have proof of time travel! If the world is 6,000 years old then some one from 36,000 years in the future dug up a modern body and transported it back to 4,000 BC inorder to try and cast doubt on the Bible. Thankful not all of us are so easily fooled by such an obvious hoax!
Sadly he wasn't the one hyping it the hype came from people seeing it. I think it was less well recieved than the inventor hoped but part of that was the well being poisoned from the hype. Cities were banning them before the first one rolled off the assembly line. Everyone says they'd sell better if they were radically cheaper but from what I've heard they barely make a profit as it is. It has potential for industrial use and for a toy for those that can aford one but they are simply to expensive to make it to wide use. Also they aren't idiot proof which our fearless leader proved. Apparently he hopped on one without turning it on and fell over. Scary to think it was the leader of the free world.
Nothing will ever be as big a flop as ME. I hear Bill Gates still wakes up in a cold sweat screaming "ME"! Remember the ads where Microsoft was actually boasting that XP didn't crash as much as ME? I doubt Microsoft would ever let another debacle like ME happen again. I think they learned their lesson there.
It's always for our own good, or so they say. In the US Bush had a lot of Americans convinced giving up civil rights was for their own good. Oddly enough it wasn't americans bombing the Trade Center. It was simply an excuse to take rights away. Britian is doing it for the people's own good but at what price? If the goal is to end all crime then I guess we lojack everyone and place cameras in every home and business. Good news/bad news, they'll catch a whole lot of "criminals" but the bad news is we'll all be guilty. They say ignorance of the law is no excuse but there are tens of thousands of laws on the books and even the police don't know them all. It's impossible to not break laws you aren't even aware exist. Some things are perfectly legal here in one state but are felonies in others. There are even laws in some states governing sexual behavior among consenting adults. There are obscure laws on the books no one is aware of. The point shouldn't be to prosecute every human possible but to maintain order and protect individuals. The government is supposed to protect individuals from each other but if Constitutional law is ignored who will protect the people from the government?
This had to be one of the biggest flops in history. Essentially a LP record that played movies they started to degrade after the first few playings and were never that good to begin with. RCA lost something like 60 million on that turkey and today it's all but forgotten.
You could always use microwaves. It would also eliminate the problem of birds hitting the cable. Any flying through the microwave stream would be cooked and ready to eat.
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The last copies are going to be a hot commodity next year. I definately plan to set a couple aside before then. Hello Ebay!
My exwife could do that with just a glance. It may not have been one degree over Absolute Zero but it sure felt that way.
Las Vegas couldn't get more annoying. Everywhere from sidewalks to bathrooms blaring logos at you. Even worse would be the saturation subliminal advetising. "No really honey, the floors and walls told me to gamble more".
I for one swat our new minute overlords with a flyswatter.
The Russian you met was lying to you. It's a good dodge to say americans are behind it but the simple fact is most DVDs, pirate and legit, are made in south east asia. It's cheaper to make there period. The music industry used to be big into pirating as a way to screw the artists out of their royalty but this may have bit them in the ass since piracy now dwarfs legit music and they aren't the ones pirating now. The real truth is profits are dropping and the quality and quantity of what's out there to pirate is going start dropping. The pirates may one day have to offer to pay something for the films and music simply because they won't have enough left to pirate to stay in business.
Apparently the ones that made the Myspace page cares. There is an assumption in most of the posts that the principal was the villian and the ones that made the post were justified. At the very least it has been a major distraction and caused problems with classes and affected computer access. In theory they are there to learn not to prank. The computer classes can potentially get them work but the won't. It may earn them some points with their friends but if they are expelled it could affect their future. I'm not taking either side it's just odd that the fact they used a computer seems to give them a pass. Say the Principal posted disparaging comments about the same students? Maybe they were constantly disrupting classes and he decided to take a little revenge. Would he be in the wrong?
Actually they have reduced the discharge time to milliseconds. That's the good news, the bad news instead of rating the discharge in volts they rate them in megatons.
the Russians are doing something Bush can get behind and support.
Where's the downside here?
You forgot one number. Odds of all iPods being filled with music purchased on-line, zero. If Apple iTunes actually sold that much music they wouldn't add one zero to the music sales numbers they'd add two. Obvious few iPods are filled with music but it does indicate the real size of the download community especially when a lot of people would like have a bigger iPod. If the average was just 10% full there's still a big download community. If the number is 50% then it's massive. The other issue is we're just talking iPods. There are other devices and some like me don't own any. On line purchases are dwarfed by over all music downloads.
That particular hack seems ironic. If you bought the music legally it would be worth $50,000 through iTunes. 50 grand in music on a $200 device. Also it'd take you 500 days of continous listening to play it all or two years of every waking hour. If you have to have that many illegal downloads crammed onto an iPod to prove your street creds you might want to actually check out some of those spam enlargement ads. The won't help but it'll be cheaper than the fine for all that music if you get busted.
Does this qualify as a marital aid?
Overflow from April 1st.
Don't worry I take there's an upcoming post on a research group's article that claims invisibility when the viewer closes their eyes. While also not true invisibility the technique does work with all light spectrums. The researchers aren't suggesting a method to get the enemy to close their eyes but they do point out that everything has a downside.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to buy 200 XP stickers?
It's bizzare because it really does fit a classic urban myth profile. It obviously happened and the owner was shook up but it shows why urban myths are often believeable. Gotta wonder why no one that stripped the house questioned it. At least the first few to show up it must have looked like a normal house. It got pretty trashed so the later ones at least had an excuse.
After the attempt at Bob and then Clippy I wonder if Douglas Adams predicted where Microsoft will be 200 years from now? Are they the real Sirius Cybernetics? If so how long do I have to wait for my very own Marvin? ...........Now that I think about it hopefully a very very long time.
The red headed Neaderthal theory has been around for a while but there's still no evidence genetic or physical. That said my exwife was a redhead so I personally am a true believer.
We finally have proof of time travel! If the world is 6,000 years old then some one from 36,000 years in the future dug up a modern body and transported it back to 4,000 BC inorder to try and cast doubt on the Bible. Thankful not all of us are so easily fooled by such an obvious hoax!
Sadly he wasn't the one hyping it the hype came from people seeing it. I think it was less well recieved than the inventor hoped but part of that was the well being poisoned from the hype. Cities were banning them before the first one rolled off the assembly line. Everyone says they'd sell better if they were radically cheaper but from what I've heard they barely make a profit as it is. It has potential for industrial use and for a toy for those that can aford one but they are simply to expensive to make it to wide use. Also they aren't idiot proof which our fearless leader proved. Apparently he hopped on one without turning it on and fell over. Scary to think it was the leader of the free world.
Nothing will ever be as big a flop as ME. I hear Bill Gates still wakes up in a cold sweat screaming "ME"! Remember the ads where Microsoft was actually boasting that XP didn't crash as much as ME? I doubt Microsoft would ever let another debacle like ME happen again. I think they learned their lesson there.
It's always for our own good, or so they say. In the US Bush had a lot of Americans convinced giving up civil rights was for their own good. Oddly enough it wasn't americans bombing the Trade Center. It was simply an excuse to take rights away. Britian is doing it for the people's own good but at what price? If the goal is to end all crime then I guess we lojack everyone and place cameras in every home and business. Good news/bad news, they'll catch a whole lot of "criminals" but the bad news is we'll all be guilty. They say ignorance of the law is no excuse but there are tens of thousands of laws on the books and even the police don't know them all. It's impossible to not break laws you aren't even aware exist. Some things are perfectly legal here in one state but are felonies in others. There are even laws in some states governing sexual behavior among consenting adults. There are obscure laws on the books no one is aware of. The point shouldn't be to prosecute every human possible but to maintain order and protect individuals. The government is supposed to protect individuals from each other but if Constitutional law is ignored who will protect the people from the government?
This had to be one of the biggest flops in history. Essentially a LP record that played movies they started to degrade after the first few playings and were never that good to begin with. RCA lost something like 60 million on that turkey and today it's all but forgotten.
You could always use microwaves. It would also eliminate the problem of birds hitting the cable. Any flying through the microwave stream would be cooked and ready to eat.
I keep getting this picture of Steve Jobs wringing his hands saying "Excellent".