They actually have a Biowaste Generator plant near Neshoba County I think. The idea is that with all of the pine trees they are cutting down from commercial farms, they'll take the waste bark, etc., and use it in the generator. Not sure though, and I'm not gonna waste an hour looking for the reference.
I didn't know Netflix had a movie streaming service. It'd be pretty neat for HTPC setups. I can imagine MythTv getting a plug-in for that, simply browsing your movie list and streaming, maybe downloading it while the ethernet has an idle connection. Doesn't it already allow you to mess with your Netflix account?
Puh lease. Alabama is hands and arms above, oh say, it's next door neighbor, Mississippi and Florida. There is a *reason* Fark has the Florida Tag.
Seriously though, you wanna see some of the worst parts of the country, go to the Delta areas of MS and some counties in AL. Poverty, STDs, teen pregnancy, HS graduation/college acceptance rates, life expectancies are among the worst in the nation. Do you think it's right to just ignore these areas for any sort of advancement?
The former Gov. of Mississippi, William Winter, put it best when endorsing the need for higher education in MS- "We can either compete with the other 49 states for jobs or we can do nothing and compete with China and Mexico."
When I showed up at my first job they had a desk ready for me. But, since they are in the process of renovating the suite directly behind me for us to move into in about 3 months, I was placed at the the end of a hallway. Now, I get to listen to construction all day outside the cubicles of others. Having ear phones on are the only way I get work done. Bonus is that I've a little more space than the cube dwellers. I wish
You know, I wish there was an explanation about redundancy! Jeez, You trollers and flamebaiters get all of the love. Apparently redundancy gets the shaft with only blah blah blahs.
The article linked was one of three interviews. I suggest looking at this article and this one before drawing yet a complete conclusion.
The guy has Xbox Live working pretty well. I think they did a great job integrating the achievements, friends and everything else in. FTFA's not linked:
People are unhappy with DRM download-to-own. If I buy a track with DRM and it has fewer rights than the CD, that is where people get their nose out of joint. There is no art, no track information, no liner notes. I can't sell it for four bucks to buy a burrito if I'm hungry.
The music industry is very healthy. The record industry is the problem. The guy isn't this Ballmerite that he appears to be. He might actually have a tight bolt on that chair launching arm. Then again, he works for Microsoft, so how long till he leaves for Google?
It's short sighted thinking like that kinda discourages looking for a better solution. MythTV offered a simpler/better way to show my ripped Dvds for example (BTW, it is running on a machine by itself, no virtual instance). Xbox360, with it's purported extender, was supposed to fill in this void, using a media center edition to do it all. What I got instead was the choice of encoding in WMV9 or transcoding it with a quality hit.
I'm not saying the Xbox or PS3 is at fault for this; they are game consoles first and they both fill those roles quite well. But, when Microsoft Gaming Division is going to implement a media player into their flagship product do you really want to lock your users in to what they can encode with or what quality they want? I didn't think it was worth it and eventually canned running MCE and letting the Xbox360 go back to the reason I bought it for. I realize the fact that I was not gonna settle for something I was not happy with might make me a minority, but I'm feeling better already.
My point is that I WAS the target audience that they lost because of codec support. I'm not going to be buying my episodes of family guy off of XboxLive, nor streaming my media with their Extender. MythTv will fill this need and more.
Too late. I just got mythTv setup and running and I like it a helluva a lot better than the Xbox360 and the Windows MCE I had on a virtual machine with transcoder. I'm now looking at a tuner card to get OTA shows. They are some big problems such as dealing with overscans and the resolutions. But I'm a lot more optimistic about OOS overcoming this than Microsoft eventually implementing a fully-functional media frontend with the xbox360.
One more benefit is that my MediaCenter is actually quieter than the Xbox360(I own a 360, so take that as you will). Not sure about the PS3.
Oh man. I remember driving as fast as possible, trying to take out hunters with the cars, then jumping-out-grav-gunning-then-throwing-the-damn-magnson in about 2 seconds in order to save a building.
The gnome was kinda fun, but I, um, accidentally took him with me down to the ant lion den. Not fun running like woah with a gnome in your hands.
I just forgot that I didn't grab my Oblivion save before the last reformat. Thanks for ruining my day Zonk!
OnTopic, I've got a roommate that plays SC:4 religiously. He's got CAM and the such all setup and testing out various textures for add-on modders. I can't imagine what would happen if a 6x7 map he's been working on were to suddenly disappear.
This whole thing just reeks of sketchiness. If congress wanted to show some actually fortitude, they should knock the immunity out, even if there is a veto by the President.
the Motherload! Great game. You dig with a miner unit, get money, upgrade and then dig deeper and deeper for the big scores. I wasted hours playing that game.
FTA:
It engages a different part of their brain. As long as it's not too onerous or forced upon the player too commonly. They say, "Variety is the spice of life," and I think that applies in this case. As long as you don't make it an essential, unavoidable, too-important part of the game, because people are expecting a shooter. Play through bioshock and count how many times you came across something you could hack. Now, after doing that, how many times did the puzzle's general setup change? It is one thing to keep your core idea of the minigame to play a plumber. It is another when the plumber solves the same problem not just a dozen, but dozens of times in a game.
It was not until you could auto-hack turret/bots that the game became much continuous; not stopping ever 5 minutes to hack a turret or a camera to avoid getting spotted.
On a side note, I'm surprised they did not talk about the technical background of the minigame. I believe it was just a Flash game with the actual game code providing the pretty overlays. Same with the bathysphere menu.
Lastly, shame on the interviewer for not having played System Shock 2 before the interview. Then again, this is the least of what we should have expected when we saw MTV featuring the article.
I think they wanted to call this a cheap build, but saw that it equated to another normal build. So they removed things like an optical drive, hard drive, case, power supply, speakers, and a monitor to "reduce the price" and make this an "insanely cheap upgrade!"
Honestly, I'm sure half the nerds on this site could build an entire SYSTEM that'd put this upgrade to shame at that price.
Actually, I use my phone for streaming media, checking email and goggle maps. The point I'm making here is that if you want a surveillance camera, your phone is a poor substitute for one. Just like it is a poor substitute for a web browser, video playback or a folded map(or does the digital age eschew all things dead tree based?). It'll get the job done, but not necessarily the best. What your does better than those previous devices, is handle phone calls.
And sorry about the virii slipup. Damn flu shot I got ended up making me sick and that was the Cold/Sinus medicine.
I think I am wrong on this, but couldn't the swarm instead just assign certain thresholds? IE-one phone records a the highs, allowing it capture more of that range whereas another phone captures the low, bass,etc. That way, you combine your captures and get a full pitch, each phone contributing their range.
I can see this being advantageous for single system, but for people in general? This just reeks of being impractical.
For one, no one I KNOW walks with their cameras out in front of them, so the cameras would have setup such a way such that there is a single camera dedicated to capture the event. How do you know a camera is going to capture an event in the first place? Seriously, phones are for talking, not being your peeping-tom from afar.
Now for virii spreading purposes, this sounds awesome. Just set a phone up to send out a "message" and enjoy a WoWesque domino effect.
I couldn't agree more. The only downside is I can't count the number of times I've had to rewatch an episode or movie because I ended up falling asleep on my couch.
While the details aren't great in TFA, I can imagine dialysis-like machines getting setup to treat patients. What the article didn't really hit on was the total capacity the laser could handle and if it's even feasible. After all, it's not worth waiting days for blood to get cleaned while the virus has had time to spread/repopulate the body with the other blood.
Plus most of us can't sit on the edge of our seats for hours on end. Not saying I haven't, but I usually don't enjoy sitting on the edge for hours at a time playing a game, flying through the experience. I look at cut scenes as a way of the game saying "Hey, you are finished with this part of the plot. Get up and go take a walk before coming back." Final Fantasy VII did that a good bit(Sector Plate falling, Aeris (DELETED SPOILER), Ancient Temple, and so forth)
What is the actual rated speed for your line? They let small data thru pretty quick, like IM and emails, but scale back. I know right now I've got an upload of 50KB which is 16KB+ over the rated amount for the line. Not to say I'm happy; my downloads are lucky to peak above 100KB, even though the line is supposed to give upwards of 1MB.
What I really am considering is signing up for a small business account that is 8Mb up and 1Mb down for $89 for term of agreement. My state doesn't require a DBA and Comcast here doesn't require any papers to setup the account. The main hitch is if I get pref. treatment.
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They actually have a Biowaste Generator plant near Neshoba County I think. The idea is that with all of the pine trees they are cutting down from commercial farms, they'll take the waste bark, etc., and use it in the generator. Not sure though, and I'm not gonna waste an hour looking for the reference.
Wow a remark that is actually kinda On topic.
I didn't know Netflix had a movie streaming service. It'd be pretty neat for HTPC setups. I can imagine MythTv getting a plug-in for that, simply browsing your movie list and streaming, maybe downloading it while the ethernet has an idle connection. Doesn't it already allow you to mess with your Netflix account?
Puh lease. Alabama is hands and arms above, oh say, it's next door neighbor, Mississippi and Florida. There is a *reason* Fark has the Florida Tag.
Seriously though, you wanna see some of the worst parts of the country, go to the Delta areas of MS and some counties in AL. Poverty, STDs, teen pregnancy, HS graduation/college acceptance rates, life expectancies are among the worst in the nation. Do you think it's right to just ignore these areas for any sort of advancement?
The former Gov. of Mississippi, William Winter, put it best when endorsing the need for higher education in MS- "We can either compete with the other 49 states for jobs or we can do nothing and compete with China and Mexico."
When I showed up at my first job they had a desk ready for me. But, since they are in the process of renovating the suite directly behind me for us to move into in about 3 months, I was placed at the the end of a hallway. Now, I get to listen to construction all day outside the cubicles of others. Having ear phones on are the only way I get work done. Bonus is that I've a little more space than the cube dwellers. I wish
You know, I wish there was an explanation about redundancy! Jeez, You trollers and flamebaiters get all of the love. Apparently redundancy gets the shaft with only blah blah blahs.
The guy has Xbox Live working pretty well. I think they did a great job integrating the achievements, friends and everything else in.
FTFA's not linked: People are unhappy with DRM download-to-own. If I buy a track with DRM and it has fewer rights than the CD, that is where people get their nose out of joint. There is no art, no track information, no liner notes. I can't sell it for four bucks to buy a burrito if I'm hungry. The music industry is very healthy. The record industry is the problem. The guy isn't this Ballmerite that he appears to be. He might actually have a tight bolt on that chair launching arm. Then again, he works for Microsoft, so how long till he leaves for Google?
I try not to go for the troll, but whateves.
It's short sighted thinking like that kinda discourages looking for a better solution. MythTV offered a simpler/better way to show my ripped Dvds for example (BTW, it is running on a machine by itself, no virtual instance). Xbox360, with it's purported extender, was supposed to fill in this void, using a media center edition to do it all. What I got instead was the choice of encoding in WMV9 or transcoding it with a quality hit.
I'm not saying the Xbox or PS3 is at fault for this; they are game consoles first and they both fill those roles quite well. But, when Microsoft Gaming Division is going to implement a media player into their flagship product do you really want to lock your users in to what they can encode with or what quality they want? I didn't think it was worth it and eventually canned running MCE and letting the Xbox360 go back to the reason I bought it for. I realize the fact that I was not gonna settle for something I was not happy with might make me a minority, but I'm feeling better already.
My point is that I WAS the target audience that they lost because of codec support. I'm not going to be buying my episodes of family guy off of XboxLive, nor streaming my media with their Extender. MythTv will fill this need and more.
Too late. I just got mythTv setup and running and I like it a helluva a lot better than the Xbox360 and the Windows MCE I had on a virtual machine with transcoder. I'm now looking at a tuner card to get OTA shows. They are some big problems such as dealing with overscans and the resolutions. But I'm a lot more optimistic about OOS overcoming this than Microsoft eventually implementing a fully-functional media frontend with the xbox360.
One more benefit is that my MediaCenter is actually quieter than the Xbox360(I own a 360, so take that as you will). Not sure about the PS3.
Oh man. I remember driving as fast as possible, trying to take out hunters with the cars, then jumping-out-grav-gunning-then-throwing-the-damn-magnson in about 2 seconds in order to save a building.
The gnome was kinda fun, but I, um, accidentally took him with me down to the ant lion den. Not fun running like woah with a gnome in your hands.
I just forgot that I didn't grab my Oblivion save before the last reformat. Thanks for ruining my day Zonk!
OnTopic, I've got a roommate that plays SC:4 religiously. He's got CAM and the such all setup and testing out various textures for add-on modders. I can't imagine what would happen if a 6x7 map he's been working on were to suddenly disappear.
My question is how did he finish up his heroics today and still get time to read the article before the Tempest keep Raid in 20 minutes?
Here's a longer NPR part than the article
This whole thing just reeks of sketchiness. If congress wanted to show some actually fortitude, they should knock the immunity out, even if there is a veto by the President.
Man that, Mr. Natas sure was nice too. Giving you a free digger unit!
the Motherload! Great game. You dig with a miner unit, get money, upgrade and then dig deeper and deeper for the big scores. I wasted hours playing that game.
It was not until you could auto-hack turret/bots that the game became much continuous; not stopping ever 5 minutes to hack a turret or a camera to avoid getting spotted.
On a side note, I'm surprised they did not talk about the technical background of the minigame. I believe it was just a Flash game with the actual game code providing the pretty overlays. Same with the bathysphere menu.
Lastly, shame on the interviewer for not having played System Shock 2 before the interview. Then again, this is the least of what we should have expected when we saw MTV featuring the article.
I think they wanted to call this a cheap build, but saw that it equated to another normal build. So they removed things like an optical drive, hard drive, case, power supply, speakers, and a monitor to "reduce the price" and make this an "insanely cheap upgrade!"
Honestly, I'm sure half the nerds on this site could build an entire SYSTEM that'd put this upgrade to shame at that price.
Actually, I use my phone for streaming media, checking email and goggle maps. The point I'm making here is that if you want a surveillance camera, your phone is a poor substitute for one. Just like it is a poor substitute for a web browser, video playback or a folded map(or does the digital age eschew all things dead tree based?). It'll get the job done, but not necessarily the best. What your does better than those previous devices, is handle phone calls.
And sorry about the virii slipup. Damn flu shot I got ended up making me sick and that was the Cold/Sinus medicine.
I think I am wrong on this, but couldn't the swarm instead just assign certain thresholds? IE-one phone records a the highs, allowing it capture more of that range whereas another phone captures the low, bass,etc. That way, you combine your captures and get a full pitch, each phone contributing their range.
I can see this being advantageous for single system, but for people in general? This just reeks of being impractical.
For one, no one I KNOW walks with their cameras out in front of them, so the cameras would have setup such a way such that there is a single camera dedicated to capture the event. How do you know a camera is going to capture an event in the first place? Seriously, phones are for talking, not being your peeping-tom from afar.
Now for virii spreading purposes, this sounds awesome. Just set a phone up to send out a "message" and enjoy a WoWesque domino effect.
I couldn't agree more. The only downside is I can't count the number of times I've had to rewatch an episode or movie because I ended up falling asleep on my couch.
While the details aren't great in TFA, I can imagine dialysis-like machines getting setup to treat patients. What the article didn't really hit on was the total capacity the laser could handle and if it's even feasible. After all, it's not worth waiting days for blood to get cleaned while the virus has had time to spread/repopulate the body with the other blood.
Heh, sure. If anything, I can show it to the other two guys who came to the party.
What is the actual rated speed for your line? They let small data thru pretty quick, like IM and emails, but scale back. I know right now I've got an upload of 50KB which is 16KB+ over the rated amount for the line. Not to say I'm happy; my downloads are lucky to peak above 100KB, even though the line is supposed to give upwards of 1MB.
What I really am considering is signing up for a small business account that is 8Mb up and 1Mb down for $89 for term of agreement. My state doesn't require a DBA and Comcast here doesn't require any papers to setup the account. The main hitch is if I get pref. treatment.
Given that, I might even say Fry's.