This is just vapourware, we've been hearing that the Mammoth can be resurrect using Elephant surrogates for years. I would love to see Mammoths roaming around, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Nintendo aren't going anywhere. They know their target audience and have become very proficient at leveraging them = casual players, the type of people who just want to turn it on now and again and have fun. Hardcore gamers will stick with the PS3 and XBox - which is fine.
Where they are failing is in the complete lack of online content, sure we have Netflix but what about Hulu, Amazon, Pandora, etc. etc? Nintendo's own online content is limited to a couple of poorly made News and Weather channels and some stupid Votes channel that nobody cares about (Japan does have a movie rental option I believe). It could be so much better with little effort.
There's actually several of these kind of devices on the market, I've seen different watches, cell phones and even a backpack. They have their place, I have 3 kids all under the age of 10 and kids that age can get lost very easily if you don't keep a close eye on them. I've put serious consideration into buying some kind of GPS tracker for my kids.
It's important to realise, however that a kid is going to get abducted even if they are wearing some wizzbang locater device if they're not first taught how to defend themselves. There's no substitute for teaching your kids the most important lesson of all: Stay away from strangers! I've taught my kids some very important things, that all parents should teach them:
- Don't approach strangers - If one approaches you, run - If the worst happens and someone grabs you, make a huge fuss - kick and scream, do what ever you can to draw attention.
Right now, I'm investing my $250 not into a GPS device but into taking my kids to self defense classes. Much apart from the fact it's great exercise and teaches them discipline and respect, it may save their lives one day. Plus, they're having a lot of fun doing it:)
Just another clueless web designer putting up an open relay form. I thought I'd seen the last of these back in the 1990s! I'm sure the web site in question has been blacklisted by all the major DNSBL lists by now.
A couple of my CFLs are approaching the 4 year mark (they stay on all night) and they take about 2 minutes to get to full brightness now. When they where new it was more or less instant.
Call me strange, but I have a Sun Model 6 (one of the newer USB ones) and it's the best keyboard I've ever owned. I've been clocked at 145 wpm and my fingers never feel tired.
Securely wipe them if you must, then just give them to your local recycling plant. Personally, I dismantle old drives, give the magnets to my kids to play with and send the rest to the local recycling plant. There's really little else use for a 50Gb drive these days!!
-I was 18 and in my first year of University. -I was a chanop in #ircbar on Undernet and had a misguided idea that this made me important. I used ircII-EPIC to connect and everyone was bitching about some guy named RevWhite (remember him?) -ICQ didn't exist, real time chat was achieved via YTalk -Social networking existed, it was called Usenet. I spent hours on alt.fan.pratchett. -I submitted my personal web site, hosted on my University's web server to Yahoo! I don't think they ever added it. (http://www.wibble.co.uk/zerbswibble for the terminally curious) -CD-R drives were ridiculously expensive, but that didn't matter, the media was almost impossible to find and cost a fortune anyway. -My PC was an X5-133 with 32Mb of RAM and I thought it was cool. -My home internet connection was a 14.4K modem. I had to run a telephone cable from my room, down the stairs and into the only telephone socket in the dining room. It cost me 1p a minute to connect and my parents would FREAK OUT. -Luckily, I had a broadband connection to my room when at University. It's a big part of the reason I flunked out:-)
I've set up a number of PCs for family members of the years. I'll talk about the XP/Vista/2000 side of the house, I've done Linux before but about 100 people already posted ahead of me:)
Some hints:
1. Install the OS on one drive, or partition and then the very first thing you want to do is point the users's profile (My Documents, etc.) at another partition or drive. We'll get to that later.
2. The "blob" theory. I've learned in over a decade of working support that the average users has blobs. They have an "e-mail blob" a "web blob", a "get my iPod synched" blob. They don't care what the blob is called, they just know it does some mystical thing that lets them get to want they want. So make sure those blobs are in an easy to find place:)
3. Replace IE with Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Your choice. 99% malware is dealt with this way. Install AdBlock Plus or equivelent. replace Firefox's icon with the IE icon if your user is particularly stupid. Remove all shortcuts to IE.
4. Set up automatic updates for the Windows crap and the anti-virus. Set it to go off at some point when you know they'll be using it. Most people turn their PCs off so having automatic updates happen in the middle of the night is a waste of time. Spend several patient minutes teaching them to pay attention to that little yellow shield and obey it when it appears.:)
5. Install TightVNC, or DameWare, or subscribe to Webex, or some other way that you can remotely control it with. Install a blob on the desktop that'll tell them their IP. Punch a hole in the firewall to allow access. Webex has saved my parent's PC (they live 4,000 miles away) on dozens of occasions.
6. Don't let them install ANYTHING without contacting you first. Preferably have them call you and let you do it. It's amazing how much crap users put on their PCs on a whim.
7. Now you done that, Ghost the system partition. They're going to have it broken in a month or two and you're going to want to quickly reinstall it. That's why we put their profile on a separate drive or partition.
There's an ongoing battle in my family between keying in the "standard definition" version of channels and the "high definition". They all think I'm this weird limey geek (I'm the only English person in the family) who's obsessed with it. They're right of course. You should've seen the argument when I blocked the SD channels *grin*.
The fact is, most people really don't care so long as the TV is reasonably sharp and the sound is reasonably good. Standard definition is perfectly watchable to the average user, HDTV is still seen as just another buzz word. The majority of people with newer HDTVs are watching them with the coaxial cable stuffed into the antenna port in SD, and they're none the wiser.
I find myself in this predicament now I'm in my thirties so god knows what it'll be like in a few more years!! I blame lack of sleep and too much work (try raising 3 small children and you'll understand).
Anyway, I started doing puzzle games (word games are my favourite) and my brain kicked back into gear. Also started taking some online courses and broadening my knowledge (outside of IT) and that helped a bunch also, plus it's making me a better person.
The key seems to be keeping your interests broad and not focusing on the same old stuff every day. We're fortunate in IT that it's a constantly evolving environment, I can only imagine what mush my brain would turn into if I worked in a boring job.
Oh, and eat healthy and exercise, that helps too. It's amazing what a difference changing my diet made to my whole outlook.
A lander on Europa to search for life. We already have a mission to Mars planned for the same thing but it appears Europa has been overlooked.
Since I have to pick one from the list given, let's go back to Venus.
I really don't see the point of a Lunar sample return mission since we're sending humans back there in a few years anyway (I hope - are you listening congress?)
I had actually seen a few of these in my local area, thanks for clearing up who they belong to anyway.
The McCain-Palin signs are mostly gone, the Obama signs are mostly gone as well as of today. All of a sudden I'm seeing Fair Tax signs pop up.
The amusing signs on my drive to work outside a (presumably) very right wing house expounding me to not vote for Obama as he kills babies (eg supports abortion) were still there this morning, though.
As I said, I'm going to either have to ignore NBC on invest in an antenna. Since I only use over the air for emergencies probably ignore NBC. It still irks me though.
I do really feel for the large number of Floridians who cannot afford cable/satellite though.
Our local NBC affiliate (WESH) placed their digital transmitter 70 miles away from my house. Their analogue transmitter is about 10 miles away. Ergo, I'm barely picking up the signal on the digital feed - certainly not good enough to be watchable.
I wrote to them and got a sarcastic response that I'll need a new antenna and come February the analogue transmitter shuts down and I'm stuck with the one 70 miles away.
I really don't understand the engineering decision behind this... none of the other stations felt the need to move their transmitter.
I'm not losing to much sleep over it, the only thing I'd need over the air transmissions for is in an emergency (hurricanes etc.). So, I guess I'll get my transmissions in that situation from the other local stations:-)
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Let's just hope they don't replace it with something even more annoying.
This is just vapourware, we've been hearing that the Mammoth can be resurrect using Elephant surrogates for years. I would love to see Mammoths roaming around, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Sonic is available on the 3DS - Sonic Generations is awesome :)
Nintendo aren't going anywhere. They know their target audience and have become very proficient at leveraging them = casual players, the type of people who just want to turn it on now and again and have fun. Hardcore gamers will stick with the PS3 and XBox - which is fine.
Where they are failing is in the complete lack of online content, sure we have Netflix but what about Hulu, Amazon, Pandora, etc. etc? Nintendo's own online content is limited to a couple of poorly made News and Weather channels and some stupid Votes channel that nobody cares about (Japan does have a movie rental option I believe). It could be so much better with little effort.
They failed because they refused to innovate, expecting that they would continue on customer loyalty alone. It hasn't happened.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure he's looking down from somewhere and giving you the thumbs up for following his wishes.
There's actually several of these kind of devices on the market, I've seen different watches, cell phones and even a backpack. They have their place, I have 3 kids all under the age of 10 and kids that age can get lost very easily if you don't keep a close eye on them. I've put serious consideration into buying some kind of GPS tracker for my kids.
It's important to realise, however that a kid is going to get abducted even if they are wearing some wizzbang locater device if they're not first taught how to defend themselves. There's no substitute for teaching your kids the most important lesson of all: Stay away from strangers! I've taught my kids some very important things, that all parents should teach them:
- Don't approach strangers
- If one approaches you, run
- If the worst happens and someone grabs you, make a huge fuss - kick and scream, do what ever you can to draw attention.
Right now, I'm investing my $250 not into a GPS device but into taking my kids to self defense classes. Much apart from the fact it's great exercise and teaches them discipline and respect, it may save their lives one day. Plus, they're having a lot of fun doing it :)
Just another clueless web designer putting up an open relay form. I thought I'd seen the last of these back in the 1990s! I'm sure the web site in question has been blacklisted by all the major DNSBL lists by now.
A couple of my CFLs are approaching the 4 year mark (they stay on all night) and they take about 2 minutes to get to full brightness now. When they where new it was more or less instant.
Call me strange, but I have a Sun Model 6 (one of the newer USB ones) and it's the best keyboard I've ever owned. I've been clocked at 145 wpm and my fingers never feel tired.
Tried it, the local gun range said "HELL no!". I wish I knew someone with a bunch of land somewhere who didn't mind me doing target practise.
So, anyone in Central Florida who has a bunch of land and doesn't mind - please drop me a line :).
Securely wipe them if you must, then just give them to your local recycling plant. Personally, I dismantle old drives, give the magnets to my kids to play with and send the rest to the local recycling plant. There's really little else use for a 50Gb drive these days!!
-I was 18 and in my first year of University. :-)
-I was a chanop in #ircbar on Undernet and had a misguided idea that this made me important. I used ircII-EPIC to connect and everyone was bitching about some guy named RevWhite (remember him?)
-ICQ didn't exist, real time chat was achieved via YTalk
-Social networking existed, it was called Usenet. I spent hours on alt.fan.pratchett.
-I submitted my personal web site, hosted on my University's web server to Yahoo! I don't think they ever added it. (http://www.wibble.co.uk/zerbswibble for the terminally curious)
-CD-R drives were ridiculously expensive, but that didn't matter, the media was almost impossible to find and cost a fortune anyway.
-My PC was an X5-133 with 32Mb of RAM and I thought it was cool.
-My home internet connection was a 14.4K modem. I had to run a telephone cable from my room, down the stairs and into the only telephone socket in the dining room. It cost me 1p a minute to connect and my parents would FREAK OUT.
-Luckily, I had a broadband connection to my room when at University. It's a big part of the reason I flunked out
Nice, I'll add that to my list. :)
I've set up a number of PCs for family members of the years. I'll talk about the XP/Vista/2000 side of the house, I've done Linux before but about 100 people already posted ahead of me :)
Some hints:
1. Install the OS on one drive, or partition and then the very first thing you want to do is point the users's profile (My Documents, etc.) at another partition or drive. We'll get to that later.
2. The "blob" theory. I've learned in over a decade of working support that the average users has blobs. They have an "e-mail blob" a "web blob", a "get my iPod synched" blob. They don't care what the blob is called, they just know it does some mystical thing that lets them get to want they want. So make sure those blobs are in an easy to find place :)
3. Replace IE with Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Your choice. 99% malware is dealt with this way. Install AdBlock Plus or equivelent. replace Firefox's icon with the IE icon if your user is particularly stupid. Remove all shortcuts to IE.
4. Set up automatic updates for the Windows crap and the anti-virus. Set it to go off at some point when you know they'll be using it. Most people turn their PCs off so having automatic updates happen in the middle of the night is a waste of time. Spend several patient minutes teaching them to pay attention to that little yellow shield and obey it when it appears. :)
5. Install TightVNC, or DameWare, or subscribe to Webex, or some other way that you can remotely control it with. Install a blob on the desktop that'll tell them their IP. Punch a hole in the firewall to allow access. Webex has saved my parent's PC (they live 4,000 miles away) on dozens of occasions.
6. Don't let them install ANYTHING without contacting you first. Preferably have them call you and let you do it. It's amazing how much crap users put on their PCs on a whim.
7. Now you done that, Ghost the system partition. They're going to have it broken in a month or two and you're going to want to quickly reinstall it. That's why we put their profile on a separate drive or partition.
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=humour
I live in the USA and married into an American family. I still have English relatives of course, but they all live in England.
Strictly speaking my kids are English also but they've been raised in the US.
There's an ongoing battle in my family between keying in the "standard definition" version of channels and the "high definition". They all think I'm this weird limey geek (I'm the only English person in the family) who's obsessed with it. They're right of course. You should've seen the argument when I blocked the SD channels *grin*.
The fact is, most people really don't care so long as the TV is reasonably sharp and the sound is reasonably good. Standard definition is perfectly watchable to the average user, HDTV is still seen as just another buzz word. The majority of people with newer HDTVs are watching them with the coaxial cable stuffed into the antenna port in SD, and they're none the wiser.
I find myself in this predicament now I'm in my thirties so god knows what it'll be like in a few more years!! I blame lack of sleep and too much work (try raising 3 small children and you'll understand).
Anyway, I started doing puzzle games (word games are my favourite) and my brain kicked back into gear. Also started taking some online courses and broadening my knowledge (outside of IT) and that helped a bunch also, plus it's making me a better person.
The key seems to be keeping your interests broad and not focusing on the same old stuff every day. We're fortunate in IT that it's a constantly evolving environment, I can only imagine what mush my brain would turn into if I worked in a boring job.
Oh, and eat healthy and exercise, that helps too. It's amazing what a difference changing my diet made to my whole outlook.
A lander on Europa to search for life. We already have a mission to Mars planned for the same thing but it appears Europa has been overlooked.
Since I have to pick one from the list given, let's go back to Venus.
I really don't see the point of a Lunar sample return mission since we're sending humans back there in a few years anyway (I hope - are you listening congress?)
I had actually seen a few of these in my local area, thanks for clearing up who they belong to anyway.
The McCain-Palin signs are mostly gone, the Obama signs are mostly gone as well as of today. All of a sudden I'm seeing Fair Tax signs pop up.
The amusing signs on my drive to work outside a (presumably) very right wing house expounding me to not vote for Obama as he kills babies (eg supports abortion) were still there this morning, though.
And erm, is it a slow news day?
Legal, yes, smart no. People cause accidents by running yellow lights all the time. Just ask the owner of the motorcycle who side swiped me one time.
Moral: Only go through the yellow if you are really certain you have clearance.
Yes, and he'll be picking up a reward for his honesty, assuming it's still on offer.
I'm sure he'll get plenty from interview deals as well.
As I said, I'm going to either have to ignore NBC on invest in an antenna. Since I only use over the air for emergencies probably ignore NBC. It still irks me though.
I do really feel for the large number of Floridians who cannot afford cable/satellite though.
Already wrote to the FCC.
Our local NBC affiliate (WESH) placed their digital transmitter 70 miles away from my house. Their analogue transmitter is about 10 miles away. Ergo, I'm barely picking up the signal on the digital feed - certainly not good enough to be watchable.
I wrote to them and got a sarcastic response that I'll need a new antenna and come February the analogue transmitter shuts down and I'm stuck with the one 70 miles away.
I really don't understand the engineering decision behind this... none of the other stations felt the need to move their transmitter.
I'm not losing to much sleep over it, the only thing I'd need over the air transmissions for is in an emergency (hurricanes etc.). So, I guess I'll get my transmissions in that situation from the other local stations :-)
Anyone else experienced this?