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//now
how's that? Using FinalCutPro4 at university in Stuttgart from a PC in New York to finish your stuff out?
Welcome, again, to the 21st century...
VNC and Remote Desktop made this possible. So what to expect in the near future? Work from home? Control EVERYTHING, at least every computer from one place?
Oh and get a look on this.
Why are artificial lifeforms represented in media so damn human-like? Wouldn't they be, at least, some sort of collective? I cannot imagine that AI will consist of any singular processing unit and so its mind would definetly be a pluralistic sort of existence.
Weird. But interesting.
How come i think about stuff like that? neuromancer by wiliam gibson...
Anyone of you wanna know a little more about my camera? Well, you guess i went there again? Don't you?
And RIGHT you are...
This time, it was later, COLDER, EMPTIER on the streets.
And this time again, i shall not return with a camera.
Guess why? The subway worked, and i did manage to get to the adress even though it was cold.
And cold it was.
And it was still cold when they eventually told me...
Well, after i was asking three times where it was...
Someone told me they moved.
THEY MOVED.
So, no camera.
But hey, this was not the only store to have this camera, right?
So i went to this tourist store, with loads of neon-sogns and all-too-friendly salesmen.
And guess what, "good price" for the camera, the same as broadwayphoto would have had. But they tried to trick me with an additional battery. They gave me a standard battery in the packaging of a high capacity battery.
And after being there again and complaining, they told me they ordered the higher capacity battery and wanted to tell me but i left so fast, that they couldn't.
Yeah, sure.
Then, i was returning today to get my "high capacity battery" worth 199$ and guess what? It was there. The funny thing was now, that they told me this battery would be worth 249,90$ and i should pay 25 $ more!!
Alright. The thing is, i knew the battery and it was not the biggest capacity battery. And it was 99$ at Sony direct.
So?
I said i wouldn't pay anything more. And he said "alright, then take it" and i took it and went.
So why? You might think. Since i paid 199$ for a battery only worth 99$?
Well, the camera was cheap enough, so the deal wasn't that bad. And i had more than enough of that hassle.
So, what do we learn from this?
Never give your credit card to anyone unless you ABSOLUTELY know what they'll do with it...
It won't happen again. And we are thankful that nothing worse happened...
Friday, March 12, 2004
//now
how's that? Using FinalCutPro4 at university in Stuttgart from a PC in New York to finish your stuff out?
Welcome, again, to the 21st century...
VNC and Remote Desktop made this possible. So what to expect in the near future? Work from home? Control EVERYTHING, at least every computer from one place?
Oh and get a look on this.
Why are artificial lifeforms represented in media so damn human-like? Wouldn't they be, at least, some sort of collective? I cannot imagine that AI will consist of any singular processing unit and so its mind would definetly be a pluralistic sort of existence.
Weird. But interesting.
How come i think about stuff like that? neuromancer by wiliam gibson...
Anyone of you wanna know a little more about my camera? Well, you guess i went there again? Don't you?
And RIGHT you are...
This time, it was later, COLDER, EMPTIER on the streets.
And this time again, i shall not return with a camera.
Guess why? The subway worked, and i did manage to get to the adress even though it was cold.
And cold it was.
And it was still cold when they eventually told me...
Well, after i was asking three times where it was...
Someone told me they moved.
THEY MOVED.
So, no camera.
But hey, this was not the only store to have this camera, right?
So i went to this tourist store, with loads of neon-sogns and all-too-friendly salesmen.
And guess what, "good price" for the camera, the same as broadwayphoto would have had. But they tried to trick me with an additional battery. They gave me a standard battery in the packaging of a high capacity battery.
And after being there again and complaining, they told me they ordered the higher capacity battery and wanted to tell me but i left so fast, that they couldn't.
Yeah, sure.
Then, i was returning today to get my "high capacity battery" worth 199$ and guess what? It was there. The funny thing was now, that they told me this battery would be worth 249,90$ and i should pay 25 $ more!!
Alright. The thing is, i knew the battery and it was not the biggest capacity battery. And it was 99$ at Sony direct.
So?
I said i wouldn't pay anything more. And he said "alright, then take it" and i took it and went.
So why? You might think. Since i paid 199$ for a battery only worth 99$?
Well, the camera was cheap enough, so the deal wasn't that bad. And i had more than enough of that hassle.
So, what do we learn from this?
Never give your credit card to anyone unless you ABSOLUTELY know what they'll do with it...
It won't happen again. And we are thankful that nothing worse happened...
Friday, March 12, 2004
