They think the black insulation tape I've got plastered all over the front is holding it together. Silly me... I use a hole punch and make nice circles of black electrical tape. Others desolder, where I "imagine" one could use one of those paint marker pens and do a dab of an opaque paint.
I have a Mad Dog power supply with an annoying blue LED, a cheepo dvd player, and i'm sure some other things.
Every time I see a story on a sting like this people trot out the "entrapment!" argument. If things like this were entrapment, every sting operation, every undercover operation, etc. would all be invalidated. Clearly, the cops are permitted to put a fake hooker on a street corner and wait to be approached. The thing is, the war on drugs blurred the line between entrapment and enforcement. Putting a cop on the street dressed like a hooker waiting for Johns to ask for sex is one thing, but IMHO the same cop offering sex for money would be entrapment... or if it's not it should be.
I'm all for getting pedos off the street, but there has got to be some standards above and beyond clicking a web link. Hypothetically I could send links to people saying "I'm your bank click here" where the url goes to the FBI honeypot. I would humbly suggest that the least the state needs to prosecute these individuals is some damned child porn. Call me silly but that seems fucking reasonable.
It's not like "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" was an original concept, and it's not like there are going to be that many people offended by another attempt to retell the age old story of boy joins military, boy gets frozen, boy wakes up 500 years later.
I'm not going to discount the possible correlation between certain wavelengths and sensing it's daylight. But it sounds problematic to me. One blue LED has amazing illumination power, so not only will it likely affect your night vision but it will illuminate all the flaws in your windscreen, as well as enhance the reflection of your self.
Those of us unfortunate enough to buy hardware with blue leds on it can share this fact, it's damned annoying.
One of the less technically knowledgeable staff points out the lack of standard features as cause for alarm.. I'm somewhat technically adept... and I have to say if I did airport security and saw the MacBook without any visitable ports, I would give it a closer look. From what I've read the sucker's few ports tuck away on the side. On X-ray I'd imagine the CPU footprint is 1/4 the size I'd expect. If I was unaware of the model, I would in my mind give it a second look, without a doubt. However after doing the job for a while I imagine I'd give up on trying to do a good one and just do my best to provide the illusion of security just like everyone else.
What I wonder is how customs would deal with it, presuming they wanted to scan the drive for contraband. Popping on a CD would be a pain.
More to the point though, I am also attached to whatever music I put on while I was playing. Whenever I hear some songs, it instantly takes me back to playing that game ......Lemmings
Journey Escape was for the 2600, Journey was the arcade. They were different games. So it would seem Journey Escape looks totally different than what I recall. As noted the coin-up version of the music was something one couldn't easily recognize even if you happened to have heard any of their music.
Escape looks like it was done very tongue and cheek, sort of poking fun at the whole music industry.
The coin-op looks like it was an attempt to suck the player/consumer into a fantasied world.
Might have gone over better if the game included banging chicks back stage instead of 'evading sneaky photographers' Well, ironically enough the band broke up after the release of this game, though I doubt there was a connection.
I think Journey can be credited with the first video game tie in with their Journey Escape game in 1982. Wiki says it was released for the 2600, however I do recall a coin up version, but as I remember it from a disused machine in a pizza place circa 1986, I imagine it could have been their later release.
Journey attempted to tie in their 1983 Frontiers album with a coin-op arcade game which featured a cassette of their music on a loup. Given Dragon's Lair was also released in 1983, there was not enough time to learn how unwise it was to use a mechanical system in an arcade box.
They get points for being innovative, but given the limits of technology at the time, someone who even knew their music would have a hard time recognizing the vintage beeps and boops. It didn't help the fact that the game it self wasn't very good, but the idea was sound.
But needless to say the band was already successful before this tie in, and the tie in was hardly what I would describe as being successful.
Don't know about the rest of the world, but I'd like a Betamax deck (to digitize some old Beta tapes I have). Beta was slightly less pointless. For a home theater it offered superior sound and video even in long play mode until SVHS & Hi8 came out. Oddly enough, I found beta to be more practical than SVHS or Hi8 as I found there were more people with beta decks than SVHS and Hi8 ones.
I had a Sanyo super beta till it died some years back, and I wish that I recorded more with it, esp music videos on MTV's 120 minutes as VHS was in contrast crap even in LP mode.
How are you going to keep the water out of them? Digger epoxy bot
What do you do when they become obstructed by cave-in or automated-container collisions? Digger epoxy bot
Who's going to pay for all this? We are. I'm not going to debate the merits of a small cargo delivery system. However we can safely say that network infrastructure is worth investing in, and to that end, digger epoxy bots would be rather cool. As the cost of fuel rises who knows, we might switch back to the old system of tube transport, but until that time I would welcome new digger epoxy bot underlords.
Having owned an 8track player and a cassette player, both were bad mediums for content. My first car came with an 8-track, and while I had a couple of tapes that wore out, for the most part I still have "working" 8 tracks including "John Denver's greatest hits volume II. In all fairness I did have some well played ones like ELO or Moody Blues and they in all fairness did better than their cassette counterparts. The only complaint was the moving 8 track head which almost always went out of alignment so you would a neighboring track.
I'm not saying I miss 8 track. They were big, bulky, and you often had to divide up songs between tracks.
They should put a little protection in there for those that want to teach the Flat Earth concept, too. Don't laugh, I went to a catholic grade school which had books in the library that honestly showed a earth centered solar system.
Things I havn't got used to: the changed Control Panel, it *still* confuses me that 'Add/Remove programs' is now 'Programs and Features' - why do they still do this?! You ask a microsoft employee, they'll tell you "because it's better". It's like when they replaced "find" in win95 with "search", yet still used F as the hot key, which in all fairness they had a good idea, search - for stuff on your computer and find - things on a network... at least that's what I was told but not really something I saw implemented.
These guys seem to operate without any sort of template, nor are hip to the idea of standardization. This time around they claimed to going for "more productive".
Whereas in Windows you're simply putting users in danger of hitting a button when they don't really know what it does. Dialog options should ALWAYS be "verbed". Deleted, yes?? Deleted, Very yes??
"Even the cancel/allow is perfectly fine for most cases"
And somehow Sunbelt Kerio Personal (formally Tiny Firewall) were somehow able to implement similar features, yet Microsoft couldn't get it right.
Come to think about it, Microsoft has always had a blind spot for some simple concepts. Yes, No, No to all, Yes to all. Which ever option I needed they always neglected to put in the menu.
I did not say LDS practiced polygamy. I just lumped them in the same sentence. I was picking on the Mormon religion. Just so you are clear that the biggest Mormon church does not practice polygamy. Anyhow I think there might be a larger group in Arizona than Utah.
This is coming from the same state that houses polygamists and mormons? FYI: Polygamy is illegal in Utah. It's not practiced by the LDS church. It is practiced by a few who are in Utah.
Whether the state government tolerates polygamy is another question.
a. emergency and/or disaster communications where all you need is a frickin' dish in case all other forms of land-based equipment are destroyed, unusable or inaccessible. Or more likely a frickin' wok in the likely event that your dish took a swim.
And don't forget that the blank BD media only runs about $15-25 a piece, too. That coupled with the hardware costs for the drives means you'll probably average about $30-40 a pop to replace a $25 disc. Good deal! Well... the price on the media will go down eventually. If you got the movies obviously you got the player, so that's not going to go tits up anytime soon. But assuming it did, we're talking $150 for a reader and about 7.50/30gig, but if it was me, and I "had" to watch "those" movies, a stand alone is what $100 for a Toshiba HD-A30?
Assuming there still is the 5 free movie deal on a $100 player, if you gotta have HD video NOW, I'd consider it, if nothing else but to spite the video industry later with fair use copy.
And what about the people who are trying to buy used "e-meters"? Well, they are almost surely *Scientologists*! There were a couple of classic meters that could qualify as a museum piece. I mean let's be fair, Scientology was promoted as philosophy for the atomic age, and that retro 50s chrome style is well, 50 years old. Not an antique yet but certainly an icon for the time period.
I'd buy one. I am not a Scientologist.
Also you have Free Zone, those who believe in Hubbard's tech but broke away after Hubbard died IIRC. While you or I might call them Scientologists, I think that's a trademark.
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I have a Mad Dog power supply with an annoying blue LED, a cheepo dvd player, and i'm sure some other things.
I'm all for getting pedos off the street, but there has got to be some standards above and beyond clicking a web link. Hypothetically I could send links to people saying "I'm your bank click here" where the url goes to the FBI honeypot. I would humbly suggest that the least the state needs to prosecute these individuals is some damned child porn. Call me silly but that seems fucking reasonable.
It's not like "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" was an original concept, and it's not like there are going to be that many people offended by another attempt to retell the age old story of boy joins military, boy gets frozen, boy wakes up 500 years later.
I'm not going to discount the possible correlation between certain wavelengths and sensing it's daylight. But it sounds problematic to me. One blue LED has amazing illumination power, so not only will it likely affect your night vision but it will illuminate all the flaws in your windscreen, as well as enhance the reflection of your self.
Those of us unfortunate enough to buy hardware with blue leds on it can share this fact, it's damned annoying.
IIRC there is a soul repackaging center of Venus which the enlightened avoid as it just dumps you off the coast of California.
What I wonder is how customs would deal with it, presuming they wanted to scan the drive for contraband. Popping on a CD would be a pain.
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Escape looks like it was done very tongue and cheek, sort of poking fun at the whole music industry.
The coin-op looks like it was an attempt to suck the player/consumer into a fantasied world.
I think Journey can be credited with the first video game tie in with their Journey Escape game in 1982. Wiki says it was released for the 2600, however I do recall a coin up version, but as I remember it from a disused machine in a pizza place circa 1986, I imagine it could have been their later release.
Journey attempted to tie in their 1983 Frontiers album with a coin-op arcade game which featured a cassette of their music on a loup. Given Dragon's Lair was also released in 1983, there was not enough time to learn how unwise it was to use a mechanical system in an arcade box.
They get points for being innovative, but given the limits of technology at the time, someone who even knew their music would have a hard time recognizing the vintage beeps and boops. It didn't help the fact that the game it self wasn't very good, but the idea was sound.
But needless to say the band was already successful before this tie in, and the tie in was hardly what I would describe as being successful.
I had a Sanyo super beta till it died some years back, and I wish that I recorded more with it, esp music videos on MTV's 120 minutes as VHS was in contrast crap even in LP mode.
I'm not saying I miss 8 track. They were big, bulky, and you often had to divide up songs between tracks.
These guys seem to operate without any sort of template, nor are hip to the idea of standardization. This time around they claimed to going for "more productive".
Deleted, Very yes??
"Even the cancel/allow is perfectly fine for most cases"
And somehow Sunbelt Kerio Personal (formally Tiny Firewall) were somehow able to implement similar features, yet Microsoft couldn't get it right.
Come to think about it, Microsoft has always had a blind spot for some simple concepts. Yes, No, No to all, Yes to all. Which ever option I needed they always neglected to put in the menu.
Whether the state government tolerates polygamy is another question.
Seriously... your basic bomb dog, perhaps another one trained in gun oil. Have the damn dog sniff shoes and butts. "No explosives here George"
Customs I believe employ beagles for drugs.
Assuming there still is the 5 free movie deal on a $100 player, if you gotta have HD video NOW, I'd consider it, if nothing else but to spite the video industry later with fair use copy.
I mean let's be fair, Scientology was promoted as philosophy for the atomic age, and that retro 50s chrome style is well, 50 years old. Not an antique yet but certainly an icon for the time period.
I'd buy one. I am not a Scientologist.
Also you have Free Zone, those who believe in Hubbard's tech but broke away after Hubbard died IIRC. While you or I might call them Scientologists, I think that's a trademark.