See New Orleans when Katrina hit in 2005, as luck and poor planning would have it New Orleans, being the largest city in Louisiana, is where Bell South had located their central switching system, this had a direct effect on the ability of people to make long distance phone calls hundreds of miles away over a multi-state area, I live about 250 mile from New Orleans in an area that did not even get any significant rain from Katrina and our ability to even make local cell to landline calls was at best spotty for several days, and ability to make long distance calls was effected for weeks..
Maybe its easier to member things like the house being under water, or there not being rain in 50 something days in an location that averages rainfall multiple times per week is just easier to remember than on average it is 1 degree warmer each day this month than last year or the year before when there is a 15 degree swing on the highs during the month. So when it comes to temperature people fall back on their political beliefs in the accuracy of temperature records, etc.
Am I the only one that is concerned that this came as a surprise? These people are supposed to have PhD's in Physics, and they don't think the big rock in the sky might have an effect on their toy?
I see no one here has yet said, If your going to ride motorcycles you should accept at least some of the risk of injury. Cars hit each other all the time, human reactions are not perfect, sometimes they could be avoided, maybe even most of the time, but when a car hits another car at 20-30mph there is a fair chance that only minor injuries will occur, when a motorcycle hits (or is hit by something) something at 20-30 mph there is a fair chance major injuries will occur. Sure motorcycles can be fun, so can flying ultralights, bungee jumping and a number of other things, this does not mean everyone else out there should be responsible for injuries that happen while your out there having fun.
How about people that want to know what time it is, I have seen my phone synced to the cell provider be off by 5 minutes or more, and also that don't want to worry about their phone randomly changing time zones on them while traveling.
Yes, but it is nice to know they have the right time too
That is part of why I like my JDM Casio Oceanus (this is Casio's domestic upper line model, not sold in the US)
model OCW-P600TD It is made out of titanium, has world atomic time reception in 5 regions from China to Europe, is solar powered and at a little under $1,000 street price shipped to the U.S. is not so cheap that you will see them everywhere, and not so expensive that you worry about someone cutting off your hand to get it.
This is a fair comment, I have helped someone set up free to renters wifi at an RV park, one of the things that had to be done was block peer to peer otherwise it consumes all available bandwidth. (note the broadband available at this location is very limited fractional T1 speed)
One more take on it, maybe the company is not doing so good in this economy, and are asking their employees to help drum up business so they don't have to lay people off, etc.
Repeat after me: Infrastructure items should not auto-update, the potential for something bad is too big. Imagine one Ooopsy bricking every Mercedes, not so bad right? Now picture every Toyota, or Ford.
The thing I really miss about compuserve is the forums, so often on so many topics you could go and ask a question and get an expert answer. There is a big difference between asking why is XYZ designed this way, and Why did you design XYZ this way. The only one I really remember that many people here might recognize was a scheduled online conference chat with John Carmak talking about their new 3D game (either Wolfenstien 3D or Doom it has been too many years to remember which, Jay Wilbur of Id was a regular online on CIS, Carmack not so much)
The only thing I really remember about The Source is it was insanely expensive, it made Compuserve's $9 per hour off prime time rate look reasonable. (remember this was 1980's dollars when minimum wage was around $3.50 per hour)
I can't tell you for sure if Compuserve was around in 1983, I started my account in 1984 and kept it until about 2001 the last several years just to keep the old email address around 72766,1640
This is probably not going to be popular, and may cost me Karma, but the reality of the world is there are cultural differences between people from region to region, trying to be PC about everything even to the point of using the term PC does not work in the real world. Training agents about the tendancies of one culture or anoher is not racism. If it was done right or wrong at this time I do not know.
I think it comes down to one thing, why replace a money maker, the buzz about Kinect has seemed to breathe a bit more life into the platform, the latest generation of the entry level console has brought the price point down to be competitive against Wii, and more and more of the game complexities are being handled on the server end. So again why replace a money maker, instead spend more time developing Kinect 2.0, get it right, and then own the industry.
Living out on the country I have enough land in my back yard to grow food on, can you say the same living in the city, if the people living out in the country decide to raise the price of the food they grow 800% to pay the higher gas tax?
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See New Orleans when Katrina hit in 2005, as luck and poor planning would have it New Orleans, being the largest city in Louisiana, is where Bell South had located their central switching system, this had a direct effect on the ability of people to make long distance phone calls hundreds of miles away over a multi-state area, I live about 250 mile from New Orleans in an area that did not even get any significant rain from Katrina and our ability to even make local cell to landline calls was at best spotty for several days, and ability to make long distance calls was effected for weeks..
Maybe its easier to member things like the house being under water, or there not being rain in 50 something days in an location that averages rainfall multiple times per week is just easier to remember than on average it is 1 degree warmer each day this month than last year or the year before when there is a 15 degree swing on the highs during the month. So when it comes to temperature people fall back on their political beliefs in the accuracy of temperature records, etc.
Often it is the FDA approval process
No he realized he WANTED it.
Safe means we don't know what bad thing it does yet.
Am I the only one that is concerned that this came as a surprise? These people are supposed to have PhD's in Physics, and they don't think the big rock in the sky might have an effect on their toy?
This attitude just goes to show that as a bike rider you see the highways as your personal race course / play thing
I see no one here has yet said, If your going to ride motorcycles you should accept at least some of the risk of injury. Cars hit each other all the time, human reactions are not perfect, sometimes they could be avoided, maybe even most of the time, but when a car hits another car at 20-30mph there is a fair chance that only minor injuries will occur, when a motorcycle hits (or is hit by something) something at 20-30 mph there is a fair chance major injuries will occur. Sure motorcycles can be fun, so can flying ultralights, bungee jumping and a number of other things, this does not mean everyone else out there should be responsible for injuries that happen while your out there having fun.
How about people that want to know what time it is, I have seen my phone synced to the cell provider be off by 5 minutes or more, and also that don't want to worry about their phone randomly changing time zones on them while traveling.
It is more than I would want to spend on a watch that will stop glowing in the dark in a dozen years
Yes, but it is nice to know they have the right time too
That is part of why I like my JDM Casio Oceanus (this is Casio's domestic upper line model, not sold in the US)
model OCW-P600TD It is made out of titanium, has world atomic time reception in 5 regions from China to Europe, is solar powered and at a little under $1,000 street price shipped to the U.S. is not so cheap that you will see them everywhere, and not so expensive that you worry about someone cutting off your hand to get it.
http://www.tokyo-toyz.com/proddetail.php?prod=CasioOceanusCachalotOCW-P600TD-1AJF
This is a fair comment, I have helped someone set up free to renters wifi at an RV park, one of the things that had to be done was block peer to peer otherwise it consumes all available bandwidth. (note the broadband available at this location is very limited fractional T1 speed)
Considering the amount of DOD sensor work they did I am not surprised at all.
I wish I had mod points for this one
One more take on it, maybe the company is not doing so good in this economy, and are asking their employees to help drum up business so they don't have to lay people off, etc.
Repeat after me:
Infrastructure items should not auto-update, the potential for something bad is too big. Imagine one Ooopsy bricking every Mercedes, not so bad right? Now picture every Toyota, or Ford.
Raise your hand if you knew AOL was still around?
The thing I really miss about compuserve is the forums, so often on so many topics you could go and ask a question and get an expert answer. There is a big difference between asking why is XYZ designed this way, and Why did you design XYZ this way. The only one I really remember that many people here might recognize was a scheduled online conference chat with John Carmak talking about their new 3D game (either Wolfenstien 3D or Doom it has been too many years to remember which, Jay Wilbur of Id was a regular online on CIS, Carmack not so much)
The only thing I really remember about The Source is it was insanely expensive, it made Compuserve's $9 per hour off prime time rate look reasonable. (remember this was 1980's dollars when minimum wage was around $3.50 per hour)
I can't tell you for sure if Compuserve was around in 1983, I started my account in 1984 and kept it until about 2001 the last several years just to keep the old email address around 72766,1640
This is probably not going to be popular, and may cost me Karma, but the reality of the world is there are cultural differences between people from region to region, trying to be PC about everything even to the point of using the term PC does not work in the real world. Training agents about the tendancies of one culture or anoher is not racism. If it was done right or wrong at this time I do not know.
Yeah, but do you really want an electronic padlock?
I think it comes down to one thing, why replace a money maker, the buzz about Kinect has seemed to breathe a bit more life into the platform, the latest generation of the entry level console has brought the price point down to be competitive against Wii, and more and more of the game complexities are being handled on the server end. So again why replace a money maker, instead spend more time developing Kinect 2.0, get it right, and then own the industry.
Living out on the country I have enough land in my back yard to grow food on, can you say the same living in the city, if the people living out in the country decide to raise the price of the food they grow 800% to pay the higher gas tax?
Or maybe you should not use taxation as a way to influence human behavior