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What makes you think that moving a multi-ton vehicle and actually going to pick up an object that itself was created hundreds or even thousands of miles away will ever be easier or more efficient than a download? How many people have magazine subscriptions compared to fifteen years ago?
Even if I built a new PC now the only reason it would have an optical drive at all is because I have so many lying around. The fact that you can boot Windows from a thumb drive without issues now makes them pretty much obsolete. Most people already have the ability to download a movie in less time than it would take to go to the store and buy a DVD, and all that remains to change is the availability of broadband and the culture shift from "(format) Player" to "Media PC".
Specifically the turn-one-side for hot, the other for cold, fiddle until comfortable.
The last time I was in Japan, I stayed in a cheap (Y6000/night) hotel in frickin' Kochi, which is about as boonies as you get. The shower had a dial labelled in degrees centigrade and a "make water come out now" button.
To heck with bullet trains, flexible OLED screens, and cell phones that can crack DES while giving you a massage. I want a faucet I can tell "give me some 50 degree water, do it now."
oh, on the whole imperial vs metric thing: my 3rd grade class in panhandle Nebraska - in 1982? - learned the metric system, and I can only assume that kids living in actual civilization got the same lessons. It's been 27 years, we should be in line with the rest of the world by now.
The customer doesn't, they're annoying. The store doesn't, there are far easier ways to steal things. It does catch honest mistakes, but for every honest mistake in my favor, it catches 2 mistakes in the store's favor and 100 false alarms of the jesus-christ-it's-a-bag-of-potatoes-just-let-me-go-home variety.
I agree that fiddling with water mixture is a bit archaic but I wouldn't want 50 degree shower water in either Fahrenheit or Celsius.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Most people are still on fucking dial-up. Most people just finally made the switch over to DVD. Most people don't even have the hard drive space to fit more than a dozen movies, even if they knew how to download them in the first place.
We are not the mainstream people. We are not representative of the rest of the population.
My... brain? I never said shit about efficient, but I know what's quicker and easier for me.
And no, most people don't have the broadband to download a 25 gig movie in less time than it takes to get to the store and back. Most don't have the speed to download a 1 gig compressed movie that quickly. Maybe in ultra-saturated parts of the silicon valley, but that doesn't constitute most people, now does it?
Listen, I understand that you hate optical media. I get it. Most people don't, and are content with their perfectly fine technology.
I think you may be exagerating a little here, (the last major hollywood movie release on VHS was back in 2006)I guess it's possible that most people haven't rented or bought a movie since 2006 but I doubt it.
BUT I do agree with what you are saying about that we are not the mainstream. I think it will be a long time before the average household sees downloading movies or renting them for streaming as a viable option much less sees a need for blu-ray.
Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
Buying physical stuff online is fine, but that requires way more planning ahead.
So maybe I'm not mainstream, but my demographic does exist.
Measuring someone's height in centimeters? Are you nuts? That's like saying ye person is X inches high instead of a simple 5 or 6 feet plus however many inches.
With that said... Tube displays need to go. Flat panels are getting cheaper by the day and for the most part, are generally superior and don't emit as much radiation as tubes do. Nor as much heat.
They sent me a book a few years ago. I was gonna do it, but then all they gave me for my time was five measly fucking dollars.
Fuck that.
Well you're really only dividing a metre into 3 pieces. Feet are good for measuring people's height and... not much else.
It's not that big of a deal. If someone asks how tall you are instead of saying "five foot ten" you'd say "one eighty two" or something.
Well gee if we were going to be scientific we would prefer to use either metres or millimetres (that is 1.8m == 1800 mm) I suppose you could use decametres if you really wanted to, but jesus christ, give people some credit. They can count over 12.
That's silly, measuring people in meters and centimeters works perfectly fine, and you can actually differentiate between close heights, like 1.79m and 1.81m
Metric not only works perfectly fine for any given measure (from the insides of a microchip to the circumference of earth), but it also scales easily. and the relations between different measures (volume, length, temperature, whatever) also happens to make sense. I.E. 100ºc is how much heat you need to boil one liter of water, which happens to be 1 cubic decimetre...
Seriously, we all use nothing but the metric system here in Brazil, it's 100% practical and easy to use, and it actually MAKES SOME SENSE.
I have a bunch of C64 5.25" floppies, ranging from the early eighties to the mid nineties. All of them work.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
You are correct about everything but the DVD thing. Something like 90% of households have a DVD player, and penetration passed 50% 5 years ago.
But yeah, the internet technology is not quite there yet to enable downloading of movies and all that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znAamKnJagI
I lived just 6 miles out from my town in southern Indiana and they didn't have any broadband internet out there for a long time. They just got a DSL line out there a few years back. Before that we had to deal with satellite internet, which isn't much better than dial-up. Trust me, there are still a lot of people out there without broadband, or even without internet.
I know you guys like to think that "oh man the world is so accepting of us right now" but really, we are not the mainstream here. There are still some people getting their first DVD players.
That doesn't mean those people are important in the grand scheme of things, though.
I don't know who makes the ones at ACME or the ones at the Giant I will be working at when it opens, but I know who made the ones at SuperFresh. They were highly advanced Fujitsu registers with a belt and everything. You scan an item, place it on the belt and it moves to a containment area until you are ready to bag, or you have someone bagging for you. They were much nicer and easier than the ones where you have to bag them right away and if you run out of space you have to take the time to put the bags somewhere else to make room for more.
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95% of the country has access to broadband of some sort. If people either cant afford or chose not to make use of it, that is their choice. To the 5% living in bumfuck egypt, tough shit. You want to enjoy the secluded life, it comes with consequences, that being none, limited, or expensive broadband.
And there are still people getting their first car. Who the fuck cares about them? DVD penetration is at/near 90%, anyone who wants a DVD player can very easily get one, and there are a shitload of dirt cheap DVDs out there.
These people are in the extreme minority. It is one thing when the minority is 30-45%, it is entirely another when they comprise less than 10%. Anyone still using 1980's technology is doing so by choice, more power to them, but don't try and stand up and tell us that we aren't in the mainstream. The mainstream has a computer, broadband internet, and a cell phone.
[citation needed]
and don't say satalite internet. Might as well try to communicate with two cans tied to a string.
Kind of a dick, aren't you?
Visual voicemail is decidedly less shitty than the stupid call in systems most everybody uses.
Want me to "let me google that for you"?
Nope, just tired of people in the extreme minority crying foul. Get in line or stfu.
...extreme minority?
What the hell are you talking about?
In my area, (southern Western New York), if you don't live by a major town, or near a street with fiber optics running along it, the only way to get broadband is through satellite internet, which has terrible lag, and is easily brought down.
So yeah, seconding that [citation needed]
I guess I didn't pay enough attention during the "choose where you're going to be born" bit of childbirth.
Edit: Or, you know, you're a farmer, fisherman, logger, etc. Clearly they don't deserve internet.
It still sucks for people leaving you voicemail, though.
Ever.
Edit: 2007 FCC report says 79% of the US population with landline telephone service have DSL access, and I'd guess that's mostly the aforementioned "broadband". Where's 95% come from, anyway?
AKA: I pulled that number out of my ass and can't be bothered to use google myself.
The highest number I can find is around 60% [http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/10-Home-Broadband-Adoption-2009.aspx] and the lowest is around 27% [http://www.oecd.org/document/54/0,3343,en_2649_34225_38690102_1_1_1_1,00.html].
Those numbers are for the US.
That's including dsl (according to the OECD dsl connections make up the majority of broadband connections) and satellite connections.
Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Having access to and making use of are entirely different. 60% of people use broadband, 95% of people have access to it. If you had bothered to read the report they mention the various reasons why people who have access to it don't use it, including price, lack of a computer, and lack of interest in the internet, etc. For the 5% who don't have access, um, sorry, move?
You're not serious, surely? Surely?
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
This is from a few pages back, but I just had to drop in to voice my dissent.
Liquid soap is worse for the environment in that it uses up more packaging. It's not quite as bad if you buy gigantic containers of it to refill your little dispensers, but it's still not as eco-friendly as bar soap. You're also more likely to waste liquid soap than bar.
I personally use not only bar soap but also bar shampoo and conditioner.
That's... weird. Personally, I don't think I've ever seen bar shampoo and conditioner.
Is the tech better than the motion activated bathroom stuff that public restrooms have? That stuff is terrible, and normal faucets are so much better and easier to use
It's pretty common if you buy hippie all-natural shampoos, but fairly hard to come by otherwise.