during hurricanes as we are so prone to getting, we rely on our portable televisions to watch information about the storm when we lose power. Those portable televisions are going to be useless. As a matter of public safety, we need portable televisions that can receive the digital broadcast, but so far, none have reached the market.
What will I do to protect my family if I have no way of getting public safety information? Radio is one way, but it doesn't convey the same level of information as does television.
I wondered if I was the only one who thought John McCain's speech was poorly delivered? There were several hiccups with his performance that led me to believe there was a problem with the teleprompter.
Not only that, but a bit puzzling. My wife is a teacher and a damn good one, and I can't figure out McCain's education platform. It sounds to me like he wants to privatize the education system in America. Are my children going to be attending Halliburton Elementary #1138?
seconded. I like tigerdirect also. They have a store about 8 miles from my house in Miami, but it's useless since they only stock cheapy crap for quick builds.
As I see it, the only thing missing is a decent 5.1 channel headset to hear it all on. Sure we can all afford 5.1 or 7.1 channel speakers, but most of us can't blast them while playing.
I've listened to more than a few 5.1 channel headphones. None of them meet my expectations. Game audio was meant to take advantage of multi-channel digital sound. Since 90% of the gamers I know use headphones or headsets, isn't this the next logical step? Most of the 5.1 headphones are only 5.1 virtual channels. Those few that are real 5.1, are so disappointing. The Razer barracuda HP1 set was just a complete waste of money. I'm waiting for the first company to come alone and make a true 5.1 channel digital headset with a removable boom mic. Then my games will come alive finally.
necessary features include these:
dolby digital certification. very low impedance drivers. comfortable closed circumaural design. digital coax plug for phones. discrete voice drivers and standard phone jack for them and mic. robust and discrete woofer driver. Sony's 50mm HD driver used in its upper end MDR 7xx/9xx series should do the trick. discrete synchronized positioned drivers for center channel. positioned drivers for FL/FR. discrete positioned drivers for RL/RR. onboard DD decoding and DTS decoding. high quality amplification components.
one of the real problems that most of the 5.1 phones face is their common ground conductor. This leads to joint stereo and muddies up the positioning.
If I had the time and the cash, I'd build a pair for myself, but they'd most likely be analog.
Your superiority complex lends much about your personality. You don't want unions because they would bring you down to earth like most professionals. You probably work in a place where you keep your job by seeming mythical to your managers. I'm not doubting that you're highly skilled, but you rely on obfuscation and parlor tricks to feel irreplaceable. You think management can hate so long as they fear.
We all know someone like you. You guard your shop jealously and you do everything in your power to make sure all would-be peers fail. That's not professional behavior. Unions would force you to behave like a professional. That's not something you're willing to accept.
on a more serious note, this is something I've been advocating for years. The real consequences of a tech union could be disastrous for business. I certainly agree that we need one though. We are the workers who are used to being dumped on. I say we unionize. If you think of the real consequences, a strike could shut down the world.
Most of you won't remember, but Quantic Dream is the studio that brought us Omikron: The Nomad Soul. That game had a soundtrack with David Bowie on it.
They also brought us Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy.
I'm a fan of their immersive adventure style games. Hard Rain ought to be a knockout.
I didn't read it that way. In fact, the beginning of that clause starts with "You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services." a fact, the poster conveniently left out.
I read it in a way that makes sense with what google does. Knowing exactly what people are doing with the web seems to be of paramount importance to what google does. You can't stay in business without eyeballs.
I grew up in Fort Lauderdale. As you may know, South Florida is America's retirement home. Well it used to be.
It used to be where the rich came to retire. Now they're struggling the same as my parents. Who, after raising 3 kids and turning now 67, have to work. They still haven't even payed of their house. Their social security checks are decent, as is my dad's pension. They just can't afford to live on it.
Why should I pay more for a new service when they sold me and signed me on the same service? Now they've decided to change their mind. Not good enough. They sold me a service contract and they're quietly trying to change the terms while charging me the same price.
I got an xbox360 for my birthday earlier this year. When I heard the new dashboard update would allow netflix streaming, I had to get a netflix account.
I watch a lot of Internet TV. I play a lot of games. I download a lot of porn. I surf a lot of web.
My ISP, comcast has said, I can only download 8GB a day. If I'm watching a marathon of TV from netflix instant, I will blow through that in about 12 hours.
Tack on the fact that I download demos from xbox live that are usually 1-1.5GB apiece. I play PC games regularly. I am also a steam user who buys a new game at least once a month. I download Linux isos also, though not regularly. I can see how I easily use up that much bandwidth a day.
Comcast is gonna get sued. There's gonna be a class-action. Since they are the only provider in my area that provides the speeds they do for residential services, there is no alternative. Comcast oversold their network capacity. I'm doing nothing wrong. I'm using the Internet access that I signed up for and paid for. Comcast knows they need to expand network capacity but are unwilling to do so. They take a hit in cost and can't charge any more for more network capacity. They'd just oversell it again. Considering that comcast charges a universal service fund fee since they provide Internet access and local telephone service, the USF should provide them with ample monies to enlarge their member's capacity.
When netflix institutes HD streaming, I won't be able to take advantage of it because comcast wont provide me the bandwidth or througput to do so. My ISP will effectively prevent me from enjoying the services I pay for throughout the web.
Comcast thinks that I'm a heavy Internet user. They gambled on grandmas signing up for cable modems and then using them 2 or 3 times a week. They lost and now they're welching.
That being said, they're even charging illegal modem rental fees to me and countless others. Check your original documents from your comcast installation. There's a document titled, "Terms and Conditions for Sale of Cable Modem". I have that document, meaning they sold me a cable modem, not rented me one. Now they're charging fees illegally. They're really gonna get sued. I'm not the fat guy at the buffet. I'm the skinny guy who eats a normal amount. They are the ones trying to save their money by limiting the amount of trips to the buffet you can make. They say I'm eating too much. Well, now even in India, they're eating as much as me. In Japan, they're eating three times as much as me and they pay half of what I do.
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during hurricanes as we are so prone to getting, we rely on our portable televisions to watch information about the storm when we lose power. Those portable televisions are going to be useless. As a matter of public safety, we need portable televisions that can receive the digital broadcast, but so far, none have reached the market.
What will I do to protect my family if I have no way of getting public safety information? Radio is one way, but it doesn't convey the same level of information as does television.
what will we do?
I wondered if I was the only one who thought John McCain's speech was poorly delivered? There were several hiccups with his performance that led me to believe there was a problem with the teleprompter.
Not only that, but a bit puzzling. My wife is a teacher and a damn good one, and I can't figure out McCain's education platform. It sounds to me like he wants to privatize the education system in America. Are my children going to be attending Halliburton Elementary #1138?
seconded. I like tigerdirect also. They have a store about 8 miles from my house in Miami, but it's useless since they only stock cheapy crap for quick builds.
The website, however, is quite good.
seconded. I like tigerdirect also. They have a store about 8 miles from my house, but it's useless since they only stock cheapy crap for quick builds.
The website, however, is quite good.
99% of systems that use speakers have 2-conductor speaker wires per speaker.
99% of headphones have 3-conductor wires for the whole system.
joint stereo is such that when you turn the balance all the way to one side, you can still hear it in the other.
speaker systems usually don't do this.
I think they're 2 channel. And that's apparent on the turtle beach web page.
As I see it, the only thing missing is a decent 5.1 channel headset to hear it all on. Sure we can all afford 5.1 or 7.1 channel speakers, but most of us can't blast them while playing.
I've listened to more than a few 5.1 channel headphones. None of them meet my expectations. Game audio was meant to take advantage of multi-channel digital sound. Since 90% of the gamers I know use headphones or headsets, isn't this the next logical step? Most of the 5.1 headphones are only 5.1 virtual channels. Those few that are real 5.1, are so disappointing. The Razer barracuda HP1 set was just a complete waste of money. I'm waiting for the first company to come alone and make a true 5.1 channel digital headset with a removable boom mic. Then my games will come alive finally.
necessary features include these:
dolby digital certification.
very low impedance drivers.
comfortable closed circumaural design.
digital coax plug for phones.
discrete voice drivers and standard phone jack for them and mic.
robust and discrete woofer driver. Sony's 50mm HD driver used in its upper end MDR 7xx/9xx series should do the trick.
discrete synchronized positioned drivers for center channel.
positioned drivers for FL/FR.
discrete positioned drivers for RL/RR.
onboard DD decoding and DTS decoding.
high quality amplification components.
one of the real problems that most of the 5.1 phones face is their common ground conductor. This leads to joint stereo and muddies up the positioning.
If I had the time and the cash, I'd build a pair for myself, but they'd most likely be analog.
That's what management thinks.
Your superiority complex lends much about your personality. You don't want unions because they would bring you down to earth like most professionals. You probably work in a place where you keep your job by seeming mythical to your managers. I'm not doubting that you're highly skilled, but you rely on obfuscation and parlor tricks to feel irreplaceable. You think management can hate so long as they fear.
We all know someone like you. You guard your shop jealously and you do everything in your power to make sure all would-be peers fail. That's not professional behavior. Unions would force you to behave like a professional. That's not something you're willing to accept.
I am all for the T.W.A.T. union.
on a more serious note, this is something I've been advocating for years. The real consequences of a tech union could be disastrous for business. I certainly agree that we need one though. We are the workers who are used to being dumped on. I say we unionize. If you think of the real consequences, a strike could shut down the world.
you mean Flipper Trek?
good times, I'm re-watching the whole series on netflix instant
Most of you won't remember, but Quantic Dream is the studio that brought us Omikron: The Nomad Soul. That game had a soundtrack with David Bowie on it.
They also brought us Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy.
I'm a fan of their immersive adventure style games. Hard Rain ought to be a knockout.
gold masters have infinite lifespans as far as I know.
Flash memory has a finite lifespan, making it altogether unfit for this purpose. What happens when your usb key fails?
It's not quite the same as your DVD getting scratches.
I didn't read it that way. In fact, the beginning of that clause starts with "You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services." a fact, the poster conveniently left out.
I read it in a way that makes sense with what google does. Knowing exactly what people are doing with the web seems to be of paramount importance to what google does. You can't stay in business without eyeballs.
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certainly this is something to worry about. There are, however, alternatives to the google services.
If I read this correctly, if you use google services, they're saying they own everything on their servers, whether or not they actually do.
I just don't think it will hold up in a court of law.
You can run apache and listen only on your internal IP. There are plenty to choose from. I'd recommend openSuSE or slackware if you're brave.
I grew up in Fort Lauderdale. As you may know, South Florida is America's retirement home. Well it used to be.
It used to be where the rich came to retire. Now they're struggling the same as my parents. Who, after raising 3 kids and turning now 67, have to work. They still haven't even payed of their house. Their social security checks are decent, as is my dad's pension. They just can't afford to live on it.
Besides that, not everyone gets a pension.
the only real data we have on planet development to use in a simulation comes from our planets.
therefore, we can't know about other solar systems until we visit them.
I'm sure that in the trillions of star systems out there, ours is special. It's special to us. However, I think it's quite common.
Why should I pay more for a new service when they sold me and signed me on the same service? Now they've decided to change their mind. Not good enough. They sold me a service contract and they're quietly trying to change the terms while charging me the same price.
Married with a kid. I'm a stay at home dad. gives me lots of time for teaching my baby son c++.
How delightfully racist of you. Lest ye forget your ancestors were criminals.
There they call it a comité. Or committee. It's there so that citizens can spy on their neighbors and report it to the government.
That's a core tactic of communists. There is no other reason for it to be there other than to scare the citizenry into submission.
I got an xbox360 for my birthday earlier this year. When I heard the new dashboard update would allow netflix streaming, I had to get a netflix account.
I watch a lot of Internet TV. I play a lot of games. I download a lot of porn. I surf a lot of web.
My ISP, comcast has said, I can only download 8GB a day. If I'm watching a marathon of TV from netflix instant, I will blow through that in about 12 hours.
Tack on the fact that I download demos from xbox live that are usually 1-1.5GB apiece. I play PC games regularly. I am also a steam user who buys a new game at least once a month. I download Linux isos also, though not regularly. I can see how I easily use up that much bandwidth a day.
Comcast is gonna get sued. There's gonna be a class-action. Since they are the only provider in my area that provides the speeds they do for residential services, there is no alternative. Comcast oversold their network capacity. I'm doing nothing wrong. I'm using the Internet access that I signed up for and paid for. Comcast knows they need to expand network capacity but are unwilling to do so. They take a hit in cost and can't charge any more for more network capacity. They'd just oversell it again. Considering that comcast charges a universal service fund fee since they provide Internet access and local telephone service, the USF should provide them with ample monies to enlarge their member's capacity.
When netflix institutes HD streaming, I won't be able to take advantage of it because comcast wont provide me the bandwidth or througput to do so. My ISP will effectively prevent me from enjoying the services I pay for throughout the web.
Comcast thinks that I'm a heavy Internet user. They gambled on grandmas signing up for cable modems and then using them 2 or 3 times a week. They lost and now they're welching.
That being said, they're even charging illegal modem rental fees to me and countless others. Check your original documents from your comcast installation. There's a document titled, "Terms and Conditions for Sale of Cable Modem". I have that document, meaning they sold me a cable modem, not rented me one. Now they're charging fees illegally. They're really gonna get sued. I'm not the fat guy at the buffet. I'm the skinny guy who eats a normal amount. They are the ones trying to save their money by limiting the amount of trips to the buffet you can make. They say I'm eating too much. Well, now even in India, they're eating as much as me. In Japan, they're eating three times as much as me and they pay half of what I do.
could they officially call an execution, "a shooting injury to the head".
you sure you're a real AC and not a government plant to incite violence?