Most boomboxes are produced with four (4) "feet" that allow the boombox to stand unattended for prolonged periods of time. Don't be fooled, the boombox is NOT actually alive.
It makes it too easy. Let's say that your neighbor likes to smoke pot from time to time, and that bothers you. Normally you would have to call the police and file and official complaint. Not anymore. Just get your crappy cell phone out and submit the video and wait for the police come to take them away.
To me, it is one of those "whatwouldpossiblygowrong" type things. I feel that it should be at least a "little bit of a pain in the ass" to file a complaint with the police. Making small amounts of red tape (i.e. you actually have to call a phone number and talk to somone) limits the number of frivilous complaints.
The controller was similar to the SNES controller, but crappier. If I recall correctly, there were no shoulder buttons (not a big deal) and the controller didn't have the 'feel' of the snes controller. The buttons felt softer, and the d-pad felt sloppy.
Storage capacity is relevant here. You are correct in that you can put WAY more on a CD than a SNES cart, but you have to concider what the device was intended to be. It was supposed to be an interactive, full video player. The capacity was not enough to be used for decent quality video, at a reasonable length. Remember, this was before mpeg-4 encoding. I guess the problem was that this device tried to be a movie player and a game console, but was really ill equipped for either job.
As for my 'snide remark', sure, that could have been left out. My, personal, experiances with phillips productts was that while they generally work okay, they have a fisher-price feel to them.
Did you ever have a chance to actually use a CD-i? It sunk because it was a piece of shit. It was basically a crappy DVD player. The games were primitive at the time; the Super Nintendo had more balls. It really wasn't good at anything. It was too weak for games (and laked proper input) Didn't have the storage capacity for movies, and was too expensive to be used as a CD player.
I really doubt that it failed bacause of the porn. I think it failed because a) it sucked, b) it was too expensive c)it had almost no content d) Phillips, cm'on.
Last time that happened, they pissed the money away. The REAL solution is to have municipal owned fibre networks, that all connect to a community hub. ISPs would then run fibre to the hub. Home owners (or the gov't) would be responsible for the cost of the fibre installation, but would also reap the benifets of real competition.
1 month key money (money given to the owner, lost)
1 month for real state agency fees (lost)
What is that garbage? I would have told the rentmaster to go f*ck themselves. Key Money? What is that for? A key costs like $5. Real Estate agency fees? Why would you pay that? It's not your house.
Every work night, burn the latest snapshot to a DVD and give it to the boss to take home and put in his safe.
HAHAHA hahahahahahahahahaha ha ha, whew. That's funny. Who is loading the dvd drive?
Gather 'round boys and girls, it's story time. My dad was a lawyer for somewhere around 30 years. At the time, he and 4 other partners togeather made up their law firm. Because each of them were essentially seperate from each other, they tended to have their files stored either on their own comptuer, or on their secretary's computer.
My dad was smart enough to know that this probably wasn't the best setup, so he hired an "IT Professional" to fix this problem. The computer guy came in and set them up with a small server which would be a centeral repository for digital files. This server would then do daily (possibly weekly, can't recall) backups. The secretarys would then take the tape home with them over night.
Not a bad setup. This system was in place for several years. One day, one of the secretaries computer's HDD died. The office called the guy that had setup this system for them to have the HDD replaced. What happened next will require a new paragraph.
I get a call that day from my Dad. I was weeks away from graduating from Computer Engineering at a local technical school. My dad calls, clearly upset. Apperantly a while ago there was some problem that they had to call the "IT Guy" for. The "IT guy", in the process of fixing that problem, changed it so that the secretarys computers and I think 1-2 of the lawyer comptuer backed up to one of the secretary's comptuers, and not the server. Well, guess which computer died? You know it, the secretary's computer that was holding the backups it shouldn't have been.
No problem right? They were taking weekly backups and taking them off site. Well... Turns out that in the process of moving the backups to the secretary's computer, he was also preventing that data from being backed up. Essentially, the backups were only backing up 1/2 the data.
So, I'm just about to graduate, I get this call from my dad, and he tells me the story. I tell him what he already knows, no data should be on the comptuers, it should all be stored on the servers and backed up. The next day my dad's firm and the "IT Guy" had a meeting. This guy was scared shitless that he was going to get his pants sued off. Not all lawyers are bastards, my dad and the firm told him to send the HDD to a data recovery specialist and told the IT guy that he would be responsible for the bill. The data recovery was partially successful.
Losing that much data caused real problems at the office. Some lawyers were hit harder than others. My dad got through it just fine. My dad had a system where everything was done in triplicate. Document was saved on computer (1), printed and attached to the client file (2), I'm pretty sure that he also printed a third copy to send to Iron Mountain. When the data was lost, he still had the paper copies, the other lawyers wern't so lucky.
Having seen that, I would recommend printing and filing EVERYTHING. Most lawyers change outragous rates for printing anyways, so why not? So, I would say that you should definately take precautions against data loss, the hard copy should be your real backup.
Those are all non-routeable addresses. They are not to be seen on the Internet. TPB would get requests for the external interface for the VPN appliance.
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Well... Assuming an average mass of 70Kg, about 14.2 people.
Judging by the things that I have viewed by the Gov't of Canada, that seems par for the Course.
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Anyone watching which companies are growing during the recession ... Should get their info from a more complete source. Anyone looking at how the latest high-volume services are building infrastructure on the Web .. I'll give you that Neil Gaiman [twitter.com]
Who? (Turns out to be some author) **Update! I just wrote another page! Demi Moore [twitter.com]
Who cares? The President of the United States [twitter.com] (though to be fair, his status isn't updated recently
I would prefer something with more substance... Al Gore [twitter.com]
Who cares? John McCain [twitter.com] (currently updating from Hong Kong)
Who cares? John Battelle [battellemedia.com], whose insights about the search industry are often enlightening
You linked to his site (which actually has content) not to twitter.
Twitter is garbage. Our elected officials are dicking around on their smartphones posting gossip to twitter instead of listening. I live in Canada, and our Members of Parliment have been told repeatedly to turn off their phones while in Parliment, but some refuse to do that and waste time and money posting -- quite literally -- gossip to twitter. Fuck Twitter.
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Dorthy was the name of the contraption that they wanted to get up into the tornato in the movie "Twister". It looked like the cylinder shaped Coke Ice-coolers that you can find near the cash register, except it was all silver colored, and filled with many small cubes (or spheres, can't recall) that would transmit data when the whole thing got picked up and started swirling around...
Honestly, if you stole Windows, then disable the updates, even though MS will still allow you to security patch your computer with an invalid key, you should not be surprised when you run into some sort of problem.
It's like stealing a plant from a store, refusing to water it, then when it dies you get mad at the store that you stole it from. Tough balls.
Future researcher 1: We've almost decoded the ancient English language.
FR2: Yes, we are very close. We just need a definition for this "LOL" word.
FR1: Best I can tell, it seems to be a sign of mental retardation.
I don't think that is right. I appreciate the response though.
I think that the equation that you are using is more for a one-time transfer of heat. For example, if I were to drop a hot penny into a glass of cold water, what would be the final temperature. This scenario, however involves adding heat over time. Plus 10TJ != 10TW. I think that there needs to be some exponential component to the equation.
global warming is injecting lots of energy into the weather system right now...
What about the actual act of generating electricity/energy. All of the waste goes to heat. The Earth's electrical generation capacity is currently a little more than 3.5 TW. Imagine 3 billion space heaters. That's a lot of heat. Include waste heat in the generation process (which according to National Geograhic last month appx 2 units of electricity are lost for every unit delivered) and you have ~10TW of heat FROM ELECTRICITY ALONE. Include planes, trains and automobiles, and you might get an idea on how much heat humans contribute to the earth.
I wonder if that has a noticeable impact on the Earth's climate. I really don't know, but noone ever talks about this in the climate change models. Just like water vapor gets overlooked so often.
Each 4g handset would have to be registered on Verizon's network. Verizon will still get paid. Sure you could hook the 4G into a router and NAT it, but that is no different than using a DSL link for VOIP.
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Most boomboxes are produced with four (4) "feet" that allow the boombox to stand unattended for prolonged periods of time. Don't be fooled, the boombox is NOT actually alive.
For an example, please reference this comment.
It makes it too easy. Let's say that your neighbor likes to smoke pot from time to time, and that bothers you. Normally you would have to call the police and file and official complaint. Not anymore. Just get your crappy cell phone out and submit the video and wait for the police come to take them away.
To me, it is one of those "whatwouldpossiblygowrong" type things. I feel that it should be at least a "little bit of a pain in the ass" to file a complaint with the police. Making small amounts of red tape (i.e. you actually have to call a phone number and talk to somone) limits the number of frivilous complaints.
1) The games were Published by phillips. Other companies created some of the games (Viridis, Animation Magic). Here is a quote from Wikipedia:
The games are considered some of the worst games ever made, due to their barely functional controls and especially known for the cut scenes that used full motion video. The Philips CD-i did not sell well and the games became very valuable. Nintendo rarely acknowledges the trilogy's existence, even practically erasing them from history in a statement connected to The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, and the games are a source of ridicule by many reviewers.
The controller was similar to the SNES controller, but crappier. If I recall correctly, there were no shoulder buttons (not a big deal) and the controller didn't have the 'feel' of the snes controller. The buttons felt softer, and the d-pad felt sloppy.
Storage capacity is relevant here. You are correct in that you can put WAY more on a CD than a SNES cart, but you have to concider what the device was intended to be. It was supposed to be an interactive, full video player. The capacity was not enough to be used for decent quality video, at a reasonable length. Remember, this was before mpeg-4 encoding. I guess the problem was that this device tried to be a movie player and a game console, but was really ill equipped for either job.
As for my 'snide remark', sure, that could have been left out. My, personal, experiances with phillips productts was that while they generally work okay, they have a fisher-price feel to them.
Did you ever have a chance to actually use a CD-i? It sunk because it was a piece of shit. It was basically a crappy DVD player. The games were primitive at the time; the Super Nintendo had more balls. It really wasn't good at anything. It was too weak for games (and laked proper input) Didn't have the storage capacity for movies, and was too expensive to be used as a CD player.
I really doubt that it failed bacause of the porn. I think it failed because a) it sucked, b) it was too expensive c)it had almost no content d) Phillips, cm'on.
What if they send you physical junk mail? Can you call the cops then?
Hmm, Oxygen bar anyone? How about bottled water? Selling stuff that has been free in the past can pay off.
I was thinking that knowledge is power. You never know when some piece of information can be useful.
Last time that happened, they pissed the money away. The REAL solution is to have municipal owned fibre networks, that all connect to a community hub. ISPs would then run fibre to the hub. Home owners (or the gov't) would be responsible for the cost of the fibre installation, but would also reap the benifets of real competition.
What is that garbage? I would have told the rentmaster to go f*ck themselves. Key Money? What is that for? A key costs like $5. Real Estate agency fees? Why would you pay that? It's not your house.
Every work night, burn the latest snapshot to a DVD and give it to the boss to take home and put in his safe.
HAHAHA hahahahahahahahahaha ha ha, whew. That's funny. Who is loading the dvd drive?
Gather 'round boys and girls, it's story time. My dad was a lawyer for somewhere around 30 years. At the time, he and 4 other partners togeather made up their law firm. Because each of them were essentially seperate from each other, they tended to have their files stored either on their own comptuer, or on their secretary's computer.
My dad was smart enough to know that this probably wasn't the best setup, so he hired an "IT Professional" to fix this problem. The computer guy came in and set them up with a small server which would be a centeral repository for digital files. This server would then do daily (possibly weekly, can't recall) backups. The secretarys would then take the tape home with them over night.
Not a bad setup. This system was in place for several years. One day, one of the secretaries computer's HDD died. The office called the guy that had setup this system for them to have the HDD replaced. What happened next will require a new paragraph.
I get a call that day from my Dad. I was weeks away from graduating from Computer Engineering at a local technical school. My dad calls, clearly upset. Apperantly a while ago there was some problem that they had to call the "IT Guy" for. The "IT guy", in the process of fixing that problem, changed it so that the secretarys computers and I think 1-2 of the lawyer comptuer backed up to one of the secretary's comptuers, and not the server. Well, guess which computer died? You know it, the secretary's computer that was holding the backups it shouldn't have been.
No problem right? They were taking weekly backups and taking them off site. Well... Turns out that in the process of moving the backups to the secretary's computer, he was also preventing that data from being backed up. Essentially, the backups were only backing up 1/2 the data.
So, I'm just about to graduate, I get this call from my dad, and he tells me the story. I tell him what he already knows, no data should be on the comptuers, it should all be stored on the servers and backed up. The next day my dad's firm and the "IT Guy" had a meeting. This guy was scared shitless that he was going to get his pants sued off. Not all lawyers are bastards, my dad and the firm told him to send the HDD to a data recovery specialist and told the IT guy that he would be responsible for the bill. The data recovery was partially successful.
Losing that much data caused real problems at the office. Some lawyers were hit harder than others. My dad got through it just fine. My dad had a system where everything was done in triplicate. Document was saved on computer (1), printed and attached to the client file (2), I'm pretty sure that he also printed a third copy to send to Iron Mountain. When the data was lost, he still had the paper copies, the other lawyers wern't so lucky.
Having seen that, I would recommend printing and filing EVERYTHING. Most lawyers change outragous rates for printing anyways, so why not? So, I would say that you should definately take precautions against data loss, the hard copy should be your real backup.
Those are all non-routeable addresses. They are not to be seen on the Internet. TPB would get requests for the external interface for the VPN appliance.
Well... Assuming an average mass of 70Kg, about 14.2 people.
you could use the same questions for every picture, just make them generic:
Example: Picture of cat.
Question 1: Does this fly?
Question 2: Is this living?
Question 3: Would a human be able to pick this up?, etc.
Judging by the things that I have viewed by the Gov't of Canada, that seems par for the Course.
Anyone watching which companies are growing during the recession
... Should get their info from a more complete source.
.. I'll give you that
Anyone looking at how the latest high-volume services are building infrastructure on the Web
Neil Gaiman [twitter.com]
Who? (Turns out to be some author) **Update! I just wrote another page!
Demi Moore [twitter.com]
Who cares?
The President of the United States [twitter.com] (though to be fair, his status isn't updated recently
I would prefer something with more substance...
Al Gore [twitter.com]
Who cares?
John McCain [twitter.com] (currently updating from Hong Kong)
Who cares?
John Battelle [battellemedia.com], whose insights about the search industry are often enlightening
You linked to his site (which actually has content) not to twitter.
Twitter is garbage. Our elected officials are dicking around on their smartphones posting gossip to twitter instead of listening. I live in Canada, and our Members of Parliment have been told repeatedly to turn off their phones while in Parliment, but some refuse to do that and waste time and money posting -- quite literally -- gossip to twitter. Fuck Twitter.
Seriously.
Then you can start all over again and map my brain.
Dorthy was the name of the contraption that they wanted to get up into the tornato in the movie "Twister". It looked like the cylinder shaped Coke Ice-coolers that you can find near the cash register, except it was all silver colored, and filled with many small cubes (or spheres, can't recall) that would transmit data when the whole thing got picked up and started swirling around...
Honestly, if you stole Windows, then disable the updates, even though MS will still allow you to security patch your computer with an invalid key, you should not be surprised when you run into some sort of problem.
It's like stealing a plant from a store, refusing to water it, then when it dies you get mad at the store that you stole it from. Tough balls.
Future researcher 1: We've almost decoded the ancient English language. FR2: Yes, we are very close. We just need a definition for this "LOL" word. FR1: Best I can tell, it seems to be a sign of mental retardation.
I don't think that is right. I appreciate the response though.
I think that the equation that you are using is more for a one-time transfer of heat. For example, if I were to drop a hot penny into a glass of cold water, what would be the final temperature. This scenario, however involves adding heat over time. Plus 10TJ != 10TW. I think that there needs to be some exponential component to the equation.
global warming is injecting lots of energy into the weather system right now...
What about the actual act of generating electricity/energy. All of the waste goes to heat. The Earth's electrical generation capacity is currently a little more than 3.5 TW. Imagine 3 billion space heaters. That's a lot of heat. Include waste heat in the generation process (which according to National Geograhic last month appx 2 units of electricity are lost for every unit delivered) and you have ~10TW of heat FROM ELECTRICITY ALONE. Include planes, trains and automobiles, and you might get an idea on how much heat humans contribute to the earth.
I wonder if that has a noticeable impact on the Earth's climate. I really don't know, but noone ever talks about this in the climate change models. Just like water vapor gets overlooked so often.
Each 4g handset would have to be registered on Verizon's network. Verizon will still get paid. Sure you could hook the 4G into a router and NAT it, but that is no different than using a DSL link for VOIP.
compared to 57 percent in cities and 60 percent in the suburbs[...]
That's pretty terrible...