Without a doubt the best precursor to 'Wise Guys', 'Casino', 'Sopranos' etc. was 'The Pope of Greenwich Village'. Great story, great characters - what's not to like?
Not to waste time on 'blogs'. Advertising I can avoid - what a concept! I suppose people who spend time reading blogs are people who would be influenced by 'blogvertising'.
Was the extremely compact interface. Ward had most of the commands aliased as single characters and they could be strung together to make complex commands. Very useful when you were paying long distance charges to access. CBBS was the most efficient command interface I've ever seen on a conference system. After CBBS the full screen, full word command interfaces became popular followed by GUI's on the net but I still miss the original.
1. South Korea is a small country with the vast majority of it's population in a high density urban area (Seoul). Not true. Seoul is dense but so is Pusan, Kwangju etc. Lots of dense cities but many folks in small towns/farms. 2. And probably more importantly, South Korea has just recently become industrialized, therefore the communications infrastructure is quite modern compared to other Western, developed countries. South Korea has been building infrastructure since the Korean War. The wired communications system is built like most of Asia - very haphazardly over many years. The wireless infrastructure started out behind the U.S. but SK has passed the U.S. by in wireless communications - as have many other countries. This is mostly due to the Japanese/Korean style of cooperation between govt. agencies and private corporations.
We also used the KT7A-RAID mobo. The setup was for a video editing workstation. No matter what we did we would see artifacts (random black blocks) in the vids. Writing to a non-RAID drive solved the block problem. Turns out that striped RAID doesn't improve performance of a NLE when rendering anyway.
"Robert Stack, who starred in 'Bwana Devil,' is somewhat ambivalent about his small part in movie history, saying 'I'm not sure it was anything to be proud of." As opposed to his stellar performance in 'Airplane' (which WAS something to be proud of).
Try the Museum of Science and Industry. It's famous for a replica of a coal mine, a new model railroad exhibit and lots of other great tech stuff. The best exhibit of all is the U-505. A captured German submarine from WWII.
When did this happen? A trip to the BMG site and a click on Spain, France etc. only brings up the English text. That will really piss off the folks in the EU.
My uncle built a house in 1956 that had this system of low voltage relays throughout the house. The relays were off-the-shelf items available from GE and intended for just this purpose. The relay mounted on a standard electrical box in a knockout. The 120v connections were inside the box and the 12v was outside the box. You could wire all the control switches with bell wire. Every room had at least 3 low voltage SPDT switches to control the room you were in and surrounding rooms. The relay system didn't sell and GE eventually discontinued it. Because the house was built in Chicago (with union backed building codes) he was forced to put the 12volt wiring inside metallic conduit.
I tried several of these a year or so ago. The best of the bunch was Linksys. No ghosting, cables included, switch from the keyboard or manually and no power supply needed. I hope they come out with USB on a newer model.
How about eliminating my wallet? I want my phone to take the place of id's and credit cards. I want to walk up to the checkout at Home Depot and when the clerk says 'That'll be $17.46' I'll just whip out my phone (which has all the necessary crypto coded numbers for my credit card accounts inside) and type in the amount and an approval code (which is transmitted by infra red to the POS terminal along with my id info) and then just take my receipt and leave. I can't believe that no cell phone company has come up with this feature yet. The phones have all the necessary hardware. It's just a software problem and as everyone knows those are easy to solve. I also want to use my phone for payment on vending machines, toll roads and even for identification at bars where they think I'm under age. (Fat chance.)
Most of the code for our small company was written by me. When it got to be too much work I subbed some of the generic stuff to a guy who was a hard worker but not a very good coder. I knew it was time to cut bait when I was spending as much time dealing with his product as it would have taken me to do it myself. If you are a project leader you must budget a big percentage of your time just to keep the rest of the team on track and on schedule. It's hard to do this when you could be pounding out code but it's absolutely necessary to keep the load balanced. Be sure you have short term goals for each coder and review progress often. Let the coder set the goals and you can agree or encourage more work - usually their goals will be good enough. Watch your time and dump anyone who takes a disproportionate amount of management time with no improvement in productivity.
When I was doing a lot of business (and making a lot of calls/faxes) with South Korea I started getting targeted ads written in Korean. Same thing happened when I was doing jobs in Mexico - lots of Spanish language phone ads. The phone companies have been doing this internally for several years.
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Without a doubt the best precursor to 'Wise Guys', 'Casino', 'Sopranos' etc. was 'The Pope of Greenwich Village'. Great story, great characters - what's not to like?
Not to waste time on 'blogs'. Advertising I can avoid - what a concept! I suppose people who spend time reading blogs are people who would be influenced by 'blogvertising'.
Was the extremely compact interface. Ward had most of the commands aliased as single characters and they could be strung together to make complex commands. Very useful when you were paying long distance charges to access. CBBS was the most efficient command interface I've ever seen on a conference system. After CBBS the full screen, full word command interfaces became popular followed by GUI's on the net but I still miss the original.
A full size poster of the magazine cover with the cockroach in the white John Travolta "Stayin' Alive" suit.
Separated at Birth?
[archos video jukebox]
1. South Korea is a small country with the vast majority of it's population in a high density urban area (Seoul).
Not true. Seoul is dense but so is Pusan, Kwangju etc. Lots of dense cities but many folks in small towns/farms.
2. And probably more importantly, South Korea has just recently become industrialized, therefore the communications infrastructure is quite modern compared to other Western, developed countries.
South Korea has been building infrastructure since the Korean War. The wired communications system is built like most of Asia - very haphazardly over many years. The wireless infrastructure started out behind the U.S. but SK has passed the U.S. by in wireless communications - as have many other countries. This is mostly due to the Japanese/Korean style of cooperation between govt. agencies and private corporations.
No one needs the space because by 2010 all digital material is covered by copyrights - which have been extended for 250 years.
We also used the KT7A-RAID mobo. The setup was for a video editing workstation. No matter what we did we would see artifacts (random black blocks) in the vids. Writing to a non-RAID drive solved the block problem. Turns out that striped RAID doesn't improve performance of a NLE when rendering anyway.
"Robert Stack, who starred in 'Bwana Devil,' is somewhat ambivalent about his small part in movie history, saying 'I'm not sure it was anything to be proud of."
As opposed to his stellar performance in 'Airplane' (which WAS something to be proud of).
Try the Museum of Science and Industry. It's famous for a replica of a coal mine, a new model railroad exhibit and lots of other great tech stuff. The best exhibit of all is the U-505. A captured German submarine from WWII.
If the roof fell in there wouldn't be a single broken hearted sweetheart back home.
When did this happen? A trip to the BMG site and a click on Spain, France etc. only brings up the English text. That will really piss off the folks in the EU.
He shouldn't have any problem paying the fine.
After all, he got rich on the Internet and you can too.
Worst Superman EVER!
That's a great hairdo on the Sixth Drop chick
My uncle built a house in 1956 that had this system of low voltage relays throughout the house. The relays were off-the-shelf items available from GE and intended for just this purpose. The relay mounted on a standard electrical box in a knockout. The 120v connections were inside the box and the 12v was outside the box. You could wire all the control switches with bell wire. Every room had at least 3 low voltage SPDT switches to control the room you were in and surrounding rooms. The relay system didn't sell and GE eventually discontinued it.
Because the house was built in Chicago (with union backed building codes) he was forced to put the 12volt wiring inside metallic conduit.
I tried several of these a year or so ago. The best of the bunch was Linksys. No ghosting, cables included, switch from the keyboard or manually and no power supply needed. I hope they come out with USB on a newer model.
How about eliminating my wallet? I want my phone to take the place of id's and credit cards. I want to walk up to the checkout at Home Depot and when the clerk says 'That'll be $17.46' I'll just whip out my phone (which has all the necessary crypto coded numbers for my credit card accounts inside) and type in the amount and an approval code (which is transmitted by infra red to the POS terminal along with my id info) and then just take my receipt and leave.
I can't believe that no cell phone company has come up with this feature yet. The phones have all the necessary hardware. It's just a software problem and as everyone knows those are easy to solve. I also want to use my phone for payment on vending machines, toll roads and even for identification at bars where they think I'm under age. (Fat chance.)
Most of the code for our small company was written by me. When it got to be too much work I subbed some of the generic stuff to a guy who was a hard worker but not a very good coder.
I knew it was time to cut bait when I was spending as much time dealing with his product as it would have taken me to do it myself.
If you are a project leader you must budget a big percentage of your time just to keep the rest of the team on track and on schedule. It's hard to do this when you could be pounding out code but it's absolutely necessary to keep the load balanced.
Be sure you have short term goals for each coder and review progress often. Let the coder set the goals and you can agree or encourage more work - usually their goals will be good enough.
Watch your time and dump anyone who takes a disproportionate amount of management time with no improvement in productivity.
These guys didn't see the law either?
This seems like a legit company selling a device to allow Playstation 2 to play copies, backups etc. Is this illegal?
It's easy to find out who is supporting your favorite congressman.
You can look it up here.
Good idea but around my turf the cell phone prices are so low that some people are dumping the wire line altogether.
I like the number idea though.
So that's where they got those cereal boxes in Minority Report.
When I was doing a lot of business (and making a lot of calls/faxes) with South Korea I started getting targeted ads written in Korean. Same thing happened when I was doing jobs in Mexico - lots of Spanish language phone ads. The phone companies have been doing this internally for several years.