When Adele comes on I open the driver door and bail.
The car with no driver speeding through the intersection is mine but it's your problem.
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The deaf can already benefit from Cochlear implants whereby the signal from a microphone is amplified and sent to an electrode by a nerve in the Cochlear. It works.
Trouble is, microphones work very differently to the human ear, which is really quite an intricate organ. And so what you hear is recognisable but very different, music sounds crappier, but you can hear and understand speech, which is the point of these devices.
Sound engineers put a lot of effort into choosing and setting up microphones to record different material, with this hearing aid system, you are essentially condemned to compromise with a single small microphone. Maybe a direct injection of source material could work better, but then quality is all about inexact things like where you place the electrode, maybe more than one would be better? Or worse? Maybe you could do everything with one by modulating the signal somehow? Someone might be researching this, hopefully they are but it will take decades.
Seems to have tens of thousands of features I'm sure no one ever uses. Why do I need all that animation crap in there if I only care about video? And all the other weird shit it can do, but if it ever did, I would close the browser faster than you would drop a ball of molten lead.
step 1. geeks use their esoteric knowledge and love of technology to set up an ISP and run it reasonably well.
2. well run ISP gets subscribers.
3. more subscribers join until the ISP reaches critical mass.
4. ISP is bought by "media company" and all geeks are fired and replaced with more important salesmen.
5. without routine maintenance or network upgrades going on anymore, prices can be dropped and media company can boast the price drop as evidence they're "running things right dammit".
6. soon the network stops working.
7. media company can't understand why that would happen if you fired all the people that stop it happening. Obvious solution: blame customers for using the internet too much.
8. customers start leaving.
9. media company most now buy another good ISP to get their customer base back to where it was.
10. I hate media companies.
that is a really poor machine for £900, and I am an iMac user. I got the 2011 model which is at least slightly upgradeable (before they decided to remove the ROM drive, so I could remove it and add an SSD instead, for example - at the moment its broken cos I have an SD card stuck in there, bloody slot loader next to the SD card slot, Apple are a cruel evil company).
Banks do not lend out deposits, that is a common misconception.
Private banks control the money supply and the issuance of new currency.
When you take out a £1,000 loan, the bank creates a corresponding £1,000 credit in your account, out of thin air, using a computer.
Therefore, private banks control the issuance of currency.
oh and Sky cold called me relentlessly, not even sure where they got my mobile number from but I never answered. This was in addition to calling me on the land-line and I did speak to them, but its always a different guy who knows nothing about the last call. I see it as a form of harassment.
My friend and I were both Be subscribers, he went with Sky, I went with Zen.
We're both equally happy with the respective services, it is just the same BT service basically.
But I'm not supporting an openly amoral organisation so I get to be happy and smug. And I am within my rights to use my own decent networking equipment instead of junk.
The neighbours will see men installing network cable and racks of equipment for about 3 days before I move in. Then I'll move in as a single guy my belongings are mostly computers and servers. When I'm done moving in, if any neighbours knock on the door asking for computer help I just say I don't know what a computer is and have never used one then close the door.
And Alan Sugar would want to cut down on the cost of wood in the Grado headphones by replacing it with chipboard and no doubt replace the ear cup with some kind of HIV-based material. Then Ratner would put out a press release announcing his intention to sell crap headphones. But only Apple and Dr Dre would actually rip you off on the price.
I bet they bought Beats so they can stick a 40 pin proprietary connector on the headphones and change it slightly every year, then people will have to buy the same headphones again and again if they want to stay cool!
It also means Apple can charge the same price and reduce the quality as they know they're going to discontinue the connector in 12 months, they can use plastic that will crack after 11 months of use. And the prices will never ever go down, only up.
the mac pro looks like a decent computer if only it wasnt priced double compared to the same parts in an ATX case. But you're paying to get rid of that big noisy case I suppose. Paying far too much. But it is at least a product that they made. If it didnt cost 5x the cost of a regular computer people might even buy it.
This is a slap in the face to the companies worth less than $3 billion who are doing more for society than Dr Dre.
Everyone from Cancer Research to Pepper Pig is losing out to a man whose 'job' involves making songs about a 'tough but colorful ghetto lifestyle' that seems to exist solely in his imagination. And he'll even sell you some plastic headphones so you can listen to him fuck up a perfectly good song by taking out the chorus, looping it for 5 minutes, and chatting shit over the top.
I passed my test when I was 19... never could afford to insure a car in London though, I've probably used my licence to buy alcohol more times than I'll ever need to use it in relation to driving, and now they want to take the driver away? By the time I can actually afford to own a car, I won't be allowed to drive it anyway. What was the point in those lessons, can I get a rebate?
And if Google drives my car, can they pay the insurance too?
No, I bet the insurance will go UP. You watch.