We can only hope but they are doing more and more gimmicky things to sell stuff nowadays like selling laptops with no mouse buttons. Or curved tv's with no buttons so you can't change the channel when you loose the remote.
I'm sure its only a matter of time until I'll walk through the appliance aisle in Walmart and hear: Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
There are a few things that have no redeeming value that ought to be deleted such as GNAA and spam.. However whithout some sort of oversight it could easily turn into censorship.
Well If I happen to own a massive industry that sells batteries that go bad and have to be replaced every 5 years.....and someone comes up with a battery that doesn't need to be replaced it would most definitely make me a lot of money to buy the patent for a few million dollars and sit on it until it ran out and keep selling the batteries that have to be replaced.
This is just one of the reasons that patents really ought to be use it or lose it.
Hey now I only used 170GB last month. If I could get wired service for less than the $190/mo I'm paying verizon wireless now I'd have gotten it long ago.
But no one will bring wired out here and a t1 is both too slow and out of my budget.
A second wisp has started up in town this year I can only hope they bother to cover my house.
The vast majority make their money off of what people buy in the store not on the fuel itself.
If it's going to take a half hour to charge I bet a lot more people will be going inside and buying things.
Most of the gas stations here had their pumps made ridiculously slow after gas hit $4/gal and have since kept them that way. I can only assume so people will go inside because they don't want to stand around 20 minutes just to get 10 gallons of fuel.
I've been hearing about smog in tokyo in the news that's why I mentioned it. I had forgotten about them shuttering their nuke plants until you mentioned it.
Now that i've looked it appears delhi, india is the worst for air quality worldwide. That's probably one of the reasons they are wanting the cars to go all electric.
Until fukushima we were well on track to have a resurgence of nuclear power. We still seem to be but on a much smaller scale.
I often wonder If they were allowed to build new plants would they shut down the old ones or would they continue to run them until mechanical failures force them to shut down.
I Wish our US Gov't would go ahead and pick a place to store the nuclear waste they really seem to be dragging their feet on that.
Said someone who has never had two same model devices side by side with a full version number difference of 2 or greater.
Just try an ipad 2 on ios 6 then try it on ios 8 or 9.
That old unupdated ipad can run circles around the one that someone has been trying to keep up to date.
There is no question that the newer os's are slower on older hardware. Which makes it all the more of a pita they don't allow you to downgrade the os to versions that were actually designed to run on that hardware.
No I don't. I've seen how much they already text in non texting theaters. I don't feel giving them their own texting area would solve the problem. But like I said I'd be interested to see the results of a trial run. Hey make it biased make the texting theater tickets 1$ cheaper each I figure it would still have a lower turnout.
They are a social networking company it really shouldn't make them that much diffrence what people talk about. But I don't think they should continue on this path of mass manipulation regardless of whether its legal or not.
This was intend as a reply of the last line where it said "why not? It hurts nobody." Yes it would limit everyone else's selection.
I want to equate this to smoking or non smoking rooms and resturaunts but smoking areas seem to have been eliminated entirely and people texting in the theater poses no health concern. (except maybe to the texter)
I'm actually suprised that they didn't go ahead and do a trial run anyway. It might workout but I personally would be more interested in seeing the maximum number of texters that can be in the same room and still be able to watch a movie.
For one you can buy a 70" tv at walmart today. How big will they be in 10 years?
Netflix and redbox were able to kill blockbuster I think its only a matter of time until the on demand services are able to kill off the smaller theaters.
The theater here in town closed a few years back so its now 25 miles to the nearest theater.
But that's fine if the experience degrades to nothing I just won't go anymore.
I rarely go now but thats mainly due to the distance and cost.
Well when you are in a dark auditorium and someone goes to tapping away a text on their 8" display smartphone max brightness its rather noticeable even when your not looking that direction.
I can only imagine that they were receiving sarcastic suggestions on their comment cards from people who had their experiences ruined by texters and amc took them seriously.
Well for one it would replace at least one auditoriom that is not currently text friendly.
Also you just paid something like $11 for the ticket alone then however much extra for a snack and a drink. You would think that after all that investment they would actually want to watch the movie they paid for.
If you just want to hang out and text stay in the lobby its cheaper.
Well not every little change really needs to be about save the planet stop global wappa.
Just look at Tokyo I'm sure they wish they had started working on emissions controls years ago as its going to take something like 30 years to get everything switched out with things that pollute less.
But still yet its worth doing for the quality of life improvement alone.
Led bulbs are now well priced taking less than 2 years to break even.
In my living room I have 6 65w bulbs when I get them switched out with LEDs the total for all 6 LEDs will be 60w for all 6 so less than 1/6th the power usage for the same amount of light.
I'm not doing that to stop global warming I'm doing that because it makes very good economic sense to do so.
India is making plans to become the first 100% EV country. And from what I've read they want to do it because it will be cheaper not because of some concern for the environment.
Yet all of the above will likely still help anyway even if helping wasn't the reason it was done.
So next time you have to explain to someone why they should do x for the environment start out with explaining how much money it will save them.
With all the rights parents seem to have for corrections at that point they could probably decide you looked better with just one arm and have it lopped off and no one would care.
Well except the child who is going to wonder at some point why they only have one arm.
So I suppose what your trying to say is things that were done to them ( like above example ) without their consent are perfectly fine but if someone turns 18 (or whatever the age is in your location) and can actually consent to such an operation its wrong and they should just be happy with who they are and not change anything?
Who has to live in that body?
The parents probably did what they thought was best. So they pretty much always get a pass on that.
But everyone else?
For whatever reason this reminds me of the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" where the husband refuses to change the ugly wallpaper because she would just find something else to complain about. I thought it was horrific.
I would go as far to say that the DRM they have added to everything already costs more than piracy. Just in terms of time wasted things not working and general bull$hit.
Broadcast flag, HDCP, securom, oh and lets not forget the sony rootkits and so on.
I can certainly see multi-millionaires paying $50 so they can watch a newly released film in their private 40 seat theater in their beach house in hawaii.
I on the other hand balk at the fact that a 10 year old tv show is still $25/season (for SD).
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We can only hope but they are doing more and more gimmicky things to sell stuff nowadays like selling laptops with no mouse buttons. Or curved tv's with no buttons so you can't change the channel when you loose the remote.
I'm sure its only a matter of time until I'll walk through the appliance aisle in Walmart and hear:
Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
There are a few things that have no redeeming value that ought to be deleted such as GNAA and spam.. However whithout some sort of oversight it could easily turn into censorship.
Does anyone happen to know what used to be there?
Roof garden is OK by the new law.
Surprisingly they also let you keep water that falls from the sky.
As for thermal pollution how can solar panels create more heat than the black shingle roof that was there before?
Well If I happen to own a massive industry that sells batteries that go bad and have to be replaced every 5 years.....and someone comes up with a battery that doesn't need to be replaced it would most definitely make me a lot of money to buy the patent for a few million dollars and sit on it until it ran out and keep selling the batteries that have to be replaced.
This is just one of the reasons that patents really ought to be use it or lose it.
Why not? The choice is between a phone that's so secure its unusable or
one that is insecure but is still fast enough to use.
You really rather own a brick than a phone that might be insecure?
This reminds me of an old daily wtf.
http://thedailywtf.com/article...
Hey now I only used 170GB last month. If I could get wired service for less than the $190/mo I'm paying verizon wireless now I'd have gotten it long ago.
But no one will bring wired out here and a t1 is both too slow and out of my budget.
A second wisp has started up in town this year I can only hope they bother to cover my house.
This sounds like a great deal for gas stations.
The vast majority make their money off of what people buy in the store not on the fuel itself.
If it's going to take a half hour to charge I bet a lot more people will be going inside and buying things.
Most of the gas stations here had their pumps made ridiculously slow after gas hit $4/gal and have since kept them that way. I can only assume so people will go inside because they don't want to stand around 20 minutes just to get 10 gallons of fuel.
I've been hearing about smog in tokyo in the news that's why I mentioned it. I had forgotten about them shuttering their nuke plants until you mentioned it.
Now that i've looked it appears delhi, india is the worst for air quality worldwide. That's probably one of the reasons they are wanting the cars to go all electric.
Until fukushima we were well on track to have a resurgence of nuclear power. We still seem to be but on a much smaller scale.
I often wonder If they were allowed to build new plants would they shut down the old ones or would they continue to run them until mechanical failures force them to shut down.
I Wish our US Gov't would go ahead and pick a place to store the nuclear waste they really seem to be dragging their feet on that.
I think what your refering to is called rsvp there are several free apps for ios so you can probably get it on android too if you wanted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Said someone who has never had two same model devices side by side with a full version number difference of 2 or greater.
Just try an ipad 2 on ios 6 then try it on ios 8 or 9.
That old unupdated ipad can run circles around the one that someone has been trying to keep up to date.
There is no question that the newer os's are slower on older hardware. Which makes it all the more of a pita they don't allow you to downgrade the os to versions that were actually designed to run on that hardware.
I suppose I can understand that but many other places they could be.
There is also an arcade in the lobby.
No I don't. I've seen how much they already text in non texting theaters. I don't feel giving them their own texting area would solve the problem. But like I said I'd be interested to see the results of a trial run. Hey make it biased make the texting theater tickets 1$ cheaper each I figure it would still have a lower turnout.
Not sure what you mean there.
No, no, no and I don't understand the question.
They are a social networking company it really shouldn't make them that much diffrence what people talk about.
But I don't think they should continue on this path of mass manipulation regardless of whether its legal or not.
This was intend as a reply of the last line where it said "why not? It hurts nobody." Yes it would limit everyone else's selection.
I want to equate this to smoking or non smoking rooms and resturaunts but smoking areas seem to have been eliminated entirely and people texting in the theater poses no health concern. (except maybe to the texter)
I'm actually suprised that they didn't go ahead and do a trial run anyway. It might workout but I personally would be more interested in seeing the maximum number of texters that can be in the same room and still be able to watch a movie.
Ten years from now we may not even have theaters.
For one you can buy a 70" tv at walmart today. How big will they be in 10 years?
Netflix and redbox were able to kill blockbuster I think its only a matter of time until the on demand services are able to kill off the smaller theaters.
The theater here in town closed a few years back so its now 25 miles to the nearest theater.
But that's fine if the experience degrades to nothing I just won't go anymore.
I rarely go now but thats mainly due to the distance and cost.
Well when you are in a dark auditorium and someone goes to tapping away a text on their 8" display smartphone max brightness its rather noticeable even when your not looking that direction.
I can only imagine that they were receiving sarcastic suggestions on their comment cards from people who had their experiences ruined by texters and amc took them seriously.
Well for one it would replace at least one auditoriom that is not currently text friendly.
Also you just paid something like $11 for the ticket alone then however much extra for a snack and a drink. You would think that after all that investment they would actually want to watch the movie they paid for.
If you just want to hang out and text stay in the lobby its cheaper.
Well not every little change really needs to be about save the planet stop global wappa.
Just look at Tokyo I'm sure they wish they had started working on emissions controls years ago as its going to take something like 30 years to get everything switched out with things that pollute less.
But still yet its worth doing for the quality of life improvement alone.
Led bulbs are now well priced taking less than 2 years to break even.
In my living room I have 6 65w bulbs when I get them switched out with LEDs the total for all 6 LEDs will be 60w for all 6 so less than 1/6th the power usage for the same amount of light.
I'm not doing that to stop global warming I'm doing that because it makes very good economic sense to do so.
India is making plans to become the first 100% EV country.
And from what I've read they want to do it because it will be cheaper not because of some concern for the environment.
Yet all of the above will likely still help anyway even if helping wasn't the reason it was done.
So next time you have to explain to someone why they should do x for the environment start out with explaining how much money it will save them.
With all the rights parents seem to have for corrections at that point they could probably decide you looked better with just one arm and have it lopped off and no one would care.
Well except the child who is going to wonder at some point why they only have one arm.
So I suppose what your trying to say is things that were done to them ( like above example ) without their consent are perfectly fine but if someone turns 18 (or whatever the age is in your location) and can actually consent to such an operation its wrong and they should just be happy with who they are and not change anything?
Who has to live in that body?
The parents probably did what they thought was best.
So they pretty much always get a pass on that.
But everyone else?
For whatever reason this reminds me of the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" where the husband refuses to change the ugly wallpaper because she would just find something else to complain about. I thought it was horrific.
I would go as far to say that the DRM they have added to everything already costs more than piracy.
Just in terms of time wasted things not working and general bull$hit.
Broadcast flag, HDCP, securom, oh and lets not forget the sony rootkits and so on.
I can certainly see multi-millionaires paying $50 so they can watch a newly released film in their private 40 seat theater in their beach house in hawaii.
I on the other hand balk at the fact that a 10 year old tv show is still $25/season (for SD).
My assumption would be they would still have full access since the owner of the account was deceased.
That being said I would not wan't someone running through my mail even though I would no longer be able to contest it.
Whatever happened to the big five?
You know att, verizon, alltel, sprint, tmobile.
I know verizon ate alltel but that was years ago what ever happend to this won't harm competition?
Wasn't some other company supposed to step up and be the new number five?