"I don't think this plays well with our 13-year-old boy demographic"
I can't believe nobody made a Michael Jackson joke.
Anyway, if that's where the money really is, and you want to make a living (not just a hobby), then it wouldn't hurt to find out what that demographic wants. Shouldn't be hard to find some 13-year-old boys who want to try new games.
Although Americans may be unfamiliar with the entanglements of government and business, many of us are accustomed to being "at-will" employees, which means we can be terminated for any reason or no reason at all, as long as it isn't discriminatory.
The bigger story here would be that the elected official passed the message along. Hopefully the incident would be fresh enough in memory to oust them at the next election.
There is more information and meaning in a 15 second voice mail than in any text. Is the caller angry? Sad? Frustrated? What did the environment he was calling from sound like?
Also, the simple fact that they chose to contact you by phone rather than sending an email conveys something: If they called when you were likely to be available, then they would have preferred a real-time interactive conversation. If they called when you were likely to be away, they probably wanted to go on record as attempting to contact without the real risk of direct contact.
Outdoor lighting with good optical efficiency is and has been available, but it can be costly and when public funds are used, the lowest dollar is usually the determiner.
Right now high-intensity discharge— high pressure sodium and metal-halide (not halogen)— have a higher efficacy (lumen/watt) than the best LEDs, though LEDs render colors better. Color rendering may seem unimportant, but if the lights are there for security and you can't tell the color of a vehicle or garment, you might not be able to identify an offender.
Can't we have bridges and routers?
We need both physical infrastructure and digital infrastructure, as well as ethical, spiritual, psychological, cultural, etc., etc., etc. We've been blowing our money on all the wrong things for too long.
...and that enemy is small independent content creators who are gradually making RIAA artists irrelevant, but who rely on consumer-grade internet connections to get their product out.
It's probably too much for ISPs to actually watch what their customers are pushing through their pipes, and an independent musician legally uploading files to a sharing site (or recording engineer/CD plant, etc.) looks an awful lot like an evildoer. Easier to just stop all of the traffic.
I think TFA suffers from the author not knowing an awful lot about the different religions.
+1 on that: Several varieties of Christianity mentioned, but not the biggest one, Roman Catholicism (:= Pascal ). All of Islam is lumped into one, and only one sect of Buddhism mentioned. (It's Zen, which is considered non-Buddhist by many other sects.)
Seems to me that although the technical details got them started, Apple's continued dominance has more to do with sexy industrial design and slick marketing aimed at nontechnical consumers.
One thing that can be killed is the iPod trademark. Every time you use the word "iPod" as a common noun, you dilute the trademark a little more: I don't own an iPod.
Yeah... I tried it for a few hours yesterday, just long enough to be truly irritated by the way you access multiple search engines. You actually have to type the name of the engine, then select (with the mouse-- no keyboard shortcut) the "Search *** for" item, then type your search query. Everything else was cool except for that, but it was a dealbreaker for me, so I won't be in the stats today or tomorrow.
All kinds of improprieties happen. A family member who worked as an election judge in Kane County, IL in 2004 told me how a box of paper ballots went home with a worker. Consider that most of the judges are underpaid, undertrained retirees who work a very long shift on election day. You need neither screwed up technology nor malice to have problems.
*looks into crystal ball*..... I envision millions of dollars in legal fees for the lawyers representing the class and free iTunes download credits for the class members
Sounds about right, and how many of those free download credits will be expended on music by independent artists who aren't even affiliated with RIAA?
If you're in the US and you have small electronics (like obsolete video cards), you can get prepaid recycling envelopes at the post office.
See here: http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/pr08_028.htm
Computer cables are a big question mark for me. Unlike building wire, they don't have enough copper to be particularly valuable. Every new LCD monitor seems to come with a VGA and a DVI cable, only one of which is typically used. That's a lot of cable to be instantly obsolete. Maybe I'll put all the VGA cables in a box and ship them back to Dell.
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For the real fun, you need something to blow up.
Like this?
"District lieutenant said the explosion ... appeared to have been a prank."
Ya think?
"I don't think this plays well with our 13-year-old boy demographic"
I can't believe nobody made a Michael Jackson joke. Anyway, if that's where the money really is, and you want to make a living (not just a hobby), then it wouldn't hurt to find out what that demographic wants. Shouldn't be hard to find some 13-year-old boys who want to try new games.
Anonymous because I don't want to end up on the TSA's no-fly list for criticizing the TSA.
I feel sorry for the guy whose name really is Anonymous Coward.
Does that include costs to motorists who have to endure the five-times-as-frequent reconstruction with bituminous surfaces?
Although Americans may be unfamiliar with the entanglements of government and business, many of us are accustomed to being "at-will" employees, which means we can be terminated for any reason or no reason at all, as long as it isn't discriminatory. The bigger story here would be that the elected official passed the message along. Hopefully the incident would be fresh enough in memory to oust them at the next election.
There is more information and meaning in a 15 second voice mail than in any text. Is the caller angry? Sad? Frustrated? What did the environment he was calling from sound like?
Also, the simple fact that they chose to contact you by phone rather than sending an email conveys something: If they called when you were likely to be available, then they would have preferred a real-time interactive conversation. If they called when you were likely to be away, they probably wanted to go on record as attempting to contact without the real risk of direct contact.
Payphone?
Oh yeah, I remember those. I think I saw one in about 1998.
My PC already has this... Only problem is the battery is only big enough to run the clock.
If you have any left over, just convert it to biodiesel!
...I was thinking about how swell it would be if street lamps were restricted to specific frequencies of output
See my note above about color rendering.
Outdoor lighting with good optical efficiency is and has been available, but it can be costly and when public funds are used, the lowest dollar is usually the determiner. Right now high-intensity discharge— high pressure sodium and metal-halide (not halogen)— have a higher efficacy (lumen/watt) than the best LEDs, though LEDs render colors better. Color rendering may seem unimportant, but if the lights are there for security and you can't tell the color of a vehicle or garment, you might not be able to identify an offender.
Can't we have bridges and routers? We need both physical infrastructure and digital infrastructure, as well as ethical, spiritual, psychological, cultural, etc., etc., etc. We've been blowing our money on all the wrong things for too long.
...and that enemy is small independent content creators who are gradually making RIAA artists irrelevant, but who rely on consumer-grade internet connections to get their product out. It's probably too much for ISPs to actually watch what their customers are pushing through their pipes, and an independent musician legally uploading files to a sharing site (or recording engineer/CD plant, etc.) looks an awful lot like an evildoer. Easier to just stop all of the traffic.
A TinEye image search suggests the summary picture came from the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog.
Yes. PHP is definitely some kind of syncretism.
I think TFA suffers from the author not knowing an awful lot about the different religions.
+1 on that: Several varieties of Christianity mentioned, but not the biggest one, Roman Catholicism ( := Pascal ). All of Islam is lumped into one, and only one sect of Buddhism mentioned. (It's Zen, which is considered non-Buddhist by many other sects.)
...just sit down and devise... an apple killer.
Seems to me that although the technical details got them started, Apple's continued dominance has more to do with sexy industrial design and slick marketing aimed at nontechnical consumers. One thing that can be killed is the iPod trademark. Every time you use the word "iPod" as a common noun, you dilute the trademark a little more: I don't own an iPod.
...all stories of illicit behavior include accusations of trafficking in child porn.
Is this a new corollary to Godwin's Law?
Such systems of poison storage causes collapses of the predators first
That's it, then... Time to go vegetarian.
Yeah... I tried it for a few hours yesterday, just long enough to be truly irritated by the way you access multiple search engines. You actually have to type the name of the engine, then select (with the mouse-- no keyboard shortcut) the "Search *** for" item, then type your search query. Everything else was cool except for that, but it was a dealbreaker for me, so I won't be in the stats today or tomorrow.
Well, none of his female descendents have his Y-chromosome to prove it.
All kinds of improprieties happen. A family member who worked as an election judge in Kane County, IL in 2004 told me how a box of paper ballots went home with a worker. Consider that most of the judges are underpaid, undertrained retirees who work a very long shift on election day. You need neither screwed up technology nor malice to have problems.
*looks into crystal ball*..... I envision millions of dollars in legal fees for the lawyers representing the class and free iTunes download credits for the class members
Sounds about right, and how many of those free download credits will be expended on music by independent artists who aren't even affiliated with RIAA?
...a BASIC understanding of economics
What do they have, a COBOL understanding?
If you're in the US and you have small electronics (like obsolete video cards), you can get prepaid recycling envelopes at the post office. See here: http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/pr08_028.htm Computer cables are a big question mark for me. Unlike building wire, they don't have enough copper to be particularly valuable. Every new LCD monitor seems to come with a VGA and a DVI cable, only one of which is typically used. That's a lot of cable to be instantly obsolete. Maybe I'll put all the VGA cables in a box and ship them back to Dell.