do you have a genius bar near you?
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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le nubian - Dec 22, 2008 6:48:11 am PST #8450 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2008 7:47:16 am PST #8451 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From National Geographic: Behold the Computer Revolution (Nov, 1970)
I haven't read the article yet, but the pictures are awesome.
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2008 8:43:28 am PST #8452 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean K - Dec 22, 2008 8:50:12 am PST #8453 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Goodbye VHS.
As a consumer product. It's still in wide enough use in film and television that it will see some use there for a few more years.
beekaytee - Dec 22, 2008 9:01:21 am PST #8454 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
There are two bars within 15 miles of me but this week is a wash. I can't even get the Apple stores to answer the phone.
Whimperwhinewail.
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2008 9:11:10 am PST #8455 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Not related to anything, but on Saturday I went to the Apple store on Michigan Ave. to buy a USB sound thingie. But the one in the store seemed different than the one I saw on the Apple Store website, so I got out my Aspire One to go online and check. After a minute there were three Apple store employees checking out my Aspire One and asking questions about it. They were amazed at how light it was. One employee commented on how odd it was that I had a bunch of Apple employees all impressed at a non-Apple computer.
NoiseDesign - Dec 22, 2008 9:18:06 am PST #8456 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
It's still in wide enough use in film and television that it will see some use there for a few more years.
Actually it's amazing how much it has vanished there as well. I don't see 3/4" tape or 1/2" tape very much. If it is tape based it's typically DVC and most places are going all digital so they are just moving files and working tapeless.
Sean K - Dec 22, 2008 10:14:29 am PST #8457 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Yeah, I figure VHS is dying in the industry as well. I guess that's coming sooner than I expected. Last time I was in a post house, I saw plenty of 3/4" and 1/2" tapes around, but that was a couple of years ago.
Connie Neil - Dec 22, 2008 10:32:37 am PST #8458 of 25501
brillig
So what is going to be the option for us non-Tivo people who see something cool on TV and want to grab it off the air? Those Russian musicals on the international channel aren't easy to find.
Tom Scola - Dec 22, 2008 10:34:55 am PST #8459 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They sell DVD recorders, some of which come with hard drives to make them more TiVo-like.