Conquer Club

Haggis_McMutton wrote:What's Walter White doing in space?

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:

Haggis_McMutton wrote:What's Walter White doing in space?

It's a bigger desert. They'll never find his RV out there.

-TG

Lootifer wrote:My brother recently met a woman who had lived the first 22 years of her life unable to speak, eat, move, or got to the bathroom by herself because, in laymans terms, the two hemispheres of her brain were electrically disconnected.

She had brain surgery where they essentially put in an artificial link between the two hemispheres which is powered by a battery pack implanted in her chest.

She can now function as a normal human being (eat/talk/etc).

The real kicker? She is getting a battery pack upgrade soon; it comes with a USB port in which to charge the pack O.O

Lootifer wrote:My brother recently met a woman who had lived the first 22 years of her life unable to speak, eat, move, or got to the bathroom by herself because, in laymans terms, the two hemispheres of her brain were electrically disconnected.

She had brain surgery where they essentially put in an artificial link between the two hemispheres which is powered by a battery pack implanted in her chest.

She can now function as a normal human being (eat/talk/etc).

The real kicker? She is getting a battery pack upgrade soon; it comes with a USB port in which to charge the pack O.O

Lootifer wrote:That raises a good question. What happens when you connect two parasitic devices via a USB cable?

This week YouTube, the world’s largest video Web site, will announce a plan to let some video makers charge a monthly subscription to their channels. There will be paid channels for children’s programming, entertainment, music and many other topic areas, according to people with knowledge of the plan, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they had been asked by YouTube not to comment publicly yet. Some of the channels — there will be several dozen at the outset — will cost as little as $1.99 a month.

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For now, though, it is just a test, intended in part to mollify some of the most popular contributors to the sprawling Web site. The overwhelming majority of videos on YouTube, a unit of Google, will remain free to all. But some homegrown YouTube stars, start-ups and major media companies have been frustrated by what they see as relatively low amounts of revenue coming from the ads that YouTube attaches to their videos. By enabling the subscription option, YouTube is giving them another way to profit from their work — if their fans are willing to pay to watch, that is.

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YouTube pitched two options to potential partners: one version of paid channels with ads (allowing for two sources of revenue, like cable television channels have) and one version without ads. The ad-free option was appealing to programmers of children’s channels, several of which will be available soon, according to some people briefed on the plan.

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Another appealing aspect of the pitch was this: some of the paid channels will be available internationally, in 10 countries to start, allowing for a vast potential audience overseas.

The subscriptions will not be for channels in the television sense of the term; rather, they will consist of libraries of videos on demand, much like the thousands of free channels already on YouTube. Some of the video makers who have worked with YouTube on the subscription option want to convert fans to paying customers; others hope to distinguish themselves by selling archives of old television episodes.

AndyDufresne wrote:Are there any channels, or content providers, you'd pay for?